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JUNE 5, 2012

A brand new, domain registration startup headed by a set of ex- Demand Media executives, has just raised an astounding $100M for its efforts. He continued to serve at Demand Media until 2009. Donuts Inc. Donuts Inc. Donuts Inc.

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OCTOBER 13, 2010

San Diego-based Sorenson Media , which develops video encoding and decoding software, said today that it has promoted its Vice President of Marketing and Strategy, Eric Quanstrom, to Chief Operating Officer (COO). Quanstrom joined Sorenson Media in May of 2009, at was previously at SightSpeed. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 8, 2010

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online media firm run by Richard Rosenblatt, has finally filed for its long awaited IPO. For the year ended December 31, 2009, the firm had a net loss of $21.9M The filing indicates that the total venture capital funding by Demand Media now totals $373.75M, across four rounds of funding.

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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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JANUARY 12, 2010

Pasadena-based software-as-a-service developer Central Desktop reported today that the firm had 44 percent, year-over-year growth, and boosted its staff by 50 percent in 2009, as a result of demand for the firm's online project collaboration tools. The firm said its customers now include such companies as Netflix, U.S.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , the pay-per-call technology provider run by Jason Spievak , has linked with lead generations firm LeadClick Media , the firm said Thursday afternoon. The firm said that LeadClick Media, which is a subsidiary of First American Corp., LeadClick has been piloting Ring Revenue's products since mid-2009.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

For today's Insights and Opinions article, we have a piece from Tracy Olmstead Williams, of Olmstead Williams Communications, talking about the bold new world of social media: Social Media, like Global Warming, has now left doubters behind. Brands lagging in new media shrank by 6 percent. 06 percent.

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MARCH 1, 2010

The Tech Coast Angels said today that the angel group invested in seven new deals, and seventeen follow-on deals in 2009, a total of $4.7M in investments. The group said that as part of those deals, its portfolio companies raised an additional $57M in funding from venture capital groups and other angel investors.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Tony Hsieh , the founder of Zappos--and a big angel investor in Southern California startups-- has died, at the age of 46 , according to Las Vegas media. Hsieh co-founded Zappos in 1999, and sold it to Amazon in 2009, for approximately $1.2 Details on the death have not been released. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

According to an analysis of socalTECH's proprietary database of venture capital deals, venture investors invested slightly more than the $966M in Q3 of 2009, but less than the $1.6 Interestingly enough, that area of perpetual interest for the Los Angeles area--Content and Media--only garnered $10.68M in funding during the quarter.

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JUNE 5, 2019

Paul Getty Trust board since 2009. Clarity Partners, based in Beverly Hills, invests in communications, media, and related technology companies. The company's investments have included such companies as CaseStack, Oxygen Media, MetroPCS, ImpreMedia, and many others.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

Beverly Hills-based Hydra Media , the cost-per-action (CPA) advertising network, has new funding in hand and legal issues behind it, and is now looking upmarket, the firm told socalTECH in an interview Thursday. Tags: hydra media advertising network. How does the firm hope to attract more large brand advertisers? READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

According to the firm, Eddie Lazarus, who was most recently General Counsel and Chief Strategy Officer for Tribune Media Company from 2013 to 2018, will join the company in Santa Barbara on January 2nd. Lazarus also previously was Chief of Staff to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from June 2009 to Feb.

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APRIL 29, 2010

Los Angeles-based Total Beauty Media , the online beauty site run by Emrah Kovacoglu, said today that it has relaunched BeautyRiot.com , the celebrity hairstyle and beauty site it acquired in 2009. Total Beauty acquired BeautyRiot in March of 2009. Total Beauty acquired BeautyRiot in March of 2009. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 17, 2012

the domain name registration startup which has strong ties to Demand Media , looks to be the dominant applicant for ICANN's new top level domains, in a telling graphic released by law firm Loeb & Loeb today. Donuts Inc. , The infographic , released via ReadWriteWeb, shows, visually, how Donuts Inc. Donuts Inc. Donuts Inc.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

ReachLocal said it would pay approximately $10M for DealOn Media LLC, which offers up local deals businesses in 18 markets across the U.S., DealOn was founded in 2009. Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal said Tuesday afternoon that it is acquiring New York-based DealOn.com , a provider of daily deals.

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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. Social Blaze was founded in 2009 by Cassie Rice. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 20, 2009

tech, new media, entertainment and consumer industries. Dealmaker Media www.undertheradarblog.com is presenting their 13th Under the Radar conference in Mountain View, CA. on April 24, 2009. socalTECH readers. socalTECH readers. public relations company, offers PowerTouch Campaigns, exclusive and customizable.

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DECEMBER 26, 2013

Dorsey was co-founder of Twitter, and also co-founded mobile payment service Square in 2009. Disney said the move will give it a perspective into the "latest technologies and platforms" to reach more people, due to his influence in the social media and commerce space. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 6, 2011

7digital , a UK-based digital media firm which provides MP3 music track downloads, said Tuesday that it is expanding its North American operations, and is opening up new offices in Los Angeles. As part of the expansion, the company said it has appointed Vickie Nauman as President of its North American operations.

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JANUARY 13, 2015

Chill was founded by Brian Norgard and Dan Gould, and was venture backed by William Morris Endeavor (WME), Kleiner, 500 Startups, Redpoint Ventures, Crunchfund, Science Media, Troy Carter and Atlas Venture. back in 2009. Norgard and Gould rejoin Sean Rad, who the two had worked with on founding Ad.ly READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Woodland Hills-based United Online reported its fourth quarter and full year 2009 results Wednesday afternoon, saying that its communications segment--which includes its dial-up ISP business--had a revenue drop of 19 percent in Q4 compared with Q4 of 2008, dropping to $48.4M in Q4 of 2009, down from the $256.2M for the quarter.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

San Diego-based Verve Wireless is reporting tonight that the firm served up 100 million mobile news pages per month in 2009, up 160% year over year. The firm attributed the growth in news page views to local media partners, who have recently been signing up to the company's white label mobile application product. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

The funding comes from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009. ViaSat bought WildBlue in October of 2009, using funding from Liberty Media, Intelsat, Tennenbaum Capital Partners, the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

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JANUARY 20, 2011

Adconion Media Group , the Internet advertising firm which has been ramping up its operations in Santa Monica, said today that it is spinning out its video product, Joost Video Network , into a new, standalone business, also based in Santa Monica. Adconion acquired the assets of Joost from the founders of Skype in November of 2009.

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MARCH 4, 2011

CBS said that Clicker Media will become part of CBS Interactive'roster of properties. The acquisition is a quick one for Clicker, which only launched public access to its site in November of 2009. Clicker was venture backed by Benchmark Capital, JAFCO, Redpoint Ventures, and Blake Krikorian, and had raised around $21M in funding.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Neville Spiteri is co-founder of Venice-based WEMO Media (www.wemomedia.com), a new, digital studio whose flagship product is TheBlu (www.theblu.com) an online, interactive experience focused on the world's oceans. Our focus is really what we refer to as globally shared media. In 2009, I was convinced the time was right.

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JANUARY 20, 2011

Adconian Media Group , the Internet advertising firm which has been ramping up its operations in Santa Monica, said today that it is spinning out its video product, Joost Video Network , into a new, standalone business, also based in Santa Monica. Adconian acquired the assets of Joost for the founders of Skype in November of 2009.

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JULY 30, 2010

Irvine-based Uniloc USA , a firm which develops anti-fraud technology based on physical device recognition, said this morning that it has filed a patent infringement suit against Sony America, McAfee, Activision, Quark, Aspyr Media, and Borland Software.

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APRIL 15, 2010

for the quarter, up from both Q4 of last year as well as the comparable Q1 quarter in 2009, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the NVCA. in Q1, up from $588.033M tallied by the report in Q4 of 2009, and up significantly from the $320.2M received in the region in Q1 of 2009. across 31 days.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

Cleantech had an enormous rise and fall between 20006 and 2009. Lots has changed since 2009. In 2009, the finance world fell apart, and the venture world fell apart, and I returned to Pasadena. The same thing happened with algae biofuel companies in the 2006 and 2009 time frame. social media, and everything else.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Both years were well above 2009, which had a low of only $475M in exits. The report also tallied six companies having IPOs, the most since 2005; those firms included RealD, Cornerstone OnDemand, Demand Media, ReachLocal and Inphi Corp. Green Dot's backers included Sequoia Capital, Total Technology Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels.

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MARCH 20, 2017

since 2009, and previously also had served at Electronics Arts, InfoSpace, and Mattel. According to Machinima, Arons and Gutstein are working on a "multi-week" transition plan. Arons will now lead Machinima's creative, marketing services, data analytics, business development and operations. She has been at Warner Bros. Warner Bros.

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DECEMBER 6, 2010

According to Disney, those fans are spread across more than 200 official Disney brands, property, and character pages, which the firm has been creating on Facebook since August of 2009. Disney said it is now seeing more than 5 million new fans per week on its Facebook pages. READ MORE>>.

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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. Tags: sheknows atomiconline comscore media content internet unique traffic. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

The three fired partners claim that Hydra, which was projected to generate $150M in revenue in 2009, will be lucky to generate half that revenue this year. Tags: online advertising media hydra. Hydra has also sued the Walkers over a noncompete agreement, after the Walkers formed a new online advertising firm, W4, after being fired.

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AUGUST 13, 2010

for the same six months in 2009. Winyatek develops NAND Flash controller, systems-on-a-chip, secure digital, multi-media card (MMC) controllers, and card readers. The firm benefited from an adjustment to the firm's accounting of deferred income tax. The firm had net income attributable to common stockholders of $2.2M. READ MORE>>.

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