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

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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

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

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Brickfish Bolsters Social Media Efforts

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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. Carroll will head up the firm's social media marketing. The firm is venture backed by DCM, Draper Richards L.P.,

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Stocktwits Inks Content Deal With CNNMoney

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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.

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Best Friday Reads: Social Media Rules Us All, and Mints Billionaires

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While the evolution from hunched primates to homo sapiens took tens of millions of years, we needed only about a decade to develop an arched neck that is perennially looking down at a smartphone—presumably one with a social media app open.

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Automated Trucking Company TuSimple Adds $120M More From Investors

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On Tuesday, the San Diego startup revealed that investment was part of an extended Series D financing round that now totals $215 million. In February, the company said it had raised $95 million in a round led by Sina (NASDAQ: SINA ), the Chinese tech company that runs the social media site Weibo, which is analogous to Twitter.

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Six West Coast Tech Leaders Share Top Developments of 2017

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Xconomy asked technology and innovation leaders around our network to reflect on the most important developments in their industries during 2017, and the answers were appropriately wide-ranging. Here now are responses, edited for clarity, from Mark Bowles, co-founder of medical diagnostics. Read more » Reprints | Share: