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Close5: eBay's San Diego Move Into The Mobile, Local Market

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So, it''s no surprise that the area--specifically, San Diego--was chosen for the pilot launch of a new service from eBay, called Close5 (www.close5.com), So, we''re taking that concept and launching it here in San Diego. Why San Diego? That''s a major differentiator in the way we''ve designed this.

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Brickfish Powers Zappos.com, Steve Madden Promotion

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San Diego-based Brickfish , a developer of social media and online advertising software, said today that online shoe and apparel firm Zappos.com and Steve Madden are using its social media platform. Tags: brickfish social media advertising zappos steve madden football shoes retail ecommerce. READ MORE>>.

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CPC Strategy Acquired By Elite SEM

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

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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

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However, San Diego-based Deal Current (www.dealcurrent.com) appears to have found a sustainable niche in the industry--not providing daily deals, but powering those multiplying deal sites, including a number of major newspaper groups. We were crowd sourcing artists and design. What's the story behind Deal Current?

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

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Forsblom is now in Los Angeles and San Diego, and reinventing himself with a mobile application company called TenFarms (www.tenfarms.com). PhotoPoll is our first app to push live, and now we're working on our second app, AdTile, which is a mobile advertising solution for applications and mobile software. What happened there?

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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But we had a great chance to talk about the recent moves that Twitter has made to “plug holes” and changing its “TOS” on advertising. Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. Dozens of design templates that can be printed on various high-end papers. They sponsor TWiVC.

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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

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Michael Kleist: My business partner and I were both originally from San Diego. Now, we''re looking at Southern California because there''s lots of talent in the area of design, and we also want to start targeting enterprises here who want to start sourcing products in Asia. We focused almost entirely last year on content.