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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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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Clearstone Ventures has scored an acquisition in its portfolio today, with the acquisition of Apture by Google. Apture announced the acquisition on its website Thursday, but did not disclose any financial details of the buy. Clearstone was involved in Apture's Series A in March of 2009.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The Los Angeles game development studio Jam City is setting up a shop in Toronto with the acquisition of Bingo Pop from Uken Games. The Bingo Pop acquisition will bring a gambling game into the casual game developer’s stable of titles that pulled in roughly $700,000 in revenue through October, according to data from SensorTower.

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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? With this acquisition, that has put Concur into SAP.

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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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DECEMBER 11, 2009

Santa Barbara-based FastSpring , a firm which provides e-commerce services and payment processing for online software sellers, claims that the firm had 500% growth in its revenues in 2009. Tags: fastspring engel ecommerce software. Engel did not disclose actual financials related to the firm. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

for 2009, and has seen revenues grow to $20.28M in the first six months of 2010. Cornerstone OnDemand develops software-as-a-service, used by human resources and others to manage learning, career development, succession planning, and other corporate operations. According to the S-1, the firm had a net loss of $8.3M 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. Posted byTony Karrer at 6:58 AM 1 comments: Jon Miller said.

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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. Tags: language weaver merger acquisition translation. SDL is based in Maidenhead, UK. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 18, 2010

Cyberplex said that Tsavo had 2009 revenues of approximately $110M and EBITDA of approximately $16.7M, and was generating over 30 million unique visitors per month. Tags: tsavo media merger acquisition content publishing software. Tsavo was backed by American Capital. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

for the year ended September 2009. Tags: software security acquisition merger actividentity abloy assa global. HID Global said that ActiveIdentity has over 200 employees, and revenues of $62.0M HID global said the buy would help it extend its capabilities in the area of physical and logical access control.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Aliso Viejo-based Smith Micro Software said late Wednesday that it has completed its acquisition of Core Mobility , a developer of wireless handset software. Smith Micro said the buy will help it provide customers with embedded mobile software solutions focused on the handset. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 12, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Mindflash.com , a provider of online training software for small businesses, said today that it has named Donna Wells as its new President and CEO. Wells was CMO at Mint.com until its acquisition by Intuit in 2009; she has also served at Expedia as Senior Vice President of U.S. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Calabasas-based Ixia , a developer of network testing tools, reported its fourth quarter and 2009 year end results Thursday, saying that it lost $31.3M in Q4 of 2009, on record revenues of $56.1M Ixia is a developer of hardware and software used for testing high speed networks. The loss came due to a $27.6M deferred tax assets.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

According to Rubicon, Allen & Company will work with the company to "exploring options for ongoing business growth initiatives" including strategic acquisitions, platform expanson, and continued international growth. Tags: rubicon project merger acquisition investment banker advertising software technology server.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

Studenmund is an advisor focused on startups, rapid growth, turnaround, and merger and acquisition, and was previously Chief Operating Officer at Overture. Studenmund also serves on the boards of Orbitz, eHarmony, Western Asset, and was on the baord of aQuantive before its acquisition by Microsoft. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

According to Quality Systems, it will combine Opus Healthcare Solutions with Sphere Health Systems, which it acquired in August of 2009, as part of its NextGen Healthcare Information Systems subsidiary. Opus provides electronic health record (EHR) software for health clinics.

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MARCH 11, 2010

Santa Monica-based Image Metrics , a developer of facial animation software and services, has raised $8.0M for fiscal 2009. Tags: image metrics facial animation reverse merger icla acquisition. in funding and gone public through a reverse merger. As part of the public listing, Image Metrics reported it had revenues of $4.0M

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

Wednesday, December 16, 2009 -- Tech Entrepreneur Happy Hour. There are lots of exciting things happening in LA software right now. Tons of great new startups, lots of higher level acquisitions. Let's get together for drinks at Copa d'Oro in Santa Monica to catch up and talk tech before the holidays. See [link] (more).

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

Orange-based M86 Security , a developer of web security software, reported today that it has received a U.S. Green as inventors; it appears the patent stems from M86 Security's acquisition of Avinti, a malware detection firm, in March of 2009. Patent for its malware detection technology. Marsden and David E. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

MindTree said it expects an increase of approximately $9M in revenues between October 2009 to March 2010 related to the deal. employs approximately 600, who provide wireless product development, software engineering, and product testing for Kyocera Wireless, and also develops custom handsets for Indian service providers.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. 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.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. www.SoCconference.com ) - November 4 & 5, 2009 - Radisson Hotel Newport Beach. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Startups Made Simple.

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MARCH 20, 2007

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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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FEBRUARY 28, 2007

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MARCH 5, 2007

You create something that has value and gets traction and yet youve created it in a way that the software is considered "free." There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models. I understand his frustration.

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Provides application performance management (APM) software solution that helps web sites manage distributed applications in high-volume production environments; features include: application mapping, transaction flow monitoring, code-level diagnostics, and cloud orchestration. Its net income for the 2009 period is $11.66 AppDynamics.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2007

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