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93 Articles match "Companies","Santa Barbara"
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
The DEMO conference announced the lineup of 65 companies that will share their products and value propositions to the technology community at DEMO Spring 2010 on March 21-23 in Palm Desert, California.
Judging by the companies he has selected to launch on the DEMO stage he certainly is off to a great start.
DEMO has also brought back the Alpha Pitch program that features DEMO has officially started today and we will be there starting tomorrow. For For DEMOfall 2009 we pretty much hit it on the nose for the DEMOgod award winners , let's see if we can nail it again this year.
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
However, in many cases, acquiring companies behave in a less rational manner than Mr. Citrix politely approached us, told us they had an interest in acquiring our company and then asked us, “How much?”
Our response was that there was no “price” as our company was not for sale. In 1987, a representative of Michael Jackson approached the modest Sycamore Valley ranch house and knocked on the door. The owner of the ranch was shocked by the visitor’s message.
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Friday, March 12, 2010
Santa Barbara-based Sonos , which develops multi-room, digital music systems, confirmed today that it has raised $25M in a Series C round of funding. The funding came from Index Ventures, with Mike Volpi of Index joining the company's board of directors as part of the funding. Sonos makes an easy-to-use digital music system which plays music throughout multiple rooms in a home. READ MORE>>
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
The last direct flight from Santa Barbara to Silicon Valley, on a route run by SkyWest Airlines, is being discontinued, according to reports. SkyWest Airlines has informed Santa Barbara Airport officials that it plans to discontinue direct flights to San Jose in June, due to lack of demand. The news was first reported by local Santa Barbara publication the Daily Sound. The Santa Barbara to San Jose flights were popular among the many high tech companies located in the Santa Barbara area. SkyWest also runs a nonstop
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Santa Barbara-based AppFolio , a developer of software-as-a-service for property management, is announcing today that it has raised $8M in additional funding for the firm. The funding comes from the Investment Group of Santa Barbara (IGSB). Appfolio said the funding round brings the company's total raised to $30M. the firm has previously also raised capital from Cisco Systems and BV Capital, in addition to the Investment Group of Santa Barbara. The company said the new funding will go to accelerate its growth.
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Friday, January 30, 2009
Citrix Systems , a provider of enterprise infrastructure software based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, said Wednesday that the firm is reducing its headcount by approximately 10 percent--and has laid off staff at the firm's Santa Barbara Unit, Citrix Online. According to sources, the firm has provided notice to people in its Santa Barbara office about the cuts. A spokesperson for Citrix confirmed the cuts Friday evening.
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
When I drill down on that term, you can see why with posts like: Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals Lops A Third Of Company THQ Lays Off 100 Employees, Closes San Diego Office Citrix Cuts 10 Percent; Santa Barbara Hit And it's also interesting to see what geographies are being associated with "Layoffs" more often than others: Layoffs Woodland Hills Layoffs San Diego Layoffs Santa Monica Layoffs Los Angeles I guess this is a sign of the times. The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
EI Solutions, the solar integration startup backed by Pasadena-based Idealab, has scored a win in the City of Santa Barbara. According to Tioga Energy, a renewable energy services provider, and EI Solutions, the two are building and funding a 384 kW DC solar electric system for Santa Barbara. The firms said the system will be installed on roof space on the City of Santa Barbara's corporation yard at Garden and Laguna streets. Tioga will be responsible for operation and maintenance of the system, with EI Solutions responsible for the installation. EI Solutions is based
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Search engine giant Google announced Tuesday that the firm is funding a number of University research projects, including a group of researchers at UC San Diego, a researcher at UC Santa Barbara, and a researcher in Los Angeles. as part of its Google Focused Research Awards, to help fund research in ares of study that are of key interest to the company. Google said that the firm is awarding a total of $5.7M Among the 12 projects, which include 31 professors at 10 universities, are one on the use of mobile phones as data collection devices for public health an environmental monitoring,
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Monday, June 15, 2009
Santa Barbara-based Solid Oak Software , a maker of PC Internet filtering technology, is claiming that the firm's software code is being used by the country as part of a new program to force PC makers to install filtering software on all new PCs shipped in the country. companies from shipping PCs with the Chinese software loaded. In a report from the Wall Street Journal, the firm said it is looking for an injunction to prevent U.S. A
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Thursday, October 9, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 -- The MIT Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast Presents: Technology Space - The Final Frontier for Growth of Companies in Santa Barbara? Have you ever come up against a wall when trying to find "technology space" in the Santa Barbara region? Are you thinking about starting a company and want to know about facilities in the area? Do you have out-of-the-box thoughts on how to resolve our technology space issue? The October 15th program brings together a start-up out of UCSB, CytomX; a mid-size company, Allergan Medical, that purchased a Santa Barbara company, Inamed; and an insider in the process of learning what it takes to get technology space from the "wish" stage to actual development.
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Monday, November 9, 2009
Jason is another local Santa Barbara CEO and we had a great chat about Make It Work, Ring Revenue, Affiliate Marketing and life in SB. He’s a great guy and taught me a bunch of new things about affiliate marketing and his company. Santa Barbara born companies such as DoubleClick, ValueClick, Commission Junction and FastClick are all leaders in the space (the last three are all now owned by ValueClick who’s founder is a major Today I met with Jason Spievak, CEO of Ring Revenue. I
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Saturday, December 5, 2009
Yesterday, I met with @LisaBraithwaite, a local Santa Barbaran. Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. Tags: Eric Greenspan 140conf Google Voice jeff pulver santa barbara social media tech news Twitte I’ve been engaged with social networking for some time now, starting with Myspace and Facebook and just recently (within the last 30 days), Twitter. I’ve jumped on the bandwagon, big time!
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