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AddToAny, Started In San Diego, Acquired By Lockerz

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AddToAny , which develops social sharing widgets for the Wordpress and Drupal blog software packages, has been acquired by social sharing and marketing firm Lockerz. AddToAny was the brainchild of Pat Diven, II, who founded the firm when he was a student at the University of California San Diego. READ MORE>>.

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San Diego Social Media Startup Soci Adds Austin Office, Raises $8.5M

Xconomy

Soci, a San Diego startup that created a Web platform for managing social media, has closed on $8.5 The five-year-old startup, which had 35 employees five months ago when it was named as a 2017 Xconomy San Diego company to watch , now has 50 employees.

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San Diego Meets the Xconomists: When Social Media is Not Enough

Xconomy

In San Diego, this higher order of social networking becomes apparent. Nowadays, Facebook is the most popular social networking site in the world , with more than 2 billion monthly active users. Yet somehow, the connections are richer and more meaningful when people come together offline and in-person.

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Sorenson Media Wins Go Daddy

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San Diego-based Sorenson Media , a developer of video encoding software, said today that it has been selected by Internet domain and web hosting firm Go Daddy. According to Sorenson Media, its products will be used to power Go Daddy's Quick Blogcast web blogging software for Mac users. READ MORE>>. READ MORE>>.

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From Startup Week San Diego: The World According to Jason Calacanis

Xconomy

In a keynote talk Tuesday night that was a headliner event for Startup Week San Diego, Calacanis observed that it doesn’t feel like the millennial generation is doing as well financially as their parents’ generation.

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Veni, Vidi, Vinti: What Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf Sees in San Diego

Xconomy

The Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf came to San Diego recently on an unusual quest—to meet with dozens of local technology leaders and assess what the region has to offer in terms of innovation. The visit was unusual in part because of Cerf himself.

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Q2 VC Funding Soars in San Diego (After Revisions), and Top 10 Deals

Xconomy

After the national MoneyTree Report was released last week, PricewaterhouseCoopers partner Ryan Spencer said he spent time on a call with Thomson Reuters, which provides the raw data, trying to figure out a change in the numbers for venture capital activity in San Diego. But the San Diego data was off. So the $350.5