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JANUARY 18, 2012

Westlake Village-based ValueClick Media , the ad network division of ValueClick, is taking advantage of the runup to the Presidential elections with a new product. ValueClick said it has launched GoVote, a new advertising product aimed at political marketers.

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APRIL 25, 2011

Westlake Village-based online advertising firm ValueClick announced this morning that it has acquired Greystripe , an operator of a brand-focused mobile advertising network. According to ValueClick, it has hired Greystripe's management team and employee base, and will run Greystripe as a wholly owned subsidiary of ValueClick Media.

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OCTOBER 20, 2009

Westlake Village-based Zumbox , which is developing a system to deliver postal mail electronically using street addresses, said today that it has hired Peter O. Price as head of its media division. Publisher of the New York Post, and as President at Media Networks, Liberty Cable, National Sports Daily, and Television USA.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Gevo is just the latest in a surge of companies hitting the public markets which have Southern California links. In fact, a recent study released by Ernst & Young found that there were eight companies in Southern California, out of 22 total in California, who were lined up for an IPO in Q4.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The list of Southern California companies who have filed, have been rumored to file, or have successfully completed IPOs has gotten a little longer this morning, after Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand filed for an IPO. Other firms currently in registration include Santa Monica-based Demand Media ; San Diego-based Zogenix ; Inphi Corp.

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JULY 22, 2010

In recent months, Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal and Carlsbad-based MaxLinear also have managed to reach the markets via an IPO, and there are at least seven other Southern California companies waiting in the wings for the public markets.

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AUGUST 13, 2010

the Sunnyvale-based semiconductor maker which has major operations in Westlake Village, has released its latest financials in an updated S-1 from the company, saying that it had had net income of $19.6M Inphi Corp. , on revenues of $25.9M for the six months ended June 30, 2010. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Earlier this week, Deloitte released its latest list of the top 500 growing technology companies, in its 2012 Technology Fast 500. A very healthy list of Southern California companies made the list, with a total of 64 companies in the region ranked in the list. 6225% San Diego Kevin C. Frost, Ph.D. 92 GenMark Diagnostics, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Westlake Village-based ValueClick has added a trio of new publishers to the firm's health and wellness advertising network, the firm disclosed this morning. The three become part of the firm's AdRx Media network, which the company says reaches more than 21 million unique visitors per month.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

Westlake Village-based Move , which operates a network of online real estate-focused web sites, said late Wednesday that it is in a joint venture with Builder Homesite focused on new home builders. Financial details of the joint venture were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Westlake Village-based Zumbox , a startup looking to help companies distribute their content digitially using postal addresses, said today that it has inked a distribution partnership with local newspaper publisher 22nd Century Media. Financial details of the partnership were not disclosed.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

Q3 has traditionally been a slower, venture funding quarter in Southern California, due to summer vacations and a slower work schedule for both high tech companies and venture firms during the summer months. for Row 44 , the Westlake Village-based developer of wireless equipment for commercial airlines. billion invested in Q2.

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JULY 7, 2010

socalTECH.com has mined its proprietary database of high tech companies and entrepreneurs and identified just a few of the repeat entrepreneurs to watch in the region. Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp.

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