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JULY 6, 2010

Social badges--awards which are given for having accomplished certain tasks on web sites and social games--have become popular recently due to the popularity of Foursquare and social games. Tags: lunch social networking similarity media network badge foursquare. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 2, 2010

EdgeCast said that Automattic, the parent firm of WordPress.com and the software firm behind the popular blogging software of the same name, used the firm's CDN services for its recent WordCamp San Francisco video streaming, in addition to using the firm's CDN services for its blog site. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 13, 2010

The least popular category on their list? Tags: employment recruit recruiter search resume resumebucket. Second was sales (Sales, Outside Sales, Sales Manager) with 9,901 queries, followed by labor-related positions (Labor, Warehouse, Skilled Labor, Construction, Waiter). READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 9, 2010

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace reported Tuesday that the firm is now the top, social application on the Android platform, and is the third most popular downloaded application overall on the Android Market. Tags: myspace android market mobile google. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 29, 2010

Westlake Village-based FavRav is hoping to leverage the popularity of social networking site Facebook to help local businesses find new customers. Tags: favrav facebook local business social networking. The firm was founded by Taher Scherzay and Bill Manos. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The firm, which offers online FAX services, said it will be launching a number of individual products beginning next week, around managing faxed documents through their life cycle, mobile fax and document management capability, security and regulatory related features, and product integration with "popular hardware and software products."

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APRIL 21, 2010

Lake Forest-based storage manufacturer WD has rolled out a new, iPhone/iPod Touch application which connects its My Book World Edition and WD ShareSpace network drives with the popular Apple devices. Tags: western digital data storage hard drive apple ipod iphone remote access photo photography sharespace. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 8, 2009

Los Angeles-based LEHR , a startup manufacturer of propane-based gardening tools, is one of the companies being highlighted by Popular Mechanics today with their "10 Most Brilliant Products of 2009". Tags: lehr propane gardening tools popular mechanics award. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

PlayFirst is the company behind the popular Diner Dash, Cooking Dash and Wedding Dash casual games. Tags: playfirst venture capital social games content videogame rustic canyon game. 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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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Glendale-based DreamWorks Animation SKG and social games maker Zynga announced this morning that the two are in a new promotion, which will tie DreamWorks new Megamind feature film into the popular FarmVille social game. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 8, 2010

Inspired Instruments sells the You Rock Guitar, a six-stringed digital game controller and MIDI enabled guitar, which is compatible with the Wii, PS3, Mac, PC, iPod, iPhone, iPad and the popular RockBand and Guitar Hero game titles.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Los Angeles-based Boingo Wireless , which operates a global network of Wi-Fi access points, said Wednesday that the firm now has applications for the "most popular" mobile marketplaces. Tags: boingo wireless wifi software mobile. Boingo's various applications are all available for free. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 19, 2010

Perfect Market's software applies search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to help surface content--usually more evergreen topics popular with consumers--which normally would be buried deep in a publishers' archive library. Tags: perfect market content monetization publishing newspaper. Pricing on the new tool was not released.

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APRIL 21, 2010

Pasadena-based TweetUp , the Idealab-backed startup focused on monetizing Twitter messages, said today that it has inked two deals to display its search results, one with Twitter client TweetDeck , and another with popular technology blog TechCrunch. Tags: tweetup tweetdeck techcrunch search twitter advertising. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 27, 2010

According to the firm, it has added Gmail support via a Firefox add-on, which allows users to use the product using Google's popular email service. Tags: bccthis mobile email twitter group software. The addition of Gmail comes on top of an existing MS Outlook and Blackberry client for the service. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 18, 2010

Both firms develop "evergreen" articles about popular topics, which they then sell advertising against. Tags: demand media associated content yahoo. Associated Content, much like Demand Media, pays users to "crowdsource" articles about various topics which might be of interest to Internet users and web searching.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The firm's web site offers up pricing comparisons for popular products, and also gives ratings and reviews of the various sellers of those products. Tags: shopzilla comparison shopping google rating review ecommerce. Shopzilla is a unit of Scripps Networks Interactive. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 22, 2009

Irvine-based Blizzard Entertainment , which operates the popular World of Warcraft online, massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORG), has signed on director Sam Raimi for an upcoming movie based on the game. Tags: hollywood production movies raimi movie content warcraft world entertainment blizzard. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 31, 2009

This is Make It Work, Inc ’s first syndication of their popular show.? KSFO in San Francisco is home to many of the most popular (or unpopular) shows in the country including: Rush Limbaugh, Dr. Laura Schlesinger, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity and George Noory.

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MARCH 2, 2010

Los Angeles-based streaming media site Hulu.com said Tuesday afternoon that two of the firm's most popular shows, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report, are being pulled from the site. Tags: hulu daily show colbert report. According to Hulu, Comedy Central has decided to rotate the shows off the service, as of 11:59 p.m. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Zynga , the high flying social gaming firm behind the popular Farmville social game, appears to be ramping up its recruiting efforts in Los Angeles. Tags: facebook executive farmville gaming games social activision zynga. Zynga said in the listing that the CTO will be instrumental in growing and scaling the organization. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

In an interesting twist on the popularity of personalized "skins" and covers for electronic items, Valencia-based Advanced Bionics announced today that it has partnered with San Diego-based Skinit to apply the technology to cochlear implants. Tags: custom skin electronics personalized skinit bionics advanced. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

The company--which currently markets the eyeglasses online and through some eyewear retailers--said the lenses are particularly popular with architects, computer programmers, pilots and shooting enthusiasts. Tags: eyeglasses trufocals superfocus eyewear focus zoom. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

According to Skinit, kids and parents can now personalize over 3,000 electronic devices with popular Poptropica characters and scenes. Tags: poptropica skinit electronics personalization skin virtual world. Financial details of the deal was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Edmunds also said it is testing four different home pages to see which ones are most popular with users, in addition to releasing an iPhone app in coming weeks. Tags: edmunds automotive auto information buying research. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 6, 2010

According to TweetUp, the buy also includes the acquisition of popurls , an online site which aggregates the most popular items from Twitter, Digg, YouTube, Delicious, the New York Times, and other news and social media sites. Tags: tweetup twidroid merger acquisition idealab android phone mobile twitter. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 30, 2010

The firm's service is particularly popular in areas with limited Internet access. Tags: mobilexl mobile-xl office text messaging communications. Mobile-XL operates a service--heavily used in developing countries in Africa and elsewhere--which gives information to mobile phone users. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 29, 2010

Among the benefits of the service will be access to more content from both current and prior seasons of popular TV shows, access to Hulu via the Apple iPhone 4 and 3GS, Apple iPad, and 3rd generation Apple iPod Touch, as well as access via Internet-enabled televisions from Samsung, Sony, Vizio, and others. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Citrix Online , the firm behind the popular GoToMeeting software, said today that it has acquired Paglo Labs , a developer of IT search and management tools, and launched its own IT management platform called GoToManage. Tags: citrix paglo merger acquisition gotomanage software management. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 25, 2010

The firm also said it specifically is looking to take advantage of "check-ins", the feature popularized by foursquare, Gowalla, and Facebook Places, to serve up targeted surveys based on geographic and demographic information when users check-into services. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 30, 2009

San Diego-based TweetPhoto launched its services Thursday afternoon, saying it will allow users to share photos via the popular Twitter micro-messaging service. Tags: tweetphoto twitter photo sharing microblogging. The service said that it will allow users to easily upload and automatically publish their photos to Twitter and Facebook.

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MARCH 4, 2010

West and Zampella are behind Call of Duty and Modern Warfare, two of Activision's most popular games. Tags: legal lawsuit ward infinity callofduty videogame activision. Activision said this week it had fired West and Zampella for "insubordination" and "breach of fiduciary duty.".

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The Santa Barbara to San Jose flights were popular among the many high tech companies located in the Santa Barbara area. Tags: santa barbara jose flights. The news was first reported by local Santa Barbara publication the Daily Sound.

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JULY 21, 2010

Have we missed a firm here poised to take advantage of Facebook's popularity and growth? Tags: facebook users applications growth startups startup. Backed by Steamboat Ventures, Greycroft Partners, AT&T, and The Mail Room Fund. Headed by Ian Swanson. Let us know!

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APRIL 6, 2010

The new owners of Los Angeles technology event Twiistup , which is now being managed by Francisco Dao, have finally come out, almost a year after the popular technology networking and conference was sold by Mike Macadaan. Tags: twiistup owner angel investor francisco conference. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

Boingo's services are very popular with air travelers, who use its roaming Wi-Fi access to connect to the Internet at airports, overseas, and at a network of other Wi-Fi access points through Boingo's partners. Tags: boingo wireless makeawish charity donation airline miles airport wifi children. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 24, 2009

Bluebeam said its new PDF viewer -- Bluebeam PDF Revu Standard Edition -- was a response to recent security attacks and issues with Adobe's popular Adobe Reader PDF viewer. Tags: bluebeam software. The firm also said that its own software will offer a 30 day trial period where the software will also support creating of PDF files.

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