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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. Qualcomm is based in San Diego.

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San Diego Google Web Report 113

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JULY 7, 2010

San Diego-based BrightCloud , a developer of Web content classification and security services, has been acquired by Internet security software firm Webroot. According to Webroot, it will add BrightCloud's engineering team in San Diego to its Cloud Engineering team. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed.

San Diego 140

San Diego Web Acquisition Tool 140

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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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Venture Capital San Diego Santa Monica Coach 59

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JUNE 18, 2009

San Diego-based The Active Network , an operator of a network of services for community, sports, and other organizations, said today that it has released a new product focused on event management. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 13, 2017

Dayton, OH-based Teradata (NYSE: TDC ), which has roughly 1,000 employees at its Teradata Labs engineering unit in San Diego, says today it has acquired StackIQ, a six-year-old startup near San Diego that specializes in software used to automate datacenters in the cloud. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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San Diego Course Acquisition Software 75

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

San Diego- and Los Angeles-based video sharing site veoh Networks has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, according to web site Mashable. Tags: veoh networks merger acquisition bankruptcy failure. Veoh had raised over $67.5M READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

San Diego-based Covario , a developer of search advertising and web site optimization software and services, said today that it has acquired Netconcepts, LLC , a website search engine optimization firm based in Madison, Wisconsin. Tags: covario merger acquisition netconcepts. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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MAY 8, 2018

In the eight years since it was founded, Seismic has become a leader in the market for Web-based software used by corporations and other big customers to manage the online marketing materials created to support sales reps in the field.

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Sales Software San Diego Web 70

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JULY 16, 2010

One of the questions we get most from entrepreneurs is how companies reach an exit event, and the thinking that goes into acquisitions. What's the story behind the acquisition? That led naturally to dialog around M&A, and we recently close the acquisition on the 6th of July. How big was the team in San Diego?

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JANUARY 11, 2018

LendingPoint , an online provider of direct loans to consumers, has acquired LoanHero , the San Diego fintech with technology that enables merchants to extend instant financing to consumers at the point of sale. Financial terms of the buyout were not disclosed in an announcement Thursday.

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Sales San Diego Acquisition Software 68

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JANUARY 27, 2009

San Diego-based Websense said Tuesday that it has acquired Defensio, a provider of technology for dealing with spam on social networking and Web 2.0 Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Tags: merger social acquisition blog websense spam networking defensio. 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. In December, the San Diego company added one of softwares biggest names, Microsoft Chairman John Thompson, to its board of directors. The answer is profit.

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MARCH 18, 2011

San Diego-based Websense is reportedly considering a sale of the company, according to a report this week in the Wall Street Journal. Websense is a provider of web filtering software. According to the WSJ, the firm is looking to get around $1B for the company.

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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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OCTOBER 24, 2008

San Diego-based NaviMedix said earlier this week that it has acquired TopLine Solutions, a provider of healthcare payment and collection services. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. NaviMedix operates a web-based network for healthcare providers to interact wit health plans.

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APRIL 12, 2017

Lymber was barely a year old when Mindbody (NASDAQ: MB ) announced recently that it acquired the San Diego mobile app developer. Lymber, named as a 2017 Xconomy San Diego startup to watch , has developed a technology platform that enables mobile users to book openings in fitness and wellness classes.

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JANUARY 2, 2015

Today, we have some thoughts from Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital , a private equity investment company in San Diego. 2014 was the most active year in TVC history as measured by the number of investments/acquisitions/follow-ons/exits we completed. What was the most significant event for you or your company this year? READ MORE>>.

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MAY 23, 2011

San Diego-based Active Network , the operator of online sports and event registration web sites, is expected to IPO this week on Wednesday, according to the NASDAQ's IPO calendar. Active Network has indicated it will sell 11,000,000 shares of its common stock in its IPO, at between $16.00 and $18.00

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NOVEMBER 11, 2008

San Diego-based The Active Network, which operates a network of sports- and other online registration services and marketing web sites, said today that it has acquired three companies which provide hunting and fishing licensing technology. Financial terms of the acquisitions were not disclosed.

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AUGUST 15, 2018

Best Buy is paying $800 million in cash for GreatCall, a San Diego-based healthtech company which private equity firm GTCR bought early last year. GreatCall operates a virtual mobile telecommunications network for a customers base of more than 900,000 elderly consumers.

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San Diego Screening Equity Mobile 68

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JULY 26, 2018

Instead, San Diego-based Qualcomm said it plans to repurchase $30 billion of shareholder stock. The lack of approval from the Chinese government was not taken well in the U.S., with speculation that it was related to the escalating trade feud between the two countries.

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San Diego Commerce Web Blogging 57

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DECEMBER 19, 2008

Los Angeles-based PixelFish, which develops video advertising for small and medium sized businesses, said this morning that it has acquired Eyespot, a provider of video hosting services for web sites. Eyespot was based in San Diego, and was venture backed by Express Ventures and Gabriel Venture Partners.

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OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. It also is a burgeoning sector. When you get all that data and analyze it, you get interesting insights,” Sheik said.

Artificial Inteligence 40

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2017

After taking over roughly six months ago, StockTwits CEO Ian Rosen made one of his first strategic moves with last week’s acquisition of SparkFin , a San Diego-based fintech app that provides novices with information on investing.

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Social Media San Diego Yahoo Google 28

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JANUARY 18, 2018

San Diego and San Francisco. There were a few notable absences from the list, released early today. Detroit, MI, which had high expectations as a competitor, was left out, as was Madison, WI, and most of California. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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San Diego Software Development Web Incubator 52

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OCTOBER 3, 2018

Cloudera and Hortonworks, two large, publicly traded companies that compete to offer Web-based data storage and analytics, announced plans today to merge into a combined entity they value at $5.2

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Platform Software Review Web Pricing 93

Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out.

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Artificial Inteligence San Diego Framework Venture Capital 40

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MARCH 16, 2018

There’s never a dull moment these days at Building N, the San Diego headquarters of Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ), the wireless technology giant and the world’s biggest maker of the advanced components used in smartphones. [ Updated 3/16/18 3:30 pm. Updated with Qualcomm board announcement. ]

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San Diego Develop Development Technology 45

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MARCH 23, 2018

In a short speech to several hundred shareholders at Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ) headquarters in San Diego, Jacobs acknowledged the role his father Irwin Jacobs played as Qualcomm’s founding CEO and expressed his gratitude to the employees who created the technologies that led to the wireless Internet, and “changed everything.”

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San Diego Technology Web Blogging 45

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JULY 31, 2017

These include Web-based data storage and computing; Web-connected virtual assistants that talk; music and video streaming; self-driving cars; virtual reality; and augmented reality. A diagram of the current. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Competition Social Media Web Commerce 64

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AUGUST 30, 2016

Petco, the privately held pet supplies company based in San Diego, said today it led a $10 million Series A financing in Los Angeles-based Petnet, a three-year-old startup developing technology-enabled pet feeders and pet food delivery service. The deal also reflects Petco’s expanding interests in technology following the company’s $4.6-billion

San Diego 52

San Diego Los Angeles Mobile Equity 52

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

billion acquisition offer. But like Dustin Hoffman in “The Graduate,” the big enterprise software company Workday lured Adaptive Insights away from the IPO altar with a more attractive deal—a $1.55 Pleasanton, CA-based Workday (NASDAQ: WDAY ) wanted to marry Adaptive’s financial decision-making applications with its own suite of.

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Acquisition Software Artificial Inteligence Marketing 70

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

Those investors included a company called Paradigm, which is a big talent agency, Howard Lindzon in San Diego, and up north Greylock and Adam Nash. From research and working with IAC, was saw that more than fifty percent of the videos online are web humor and comedy. What's the business model behind Laffster?

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Content News Startup Research 230

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JULY 3, 2019

The potential acquisition, which was first reported Tuesday by Bloomberg citing anonymous sources, represents Broadcom’s continued (NASDAQ: AVGO ) interest in broadening its business beyond semiconductors.

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Symantec Report Acquisition Software 48

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We've been quite active, and have had a bunch of acquisitions lately -- including Internet Brands and MySpace -- a total of over 2 billion in acquisition in Southern California. I think we've done some of the really exciting companies in LA, including most recently Clicker, Machinima, BUZZmedia, and SVnetwork.

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Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

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AUGUST 24, 2010

We had our fourth anniversary in May, and we passed out checks from the Helixis acquisition to our LPs, which was a pleasant delight. We're starting to see some very innovative product ideas out of places like Caltech, USC, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, and the like. Interesting. So what's going on with the fund nowadays?

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Startup Southern California Ideas Research 185

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Andy Wen was the CTO of Christianity.com, and the CTO of early online education firm VCampus, and he also ran the product and web security for eTrade, as well as started a company called Lighthound deals, like a Groupon. Bong Koh: We're now in user acquisition and ramp up mode. What's the next big milestone for you?

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