socalTECH
JULY 23, 2014
Los Angeles-based financial software developer BlackLine Systems said today that it has hired a new, Chief Technology Officer. According to the enterprise software company, it has named Alain Avakian as its CTO. He also has served at such companies at Stamps.com, Citysearch/Ticketmaster, and TCI/AND Interactive and Packard Bell.
socalTECH
MAY 5, 2011
West Hollywood-based CityGrid Media , the unit of IAC formerly known as CitySearch, said today that it has acquired BuzzLabs , a social media monitoring and sentiment analysis software developer. CityGrid Media operates the Citysearch, Insider Pages and Urbanspoon web sites. Financial terms of the deal were not announced.
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socalTECH
JUNE 1, 2015
We had launched in 2001 as a Wi-Fi service provider, putting software on customer's laptops, so that when they traveled from hotspot to hotspot, their laptop could automatically connect to the next hotspot. How did you end up going from software to distributed antenna systems? What's Boingo's business look like nowadays?
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 11, 2011
Bill had previously created a packaged software company called Knowledge Adventure the produced children’s educational software. So he founded … wait … CitySearch. IdeaLab has created 75 companies, leading to 8 IPOs, 35 or so acquisitions and more than 5 companies worth in excess of $1 billion.
SoCal Delicious
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
Adam Miller transformed his company into one of the world’s leading software-as-a-service companies, specifically in the HR world. Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. magazine and the LA Business Journal. billion in shares.
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