Technology Council

MARCH 19, 2012

Neff There is so much in the news about cyber-security. Much of the focus is on cyber war as a new and inevitable weapon, Stuxnet and the vulnerability of our national infrastructure. Some of the news is about use of computers to steal US technology and trade secrets, with culprits—if traceable—often located in China or [.].

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DECEMBER 3, 2012

News Corp has announced it will cease publication of its standalone publication of The Daily iPad app December 15, 2012 and embed its technology and staff into the The Post. 60 year old News Corporation today Monday Dec. Thompson reports January 1 2013. Thompson reports January 1 2013.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

El Segundo-based Aggregage , which develops software driven B2B websites and newsletters which aggregate blog and news postings for specific industries, has raised $1M in a convertible note, the company said today. Aggregage''s B2B websites are published in conjunction with trade and professional associations. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 24, 2019

The good news is that if you were not a significant (usually 5% or more) selling shareholder of a previous company, most states specifically exempt non-compete agreements signed between companies and their employees or minority shareholders. The obvious admonition. Digital or analog!

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 24, 2019

The good news is that if you were not a significant (usually 5% or more) selling shareholder of a previous company, most states specifically exempt non-compete agreements signed between companies and their employees or minority shareholders. The obvious admonition. Digital or analog!

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FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology developer Rubicon Project has filed for an IPO, saying in a filing with the SEC that it is looking to sell up to $100M in its stock in an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. The company said it is looking to trade under the symbol RUBI. Mayfield, as well as others.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Stockr, which was co-founded by Vinny Jindal, Tim Symington, and Brendon Crawford, helps investors by connecting them with news, information, discussion, and more about stocks. The firm is looking to create a service which avoids stock trading rumors, partly by using real names and authentication via Facebook Connect. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 20, 2015

In some unwelcome news, the University of Southern California looks to be the center of an alleged Chinese spying ring, formed by three former graduate students from the school's electrical engineering school. The stolen trade secrets alleged in the indictment belong to Avago or Skyworks. According to the U.S. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 16, 2015

Stocktwits offers up a Twitter-like platform to trade stock tips and discussions, all linked to public company trading symbols, along with tools to help public companies with getting news out about their companies. In a blog post, Stocktwits said it will use the funding to help it grow even faster. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

MAY 9, 2019

billion in new capital late Thursday as it priced an initial public offering that set its market capitalization at $82.4 billion , according to calculations by The New York Times and other news outlets. Uber (NYSE: UBER ) will start trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol.

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MARCH 13, 2013

The firm said the latest version of its platform is aimed at brands, retailers, media companies, and trade associations, to help them scale their content efforts across digital channels. PublishThis , the Los Angeles startup headed by Matt Kumin, has enhanced the firm's online, content marketing and curation management tool.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 16, 2020

But that good news will not help you if you run out of money during the time it takes for these to happen. Act boldly to address painful layoffs, reductions in salaries, cuts in trade shows already contracted (even if cancelled or reset to the fall months.) Everything will recover. Stocks will climb again.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 20, 2019

As national politics dominates the news in the final days of the decade, we at Xconomy are wrapping up the year with some big moves by the FDA, including an approval of the first drug OK’d reduce heart risk in patients with high triglycerides who are already taking statins.

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APRIL 2, 2014

Rubicon Project will begin trading this morning, on the New York Stock Exchange as RUBI. Rubicon Project is venture backed by Clearstone Ventures, News Corp., Rubicon Project priced at the lower end of its initial estimated IPO range, which was $15.00 Mayfield, and others.

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MAY 16, 2014

TrueCar is trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market as TRUE. The company offers up online pricing of news cars as well as powers affiliate car buying programs. The company raised around $71.1M in the IPO offering.

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Xconomy

JULY 22, 2019

Acadia (NASDAQ: ACAD ) shares dropped about 4 percent on the news in after-hours trading, falling from just shy of $26 each to about $22 apiece. The company announced the trial failure Monday after market close.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

Beyond Meat, the publicly traded producer of plant-based protein replacements for meat, is currently giving other companies in the alternative meat space an education in just how finicky appealing to consumer tastes can be. Charlotte, N.C., and across Kentucky, according to multiple reports.

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MARCH 31, 2014

We''re rolling it out to finance and Wall Street, monitoring thousands of sources of continuously changing information, such as news, social media, internal email systems, and analyzing specific, material conditions that our customers are looking for. which are super actively traded, those stocks that we all trade.

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Xconomy

MARCH 29, 2019

A week after the failure of Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab , the ripple effects are still being felt—and not just by Biogen, which lost billions of dollars in market value in a flash.

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Tech.Co

JULY 28, 2020

All the optimism in the world couldn't make an in-person CES 2021 happen, as the world's largest trade show has officially been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. CES is the largest trade show in the world, so you can bet there are going to be some exciting additions to the online-only conference experience.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 17, 2017

The waste from haste in this example was in not pre-thinking of enough testing scenarios for a new product. There is always a trade-off between cost for testing, time to market and risk of problems.

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Xconomy

MARCH 26, 2018

Among the host of legal woes Facebook is now confronting amid news about the misuse of its member profiles in election politics: The Federal Trade Commission revealed Monday that it is investigating the social media giant’s privacy practices.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2012

The good news is that if you were not a significant (usually 5% or more) selling shareholder of a previous company, many states specifically exempt non-compete agreements signed between companies and their employees or minority shareholders.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Green Dot had dropped at least 17 percent in morning trading after the news was announced by American Express and Walmart. Green Dot--one of Southern California's startup success stories--rose to prominence via its relationship with Walmart, which has been its biggest source of customers since before its IPO.

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MAY 3, 2010

Los Angeles-based Canon Communications , a publisher and trade show operator serving the pharmaceutical industry, said Monday that it has acquired Pharmalot , a blog focused on news and information in the pharmaceutical industry. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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AUGUST 17, 2011

The firm attributed the increase to adoption by both investors and companies, who use the site to disseminate important company news. The service is similar to micro-messaging site Twitter, except filtered and centered around publicly traded stocks. StockTwits site allows users to interact with real-time messages around certain stocks.

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JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. We spoke with Jennifer about what HitFix is looking to do, her own background, and how HitFix is different from the many celebrity gossip and news sites out there.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

The only good news for investors: at least theyre not in the territory of Demand Media, which now trades about 70 percent below its first day of trading back in January. Investors who bought at the peak that opening day are now down about 20 percent since then. Read the rest of When Valuations Don't Actually Mean Valuable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Word-of-mouth and social media may get you started, but there is no substitute these days for special promotions, webinars, presence at trade shows, and actively calling on decision makers. The good news is these challenges are not rocket science, so anyone can do it. Real growth always requires real marketing. Marty Zwilling.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The good news: We received over 700 nominations for the awards , where we''ll be identifying the top new entrepreneurs, innovators, and others in the technology industry. The bad news? We also have a long list of community partners (which we will list soon), who are also helping to support the event.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

What was the biggest news for your firm in 2018? We had great news in 2018 from the companies weve invested in and supportive over the years. In addition The Trade Desk, which went public in 2016, grew its market cap from just under $2 billion at the beginning of 2018 to slightly over $6 billion today.

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OCTOBER 2, 2009

The false release came from site WiredPRNews.com and showed up on Google News. Local.com is publicly traded. According to Local.com, "The company has not been acquired, nor is it in discussions with Microsoft about a potential acquisition."

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Xconomy

JUNE 11, 2018

The news sent PTC’s stock (NASDAQ: PTC ) to a record high for the company, according to Yahoo Finance data. As of this writing, it was trading at nearly $92 per share, up more than 5 percent from Friday’s closing price. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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JULY 19, 2010

In what seems like almost weekly news now about a Southern California firm gearing up for the public markets, Monrovia-based Green Dot is expected to hit the markets sometime this week. and $35.00 per share, and will list on the NYSE at GDOT.

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? Peregrine Semiconductor, a semiconductor company I co-founded in 1990, became a publically traded company on NASDAQ on August 8th. Biggest new for CommNexus / EvoNexus: EvoNexus incubator companies reached the $95M in capital raised and two companies were acquired.

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JUNE 30, 2010

Irvine-based electric automobile firm Fisker Automotive is eyeing a possible IPO, now that competitor Tesla Motors , the electric auto firm headed by Elon Musk, has been so warmly received in the public markets, according to a report,/a> from The News Journal, a Wilmington, Delaware newspaper.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

On to other news. Luckin has dropped around 25 percent since closing its debut trading day. In this week’s episode, available here , Crunchbase News editor-in-chief Alex Wilhelm and I discuss how startups are avoiding IPOs and VC’s insatiable interest in food delivery startups. IPO Corner. More changes at Y Combinator.

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