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JUNE 17, 2010

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing firm of Richard Rosenblatt, has long been rumored to be in the process of filing for an IPO, but has not done so yet, and service providers in the community suggest there may be a few more in the works. which said it is looking to list on the NYSE in a $115M IPO.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Pasadena-based software-as-a-service developer Central Desktop reported today that the firm had 44 percent, year-over-year growth, and boosted its staff by 50 percent in 2009, as a result of demand for the firm's online project collaboration tools. The firm said its customers now include such companies as Netflix, U.S.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

Orange County startup Beatshare --backed by the Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels, Harvard Business School Angels, and Archangels, among others�thinks it's figured out the formula to make music the message in its mobile app. We're both working with music industry insiders, as well as going and talking with services.

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APRIL 2, 2014

Pasadena-based Smartify (www.getsmartify.com)''s CEO, Carla Bourque , recently talked to us about the company''s online marketing platform, and how it differentiates itself from a lot of other competitors in the market. Carla Bourque: Smartify has been based in Pasadena for the past three and a half years. What is Smartify?

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JANUARY 18, 2011

This morning, Pasadena-based Perfect Market (www.perfectmarket.com) announced a new, $9M round of funding for the firm's technology, which is used to help publishers monetize their content. It's some of the kinds of things Demand Media does, except, for the newsroom. The first piece is identifying and packaging content around demand.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Demand Media. Demand Media consistently popped up near number one in the list of "companies to work for" from our readers. The firm, based in Pasadena, has dozens of. apps, and more, it continues to be a major force in automotive information and services. The now-public. The company recently reported record.

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OCTOBER 25, 2013

Be Great recognizes seven main startup points in Los Angeles: “Silicon Beach”, West LA, Culver City, Pasadena, Orange County, South Bay, and Downtown LA. Google, Hulu, Riot Games, Demand Media, and many other big name players residing in Silicon Beach, it is no small wonder why many tech startups flock towards the sunny beach-side view.

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MARCH 4, 2021

The demand is there. The money raised will go to bring in more incredible talent into the fold, our new CSO, Jake Brewer, to provide a even greater customer experience to oru food service customers. They love Flippy, and it allows them to keep up with demand despite social distancing, making what would otherwise be impossible.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

One of the firms poised to take advantage of that growth is Pasadena-based OpenX (www.openx.org), which develops one of the most widely used ad serving solutions available. What we do is kind of interesting, because we provide those two basic services in combination. We manage that competition through an aucton process.

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JUNE 25, 2009

It seems that every week, a new, Voice-over-IP provider firm surfaces in the market, either providing PBX services, voicemail, or other similar services. What is your VoIP service all about, and how is this different from what seems to be lots of Voice over IP service providers?

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JULY 12, 2013

Many companies would love to be able to get the benefits of cloud--easy configurability, low cost, scaling, and more--but, due to various reasons, can''t take advantage of public cloud services like Amazon. The Pasadena firm''s co-founders, Sean Lynch and Steve Curry , sat down with us to talk about the service.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

On one side, we're able to take what a marketer is offering, whether that is a product or service, and semantically understand what part of that offer or service will resonate with consumers. We were at Overture Services here in Pasadena, and ultimately worked at Yahoo. What's your background and that of your co-founder?

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MARCH 4, 2010

We thought we'd get the background on the new effort directly from Jason Nazar , CEO and founder of Docstoc, to learn more about the new service. There is a huge demand from people, who have gone there to buy products. We're leveraging that huge demand we have for people looking for documents, to build this marketplace.

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

That's the story at Altadena-based Unified Dispatch , which was recently sold to the On-Demand Division of Veolia. Back in 2003 and 2004, we were focused on the international market, and started outsourcing to India and the Philippines for call center services. The firm's CEO, Dan Tamkin , tells us the story.

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MARCH 11, 2011

Yes, long before Yelp or any similar service. And while they historically had come up with 100% of their ideas and created the companies themselves, they are increasingly open to funding people with great ideas who want to build businesses with IdeaLab provided the companies will stay be in LA (and preferably Pasadena).

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JULY 20, 2009

It's smaller than other alternatives, and is much easier to add to existing software and devices, is lots more scalable than alternatives, and works with both rich web or back end database, web services queries, such are used in transactional banking or gaming type applicatoins. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit.

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