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JULY 26, 2016

Los Angeles-based advertising software developer SteelHouse said this morning that it has sued French retargeting firm Criteo , claiming false advertising, intentional interference with contract, intentional interference with prospective economic advantage and unfair competition. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 23, 2015

Los Angeles-based Ninja Metrics , the social analytics software developer led by Dmitri Williams, said this week that it has tied with mobile analytics company TUNE. Financial details of the integration deal were not announced.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Advertisers. Robert Ramey Software Development (www.rrsd.com/socal ) - We provide services for the design and development of products requiring expertise in software, electronics, and mechanical engineering.

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APRIL 1, 2009

Pasadena-based OpenX Technologies , which develops ad serving software used by online publishers, is reporting this morning that it has added more than 8,000 publishers since it launched its product in October of 2008. The software developed by OpenX is used by online publishers to serve up Internet advertising.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

All of these startups are applying technology (software development and algorithms) to some aspect of music and the music business. Chromatik has developed web and iPad applications which let musicians upload, record, annotate, and share their sheet music; record a performance; give feedback to other musicians; and much more.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Chris Tragos: Jetpack is an ad platform, which I would describe as the most beautiful, best engaging, and most performant ad product for desktop, mobile, and tablet. Our business is helping those guys make more money, through our better ad product. We are primarily focused on publishers. What we provide, is really the rest of it.

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JULY 7, 2010

Factual / Gil Elbaz - For the amount of success in his last startup, few people seem to know that Elbaz is behind Google's immensely successful Google AdSense product--originally known as Applied Semantics' AdSense. His team--which has followed him from his past firms--has a number of successes under their belt.

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DECEMBER 7, 2012

Dinesh Ravishankar: We were doing software development for various companies in Southern California, out of my condo in West LA. To be honest, all five of our founding partners are developers, and we were all software developers or in computer science. How did you end up in this market?

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

That's the story behind Los Angeles-based Kixer (www.kixer.com), which saw a great exit last week as it was acquired by content management software developer Lakana. Kixer develops mobile advertising software which helps publishers and connects mobile web users with apps. I sold businesses for Evolve Media.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

I have always been in engineering, and was a software developer for some time, and also Director of Engineering. I've actually gone to four startup, so far, taking them from prototype to production, when they are able to sell the company or have it run on its own. How far is the product? A lot of it was around stability.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2008

We got really good at figuring out how to get wide distribution for our software, and how to monetize that software in unique ways. What we found, was, analogous to the music industry, there are lots of talented developers and great application software out there, which rivals the software created by developers at large companies.

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MAY 15, 2010

He is the author of “ Joel on Software ” and I was a reader nearly 10 years ago when I had never heard of Fred Wilson, Brad Feld and VentureHacks didn’t exist. Users participate by performing tasks, taking surveys or watching advertiser videos. Addressable advertisements are capable of being targeted to the individual household.

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