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JULY 31, 2014

Los Angeles-based prodege , the parent company of Swagbucks , said this morning that it has acquired Sodahead , the online polling and discussion platform founded by Jason Feffer. According to Prodege, it will acquire all of SodaHead''s assets and staff from its Encino headquarters, and will move them to Swagbucks offices in El Segundo.

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JULY 22, 2014

El Segundo-based Pk4 Media , which develops adveriting technology, said this morning that it has acquired Santa Monica-based Prosperio , a developer of a programmatic direct platform for the display and video ad market. pk4media prosperio launchpadlad programmatic advertising merger acquisitoin platform marketing software'

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JULY 10, 2014

El Segundo-based VoiceVault , a developer of biometrics technology, said this week that it has released a new software development kit to help developers add voice biometrics on their mobile apps. The company said its ViGo platform offers up such features as phrase or digit voice registration, and support for both Android and iOS.

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JULY 26, 2017

AT&T , which has been ramping up its efforts and presence in Los Angeles, both with technology and Hollywood, said this week that it has topped 500,000 subscribers on its over-the-top (OTT) streaming platform, DIRECTV NOW.

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MAY 19, 2014

El Segundo-based satellite TV operator DIRECTV and AT&T said Sunday afternoon that AT&T has agreed to acquire DIRECTV, in a deal worth approximately $67.1 According to the two, DIRECTV will continue to be based in El Segundo after the acquisition. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 10, 2015

El Segundo-based ClearPath Networks , a developer of a cloud-based platform aimed at helping network, broadband, and cloud operators manage their services, has named a new VP. ClearPath has named Marc Cohn as the company's new Senior Vice President of Marketing.

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

El Segundo-based iRise , which develops software for prototyping enterprise applications, has extended its platform today by adding support for the iPhone 5, Windows 8, and Android Tablets. iRise is venture backed by Morgan Stanley Venture Partners and Deutsche Bank.

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AUGUST 30, 2013

To change that, a local startup, El Segundo-based JumpStartFund , says it is using its platform to try to make Musks''s idea come to life. However, Hyperloop is just that--only an idea--and Musk isn''t planning to take it to market, just yet.

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JUNE 26, 2015

El Segundo-based iRise , which develops a tool used for visual prototyping of enterprise software applications, has tied with open source software developer Tasktop , the two said this week. Tasktop develops the Eclipse Mylyn open source tool, and also develops software lifecycle management software for the Agile market.

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JULY 17, 2017

AT&T is reportedly planning to put John Stankey, currently head of AT&T's Entertainment Group in El Segundo, in charge of Time Warner's movie and television business. AT&T and Time Warner are currently working through antitrust clearances over the deal. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 8, 2012

El Segundo-based iRise , the developer of enterprise visual prototyping tools, looks to be looking to broaden the use of its products, saying today that it has released a free version of its tool to allow users to prototype iPad and iPhone applications.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

El Segundo-based Accordent Technologies , which provides a platform for corporate webcasting, said today that it has been selected by mutual fund firm American Century Investments.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

Agoura Hills-based THQ and El Segundo-based toy maker Mattel said this morning that the two are in a new, multi-year alliance focused on developing and publishing video games based on Mattel's toys. FInancial details of the arrangement were not disclosed.

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JANUARY 8, 2010

El Segundo-based BridgeCo , a developer of embedded semiconductors and software for the home entertainment networking market, said Thursday at CES that it has launched the next generation of its JukeBlox product. The firm said its new, JukeBlox 2.0 The firm said its new, JukeBlox 2.0 connections.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

If you're an NCAA fan, and you've loaded the app for your favorite team, there's a high likelyhood that the app is actually the product of El Segundo-based Hopscotch (www.gohopscotch.com). Combining that with my previous experience, which was in the platform and SaaS market, and sports, was really a home run.

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JUNE 30, 2016

Phil Hui-Bon-Hoa , the CEO of El Segundo-based Kaleo (www.kaleo.com), is a serial entrepreneur who has previously built and sold four companies, including one acquired by IFILM, and another by Sun Microsystems. The first I sold was across the street, in El Segundo, and sold for $42M.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

We spoke with one of those companies-- El Segundo-based ConsumerTrack (www.consumertrack.com)--which is a $30M, bootstrapped an online marketing company which is driving millions of customers to big name, financial customers. Brett Rossman: We have a platform we''ve built, and which we are constantly evolving called Magneto.

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DECEMBER 3, 2012

It's surprising how often we run into rapidly growing companies that not many people have heard of, here in Southern California, but that's the case with El Segundo-based. Damid Davidovic: What's really exciting is we've launched another concept this year, which is basically a fully blow human resources, software-as-a-service platform.

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AUGUST 28, 2013

El Segundo, CA based JumpStarter Inc., a crowd-powered platform that gives accredited investors access to exclusive deal flow and technology transfer opportunities has launched in beta its crowd-powered portal for startups, JumpStartFund.

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JULY 20, 2010

Earlier this month, his latest startup, El Segundo-based Morphlabs announced it had raised a Series B funding worth $5.5M. One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. We thought we'd catch back up with Winston to hear about the Morphlabs.

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MARCH 26, 2014

For a couple of years, I was the head of a boutique software consulting firm based in El Segundo. It was interesting going through that transition, because the customer we served, small businesses, relied on our platform to run their business for 8-10, to 12 hours a day.

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MARCH 30, 2011

Last week, El Segundo-based Accordent Technologies , a developer of webcasting and presentation services and software, was acquired by Polycom, in a $50M deal. They kept building really great functionality into the platform, and they were always ahead of the market, and always able to anticipate what customers wanted next.

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