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Rubicon Project Hails Growth, New Customers

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Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project says today that it is one of the "fastest growing ad technology companies in history". The company was founded in 2007. Rubicon is venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, IDG Ventures, Mayfield, News Corp., Peacock Equity Fund, Stanford University, and the University of California Berkeley.

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Assignmint: Freelance Work Available | Founder Interview, The Future of Journalism & The LA Startup Scene

Tech Zulu Event

Pitching stories and getting your name out to various companies and editors requires a lot of work. Assignmint is a web-based platform to list freelancing work for employers and help writers find the right freelance job for them and standardizes the paperwork between the two parties. Is Assignmint national or a global web-system?

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Report: Websense On The Block

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San Diego-based Websense is reportedly considering a sale of the company, according to a report this week in the Wall Street Journal. According to the WSJ, the firm is looking to get around $1B for the company. Websense is a provider of web filtering software.

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Interview with Tom Grasty, Stroome

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Interested to hear more about how the company came about--and why it has been getting some attention for its efforts--we spoke with Tom Grasty , co-founder of the company. We got lots of traction on the web, and the story was picked up in many places. Tell us the story behind Stroome and how it came about?

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Should You Bother Targeting the Tech Blogs for Your PR Campaigns?

Both Sides of the Table

” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what people called Web 2.0) But the obvious thing dawned on many people – the early-adopter, tech-obsessed readers of TechCrunch at the time were not necessarily the typical users of many company’s products. They want validation.

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Interview with Marc Friedmann, SciVee

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SciVee recently inked a major deal with Thomson Reuters, and Marc tells us a bit about that deal as well as the company's business. The next major change that we see, is now that they're online, they're becoming more web based, and adding things like rich media. What's the story behind the company--I understand this started at UCSD?

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How to Remove Maligning Web Content

Startup Professionals Musings

In the spirit of highlighting new startup opportunities, I think we need some new companies who can track down and remove unwanted content on the web. Web reputation maligning has become a serious problem, and I can find only a couple of sites so far, like ReputationDefender , which are focused on the issue.

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