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GoPro Prices IPO, To Trade Today

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per share, and will start trading today on the NASDAQ Global Market as GPRO. Woodman came up with the idea for GoPro while surfing off of San Diego. Action sports camera maker GoPro priced its IPO at $24.00 The IPO raises around $427M for the company, and values the company around $2.96 and $24.00 READ MORE>>.

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Steamboat Invests in Chinese Web Analytics Firm

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Los Angeles-based Steamboat Ventures , the venture capital arm of The Walt Disney Company, has invested in a Chinese startup which provides web, video, and search analytics, Gridsum Technology. According to Gridsum, Steamboat led its Series A. Size of the funding round was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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GameSalad Supports Windows 8 Apps

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The startup--which has been supporting Windows development since May--said its latest version, 0.10.0 GameSalad is venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, Greycroft Partners, DFJ Mercury, DFJ Frontier, and ff Asset Management. supports Windows 8 and a number of the features of the Windows 8 environment.

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Move Networks Acquired by Echostar

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Move, which briefly was based in Irvine, was venture backed by Steamboat Ventures, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Benchmark Capital, Microsoft, Cisco, Comcast and Televisa. The firm had been founded and ended up again in American Fork, Utah where founder Drew Major, a co-founder of Novell, is located.

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Sometrics Acquired By American Express, Says Report

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El Segundo-based Sometrics , the in-game virtual currency and monetization startup headed by Ian Swanson, has reportedly been acquired by American Express. Sometrics had raised over $5.25M in funding from Big Sky Ventures, Greycroft Partners, Mailroom Fund, and Steamboat Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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GameSalad Updates iPhone Game Creation Software

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Los Angeles-based and Austin-based GameSalad , the startup developer of software that allows users to easily create iPhone games without programming, said today that it has released a new version of the firm's flagship software, GameSalad Creator. GameSalad said the 0.9.3 READ MORE>>.

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GameSalad Appoints COO

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Los Angeles- and Austin-based GameSalad , the startup developer of iPhone game creation software headed by Michael Agustin, has named a new Chief Operations Officer, the firm said Friday. GameSalad is venture backed by DFJ Mercury, Steamboat Ventures, DFJ Frontier, and ff Asset Management. READ MORE>>.