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MAY 10, 2011

Carlsbad-based Scentsa , a developer of an out-of-home advertising network, has scored a Series A funding from San Diego private equity fund Huntington Capital , Huntington said Tuesday. Size of the equity funding deal was not disclosed.

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MAY 1, 2014

San Diego-based Qualcomm said late Wednesday that it is spinning out its Qualcomm Retail Solutions (QRS) unit as a new company, Gimbal, Inc. , The company said that technology is being used for retailing, advertising, social networking and other use cases. in a deal with a group of third party investors. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 14, 2010

San Diego-based Underground Elephant , a startup focused on the CPA-based, performance based advertising market, said today that it has opened up an office in Santa Monica. The firm said it is looking to tap the talent in the Los Angeles are in the affiliate ad network industry.

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JUNE 13, 2012

San Diego-based Tealium , the developer of enterprise tag management software, announced today that it has been selected by News International , the UK publishing division of News Corporation for its online media network. The firm raised a $1.1M Series A in January from angels. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

San Diego-based SweetLabs , the company headed by Darrius Thompson, and which runs both the OpenCandy advertising network and the desktop Pokki app platform, said today that it has raised $13M in a Series C funding round. Thompson is the former co-founder of DivX. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

San Diego-based Frontline Direct , which is owned by Adconian Media Group, said today that it has acquired Objective Loyalty , a provider of data management and direct marketing solutions. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. Frontline Direct is headed by Kim Reed Perell. Frontline Direct is headed by Kim Reed Perell.

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MARCH 7, 2012

Desktop application environment maker Pokki , which is run by San Diego-based SweetLabs, said yesterday that it has added the popular Galaxy Life social game on its environment. The firm said that Galaxy LIfe, which is developed by Digital Chocolate, now runs via its desktop application environment. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 9, 2011

San Diego-based Stocktwits , the stock-focused, online social media site headed by Howard Lindzon, has inked a new content deal with CNNMoney , the firm said today. Financial detail fo the deal were not disclosed. StockTwits said that the deal gives it access to CNNMOney's more than 13 million unique visitors per month. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

San Diego-based Verve Wireless , the developer of mobile publishing tools for the Associated Press, McClatchy, Belo Interactive, and other publishers, said this morning that it has raised $7M more in additional funding. Tags: content news newspaper publisher android iphone software mobile advertising wireless verve. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 13, 2011

San Diego-based Verve Wireless , the developer of mobile publishing and advertising applications, announced today that it has hired two executives. Verve said that it has appoint Dan Hodges as Chief Revenue Officer, and Aimee Irwin as SVP Business Development and Publisher Network.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

San Diego-based Brickfish , a developer of social media and networking software being used by brands, reported today that it has hired on a Paul Botto, most recently Head of Analytics for the North American Sales Organization at Google, as its Vice President of Sales. Brickfish is venture backed by DCM, Draper Richards L.P.,

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DECEMBER 21, 2011

San Diego-based SweetLabs , the developer of the Pokki desktop app environment, said yesterday that it has linked with social games developer Kabam , to bring that firm's social games to the desktop. The venture backed firm is headed by Darrius Thompson, who previously co-founded DivX. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 7, 2009

San Diego-based Brickfish , a provider of social media marketing and advertising services, said Tuesday that Nike is using the firm as part of a user-generated photo contest. Brickfish runs social media campaigns and social media advertising for companies, and is venture backed by DCM, Draper Richards L.P., READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 8, 2008

San Diego-based online advertising network Brickfish said today that the firm has teamed up with Microsoft on a social media effort for Microsoft's "I'm a PC" campaign. Brickfish offers social media advertising tools focused on user-generated content. Financial impact of the deal was not disclosed.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. The company’s workforce has grown to about 270, including 80 in San Diego.

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JANUARY 5, 2009

San Diego-based Brickfish, an online advertising network focused on social media, announced this monring that it has hired Becky Carroll as the firm's Director of Social Media. Tags: social brickfish advertising executive media. The firm is venture backed by DCM, Draper Richards L.P.,

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AUGUST 22, 2011

San Diego-based Active.com , the online site geared towards the sports enthusiast community run by Active Network, reported this morning that it has added Sony Electronics as a client. Financial details of the win were not disclosed.

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JUNE 8, 2011

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. In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising.

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DECEMBER 22, 2008

Los Angeles- and San Diego-based Veoh Networks, a provider of Internet video sharing services, said today that it has entered into a partnership with Axel Springer Digital TV Guide GmbH. According to Veoh, Axel Springer is in a strategic international partnership with the firjm, specifically in Germany.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

San Diego-based uCast Global (www.ucastglobal.com), backed by Gary Winnick, is looking to tackle that entire area of content distribution, and is led by startup veteran Dr. Kanaan Jemili. How is this different from a typical content delivery network (CDN)? We build products and services tied to mobile carriers. I have a Ph.D.

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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. My background is that I was at IAC, focused on advertising solutions and advertising engagement. One of the companies there I was working with was CollegeHumor.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. Tell us a little bit about Newsforce?

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JULY 7, 2010

Confident Technologies / Curtis Staker / San Diego - Staker is the former President of Websense, and has pulled together an experienced team with a depth of experience from the firm. The firm has backing from such investors as Google Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, and OReilly AlphaTech Ventures. which he sold to AOL.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Lawmakers urged the companies to scour their networks to root out foreign advertisers, trolls and bots; to eliminate messages meant to sow discord among Americans; and banish content the social media companies themselves describe as “vile” and “malicious.”

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FEBRUARY 7, 2010

When Evan Rifkin of.App/Ads launched a new ad network for iPhone (and soon to be other devices) applications I knew he would have a very strong offering out of the box. He’s built two ad network companies – he knows what he’s doing. Traffic.com sold 10-second in-content advertising spots to local TV broadcasters.

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JULY 6, 2016

A center led by the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego will work on ways for those individuals to participate. If all goes well, the first participants could sign up in November. “We’re curious to know whether we’ll be deluged or have to work harder to get the word out,” said Collins. Reprints | Share:

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APRIL 14, 2011

Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. We've just added a layer on top of all the social networks particular to finance. I think the financial vertical offers lots of native ideas, that aren't just display advertised based, because of all of our information and data. Thanks, and good luck!

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

The crux of it is we help buyers user their network to verify suppliers, primarily in Asia and China, where we started. It''s a social network for world trade, kind of a combo between Alibaba and LinkedIn. Michael Kleist: My business partner and I were both originally from San Diego. Tell us about your backers?

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Many of the Valley tech firms saw advertising as “beneath them&# and many VCs in the first boom encouraged people to focus on eyeballs rather than dollars. Great companies like BeachMint that are growing at a rapid clip have to dig deep into their networks to meet hiring needs. In Washington DC you have government & defense.

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APRIL 15, 2016

To get a discount, we ask customers to share information on the brand on Twitter and in the future, other social networks, and that discount is based on how influential they are for that brand. I was just 22, coming out of college, and my dad had made a hobby of the business in San Diego. What is your background?

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JANUARY 5, 2011

The device is an alarm-clock like, Internet connected electronic product developed by the firm of the same name, San Diego-based Chumby (www.chumby.com). Steve Tomlin, the founder, envisioned the company as instead a network of content, and potentially a media network. com to Vivendi Universal.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

To be an effective app, it must expand its network in as many as places as possible. But only five cities are available as of right now, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Austin, and Hawaii. Crash is a free app for all and is free of advertisements as well. Crashworks, Inc.

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DECEMBER 1, 2011

In this interview, we catch up with an amazing TechZulu Spotlight alumnus, Joey Flores, CEO of Earbits , a hand-curated music discovery engine that allows its bands and artists to advertise and promote their own material, events, announcements, contests, whatever. What was the original inspiration behind Earbits? But sell them to who?

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MARCH 31, 2014

I helped to grow that to a major player in ecommerce and online advertising, which is used to find and buy chips use in your iPhone, in your computer, and everything else today. It wouldn''t be covered in the Los Angeles Times, and not by the San Diego papers.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Last week, San Diego-based OpenCandy (www.opencandy.com) announced it had raised $3.5M He flew into San Diego, met with the team, and started connecting the dots with us, and started going over the roadmap and what have you. Darrius Thomson: The model we use on our network, is we recommend apps that you love.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Sherry Gunther: MyMiniPeeps.com is a unique, online community for kids ages 6-13, which is both a social networking community as well as a game site. As I watched my kids' eyeballs move over, as well as looked at the research data and advertising data which saw TV's share shrinking, I started looking into new media.

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

Last week, San Diego-based Kidzui --the kid's website and kid-friendly browser developer, announced another round of funding, and also launched Zui Studios, a new effort to create original content for the portal. Give us an overview on KidZui.

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