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JULY 29, 2009

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands is continuing to buy up small, vertically focused web sites to add to its various consumer focused content networks, saying Wednesday that it has acquired three websites. Financial terms of the acquisitions were not disclosed. Tags: domain site acquisition merger brands internet. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 26, 2019

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. According to Fairway, the move will help bolster its services, adding cloud data warehousing, support for enterprise tools such as Snowflake, Databricks, and Confluent, and more. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Los Angeles-based Reliam , which provides managed services to help companies manage their operation on public cloud services like Amazon Web Services, has received a $75M commitment from private equity investor Great Hill Partners.

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JUNE 12, 2013

A new, Santa Monica startup, CampaignEQ , is hoping to help marketers better attribute increases in mobile customers and traffic to their marketing campaigns, with a new product. Belk was previously Head of Product at Beachmint, and was the company''s first employee; McGregor was Beachmint''s Dierctor of Acquisition. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. Remember when? And the numbers were staggering. Microsoft paid $9.00 per registered user for Hotmail. AOL paid $40.00

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JANUARY 14, 2014

Irvine-based online automotive information and lead generation site Autobytel said Monday afternoon that it has acquired AutoUSA , the web-based auto leads and service provider owned by AutoNation. Autobytel said the acquisition would help it expand its dealer network and increase revenue and cash flow. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 25, 2014

Moviepilot''s web site focuses on film recommendations, film discovery, and the company also helps studios with social media campaigns. moviepilot angeles merger acquisition webedia' The move puts the company''s focused squarely on its Los Angeles operations. The sale netted the company $20M, which it will use to fund its U.S.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp is the online web series school teaching the next generation of web series creators how to make and market their own new video projects on the web. And our network of filmmaker and entertainment industry colleagues allow us to recruit top teachers who are leaders in the web world. What inspired you?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Cybereason’s security services will be incorporated into the Arm Pelion IoT platform , a suite of Web-based tools that help businesses manage Internet of Things devices, their connectivity, and the data they generate. Cambridge, U.K.-based

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DECEMBER 3, 2014

Pasadena-based Wallaby Financial , the developer of web and mobile apps to help consumers optimize their credit card spending, hsa been acquired by Bankrate. wallaby bankrate credit card optimization software merger acquisition rate mobile' Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. in funding in total. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 11, 2015

Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Salem Media said the addition to its Salem Web Networks arm helps expand its portfolio of Christian websites and apps. Camarillo-based religious broadcaster and publisher Salem Media Group has acquired its own, mobile app, called InstaPray , the company said late Thursday.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 27, 2020

We’re thrilled to help lead the way for the broader tech community in Los Angeles.” With the acquisition, Fastly is planting a flag as a new competitor in the cybersecurity market, even as companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google offer a wider array of services under their internet as a service business lines.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Affiliate Marketing – As described more fully in Pour and Stir , anyone with basic web development skills can become an affiliate publisher and generate income by creating websites that market a variety of products and services. Although paperboys decreasingly delivered morning papers, the early hours, hazardous conditions (e.g.,

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APRIL 23, 2021

The company said Slemma's web-based tools allow users to create simple, easy-to-use and dynamic data reports with customizable dashboards. Xsolla's tools help videogame developers and publishers market and sell their software. According to Xsolla, it will integrate Slemma's product suite into its Publisher Account tool.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

Google’s acquisition of Nest gives the the co-founders an early exit and resources to up their hardware game. Nest is not Google’s first hardware acquisition. Others claim Google might integrate its Android OS with robots, smartphones, and connected cars to help run homes or factories remotely. Google EnergySense.

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OCTOBER 31, 2012

There's been a sudden surge in accelerator in Southern California, looking to help get startups off the ground and funded. But, do they really help? Congrats on the acquisition! How did the acquisition come about? Because we are able to reach the right person, we can help get them that last mile to the retailer's store.

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

According to the firm, the new product provides Web presence management to its customers, helping customers to drive their online search discovery, manage their reputation, and also manage social media marketing. The firm said the product is a result of its acquisition of SMB:Live back in February. READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2024

Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) 🔎 Want to browse the web privately? 8(a) Business Development Program For: Socially and economically disadvantaged business owners Funding limit: $7 million for acquisitions assigned manufacturing NAICS codes and $4.5

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FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Los Angeles-based OVGuide , the online video guide site backed by Baroda Ventures, said today that it has acquired Live Matrix , a provider of an online guide to live events on the web. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. OVGuide said the acquisition was an all-stock deal. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 1, 2012

Los Angeles-based MyLife.com is further expanding its services this morning, saying that it has launched a new, "social dashboard" product which helps users centrally manage all of their social and email accounts. The new service comes as a result of the acquisition of Threadsy in March by MyLife.

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MARCH 11, 2019

Los Angeles-based private equity investor K1 Investment Management has acquired Digital Pharmacist , a software development firm which helps pharmacists manage refill reminders and other marketing. The deal was worth $125M. Digital Pharmacist, which is based in Austin, Texas, had been backed by LiveOak Venture Partners.

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JANUARY 23, 2014

Zmags helps those catalog, magazine, and other publishers convert their media into tablet, mobile, social, and web form. mobile tablet software acquisition merger publishing service self group gore zmags' As part of the buy, Gores Group has named Brian T. Rigney as CEO of Zmags. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 24, 2018

San Francisco-based Cloudflare , which provides a service which helps web site and web application developers manage caching and access to their websites, protecting against cyberattacks, distributed denial of service (DDoS)--and which is backed by Qualcomm--is heading towards an IPO. billion.

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JANUARY 25, 2013

The tool, which lets users analyzing the web traffic from their promotions, lets users click into a map of where users are interacting with their promotions, and get detailed demographics data--household income, education, net worth, neighborhood data, and more--at the street level.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It has developed technology to give people a way to pay bills outside of traditional methods, such as through the mail, over the phone or via a Web portal. It also claims to help businesses of all sizes in all industries as well as governments and municipalities get paid faster and more often.

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JANUARY 22, 2013

If you're an investor who's concerned about the security of your deal data being store on the web, CapLinked , which develops an online platform to help companies manage and close their business transactions, has an answer for you: military-grade security. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

If you measure success by exits, the Ring acquisition by Amazon and Cylance acquisition by Blackberry, each for $1 billion, were among the biggest stories of 2018. Signal Sciences, a Culver City web application security company, is adding impressive clients and just closed a $30M Series C that will help it continue to scale.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

To help you focus, I have prioritized the following list of success principles, too often overlooked by otherwise smart people, blinded by dollar signs, who jump in before they consider the consequences and alternatives: Find a unique niche you love which adds real value. Prioritize mergers and acquisitions early.

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Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2017

San Diego-based TakeLessons set out nine years ago to create a Web-based platform that helped match music students with qualified instructors. Now TakeLessons has completed another acquisition, buying Chromatik, a Santa Monica, CA-based provider of digital sheet music.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

In 2020, the pandemic radically changed the customer acquisition process for many consumer-facing industries. This presented MomentFeed with an immense opportunity to help multi-location consumer brands meet the challenges brought on by an overnight shift in consumer shopping patterns. Contact our editors for details.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Intead, the firm is using FAN's acquisition to add around 100 employees from FAN as part of its engineering and product team. Rubicon Project operates a service which helps web publishers optimize the advertising on the site, by selecting the best ad networks to run on a particular publisher page. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Orange County-based heatmap software developer CrazyEgg has acquired Hello Bar , a developer of customizable, web toolbars which help encourage actions from web site visitors. Those tools are used by web page designers to figure out how to better engage users and tweak their web designs. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

According to Procore, BIManywhere's platform offers up a 3D viewing engine for helping with communications across project teams, through both a mobile app and web application. Financial details of the buy were not announced. BIManywhere is based in Oakland, California, and was founded by Peter Wu and Winson Chu.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Los Angeles-based Leads360 reported today that it has linked its sales lead management software with offerings from web-based mortgage software firm Optimal Blue. Leads360 is backed by Rustic Canyon Partners, and is headed by Dan Morefield, who was CIO of Overture Services before its acquisition by Yahoo. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2012

Hiring seems to be the preferred use of seed funds (by investors and founders), whereas I'd prefer a focus on customer acquisition. In the mean time, if you need some extra help, get some contractors to test out specific things. In other words, they come in asking for help with sourcing and hiring. Far from it.

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JUNE 23, 2016

El Segundo-based Stamps.com said this week that it has acquired ShippingEasy , a developer of web-based multi-carrier shipping software product that helps e-commerce providers process, fulfill, and ship their products. Stamps.com said it would pay $55M in cash for ShippingEasy, which was based in Austin, Texas.

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JULY 13, 2010

Mehdi Daoudi is CEO of CatchPoint Systems (www.catchpoint.com), a new Los Angeles startup focused on the web site and web application monitoring industry. We're trying to make monitoring of web sites and applications sexy and simple. That's why web performance and web monitoring mean serious dollars.

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