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ThinkNear Among SoCal's First Accelerator Exits

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The acquisition Tuesday of ThinkNear , the mobile advertising firm headed by Eli Portnoy, looks to be among the first accelerator-incubated companies in Southern California. for ThinkNear Tuesday morning, and make the company part of its mobile, local advertising group. TeleNav said it would pay $22.5M

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Three SoCal Startups That Beat Snapchat To $100M In Revenues

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Venice-based Snapchat might be the darling of the technology startup scene, but there are at least three, privately held startups--and maybe, more--in Southern California who recently passed $100M in revenues, according to a look through recent announcements. READ MORE>>.

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Rubicon Project Up 33.60 Percent In IPO

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Santa Monica-based The Rubicon Project , which develops ad optimization technology and operates a related online advertising exchange, closed up 33.60% at $20.04 All three exits will help bolster Southern California''s reputation as a technology startup hotbed. Rubicon was venture backed by Clearstone Ventures, News Corp.,

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MomentFeed Names Tech Veteran Nick Hedges As CEO

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Hedges is a longtime Southern California technology veteran, who was most recently President and CEO of Velocify. Hedges served in that position until its recent acquisition by Ellie Mae. Hedges also previously has served at Bain & Company, Accenture.com, and Ogilvy & Mather.

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Pandora IPO's SoCal Connections

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Pandora has some Southern California connections--beyond its relationships with music studios here--including Jon Kraft , who co-founded Pandora, and Peter Gotcher , the co-founder and Chairman of Los Angeles-based TopSpin.

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Conversant Becomes Part Of Alliance Data After $2.3 Billion Deal

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Westlake Village-based online advertising company Conversant --which until recently was known as ValueClick--is now officially part of Alliance Data , after the completion of Alliance Data''s acquisition deal with the company. conversant valueclick merger acquisition alliance data alliancedata advertising online marketing'