Since co-founding the company with Richard Rosenblatt in May 2006, Shawn and his team have sourced, negotiated and completed over 30 acquisitions. The event is free and is followed by a reception and mixer at the Docstoc Offices in Santa Monica by the 3rd Street Promenade. Santa Monica Public Library (Auditorium) 601 Santa Monica Blvd. Santa This month’s “Startups Uncensored” will be on “Getting Your Internet Company Bought”. It will be an open and frank town-hall conversation revealing the metrics and measurements for Mergers and Acquisitions

Santa Monica-based venture firm Rustic Canyon , along with Intel Capital, has put more into Silicon Valley-based InSync Software , a developer of software for the RFID and supply chain tracking business. Both had invested in InSync in 2006. ...Tags: According to InSync, it has raised $4.7M in a Series B funding from the two investors.

Santa Monica-based Userplane , which develops web widgets used by other online community sites, including chat and other collaboration applications, told its users today in an email that the firm's future "remains bright." Userplane was acquired by AOL in 2006. The firm--which hasn't sent a monthly newsletter in awhile--sent out an email Thursday afternoon saying that the firm is "still comprised of forward-thinking, talented individuals who work hard to keep Userplane in demand and relevant in our industry." The newsletter blast came after high visibility coverage in the

Santa Monica-based video games developer Activision has tapped former Yahoo! Rosensweig was most recently COO of Yahoo from 2002 to 2006. COO Dan Rosensweig as CEO of the firms's RedOctane business unit--the unit which is in charge of its Guitar Hero franchise. According to Activision, Rosensweig will oversee game development, hardware manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, and marketing for RedOctane.

Santa Monica-based video games developer Activision has tapped former Yahoo! Rosenweig was most recently COO of Yahoo from 2002 to 2006. COO Dan Rosenweig as CEO of the firms's RedOctane business unit--the unit which is in charge of its Guitar Hero franchise. According to Activision, Rosenweig will oversee game development, hardware manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, and marketing for RedOctane.

Santa Monica-based Zag, a venture-backed developer of online car buying software, said this morning that it has made a Brenner has served at 1-800-CARSEARCH, PromiseMark, and CARFAX; Pributsky joined Zag in 2006 and served at eVox Productions and Malldecker Media; Easterby was most recently at Yahoo!; a number of hires and a promotion.

Around 2006, they opened up a sales office here, with a couple of guys talking to the film and games business. More and more of the company began to move here, and we now have about 45 people total, with 30 of them here in Santa Monica. Los Angeles-based Image Metrics (www.image-metrics.com) recently landed a $6.5M, Series B funding round for the firm's facial animation products. We spoke with CEO Mike Starkenburg -- a former venture capitalist at the Sprout Group and longtime reader of our newsletter -- about the firm and its technology and how it's revolutionizing facial animation

gid=65010916756 Updated 2/15/2010 by Todd Zebert Name: LAdobe User Group Sites: twitter.com/ladobe , www.laadug.org Self-description: "The Los Angeles Adobe User Group began in early 2006... Frequency/Location: "Meetings occur once every month on the fourth Thursday at 7pm" / Key Code Media, 1004 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90401 (located between 10th and 11th) Cost: Free Review: Adam Bell founded this group and I've met him numerous times; he's knowledgeable, a good guy, and shares my interest in good beer. Weekly updates! Please