Million Dollar Ouch January 16, 2008 This is making the blog rounds today: Dreamhost, a Los Angeles-based web hosting company, accidentially overcharged its customers to the tune of $7.5M , due to a billing error. Disclaimer: this blog page–but not our main site–happens to be hosted on Dreamhost. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com. MORE >>

The firm said it reached nearly $10M in revenues in 2009, and has over 9,300 customers in 62 countries. The funding had originally been uncovered by socalTECH this morning, via a regulatory filing. Mindbody develops scheduling and business management, software-as-a-service for the wellness, health, spa, and related businesses. MORE >>

Santa Ana-based RealPractice , the developer of technology and marketing services for law firms that is headed by Carey Ransom, said this week that it has launched new website building and lead management tools for its customers. RealPractice's new version was launched in beta in November. READ MORE>>. MORE >>

The firm, which currently has 34 employees, is targeting at least 50 employees by the end of the year, Garcia told socalTECH over the weekend. The firm says that it's been seeing lots of customer and sales growth, and is hiring across the board to grow faster. The firm had only 18 employees in January of 2009. READ MORE>>. MORE >>

It's not an immediate threat for us," says JT Batson, VP of Publisher at Rubicon, who shared his thoughts on the move by Google Wednesday afternoon with socalTECH. Batson explained that the firm's customers are big publishers, who typically don't use AdSense. Does Rubicon see Google entree into the market as competition? MORE >>