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MARCH 10, 2011

the parent firm of Gorilla Nation and AtomicOnline, said today that it has launched sales efforts for its new video advertising division, SpringBoard Video. The online advertising firm said it has developed its own, proprietary ad-supported video player technology, which it is delivering to over 160 mid-tail web publishers.

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

Los Angeles-based The Rubicon Project , which operates a service to optimize the selection of ads on web sites, said today that it has debuted a new technology platform is it calling REVV for Publishers. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 14, 2019

According to the startup, Deborah Scanlon will serve as vice president of strategic sales, and Nigel Quinnin will take on the role of vice president of development at the company. Scanlon was most recently at Gartner, and also has served at Recourse Technologies, Vormetric and BigFix, along with IBM and Verizon. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Los Angeles-based online e-commerce provider Newegg , which focuses on technology products, has kicked off its holiday season, saying that it has begun its "Black November" holiday sale on Tuesday. This is the eighth year that Newegg has started offering up special shopping deals for the entire month.

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JULY 13, 2009

Santa Monica-based SharesPost , which has created on online marketplace for sellers and buyers of private company stock, reported to its users late Friday that the firm now has sales of LinkedIn, Linden Lab, Tesla Motors, and SugarCRM going into escrow. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 19, 2015

The company recently announced a funding round, led by True Ventures, so we thought we'd talk with John about what the company is doing, and why he believes search technology is so important to apply to recruiting. Recruiters can access that search technology in one of two ways. Tell us about Connectifier? How does that work?

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Newly formed The HomeFinder Group (THG) says it will focus on lead quality and conversion for brokers, agents and mortgage lenders through its own consumer facing web sites. HomeFinder was previously owned by real estate technology developer Placester.

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MARCH 4, 2015

Irvine-based Numecent , which develops a cloud-based service to help deliver applications over the web, said it has named former Broadcom executive Tom Lagatta as its new CEO. Lagatta was previously Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Broadcom. Osman will focus on the technology and strategic partners.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

DRX , a provider of web-based shopping and enrollment software for Medicare health plans, which was based in Los Angeles, has been acquired by Wisconsin-based Connecture , the companies said today. Connecture develops sales automation technology for the health insurance industry.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. These data points provide yet more evidence that SoCal has become one of the most profound technology ecosystems in the United States.

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JANUARY 22, 2013

If you're an investor who's concerned about the security of your deal data being store on the web, CapLinked , which develops an online platform to help companies manage and close their business transactions, has an answer for you: military-grade security. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Los Angeles-based iolo technologies , a developer of utility software for Windows computers, said Tuesday that the firm is now distributing its products throughout the Middle East. Tags: sales international east middle windows software utility technologies iolo.

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MARCH 24, 2011

According to the company, it has named Nick Hulse as Chief Revenue Officer, Bill Harries as Vice President of Sales Operations, and Bill McHargue as vice President of North American Sales. Los Angeles-based online advertising firm Rubicon Project announced this morning that it has hired three new executives.

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

Los Angeles gossip and technology blog Lalawag , run by Sean and Laurie Percival, has been sold. Financial terms of the sale were not disclosed. Jesse Draper's Valley Girl show is a web-based, talk show which has featured the CEOs of major corporations and startups, interviewed about their businesses on a very pink set.

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JUNE 9, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based HauteLook (www.hautelook.com), an online private sales site, scored a major round of funding--raising $31M from Insight Venture Partners. Adam Bernhard: We're a platform that does flash sales. We work on behalf of brands, as a web site that has a membership base of over 2.5 Adam, thanks for the time.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

And we saw a record number of 278 million clicks to local web pages as more consumers looked to connect with businesses locally. What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2021? We also updated more than 43,700 attributes as new amenities became commonplace, like curbside pickup and contactless delivery.

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JUNE 23, 2017

The insurance industry today is one of the last industries to fully jump into adopting technology for offering up their products, says Wayne Slavin , CEO and founder of SURE (www.sureapp.com), and just needs some help in getting there. What kind of insurance are you offering now through those apps and the web?

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MARCH 5, 2014

So, how do you help ease enterprise customers into the cloud--or at least, help them use cloud technology to help them with their business goals? What we do, is we build them private, cloud infrastructure, and make it available in an easy to consume web portal. It''s all custom, technology agnostic, and very flexible.

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JULY 29, 2009

In a major deal, search portal provider Yahoo and software giant Microsoft said that the two companies are in a deal where Yahoo will replace its own search engine technology with that of Microsoft--with potentially huge repercussions to Yahoo's Southern California search engine marketing operations.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Robison reports that the company now has over 400 employees, spread across seven building in a Carpinteria campus, in addition to a web development branch in Calabasas, and sales offices in the UK and Australia.

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JULY 16, 2010

Last week, San Diego-based provider of web content classification and security services developer BrightCloud was acquired by Webroot , and we thought it would be a great opportunity to talk to founder Quinn Curtis about how the acquisition of his firm came about. How does your technology specifically fit into Webroot? READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. Edmunds.com has been around forever in Los Angeles, but after a recent redesign and a focus on updating its web site, new mobile. NastyGal is just one of a number of fashion-meets-technology startups to emerge in Los Angeles, which. Rubicon Project.

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DECEMBER 12, 2014

We do everything from picking, packing, and shipping to customer service, fulfillment, and providing the technology that powers the e-commerce site, online marketing, creative design, and digital imaging and photography. The way we get compensated, is we receive a percent of net sales that flow through the website.

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JULY 7, 2010

Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. Less known--a healthy domain name registration business.

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

How do you take a business you started as your own personal web site, and turn it into an online powerhouse, completely bootstrapped, from the little town of Ojai, California--not exactly known as a technology town? Bruce and I met at the Art Center, and that was when I first discovered the web.

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OCTOBER 23, 2008

Shopit develops software which can be embedded in social networking profiles, blog pages, and on other web pages for selling products. The firm said the new funding will go to speed the development of its services, and towards hiring in advertising, sales, and technology in its Los Angeles headquarters. READ MORE>>

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

According to the firm, founding CEO Jeff Solomon becomes Senior Vice President and will focus on product and technology development at the company. Leads360's software is used to manage web-based sales leads; the firm is venture backed by Rustic Canyon Partners. READ MORE>>

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JUNE 1, 2012

My cofounder, Steven Elliott, was CTO of a company doing artificial intelligence and automated chat technology. My other co-founder, Rusty Jenkins, was also with that company, doing sales. For local businesses, we're also giving them free mobile web sites, and working on other relationships.

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JANUARY 22, 2013

This was a situation where we had the opportunity to take on funding, at a point where we could utilize it to scale our technology platform, and to increase our global reach and expand our content, beyond what we'd do normally. We already had a presence there, and are moving into a standalone building in Calabasas focused on web development.

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JANUARY 22, 2013

This was a situation where we had the opportunity to take on funding, at a point where we could utilize it to scale our technology platform, and to increase our global reach and expand our content, beyond what we'd do normally. We already had a presence there, and are moving into a standalone building in Calabasas focused on web development.

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JULY 21, 2011

That was really my first experience working with a technology that was merging the digital and physical worlds. That, combined with being early on the social web, was the nexus from where MomentFeed came about. For the first time, that social media activity is actually taking place at the point of sale. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 7, 2018

Even though my family was reasonably more advanced, they were using a system which was still running on DOS, in black and blue, and was not even web-based. The trucking industry, as you mention, isn't great about technology. There's not a lot of technology in this industry, and even text messaging can be advanced technology for them.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Foskett has previously served at Contoural, GlassHouse Technologies, and StorageNetworks; Gidwani has served at Stratoform Technologies, Drivecam, Qualcomm, Cisco, and Applied Materials; and Schwarzentruber was at Continuity Software.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Next year, we''ll also be competing in a lot of other areas, and will be announcing some interesting new technology in the coming months. More recently, we found the technology wasn''t really appropriate for mobile. We now have both Android and iOS coverage, and very soon we''ll be releasing a web app. That doesn''t come cheap.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

We are handling IT processes which are normally the purview of large players like BMC and CA Technology, HP, and IBM--considered the Big 4 in IT administration. Gary Bishop: My background, prior to Network Automation, was in the financial technology marketplace. The technology has just exploded. We have a very strong fan base.

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JULY 27, 2009

William Chow: What Mobophiles has developed is software that solves the two biggest problems the web space right now, which is slow page load--waiting on the web--and no offline access, which is if you don't have connectivity on the web. It's completely transparent to the web sites we are supporting.

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