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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Pasadena-based Guidance Software joins the list of Southern California firms who had a good quarter, saying Tuesday that it had revenues of $25.2M in its fiscal fourth quarter, growth of over 22 percent versus its similar quarter in 2007. Tags: ediscovery forensics software guidance earnings. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Irvine-based cybersecurity software developer Cylance said late Friday that its researchers have proven a common model of voting machine is vulnerable to hacking--enabling votes on that machine to be altered--however, only if attackers have physical access to that voting machine. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

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. Mediapeers was based in Berlin, and had been founded in 2007. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 3, 2013

Digital Insight , the developer of online banking software which has major operations in Westlake Village, has just been sold to NCR , in the second sale of the company this year. NCR said the buy will help it form a "complete enterprise software platform" for the banking industry. NCR Corporation said it paid $1.65 READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 2, 2008

Aliso Viejo-based Quest Software, a developer of system management software, said today that it has reached an agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission into the firm's stock option practices. Quest has been under investigation by the SEC since January of 2007 over its stock options accounting practices.

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DECEMBER 11, 2022

There were startups and a software industry but barely. 2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). There was no money train.

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JULY 9, 2014

Santa Monica-based talent management software developer Cornerstone OnDemand said Wednesday that it has added Kristana Salen, the Chief Financial Officer of Etsy, to its board of directors. Bessemer was co-lead on Cornerstone OnDemand''s first institutional round in 2007. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Nimble--which develops web-based, social contact management software--said the Outlook connection comes via Phi-solutions, which connects Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 contacts into rich social profiles on Nimble. Nimble said it now has integrated with nearly 40 software tools. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 25, 2017

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. Ad-Juster was founded in 2007, and was led by Mike Lewis. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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MAY 8, 2014

San Diego-based growth equity investor TVC Capital is the lead investor in LiquidPlanner , a developer of online project management software this morning. LiquidPlanenr said it raised $8M in a Series B funding from TVC Capital, the first venture funding in the company since it was founded in 2007. LiquidPlanner is based in Seattle.

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

Santa Monica-based software-as-a-service developer Cornerstone OnDemand said this morning that it has added former Eloqua CEO Joe Payne to its board of directors. Cornerstone OnDemand is a developer of software-as-a-service tools for enterprise, human resources and human capital management. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 13, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing Great post - 8 Ways The Internet Changed Software Marketing - is an interesting take on how different it is these days to market software. Good stuff. Glad you liked the post.

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APRIL 10, 2015

Addante founded Rubicon Project in 2007. rubicon project merger acquisition nyse rubi advertising technology software exchange' Rubicon Project--which trades as RUBI on the NYSE--said CEO, Founder, and Chief Product Architect Frank Addante will ring the bell at 4:00 p.m. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 15, 2015

A few weeks ago, Los Angeles-based enterprise expense reporting software maker Chrome River (www.chromeriver.com) took a significant venture funding round--worth $100M--to help expand the company's growth in the enterprise software market. What does Chrome River's software do? Dave Terry: It's just part of our heritage.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

Calabasas-based network testing software and hardware developer Ixia has been acquired by Keysight Technologies , in a deal worth $1.6 Ginsberg had served as CEO of Ixia until 2007, and has since been Chairman of the Board. billion in cash, the two announced this morning. Keysight and Ixia said that Keysight will pay $19.65

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JANUARY 3, 2014

Stern founded Vintage Filings, which he sold to PRNewswire in 2007. checkalt data processing software check21 credit union financial' CheckAlt is led by Shai Stern, a serial entrepreneur who has a significant number of finance-related startups in the Los Angeles area. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

Westlake Village-based Intuit Financial Services , the arm of personal finance software maker Intuit, said Tuesday that it has published a survey showing that about one third of Americans are now using online banking software using online products, up from 27 percent a year ago.

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APRIL 27, 2011

San Diego-based Service-now.com , a provider of It management software-as-a-service, said Tuesday that it has named Frank Slootman as CEO. Slootman was the CEO of Data Domain, having taken that firm public in 2007, and selling the firm to EMC in 2009, where he served as a division executive. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The increase in sales bring the overall growth in the e-commerce sector closer to the gains the sector was seeing in 2007 and early 2008, before the sector was impacted by the economic downturn. However, the results have not yet reached the level of Q2 and Q3 of 2007, when e-commerce saw 23 percent growth in both quarters.

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Sales Commerce Report Software 179

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Calabasas-based Nova Development , the consumer software publisher now owned by Avanquest Software, said today that it has signed an agreement with Ancestry.com, to publish the retail editions of Ancestry.com's Family Tree Maker genealogy software. Nova Development was acquired by Avanquest in 2007.

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JANUARY 28, 2011

San Diego-based Covario , the search engine optimization and search engine marketing software firm headed by Russ Mann, revealed this week that it has secured its first patent from the U.S. The firm filed the patent in March of 2007, and it was granted earlier this week on January 25th. Patent and Trademark Office.

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MARCH 24, 2010

San Diego-based Verimatrix , a developer of digital rights management (DRM) software for the set top box market, reported Tuesday that it has settled a patent dispute with competitor Widevine Technologies. The patent lawsuit was filed in August of 2007. Tags: verimatrix software patent legal lawsuit. Patent Nos. 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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JUNE 8, 2010

CyberDefender went public via an SB-2 back in 2007. Tags: cyberdefender cyde nasdaq listing stock market security software antivirus. The firm said the listing will provide it with grater liquidity to its shareholders, and make its stock available to a broader investor community. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

Los Angeles-based Sophoi , a developer of media IP mananagement software, has been acquired by Oracle, Oracle said Monday. Tags: sophoi oracle merger acquisition software content hollywood intellectual property. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Sophoi was backed by Oracle which had funded the firm to the tune of $17.5M

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Matze, who was involved in developing the iSCSI protocol, was the founder of both Siafu and Okapi Software. Matze sold Okapi in 2003 to Overland, and Siafu to Hifn in 2007, and was most recently VP of Storage Systems Products at Exar, Inc.

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APRIL 30, 2010

Ninness was formerly Lynda.com's Director of COntent from 2005 to 2007, and has also served at Microsoft and Extensis. Lynda.com offers instructional videos, online training, and other resources on learning software, including Adobe's suite of creative products.

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Content Training Education Resource 133

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JUNE 22, 2010

Ventura-based The Trade Desk , the new online ad exchange firm headed by former AdECN founder Jeff Green , is announcing today that it has partnered with Acquisio , a PPC management software provider. Green was founder of AdECN, an ad exchange purchased by Microsoft in 2007. Financial details of the partnership were not disclosed.

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AUGUST 19, 2009

, over a contract dispute concerning a cobranded Toolbar deal made between the firms in September of 2007. DivX sued Yahoo in November of 2008, after Yahoo backed out of a deal to offer its toolbar to users who downloaded video software from DivX. The firm said the settlement would boost its earnings by $0.29 READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Los Angeles-based Sophoi , which was developing software for intellectual property licensing, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this month. in funding from database giant Oracle, which invested in the firm in May of 2007. Sophoi had been backed by $17.5M

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MARCH 18, 2009

Santa Ana-based MSC.Software , a developer of simulation software for product development, announced Tuesday that it has added Masood Jabbar to the firm's board. Jabbar had served on MSC Software's board until early 2007. Tags: microsystems software executive. Jabbar was previously on the firm's board.

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APRIL 20, 2009

Privately held, software visualization tool firm iRise , which is based in El Segundo, is claiming this morning that it has seen its software revenues for Q1 triple over last year. The firm said the big revenue gains follow a fiscal Q4 where its revenues surpassed its total 2007 revenues. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

Websense said that Addison Avenue had actually been using the firm since 2007, but decided to roll out the solution further as part of a $4.75 San Diego-based Websense , the developer of web security tools, reports today that it has been selected by Addison Avenue Federal Credit Union, to safeguard data for the credit union's 38 branches.

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

San Diego-based Covario , a provider of paid search and search engine optimization software, reported this week that its analysis has found that major U.S. Covario has been tracking paid search spending since Q1 of 2007, using data derived from 20 of its own, Fortune 500 clients. READ MORE>>.

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Paid Search Search Engine Optimization San Diego Advertising 140

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

Google did not say how it expects to apply the technology, but did say it hired at least two of the engineers from winning teams of DARPA's Grand Challenge, including the technical team leader from Carnegie Mellon University on the 2007 Urban Challenge winning team, and the software lead for Stanford's team in the 2005 Grand Challenge.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

The privately held firm, which develops software used by companies to reconcile their balance sheets, said it had an increase in revenues of 45 percent, and three times the number of customers signed versus the same quarter last year. in 2007, and nearly $5M in 2008, according to numbers from the Inc. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 26, 2009

iRise said this morning that its software revenue for Q4 2008, just surpassed the "entire fiscal year 2007 total" at the company. iRise develops software used to visualize and model IT software applications. Tags: economy irise software visualization. iRise's CEO and co-founder, Emmet B. READ MORE>>.

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