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APRIL 8, 2019

Los Angeles-based CitySourced , which develops mobile apps to help cities communicate with their constituents, has merged with Rock Solid Technologies , a provider of software to the government. CitySourced was founded in 2009, and is led by CEO Jason Kiesel. Financial terms of the merger were not announced.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Los Angeles-based StyleSpot , an online fashion and social shopping site founded by Rafi Gordon and Alex Amin, has been acquired by Kaboodle , the online social shopping site owned by Hearst Corp. Kaboodle announced the acquisition late Friday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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MAY 22, 2012

Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. According to Alliance Entertainment, Audiolife's founders will remain in Los Angeles, but the company will be moving its fulfillment operations to Shepherdsville, Kentucky. Audiolife was founded in 2009. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

Los Angeles-based Evolve Media Corp. , Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. RealityTea.com was founded in 2009, and gets more than 550,000 unique monthly visitors. The company said that both will become part of its Momtastic community for moms. Evolve did not disclose numbers for WebEcoist.com. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 28, 2011

Los Angeles-based Social Blaze , a provider of web analytics and social media management software, has been acquired by digital agency MartinJAY Digital. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Social Blaze was founded in 2009 by Cassie Rice. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Los Angeles private equity investor Vance Street Capital said Monday that it has acquired Lark Engineering , a San Juan Capistrano-based designer and manufacturer of RF filters. secure communications vance street capital merger acquisition private equity lark engineering filter hardware' Financial details of the buy were not announced.

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JULY 15, 2010

Los Angeles-based Language Weaver , the University of Southern California spinout which provides statistical machine translation software, has been acquired by UK-based SDL. for the calendar year ending 2009, and a loss of $1.0M. for the calendar year ending 2009, and a loss of $1.0M. SDL is based in Maidenhead, UK. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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JANUARY 13, 2015

Los Angeles-based dating app developer Tinder has acquired Chill , the maker of Tappy, a Snapchat-like instant messaging service which revolves around photo sharing. back in 2009. tappy chill tinder social sharing instant messaging merger acquisition' Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Green Dot is venture backed by Sequoia Capital, TTP Fund, as well as a significant number of Tech Coast Angels. Tags: green financial prepaid merger acquisition tech coast angels. The firm reported net income of $37.16M on revenues of $234.8M Green Dot is headed by Steven Streit.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Los Angeles-based television streaming site Hulu expects to make $240M in 2010, according to Jason Kilar, the firm's CEO. Kilar, who revealed the numbers at today's NewTeeVee conference in San Francisco, also said the firm had $108M in revenues in 2009. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, February 23, 2007 Events and Networking in Los Angeles One of the issues I discussed in Innovation and Geography was that the geography and traffic in Los Angeles generally makes it more difficult for networking. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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MAY 18, 2010

Los Angeles-based online media firm Tsavo Media , which was founded by Mike Jones, founder of Userplane and current co-President of MySpace, has been sold for $75M to a Canadian firm. Tags: tsavo media merger acquisition content publishing software. Tsavo was backed by American Capital. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 30, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands reported its results Thursday, saying that the firm saw record revenues in Q2. in Q2 of 2009. The total brings the amount spent on acquisitions in the first half of the year to $16.2M The firm had not previously disclosed financial information about its various acquisitions in the quarter.

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MARCH 4, 2011

Los Angeles-based Clicker.com , the provider of a guide to online video, has been acquired by CBS Interactive , the firms said Friday. The acquisition is a quick one for Clicker, which only launched public access to its site in November of 2009. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Los Angeles-based private equity firm Platinum Equity said Tuesday that it is merging two of its portfolio firms, Pomeroy IT Solutions Inc. Platinum acquired Pomeroy in November of 2009, and acquired OAO Technology Solutions in January of 2010. Tags: acquisition merger equity platinum. and OAO Technology Solutions.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , the online ad optimization firm headed by Frank Addante , announced this morning that it has hired investment banker Allen & Company. Rubicon also said in its announcement that it had year-over-year growth of 270%, and that during 2009 it made its first acquisition, of technology firm Others Online.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

Los Angeles-based Passenger , which operates online communities for major brands, said today that it has named Jaynie Miller Studenmund to the firm's board of directors. Studenmund is an advisor focused on startups, rapid growth, turnaround, and merger and acquisition, and was previously Chief Operating Officer at Overture.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

The firm is being sold--today--at 11am, in a public auction being held by TroyGould PC, the Los Angeles law firm. The firm had raised funding back in 2009, raising somewhere around $3.72M, based on announcements and regulatory filings. Tags: adventurelink shutdown exit merger acquisition foreclosure adventure travel booking.

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AUGUST 12, 2010

Los Angeles-based video game rental service GameFly is seeing more competition from video rental firm Blockbuster this week, after its competitor announced that it is expanding its online movie rental service to include video games. Tags: gamefly merger acquisition videogame content blockbuster rental video game. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

What You Can Learn From Public Markets It doesn’t really take a genius to realize that what happens in the public markets will filter back to the private markets because the ultimate exit of these companies is either an IPO or an acquisition (often by a public company whose valuation is fixed daily by the market). discipline & focus.

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MAY 27, 2010

Los Angeles-based RealD , the developer of 3D projection technology which is waiting in the wings for an IPO, revealed its latest year's result in an updated S-1 filing with the SEC last night. in gross revenues the firm reported for 2009. in gross revenues the firm reported for 2009. for the year. in admission-based feeds.

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JANUARY 31, 2012

Los Angeles-based private equity firm Platinum Equity has sold one of its portfolio companies, Canvas Systems , a supplier of refurbished IT hardware and services. Platinum Equity had acquired Canvas Systems in April of 2009. Canvas Systems was sold to electronics distributor Avnet. Financial terms of the sale were not disclosed.

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MAY 27, 2011

NewEgg had filed for an IPO in September of 2009. In the filing, the firm said that it "determined not to proceed with the initial public offering" but did not give any explanation.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Los Angeles-based HauteLook , the flash sales site run by Adam Bernhard, has been acquired by Nordstrom for up to $270M. The firm had only been formed over a little more than three years ago, in December of 2009, when Bernhard founded the company. HauteLook had raised somewhere around $41M in total funding. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. Subscribe to RSS.

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JULY 21, 2009

Los Angeles-based SheKnows , the online women's media site owned by AtomicOnline, has shown up in the top 10 list of gaining properties, based comScore's latest ranking of web visitors today. SheKnows was ranked number 100 in terms of top web properties. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Meet the Graduates: · Connectifier, which connects recruiters to potential job candidates, consists of 4 ex-Google employees and local angel investor, Terrence Yang, has dubbed Connectifier one of the best startups of 2012. Less Neglect helps companies reduce churn, upsell users, and increase customer acquisition rates.

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JUNE 22, 2010

"It doesn't change anything for us," said Alex Quilici, CEO of YouMail, which is venture backed by VantagePoint Venture Partners and the Tech Coast Angels.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Green Dot's backers included Sequoia Capital, Total Technology Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels. Both years were well above 2009, which had a low of only $475M in exits. Compared with 2010, the report found an increase of 296 percent over exits in 2010, when $2.6 billion in liquidity was generated in the sector.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

Los Angeles-based Boingo Wireless , the operator of a global Wi-Fi hot spot network, has filed for an IPO, saying Friday afternoon that it is looking to raised up to $75M in an IPO. on revenues of $65.715M for 2009, and net income of $5.67M on revenues of $59.0M The firm reported it had net income of $1.4M

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. The 7th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference, Exhibit & Workshops (www.SoCconference.com) - November 4 & 5, 2009 - Radisson Hotel Newport Beach. VentureNet 2009 (www.venturenet.org) - October 7, Costa Mesa. Startups Made Simple. Advertisers.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 About this Blog Ive been thinking about doing a blog with my thoughts on technology and whats happening in the Los Angeles area technology scene for a while, but it was Ben Kuos recent start of a blog that inspired me to actually go ahead and do it. Thanks Ben.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

John Maffei is CEO of Los Angeles-based Xfire (www.xfire.com) an online community focused on online gamers, which is now owned by Titan Gaming. The firm is announcing today that it has just reached its 17 millionth registered user, having added more than 300,000 new users since its August acquisition. How did that group come together?

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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MARCH 20, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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MARCH 9, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 9:30 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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