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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

CEO Lorenz was previously in Product and Monetization at Snap, and prior to that was SVP of Product at Brand Networks, in addition to serving at a VP at SHIFT.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Cinedigm said it will distribute content from ComicBlitz as a licensed offering for mobile carriers, OTT providers, and other media companies, and also integrate the new proerty with its current fandom lifestyle network, CONtv. ComicBlitz was launched in 2015. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Pakedge Device & Software , a provider of home and business networking products and services, has been acquired by Control4 in a $32.7M Control4 said that the acquisition will help it expand its networking, power management, and cloud-based remote management capabilities. deal, the companies said this week.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Chatsworth-based optical networking equipment provider MRV Communications said the price of its sale of Tecnonet S.p.A. The deal had originally been announced on December 3rd, 2015. has increased, and that it has received an additional $4.8M in the sale. The deal now amounts to $26.4M. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Blizzard said it intends to begin beta testing of the game in 2015. Blizzard apparently had a playable version of the game running on a network of 600 PCs at its BlizzCon conference this weekend. The company said it has ramped hiring specifically to help support the new title and its other development efforts.

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MARCH 1, 2016

The company--which quietly disclosed the $202M in 2014 revenues in the 2015 Inc. 5000 rankings--is backed by Double M Partners, Founder Collective, Hermes Growth Partners, IA Ventures, and Wider Wake Networks. It's unclear when The Trade Desk actually passed that milestone, or what the company's 2015 revenues were.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

The cost and difficulty of deploying fiber for its high speed, Gigabit networking efforts in such cities as Los Angeles has Google Fiber considering a move to wireless, according to a report. Google first indicated an interest in a Los Angeles expansion back in December of 2015. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 5, 2015

J2 Global--which has had a ravenous appetite for small Internet-based businesses--said it acquired LiveVault (USA), Axiatel (France), Salesify (USA), VDW (Netherlands), Online Backup Vault (USA), Popfax (France), DSA Technologies (USA), Network Telsys (Canada), and Comtech (Norway).

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JULY 10, 2015

percent of its total revenues in the first quarter of 2015, and that it estimates that its users supplied 7 percent of AutoNation's Q1 2015 new vehicle sales. TrueCar said that AutoNation had represented 3.1 The two cut ties after a dispute over sharing of customer information. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 18, 2016

San Diego-based Airgain , a developer of embedded antenna technology for the wireless networking market, has filed for an IPO, saying that it is looking to raise $17.5M The company reported $27.793M in sales for its year ended December 31, 2015. in a public offering on the NASDAQ Capital Market. The company has applied to list as AIRG.

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JANUARY 25, 2018

The City of Santa Maria is set to get a high speed, gigabit Internet in a deal with Wave Broadband, Wave said today, after the fiber internet provider signed a deal to complete construction of a fiber-optic network ring in the city. Mindbody is in San Luis Obispo. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 1, 2017

The company said it is developing a network of reseller partners in the area, and recently has been seeing growth in Italy and Spain. The company said its growth rates between 2015 and 2016 in the countries are 166 percent for Italy and 67 percent for Spain. Kyriba now has its headquarters in New York, but started in San Diego.

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MARCH 10, 2015

Name of the carrier was not announced, nor were financial terms of the deal, however, Boingo said that the deal will offload Wi-Fi on 40 million handsets using Boingo''s network in 2015. Boingo explained that the system will automatically connect a customer''s device into its network without user interaction.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Los Angeles-based CurbStand (www.curbstand.com) is hoping to change that, by offering up a mobile app which connects you with the company''s network of CurbStand valet parking companies, which offers on-demand retrieval of your car, mobil payments, and on the valet parking operator side--lots of business analytics tools and reporting.

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JANUARY 5, 2015

Irvine-based networking product developer Linksys said this morning that it has released a network router, along with other products for its WRT product family. All of the products are expected to hit shelves in spring of 2015.

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The two said the first mission under contract is for 2015. SES operates a network of 51, geostationary satellites. SpaceX and European firm SES said they are in an agreement to launch three, additional SES satellites on the SpaceX Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 7, 2018

The program wil run for 16 weeks, and offer up mentoring, network contacts, and input on airport specific topics--plus, the abiliy to test their ideas in live operation at the airport. SAN said the new Innovation Lab will be housed in its Commuter Terminal, which was decommissioned in June 2015.

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MAY 7, 2018

The program wil run for 16 weeks, and offer up mentoring, network contacts, and input on airport specific topics--plus, the abiliy to test their ideas in live operation at the airport. SAN said the new Innovation Lab will be housed in its Commuter Terminal, which was decommissioned in June 2015.

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JANUARY 15, 2020

The service is currently in beta, and free to use.

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The company said mobile managed revenue is expected to surpass $200M in its fiscal 2015. Rubicon Project operates an automated system for buying and selling online and mobile ads, to help publishers maximize their ad revenues across advertising networks. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 5, 2015

Our last (belated) one is from Kevin Winston , the founder of Digital LA , the big networking group which helps to connect Silicon Beach through an extensive lineup of events. We are looking forward to this year''s Silicon Beach Fest 2015 continuing these themes and being bigger, adding more international, biotech, and more.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2012

The new system-on-a-chip product is aimed at microwave backhaul, which are used for transmitting data from cell sites to core networks. Broadcom said that the microwave backhaul market is expected to exceed $6B, and more than 3 million microwave unit shipments, by 2015. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 8, 2015

2015 will be the year that transforms the daily activity of the sales rep. The coming of age of support technologies, built on big data analytics and social networks will profoundly affect the day-to-day focus of sales organizations.

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MARCH 7, 2014

Zya is a music game which lets users remix popular tunes, and add their own voice or sounds to create original creations.

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JANUARY 2, 2015

What technologies or things are you looking forward to most in 2015? David Cremin is a founder and Managing Director of DFJ Frontier, a DFJ Network partner fund and early stage venture capital firm focused on west coast media and information services investments. Reconfirmed that I should always keep the ball in the air if I can.

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MARCH 9, 2017

In an age where topics like Russian hacking, CIA hacking tools and the stability of the power grid and industrial networks has suddenly become important, there are only a few companies tackling industrial network security directly. Paul Myer: Veracity Industrial Networks is a startup in the industrial network security segment.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

James told us a bit about the lessons he's learned as the founder of a successful startup (SHIFT, which he sold to Brand Network for $50M in 2015), as well as his time as an executive at Snap. When you are trying to build a business which is headquartered in this market, it's really about the network.

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MARCH 10, 2017

What we did in 2014-2015 and most of 2016, was to really, really refine the business model, so that we could be a successful company, and not just have a successful product. But what's also happened, is we've narrowed down the set of networks that we use as consumers to engage with companies.

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We were incubated and launched in Canada in 2014, and at the end of 2015, we launched in the U.S. We have a fairly broad network and set of folks who are supportive of us there. What we saw during the holidays in 2015 certainly supports our vision of what we're doing as a mobile-first, gifting platform and destination.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

How is this different from a typical content delivery network (CDN)? These large mobile carriers have audiences, but something they dont have content services to attract and retain subscribers to a mobile network. Kaaan Jemili: At uCast, we have a rich solution that encompasses multiple business models around deliver content.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Santa Monica-based Happy Returns (www.happyreturns.com) is solving that issue, with a network of "return bars" it has opened in partnership with physical retailers. We do that through a network of physical locations, which we call Return Bars, all around the country. Returns by mail are really inefficient.

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MAY 25, 2016

There's also a great network effect happening in the area of industry clouds, and network capitalism, which is not just marketing poof. That network effect is a subtle but has a powerful effect with all this new technology. You'll see we have several enterprise software companies already in the March portfolio.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Andrew Schydlowsky: We entered this market in 2015, and we are backed by a combination of institutional investors, and some family offices, as well as some very experienced and successful angels and operators. Although they'll still rely on their partner network, they will be integrated in a different way.

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JULY 24, 2017

After about six or seven years of that, in 2015, in the larger WeMo space at CES, we demonstrated something we had been working on. They understand plumbing codes, materials, and understand plumbers, and have access to a network of plumbers. Uponor, on the other hand, is in an incredibly strong position in plumbing.

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MARCH 11, 2016

Scott Chisolm: We have raised $23M, $18M from our Series B, which we did in early to mid 2015. The reason we went to angels, is that here in Southern California, the network of VCs and even angels wasn't tremendous, especially for software. Around here, in areas like biotech, there is a really solid network, but not in software.

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JULY 28, 2017

That's securing the network, looking at endpoints, and making other security investments across the board, and on such things like mobile device management for mobile phones. In 2015, for example, 60 percent plus of attacks were somehow surrounding the root cause of misuse of stolen credentials. It's the elephant in the room.

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MARCH 16, 2015

Los Angeles-based FameBit (www.famebit.com) has developed a new platform which lets any content creator connect with brands, without the need for an agency or MCN, to help them grow their content and network. David Kierzkowski: We launched into beta in January of 2015, and launched to the public in May. Tell us about FameBit?

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