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JUNE 5, 2009

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AUGUST 7, 2009

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JULY 24, 2009

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JUNE 26, 2009

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APRIL 24, 2009

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Newbury Park-based Nomadix , a developer of network gateway hardware, is in a major patent infringement offensive. Nomadix said late Wednesday evening that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard Company, Wayport, Inc., On Command Corporation, Aruba Networks, Inc., Superclick, Inc.

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MARCH 3, 2010

Newport Beach-based Acacia Research , which aggressively acquires and licenses patents, said today that it has acquired two patent portfolios, made up of 24 U.S. patents, 7 U.S. patent applications, and 18 foreign patents, from a "major" technology company.

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DECEMBER 15, 2008

Irvine-based Solarflare has scored a new patent, the firm said Monday, covering the firm's 10 gigabit Ethernet semiconductors. According to Solarflare, it was granted patent 7,460,662 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, one of 12 patents granted so far to the firm.

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MAY 22, 2009

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OCTOBER 20, 2008

Newport Beach-based Conexant Systems, a manufacturer of semiconductors for networking, imaging and other industries, said Monday that it has sold certain domestic and international wireless patents at the firm for $15M to an undisclosed firm.

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OCTOBER 6, 2008

Newport Beach-based Mindspeed Technologies, a supplier of semiconductors to the networking industry, said today that it has sold a number of its patents for $2M, and also scored a $15M line of credit from Silicon valley Bank. According to Mindspeed, it gained $2M from the sale of "non-core" patents. READ MORE>>

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Venice, California-based startup Vyng , which develops software which turns calls from friends into cute "video ringtones" that show up on your lock screen when a friend calls, has raised $4M in a funding round, the company said on Thursday.

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JULY 8, 2013

Newport Beach-based patent licensing firm Acacia Research Corporation reported late Friday that it has shuffled its CEO. According to the company, Paul Ryan, the firm''s CEO, will retire, and step down from his position and his board seat from the firm on July 31st. executive property intellectual licensing patent research acacia'

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DECEMBER 11, 2009

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Newport Beach-based patent storehouse Acacia Research said today that it has named Matthew Vella as President of the firm. Prior to Acacia, Vella had served at ATI Research and Nortel Networks. Acacia owns a significant storehouse of patents, which it aggressively licenses to other companies. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

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FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Aliso Viejo-based storage networking hardware provider QLogic is moving further into the Ethernet market, via the purchase of an entire line of Ethernet hardware from Irvine-based Broadcom , the two said late Tuesday. qlogic ethernet broadcom merger acquisition intellectual property networking hardware' READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

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AUGUST 29, 2013

We spoke with Dirk Ahlborn , the companies CEO and founder, to learn more on how JumpStartFund wants to not only help companies raise money for their projects, but also tap into the crowd to help shape its ideas and business plan. At JumpStart, we are taking a new, for-profit approach, to disrupt the way companies are being created.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

We just launched a third, $100M fund focused on seed to Series A investments in transformative science and technology companies. Our two founders, Amy Salzhauer and Maureen Stancik Boyce, have been working since 2000 building very deep tech companies based on university research and other partners. We do pre-Seed to Series A deals.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

fact, turns out it is much, much harder than raising money for an early stage company. My partner, Craig Cummings, and I were fortunate to close our $20M fund in October and couldnt be more excited about identifying new portfolio companies and helping those entrepreneurs build their businesses.

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OCTOBER 5, 2009

Beverly Hills-based Hydra , an operator of a cost-per-action (CPA) advertising network, said today that it has linked with Aliso Viejo-based CitizenHawk , a provider of trademark protection and domain name services. Tags: hydra advertising citizenhawk domain name cybersquatters domainer registrar trademark legal patent. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 12, 2019

The Vinetta Project (www.vinettaproject.com), a group which is focused on helping to accelerate the growth of female-led startups, announced a few weeks ago that it is working with P&G Ventures, the internal "startup studio" of Procter and Gamble on an effort to help female-led companies in Los Angeles. What is The Vinetta Project?

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JULY 31, 2013

In the world of mobile app and Internet startups, it''s not that often that you see companies who touch the hardware side of the world get funding nowadays. One of the companies that has recently is On Ramp Wireless (www.onrampwireless.com), a San Diego company in the M2M market headed by Kevin Hell.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

At SGN we've seen steady revenue growth and we are a profitable company. We've also invented and patented a new technology called "MasterKey" that allows people to play our games natively on all relevant social and mobile platforms. What are the technologies, companies, or things we ought to watch in 2013?

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Kanaan Jemili: uCast Global is a digital media company that is looking at creating a scalable global solution for online video. How is this different from a typical content delivery network (CDN)? Theyre like companies in the US like and ATT or Verizon, or an Orange in France, or others in Poland and Russia and other countries.

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JULY 18, 2012

One way is to create your own, custom video clip which you can share via email, text message, or through a social networking site like Facebook. We spoke with Allison Dollar, Chief Strategy Officer at the company and member of the founding team, about what the company's service is all about.

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MARCH 28, 2014

Los Angeles-based mobile advertising company Airpush has quietly grown to around $100M in annual revenues, according to a recent ranking from Forbes--a big surprise, as the company was completely bootstrapped by founder Asher Delug , who eschewed the usual use of venture capital and private equity to build a company to those revenue levels.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

Dolgoff has a fascinating background--he invented the first LCD projector, he helped inspire Star Trek's Holodeck, and he also is a serial entrepreneur who took his company public on the NASDAQ in the 90's. They're more focused on looking for companies that already have products on the market and are profitable. Fascinating story.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world.

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APRIL 8, 2014

Among those funds is TYLT Lab (www.tyltlab.com), which recently announced a new, $20M early stage investment fund specifically focused on companies here. However, we''ve developed a formula of what, and how we look at deals, and have built out our own advisory network, where we use domain experts to vet deals out.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

We spoke with Ali Khoshgozaran , founder and CEO of the company, to learn more about the startup. Ali Khoshgozaran: Before we started the company, me and my partner had participated in the USC Viterbi startup competition. Finally, what''s next for your company? What is Tilofy about? How did Tilofy come about?

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

We recently ran into Dialplus (www.dialplus.net), a company which is developing mobile applications which pull up social networking profiles from Facebook or other sites when you make a phone call to a friend. What does your company do? How did the company come about? Photo: on left, Lisa LeVasseur, on right, Sce Pike).

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JANUARY 28, 2009

We spoke with Jose daVeiga , the firm's CEO and co-founder, to learn more about the company. We filed for a patent in 2000, but in 2001, when we filed for the final patent, the market tanked. Kent also went off to other things, but in 2005 we got awarded that patent. What's the idea behind Klicksports?

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FEBRUARY 10, 2009

At the time, the firm was working on--but not talking about-- their next generation product, which the company announced yesterday. We've created a patent pending technology called Autobuild. We're the only company with this auto-build functionality, which includes inventory forecasting and dynamic pricing.

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