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AUGUST 13, 2009

The firm told socalTECH that the boost came both because it has been more aggressive in search engine marketing, and a new travel deals newsletter which has driven customers to return to the site. LowFares.com is managed by Greg Samson; Oversee acquired LowFares.com in January of 2007. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Donnelly in 2007 for $345M, and the domain eventually went to Dex.com, and was shut down; the business was restarted in 2011 by a purchase by JMI Equity and Resource Nation in 2011. The acquisition of Business.com is just the latest saga in the business and domain name; the. for the domain name.

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OCTOBER 1, 2008

A study of the venture capital deal flow in Southern California conducted by socalTECH shows that venture capital deals dropped for Q3, to around $720M in deals, in a market dominated by clean technology firms. invested in Q3 of 2007, and down slightly from venture numbers in Q2, when there was approximately $966M in venture deals.

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APRIL 22, 2019

Wenstrup previously was Chief Medical Officer for Myriad Genetics, serving at that firm from 2006 to 2007. San Diego-based Epic Sciences , which is developing personalized medicine products for treating and managing cancer, said this morning that it has named Richard J. Wenstrup, M.D., as its new Chief Medical Officer.

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JULY 23, 2019

HireAHelper was founded in 2007, and offers up a marketplace to compare quotes from local movers on both moving and moving services. Porch said that HireAHelper's 75 employees will joing the company's existing headcount of more than 800 employees, and that HireAHelper will remain in its location in Oceanside.

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MARCH 11, 2009

Handschiegel sold Stylediary in 2007 to StyleHive. Handschiegel told socalTECH that the firm's projects include a redesign and positioning of an Internet site purchased from another company, and a TV project in developing and packaging it for shopping/sale; she also said that the investors in the firm are all from outside California.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

SRS Acquiom was founded in 2007, and is based in Denver, with an office in Los Angeles, among other cities. The company said its customers include venture capital firms, private equity firms, and corporate acquirers. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 16, 2019

Bush was Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. The startup lets clients schedule in-home visits by doctors for both routine visits and other checkups. Jacobs is currently founder and CEO of XCOM, a mobile technology company, and had been CEO and Chairman of Qualcomm.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Thompson has been CEO at SolarWinds since 2010, and he joined the company in 2007. According to BlackLine, Thompson's experience as a ceo and previously CFO at several technology companies, including Surgient, SAS Institute and Red Hat, will help guide it through its next phase of growth. SolarWinds is a developer of IT management software.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Rowan also previously was head of Research In Motion (BlackBerry) from 2007 to 2012.

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MARCH 18, 2009

Ryan Born, AudioMicro's founder, is no stranger to Getty: he was VP of Finance and Controller at MediaVast (WireImage.com), which was acquired by Getty Images in 2007. Born told socalTECH that the entry of iStock into the area "validates and expands the market" for micro stock audio. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 26, 2020

QLess is led by CEO Kevin Grauman; the company has been around since 2007. Financial impact of those wins were not announced. The company says it uses artificial intelligence to help drive its mobile tool. The company most recently announced a funding round back in 2017 , when it took $5.5M from Palisades Growth Capital and Act One Ventures.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Velocify was led by President and CEO Nick Hedges, who took over as President and CEO at the firm in 2010; Velocify started life as Leads360, the onetime winner of the Tech Coast Angel's Fast Pitch competition back in 2007. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 28, 2018

Doluca has been President and CEO of Maxim since 2007. Western Digital Corp. , the data storage giant which has major operations in Orange County, said today that it has added the President and CEO of Maxim Integrated, Tunc Doluca, to its board of directors. WD said it now has nine directors on its board.

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AUGUST 9, 2018

The arrest is not the first time that Nicholas has been reported to have been involved in drugs; back in 2007, Nicholas was accused of building a "secret lair" underneath his estate in Laguna Hills , to fulfill an alleged "addiction to cocaine and Ecstasy" and "manic obsession with prostitutes".

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DECEMBER 5, 2017

Guttman ha been at JMI since 2007, and has been CFO of the firm since 2013; he had previously been at EY. Vakil has been at JMI since 2012, and was most recently serving as a Principal; he helped invest in Applied Systems, Arena, Avecto, Code42, Internet Brands (acquired by KKR), Intradiem, and Seismic. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 28, 2013

Goodreads was started in 2007. Goodreads was venture backed by True Ventures, Mike Jones (now at Science, Inc.), James Currier, Michael Birch, Chris Michel, and Stan Chudnovsky. Amazon.com says that Goodreads now has more than 16 million members. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

Mikkelson has been at Camber since 2007. Irvine-based medical equipment maker Masimo announced Thursday afternoon that it has appointed Adam Mikkelson, who is a Partner at healthcare-focused investment fund Camber Capital Management LLC, to its board of directors. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

Zarley served as CEO of valueClick from 1999 to May of 2007, chairman between May of 2007 to April 2010, and then back to CEO and President since April of 2010. No reason for the change was given by the company, and ValueClick said there would be no change to either Mr. Giuliani's or Mr. Zarley's compensation as part of the move.

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AUGUST 30, 2016

Sennesael replaces outgoing CFO Donald Palette, 59, who is retiring; Palette had been CFO since 2007. Skyworks is based in Woburn, Mass., but has major operations in Southern California. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 20, 2016

Santos has been at Amgen since 2007, and has been serving as Senior Vice President, Manufacturing, since 2013. Thousand Oaks-based Amgen said Friday that it has named Esteban Santos as its new Executive Vice President, Operations.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The vulnerabilities apparently had been previously been identified by researchers in 2007, but had not been demonstrated in practice. According to Cylance, it figured out how to hack the Sequoia AVC Edge Mk1 voting machine, using a PCMCIA card to reflash the firmware on the device.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Poizner previously had run as a Republican, serving in the role from 2007 to 2011; he also had thrown his hat into the California Governor's race in 2010. If successful, Poizner would be the first independent declaring "no party preference" to win a statewide office. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

High Gear Media had been founded in 2007. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. High Gear Media''s automotive publications include The Car Connection , Motor Authority , and Green Car Reports. Internet Brands was acquired itself earlier this year, by private equity firm KKR. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 2, 2014

It''s been a long road for Rubicon''s backers, who first invested in the company back in 2007, when Clearstone Ventures invested in Rubicon''s Series A funding. Rubicon--which priced at $15.00 per share last night--was trading as high as $20.44 per share on its first morning as RUBI. and Mayfield. Clearstone owned about 24.0% READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

All In Media has offices in London and Sydney, and was founded in 2007; the companies said its customers include Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Bauer Media Group, Nova Entertainment, NRK, Primedia, Radioplayer, RTE Radio, Southern Cross Austereo and Wireless Group. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Mediapeers was based in Berlin, and had been founded in 2007. Burbank-based Deluxe , the provider of post-production, distribution, asset management, and related services to Hollywood, said today that it has acquired B2B, cloud software provider mediapeers. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 10, 2013

com pioneer Michael Robertson, which had offered pretty much the identical functionality back in 2007. The service is suprisingly close to AnywhereCD , the now defunct San Diego startup started by MP3.com

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JANUARY 25, 2017

Ad-Juster was founded in 2007, and was led by Mike Lewis. San Diego-based Ad-Juster , a developer of automated reconciliation and reporting software for the digital ad market, was recently acquired by Chinese investor Innotech Capitals. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2014

SET Media has offices in San Franciso and New York, and was founded in 2007. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Conversant said it will use the buy to strengthen its technology stack and portfolio. READ MORE>>. conversant media digital technology video merger acquisition advertising'

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APRIL 13, 2016

Demand Media acquired Cracked in 2007. According to Demand Media, the move will give it a "more focused portfolio of businesses", and also "significantly" strengthen its balance sheet. The sale comes as Demand Media has been seeing a steep drop in revenues from its content businesses. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 3, 2013

Digital Insight had been acquired by Intuit back in 2007. NCR Corporation said it paid $1.65 billion for Digital Insight from Thoma Bravo, which just bought Digital Insight in July from Intuit for $1.025 billion. NCR said the buy will help it form a "complete enterprise software platform" for the banking industry. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 28, 2013

Paul replaces Tom Fuelling, who had been at Hulu since 2007. Los Angeles-based streaming television site Hulu announced late Friday that it has named Elaine Paul as its new CFO. Paul was previously SVP of Corporate Strategy at Disney, and also had worked at the Walt Disney Internet Group.

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JULY 9, 2014

Bessemer was co-lead on Cornerstone OnDemand''s first institutional round in 2007. Deeter had been involved with Cornerstone OnDemand since before it went public, as a private investor in the company. READ MORE>>. cornerstone ondemand enterprise software talent management executive board etsy'

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Qualcomm said it already has investments in more than 20 Indian companies, which it has made since 2007. Qualcomm said the move is part of supporting Modi's vision "to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy." READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

Borrud was formerly head of Pandemic Studios, the gaming firm acquired by Electronic Arts in 2007 for $860M. As part of thea cquisition, Grue CEO John Linden becomes President of the combined company, with Trey Watkins heading up Grue's former develompent team. Seismic's co-founders are Greg Borrud and Eric Gewirtz. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 19, 2012

Providence Equity Partners had invested $100M in Hulu in 2007, and reportedly sold back its stake for $200M to the company this week. Private equity firm Providence Equity Partners has sold its 10 percent stake in Hulu , the firm said Friday morning, getting a nice return on its investment in the online video streaming site.

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