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JULY 26, 2010

recorded in its fiscal fourth quarter 2010 revenues, and $2.5M which will be reported in its first quarter of 2011. Tags: mindspeed patent merger acquisition intellectual property. According to Mindspeed, the "legacy" patent sale includes $7.5M READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The deal is worth $6M in upfront payments, plus payments linked to revenue in 2010/2011, and 2011/2012. MindTree said it expects an increase of approximately $9M in revenues between October 2009 to March 2010 related to the deal. Tags: kyocera wireless merger acquisition india mindtree. to IT firm MindTree Ltd.,

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

In June of 2011, MySpace was sold for a mere $35M to another, Southern California technology firm-- Specific Media , which has since been looking to remake MySpace with the help of Justin Timberlake. in a $580M deal.

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MAY 5, 2011

on revenues of $72.71M for the three months ended March 31, 2011. Revenues were up 15% from the quarter ending March 30, 2010, when the firm reported a net loss of $12.4M San Diego-based Active Network , the operator of sports registration and online community sites, said in a filing today that it had a net loss of $10.9M

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MAY 9, 2011

for the three months ended March 26, 2011. for the similar quarter in 2010. San Diego-based Peregrine Semiconductor , the developer of CMOS RF integrated circuits, updated its S-1 filings Friday, saying that it had a net loss of $1.0M on revenues of $21.2M That compares with net income of $1.0M on revenues of $22.9M

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JULY 11, 2011

during the first half of 2011, and revenues of $2.4M In a sign of how fast the daily deals market has grown, Screamin' Daily Deals was only founded in 2010. Local.com said that Screamin' Daily Deals had revenues of $4.4M The daily deals site apparently also had grown to approximately 60 employees and 14 different markets.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Ceres was trading around $14.85 on Thursday morning. Ceres was venture backed by Artal, Warburg Pincus, Ambergate Trust, Oxford Bioscience, GIMV, Oppenheimer Growth, and Monsanto.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

paidContent said ContentNext employes 16, with paidContent now bringing in 639,000 uniques as of October 2011, with more than 1.3 ContentNext founder Rafat Ali left the firm in May of 2010. Names of potential buyers were not discussed. paidContent said that Guardian is working with Coady Diemar Partners on a possible sale.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Here are 10: High Level of Content : Each PubCon track or sub-conference is focused on a specific aspect of marketing featuring topics that are important to your marketing and traffic-acquisition strategies. Takeaways : PubCon presentations always end with at least one specific takeaway that you can apply to your business’ own projects.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

Montgomery expects M&A to rebound to the normal recent levels at 450 deals by 2010. Nearly 50% say they will increase their activity levels in 2010 (hallelujah!) More interestingly Montgomery expect the M&A market to grow to 600 in 2011 and 750 in 2012. with only 19% saying they would decrease levels.

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JULY 7, 2010

From the press release: Financial Details of the Elluminate and Wimba Acquisitions. million to Blackboard's full year 2010 GAAP revenue, assuming the anticipated early August closing date for the acquisitions. Blackboard expects the transaction to be accretive in 2011 by approximately $0.05

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Here are 10: High Level of Content : Each PubCon track or sub-conference is focused on a specific aspect of marketing featuring topics that are important to your marketing and traffic-acquisition strategies. Takeaways : PubCon presentations always end with at least one specific takeaway that you can apply to your business’ own projects.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

After a year in which Biogen’s share price has fallen by more than a third and one of its top drug prospects failed, Scangos, who has led the company since 2010, has announced plans to step down. Scangos, the former head of Exelixis (NASDAQ: EXEL ), was named Biogen’s CEO in 2010 during a rocky time. Reprints | Share:

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars - Steve Blank , November 24, 2010 When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars. but: Something is Still Missing.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Summer 2011 Judges! After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of July 4th, 2011.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall 2011 Judges! A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Event Details. to 9:30 p.m. RSVP: AGENDA.

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

In October 2011, Google purchased Motorola, which has business units dispersed through the first four layers of the value chain: component design, component production, device design, and device production. Although it wasn’t discussed very much in the media, vertical integration was a major motivator. More to come on this in part 2.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of October 16th, 2011. Community Sponsor.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

I think that there might be cash toward the end of 2010 or 2011, where IPOs might be reasonable. The other thing to note is that there are lots of companies that are underfunded, and are going to be acquisition targets by the big medical oligopolies. Jason Howe: Right now, an IPO is an impossibility at this point in the market.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee) September 4, 2010. Why is Twitter’s user acquisition at a standstill , and why are their ad products failing? Sometime in 2011, I started to notice that the content I was putting out on Twitter was not getting the attention that it used to. montanatriplett nice, which Pinot Grigio.

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MAY 6, 2012

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Sizhao “Zao” Yang – COO and Co-founder at BetterWorks.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Miller was even honored as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2011. Even though their business model was tweaked a little while ago to give customers additional leniency, the business is still expecting to break $100 million in revenue this year, up from $25 million in 2010. Adam Goldenberg – JustFab.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Acquisition. In the UC System alone in 2010, Southern California UC schools formed 49 startups, trumping the 22 started up north. billion for its endowment in 2011 alone. Amid criticism, Uber’s CEO fights back: ‘On bad days, I look at our revenue graph’ channels. Editor’s picks. Featured stories.

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MAY 23, 2012

The numbers of potential buyers had decreased dramatically both because large companies were shedding jobs and because many past buyers simply lacked resources to make acquisitions. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. They had mail, IM, groups, answers, etc. then bought GeoCities for $3.6

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