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MARCH 28, 2018

A healthtech startup founded by two doctors who set out in 2013 to improve the overall management of their respective medical practices is emerging from beta mode Wednesday to offer fellow physicians an office software suite. See below. ]

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JANUARY 24, 2018

Intuit , which operates its TurboTax tax preparation software business from San Diego, says it is targeting the Latino market, with a new marketing campaign specifically focused on Latino empowerment.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

San Diego-based XOKind , a new startup focused on building artificial intelligence software for the travel market, has raised $1.6M The startup said it is developing AI agents which will learn users' travel preferences via their calendars, emails, and photos, as well as their social media and in-app interactions.

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OCTOBER 2, 2013

San Diego-based Vionic , a developer of technology for helping companies create social media deals and promotions, said Wednesday that it has raised $900,000 in a funding round. vionic social offers venture capital angel media software advertising' The funding came from angel investors. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 3, 2018

San Diego-based LeaseLabs , which provides oline marketing services to the multifamily housing and apartment industry, has been acquired for $103M by real estate software developer RealPage. According to RealPage, it will $103M in cash and stock, plus up to $14M in earnout upon achieving certain financial objective.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

San Diego-based online radio station and music streaming service Slacker Radio has been acquired by LiveXLive , the two companies announced on Friday. In a related move, LiveXLive apparently also has acquired New York-based social media software developer SNAP Interactive. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 17, 2012

San Diego-based StockTwits said today that it has launched a new, app for HootSuite , the provider of software used for social media management. According to StockTwits, the new app and integration makes it easy for HootSuite users to post messages directly to StockTwits.com.

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

San Diego-based, nonprofit fundraising software developer Classy said it pulled in $3.4M in donations on Tuesday, which has been billed #GivingTuesday, a social media effort to prompt peopel to donate to their favorite nonprofits.

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JANUARY 31, 2012

San Diego-based StockTwits , the online, finance-focused messaging service, said today that it has partnered with Q4 Web Systems , a developer of corporate websites and social media products for public companies. Q4's software powers Investors Relations sites for a wide variety of public companies. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

San Diego-based Brickfish , a developer of social media and networking software being used by brands, reported today that it has hired on a Paul Botto, most recently Head of Analytics for the North American Sales Organization at Google, as its Vice President of Sales. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

San Diego-based Covario , the search and content marketing agency, is being acquired by Dentsu Aegis Network , the companies said late Wednesday. According to the two, Covario has over 140 professionals offering up paid and organic search, social media, and content marketing services to brands and direct marketing clients.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

On Tuesday, the San Diego startup revealed that investment was part of an extended Series D financing round that now totals $215 million. In February, the company said it had raised $95 million in a round led by Sina (NASDAQ: SINA ), the Chinese tech company that runs the social media site Weibo, which is analogous to Twitter.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

San Diego-based Brickfish , a developer of social media and online advertising software, said today that online shoe and apparel firm Zappos.com and Steve Madden are using its social media platform. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 9, 2015

San Diego-based Events.com --founded by one of the co-founders of The Active Network--is hoping to make it easier for event organizers and event goers better plan and find events, the company said this week. events.com eventscom event organizer software mobile activenetwork active network startup launch' READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

San Diego-based Anametrix , a developer of cloud-based business analytics software, said today that it has received new funding and added a slate of well known advisors. Senturia is CEO of Blackbird Ventures, and a notable San Diego angel investor. Details on the new private investment was not disclosed.

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MAY 13, 2014

San Diego-based Liquid Grids , a developer of digital advertising software aimed at the healthcare industry, said this morning that it has raised a Series A funding round. Size of the round was not announced. According to Liquid Grids, the funding was led by Miramar Ditial Ventures. The company said it has added Daniel M.

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APRIL 30, 2018

In San Francisco , grousing about the widely available scooters has spurred a social media backlash over “scooter-gedden,” with hashtags like #scootersbehavingbadly. The furor has erupted in San Diego as well, where the coastal community of Coronado has declared. In Dallas , Los Angeles , and Washington, D.C. ,

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AUGUST 3, 2017

ScoreStream, a San Diego area startup providing a crowdsourced social media platform for reporting high school sports scores, said Thursday it has agreed to distribute high school game scores under a new collaboration agreement with The Associated Press.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

San Diego-based Anametrix , a developer of cloud-based business analytics software, revealed this week via a regulatory filing that its recently announced round was worth $1.15M, part of a $2.3M Tags: anametrix venture capital funding cloud analytics software. fundraising effort by the company. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 25, 2011

How did an email marketing provider turn into a provider of software which mashes up a combination of email marketing, wiki, customer service management, event and meeting management tool, project management software, and much more? Do you compete with, or work with software like Salesforce.com?

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JANUARY 3, 2011

San Diego Software Industry Council. In this era of social media and real-time search, its entirely possible for search results mentioning your company to have completely changed from the previous day. Friday, January 7, 2011 -- Search, PR and Reputation Management.

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APRIL 24, 2015

In the world of sports, getting high school sports scores have always been an issue for local media, such as newspapers and television stations. The next thing was our exit partners on my prior firms had all been media companies, and I had worked with those media companies for many years, and know how they work.

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APRIL 24, 2015

In the world of sports, getting high school sports scores have always been an issue for local media, such as newspapers and television stations. The next thing was our exit partners on my prior firms had all been media companies, and I had worked with those media companies for many years, and know how they work.

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JANUARY 3, 2018

Any year-end review of technology news must also include reports on Russian hacking of the 2016 election campaign, and the manipulation of social media channels to spread false and divisive political messages.

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JANUARY 19, 2017

StockTwits, the Twitter-like social media platform for sharing stock market tips and ideas, has acquired San Diego’s SparkFin, a fintech mobile app for discovering and sharing stocks and other investment ideas. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Ian Rosen, a former MarketWatch general manager.

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JULY 31, 2017

It’s been a long time since tech’s biggest companies could be sorted into discrete buckets according to the products they pioneered—-Google, the search software giant; Apple, the computer and mobile device innovator; e-commerce leader Amazon; business software stalwart Microsoft; and social media engine Facebook.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Or perhaps in the case of 2017, with its litany of data security breaches, social media manipulations, and allegations of sexual harassment, to just wring out the old. It’s time to ring out the old year.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 26, 2017

There was a new controversy seemingly every week, whether it was Uber’s myriad scandals ; more personal data breaches ; Russia’s use of social media and other online platforms to try and influence U.S. The past year was a turbulent one for the tech industry.

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JANUARY 24, 2017

If you do a Google search for AAPL, the stock ticker for Apple, the top search results are typically Yahoo Finance, Twitter, Google Finance—and StockTwits, a social media communications platform for Wall Street traders and active retail investors.

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

Investors have been concerned about the social media giant’s slowing growth rate in a year when it has been under scrutiny for data privacy violations and its role in the spread of false and divisive messages by fake user accounts traced to Russian agents during U.S. election campaigns.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2018

Much attention was focused this past year on the impact of social media on the 2016 presidential election, as reports emerged about the use of these platforms by entities linked with Russia to spread false, misleading, or inflammatory political messages.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Parker, in an interview with Axios on Wednesday, said Facebook’s founders consciously exploited “a vulnerability in human psychology,” by luring users into an addictive engagement with the social media site by providing constant rewards in the form of “likes” and comments.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2017

ScoreStream, a five-year-old startup that created a social media platform for crowd-sourcing local sports scores, has raised $3.7 CEO Derrick Oien said Friday that ScoreStream recently completed a Verizon R/GA digital “Media Tech. million in a Series A round that includes Intel Capital as an investor.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. The company’s workforce has grown to about 270, including 80 in San Diego.

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MARCH 13, 2020

Constantine is CEO of Ulevate, and Dmitri is an advisor, and also is known as the co-founder of email management and filtering software developer SaneBox. This seems very different from your background on software, how did you get into this? What is Ulevate? Dmitri Leonov: It's the Russian connection. That makes this a no-brainer.

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MARCH 2, 2017

Snap, which rose to unicorn status based on a social media app that creates quickly vanishing photos, attracted solid investor interest in an IPO that raised $3.4 billion and sent shares up more than 50 percent above the initial offering price during the first day of trading today.

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