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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. They are using DealCurrent as the deal platform for all of their clients.

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JUNE 18, 2012

San Diego-based SmartDrive Systems said Monday that it has named Steve Mitgang as its new CEO. s advertising products, platforms, and services. Mitgang was previously CEO of Veoh, and also had served at Senior Vice President of Yahoo!'s

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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. Pokki allows developers to create desktop apps using web technologylike HTML5. 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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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

San Diego-based Daasity (www.daasity.com)  which just raised $2.3M The challenge a lot of those businesses have, is likely have built their sites and are using a lot of different software-as-a-service platforms. How we do hat, is we've built an analytics platform, Daasity, for data-as-a-service.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

San Diego-based Bevo Media , an online ad exchange and ad tracking platform developer, has been acquired by private equity investor Vize Capital. Bevo Media was founded in 2010, and plays in the performance marketing area. READ MORE>>.

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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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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

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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Xconomy

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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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. Pixelfish said the buy will help it accelerate the development of its video advertising platform.

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JANUARY 23, 2018

Facebook expanded its mea culpa on Monday for failing to prevent “bad actors” such as Russian entities from using the social media platform to distort democratic processes—notably the U.S. presidential election in 2016.

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JULY 15, 2009

San Diego-based VMIX , which provides a platform for publishing and managing online video, reports today that it has signed on an ad agency and reseller, which has resulted in more than 30 customers for the firm. Tags: vmix publishing video content advertising. READ MORE>>.

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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. We are unique in being an open platform, that allows for all of these variations to happen. Thats what uCast is all about. I have a Ph.D.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Andrew Connell is the CEO of DinnerDate.com , a startup which has been in beta in San Diego for the last few months, and is just now expanding out to new markets. They can choose to go to a dinner that is advertised, and if they've previously expressed interest in a person, we let them know if that person is going.

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APRIL 14, 2011

Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. It was built originally on the Twitter platform to talk about stocks, and all users had to do was add a dollar sign to ticker symbols to give it context. So, we built our own, new and improved version of a microblogging platform. Thanks, and good luck!

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

One of the major growth areas along Silicon Beach has been in the whole area of creating content for digital platforms. 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.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2017

ScoreStream, a five-year-old startup that created a social media platform for crowd-sourcing local sports scores, has raised $3.7 million in a Series A round that includes Intel Capital as an investor. Including the latest round, ScoreStream has raised a total of $6.8 million since it was founded in 2012.

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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). You've been expanding the platform -- to the digital photo frames, autos, Android -- what's the strategy happening there? com to Vivendi Universal.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

Michael Kleist: Tradesparq is a B2B trade platform. Michael Kleist: My business partner and I were both originally from San Diego. No knock on China, but with LA having the advertising agency we think we''ll be able to improve on the design side on our site. What is Tradesparq? Tell us about your backers?

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JUNE 3, 2016

Even though most services are usually not subject to sales tax, some states are now asserting that certain online services are taxable either as software, data processing, or information services, even if the type of service would not be taxable if delivered the old fashioned way – by people – rather than computing platforms.

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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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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Crash , released for iOS platforms, is the third eye for those looking for something different in their travels. 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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OCTOBER 30, 2017

Petersburg to flood their communications platforms with fake and divisive messages. Critical lawmakers have blasted the big tech companies for failing to detect the Russian influence campaign earlier, for allegedly accepting payments for election ads in rubles, and for allowing a troll farm in St. But was anything they did against the law?

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

For us, digital media means consumer Internet, online advertising, mobile, gaming, and most importantly--this is Rick and my background--next generation infrastructure to support consumption of this media. Brian Garrett: It's analytics, it's delivery platforms, it's optimization of technology facilitating compression to delivery of video.

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APRIL 14, 2014

Matt Weghorst: Cojoin is a data integration platform. We find that there’s all this really specialized software, software as a service, certain platforms, and different places you can do marketing; all of those have their own sets of data. Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version? That’s the first thing.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

Then Google announced its intent to ban payday and title lenders from advertising in search results. The lack of technology and innovation in the pawn industry isn’t a deliberate choice, but comes from the large number of small, independent shops that lack the financial and technical resources to build a custom e-commerce platform.

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AUGUST 28, 2012

The San Diego-based company is one of 53 California companies ranked on the Fortune 500, 22 of which are SoCal companies. Arguably the greatest research and development nexus in the United States rests in the area spanning San Diego to Los Angeles. Advertise on VentureBeat. Publisher Platform (P3).

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AUGUST 20, 2009

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. But, the platforms themselves exist, which makes the job quite a bit less risk in terms of the development process on the technology side.

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MAY 6, 2012

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. a perks platform for small and medium sized businesses. Joey Flores – Co-Founder and CEO of Earbits. sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.).

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Both Sides of the Table

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. In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check.

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