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JUNE 28, 2011

San Diego-based music streaming service Slacker has inked a major deal with AOL , to power a new online Internet radio service. AOL said there will be three product tiers to users; a free, AOL radio service; and ad-free version; and a personalized and customized premium service. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 3, 2012

San Diego-based cloud storage provider Nirvanix announced this morning that it has raised over $25M in a Series C funding round, which it says will go to "significantly expand" its engineering organization. It appears that the funding comes after a sudden surge in revenue and adoption of the firm's services.

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MARCH 11, 2010

San Diego-based cloud storage provider Nirvanix has added a new customer of the firm's storage service, Nasuni , a Massachusetts startup providing virtual file server software. Nasuni said it is using Nirvanix to provide its customers with unlimited cloud capacity. READ MORE>>.

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Windward Mission Ventures San Diego Web 145

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JUNE 24, 2010

Slacker provides a customized music streaming service, and is venture backed by Austin Ventures, Centennial Ventures, Mission Ventures, Rho Ventures, and Sevin Rosen Funds. Apple just released its newest OS, which supports multitasking and minimizing of applications as background tasks.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2009

San Diego-based personalized radio service Slacker has inked a deal with T-Mobile, where T-Mobile will include the application directly on a smart phone. Previously, customers had to go to T-Mobile or Slacker's web site to download the application. READ MORE>>.

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Mobile Mission Ventures San Diego Web 133

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

San Diego-based cloud storage firm Nirvanix is further bolstering its focus on enterprise customers, saying today that it has partnered with enterprise storage software provider CommVault. Nirvanix said CommVault customers can select the firm's Storage Delivery Network (SDN) product via a drop-down selection within the Simpana software.

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Windward Mission Ventures San Diego Networking 140

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Silicon Valley had the lion's share of the venture funding dollars in Q3, with $1.75 For the quarter, San Diego County garnered the most venture capital, with $231.3M The biggest investments in Southern California for the quarter were for San Diego's SkinIt , a maker of customized "skins" for electronic devices, with $60.0M

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