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Rustic Canyon Boosts Social Gaming Firm PlayFirst

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Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Rustic Canyon Partners has upped its investment in social games firm PlayFirst , which is based in San Francisco. According to PlayFirst, Rustic Canyon, Mayfield Fund, Trinity Partners, and DCM--all current investors in the game developer--have invested $5.2M

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Docstoc Acquired By Intuit

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Santa Monica-based Docstoc , which is led by Jason Nazar, has been acquired by Intuit, the companies said this morning. Nazar said that Docstoc''s vision is to be the ultimate destination and resource site for small businesses as part of Intuit. com), and others. com), and others.

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Docstoc Rolls iPad App

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Santa Monica-based Docstoc , the document sharing site run by Jason Nazar, said Thursday that it has launched an iPad version of its service. The new app, Docstoc Premium, allows users to access both free and premium versions of documents on the site. The firm is venture backed by Rustic Canyon Partners.

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Total Beauty Buys LimeLife

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Santa Monica-based Total Beauty Media , the online fashion content site run by Emrah Kovacoglu, said this morning that it has acquired LimeLife.com , a female lifestyle and celebrity news site. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. LimeLife was founded by Kristin McDonnell. READ MORE>>.

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Docstoc Launches Marketplace, Rev Share Effort

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Santa Monica-based Docstoc , the online document sharing site run by Jason Nazar , is launching a new marketplace this morning which will allow users to sell their own content on the firm's site. Docstoc said now has over 20M unique visitors a month to its site. READ MORE>>.

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Docstoc Exits Beta, Adds Rev Share

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Santa Monica-based Docstoc , the document sharing site run by Jason Nazar, said this afternoon that it has officially come out of its public beta. READ MORE>>.

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Factual Launches Geo-Coded Business Dataset

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Santa Monica-based Factual , the open data startup headed by Gil Elbaz, the inventor of Google's AdSense technology, said today that it has launched a new open set of data that the firm says provides geo-coded data for 14 million local U.S. businesses.