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MAY 31, 2019

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. had acquired Placed in 2017, paying $135.2M The acquisition by Foursquare came after it raised a new $150M investment from the Raine Group. As part of the acquisition, Foursquare said that Placed founder and CEO David Shim becomes President of Foursquare.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The company's long history--it was founded in 1999--includes the acquisition of MySpace in 2011, a 60% acquisition by Time Inc. in 2018, and the acquisition of Adelphic in 2017. Viant is led by technology veteran Tim Vanderhook, who founded Viant with brothers Chris and Russ.

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JANUARY 28, 2021

Halo Technology said the acquisition will add new products, including CFP-DCO coherent products. Halo's CEO is Matt McCormick.

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JULY 3, 2017

Financial details of the acquisition were not announced, however, DexYP says the combined company will have pro forma net revenues of more than $2 billion in 2017. Dex Media said on Friday that it has acquired YP Holdings , which operates both YP.com and the Real Yellow Pages, and will create a new combined company called DexYP.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Invoca said Schmidlin will lead all aspects of Invoca's employee success function including people operations, talent acquisition, and learning and development, in addition to overseeing its culture and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Freer had been CEO since October of 2017. The move comes as a restructuring by Disney, as it continues to shuffle its business after its acquisition of 21st Century Fox. The CEO of Los Angeles-based Hulu , Randy Freer, is stepping down from heading up the company, Disney said late Friday.

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Walmart acquired ShoeBuy in January of 2017 from InterActiveCorp (IAC) for $70M; WalMart paid $9M for the defunct Shoes.com domain shortly thereafter. Shoes.com was originally founded in 1999 as ShoeBuy.

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JUNE 8, 2018

In what looks to be one of the fastest Series A-to-acquisition deals in recent years, a startup backed by Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand has just been acquired by HR software giant WorkDay.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2018

According to the company, it had 2017 revenues of $1,117.8 million in 2017, which was an increase of 27.9% from 2016, when it had $874.3M in revenues.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. in total funding, and came out of YCombinator in 2017. Los Angeles-based RepairSmith , which offers up mobile automobile repair, has acquired CarDash , a startup which offers up car repair and maintenance services. CarDash had raised $5.3M

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MAY 25, 2018

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. BlueChipTek is the fifth company acquired by Converge Technology Partners since October of 2017. In addition to the acquisition of Agoura's Key Information Systems, Converge also acquired Corus360 (Georgia), Northern Micro (Ottawa), and Becker-Carroll (also Ottawa).

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MAY 15, 2018

Irvine-based Alteryx , the publicly held developer of data visualization and analytics software, said late Monday that it is seeking to offer $200M in convertible senior notes, which it says it will use for general corporate purposes, acquisition, and other "strategic transactions".

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JANUARY 17, 2018

Los Angeles-based j2 Global acquired four more companies in Q4 of 2017, adding to a very long list of acquisition, the company said today. The Mashable acquisition had already been announced earlier. Financial terms of the four acquisitions were not announced. Financial terms of the four acquisitions were not announced.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Canvas currently offers up its services in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Dallas, and launched back in 2017. According to Ford, existing customers of Canvas will be given an option to join Fair's service at the ends of their current vehicle subscription term. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. The acquisition is the third for Elite SEM since Mountaingate Capital acquired the comapny in 2017. San Diego-based e-commerce agency CPC Strategy has been acquired by digital marketing agency Elite SEM , according to private equity backer Mountaingate Capital.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The latest investment is being used to finance the acquisition of another company in the space — Appetize, a digital and mobile commerce payments platform for enterprises such as sports and entertainment venues, theme parks and zoos. The acquisition of Appetize extends SpotOn’s reach to the enterprise space in a major way.

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JUNE 12, 2019

Financial terms of the acquisition were not annoucned. Triton Digital says it has been integrated with and has been re-selling Omny Studio's software since 2017. Omny Studio was based in Melbourne, Australia. Omny Studio's co-founders, Andrew Armstrong and Long Zheng, also join Triton Digital as part of the deal.

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. According to Fandango, it expects the deal to close in Q4 of 2017. Los Angeles-based Fandango announced Friday morning that has acquired online movie ticketing service MovieTickets.com.

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APRIL 13, 2017

Los Angeles-based j2 Global , which provides both a suite of Internet services and runs an extensive digital media and content publishing business, has made five more acquisitions, the company said today. The company said it completed five acquisition in the first quarter of 2017 across three of its business units.

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AUGUST 28, 2017

According to the two companies, they expect to close the acquisition in the fourth quarter of 2017. Gilead said the acquisition will establish the company as a leader in cellular therapy. According to the two, Gilead will pay $180.00 per share in cash for publicly traded Kite, which trades as KITE on the Nasdaq. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 7, 2017

Saturday, May 13, 2017 -- Successfully Selling Your Business Workshop. Learn how to successfully sell your business using the advice of a corporate lawyer with $6+ billion in merger and acquisition experience. See [link] (more)

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DECEMBER 21, 2017

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APRIL 16, 2018

acquisition deal. Adecco said that General Assembly had 2017 revenues of approximately $100M. General Assembly , the provider of technology education which is very active in Los Angeles, has been acquired by Swiss staffing company Adecco Group , in a $412.5M Adecco Group is based in Zurich, Switzerland.

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APRIL 15, 2019

According to the companies, Nadavon Capital Partners originally invested in Clubspeed in April of 2017. Eric Novakovich, founder of Clubspeed, will become Chief Strategy Officer of the company as a part of the acquisition. Nadavon is based in Newport Beach.

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MARCH 7, 2019

The lawsuits come several years after DivX was acquired by NeuLion, in 2017. DivX has been mostly dormant since that acquisition in terms of product and company announcements. Netflix (court case number 2:2019-cv-01602) and DIVX, LLC et al (court case number 2:2019-cv-01606). READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

Calabasas-based surround sound and audio technology developer DTS is now officially part of Tessera , after Tessera completed its acquisition of DTS on Thursday, the companies said on Thursday afternoon. Tessera paid $850M in cash for DTS, in a deal which had originally been announced in May. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

million, up 7 percent compared with Q3 of 2017. The company is now sitting on approximately $386 million in cash and investments, saying it spent approximately $113M in the quarter for acquisitions and its regular quarterly dividend. The company says its expects revenues of between $1.2 billion and $1.25

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AUGUST 10, 2018

percent increase in its revenues between Q2 of 2017 and Q2 of 2018 in its quarterly results on Thursday afternoon. j2 Global is Southern California's most acquisitive company in the technology area, and has been gobbling up small online services, digital media outlets, and other companies since inception.

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MARCH 27, 2018

DTS was acquired by Tessera in 2016 and Tessera subsequently changed its name to Xperi in February of 2017, after its acquisition of DTS, FotoNation, Invensas, and Tessera. Financial details of the licensing deal were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 23, 2018

Financial details of the acquisition were not announced, however, Reliam said the deal was funded by Great Hill Partners, as part of a $75M agreement between Great Hill Partners and Reliam have for such acquisitions that was made in November of 2017.

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AUGUST 20, 2019

Scopely said it is opening up a new, 26,000 square foot office in Sarria-Sant Gervasi in Barcelona, an expansion from its earlier 7,000 square feet office in the city it opened in 2017. Scopely is in Deublin due to its recent acquisition of game studio DIGIT, which works on Scopely's Star Trek Fleet Command title.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

Verogen was founded in 2017, and develops tools and services used by forensic science laboratories and criminal investigators in criminal and missing-persons cases. Financial details of the transaction were not announced. Brett Williams is the CEO of Verogen.

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JANUARY 22, 2018

Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Pulse Electronics said Egston had 2017 revenues of approximately $85M, and has 1400 employees. Pulse said Egston will operate as an independent business unit, and will be renamed Egston a Pulse Electronics Company.

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APRIL 10, 2017

in 2016, and that it expects the acquisition to be accretive to the firm within 2017. Airgain said it is paying approximately $6.4 million in cash for Antenna Plus, which was in bankruptcy proceedings. Airgain said Antenna Plus had unaudited revenues of $7.5M

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JUNE 27, 2017

exchanges during the first half of 2017, according to the report EY Global IPO Trends. Improving economic fundamentals are stoking the IPO pipeline in the United States and elsewhere, according to a report issued Tuesday by the global consultant and accounting firm EY. Eighty companies raised a total of $22 billion on U.S.

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OCTOBER 12, 2017

Financial details of the acquisitions and sales were not announced. j2 Global said the sales of the three divestitures will reduce its revenue by approximately $23M in the second half of the year, reducing its revenues to between $1.107 billion and $1.147 billion for its fiscal 2017. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 11, 2017

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 11, 2017. Elon Musk , the founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, has acquired the domain name X.com , from PayPal. Elon Musk had started X.com in January of 1999, before it merged with Confinity and became PayPal. READ MORE>>.

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