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12 Articles match "San Diego","SoCalTech"
The Latest from the Southern California Tech Central Community
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
San Diego- and Los Angeles-based video sharing site veoh Networks has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, according to web site Mashable. Dmitry Shapiro, CEO of Veoh, did not respond to emails requesting comment, the PR firm listed on the firm's site said it no longer represents the company, and socalTECH was unable to reach anyone via phone at the company. Veoh had raised over $67.5M in funding from such firms as Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital, Shelter Capital Partners, Spark Capital, The Tornante Company, and Time Warner.
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Monday, February 1, 2010
20, and included responses ranging from San Diego County to San Luis Obispo County.
...Tags: Tags: survey technology executives socaltech economy jobs hirin Local technology executives seem to be optimistic going into the new year, believing the worst of the economic decline has passed, and are also looking at hiring this year, according to the latest socalTECH.com Industry Survey . The non-scientific survey was a shift from the fairly negative outlook from last year's survey.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Deloitte, which ranks these every year (disclaimer: Deloitte recently became a sponsor of socalTECH, though that has no influence in our coverage), uses the five year revenue numbers of companies to create their listing. Semiconductors — which hasn’t seen much investment in recent years, and seems to have been mostly ignored– still seems to be powering growth rates, with San Diego’s Entropic Communications at number 5 on the list. Perusing the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list for this year — the ranking of the fastest growing companies in North America , based on the last five years of revenue–it’s quite surprising to note the sheer number of Southern California firms listed.
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The Best from the Southern California Tech Central Community
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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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Monday, February 1, 2010
20, and included responses ranging from San Diego County to San Luis Obispo County.
...Tags: Tags: survey technology executives socaltech economy jobs hirin Local technology executives seem to be optimistic going into the new year, believing the worst of the economic decline has passed, and are also looking at hiring this year, according to the latest socalTECH.com Industry Survey . The non-scientific survey was a shift from the fairly negative outlook from last year's survey.
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Friday, December 12, 2008
San Diego-based DivX has cut 21 employees in a layoff Thursday, a spokesperson for the firm told socalTECH Friday, confirming widespread reports of the move Thursday. Details or reasons for the layoff were not given. The layoffs follow the loss of the company's CTO late last wee
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
A quick analysis by socalTECH of our tracking of venture capital deals in Southern California finds that there was around $879M in venture funding activity here in Q3. The information--gleaned from funding announcements, regulatory filings, and other sources--are not far off from socalTECH's totals from last quarter, which totaled up around $932M in investment activity. San Diego led investment activity The biggest are for venture activity in the quarter was Biopharmaceuticals, which was $299.13M of the quarterly total.
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Thursday, November 6, 2008
Los Angeles- and San Diego-based Veoh (www.veoh.com), an online video sharing site, has laid off 20 people, or roughly 18-20 percent of the firm's employees. spokesperson for Veoh told socalTECH that the changes affected every group in the firm, and was because the firm wanted to make smart choices early on in the game given a possible internet advertising slowdown. The firm continues to have operations A Veoh said that the firm, although doing well financially, could not predict how soft the online advertising market will become, given the economic challenges of today.
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
San Diego- and Los Angeles-based video sharing site veoh Networks has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, according to web site Mashable. Dmitry Shapiro, CEO of Veoh, did not respond to emails requesting comment, the PR firm listed on the firm's site said it no longer represents the company, and socalTECH was unable to reach anyone via phone at the company. Veoh had raised over $67.5M in funding from such firms as Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital, Shelter Capital Partners, Spark Capital, The Tornante Company, and Time Warner.
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
San Diego-based Nirvanix confirmed today that the firm has raised $5M in a new venture funding round. The funding was first covered by socalTECH M last week . According to the firm, the new round came from original investors Intel Capital, Mission Ventures, Valhalla Partners, and Windward Ventures. According to Nirvanix, the funding brings the company's total raised to over $23M.
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
According to numbers derived from socalTECH's venture database, there was $717.96M invested in Southern California in the first quarter, up from only $465M in Q4 of 2008. socalTECH tracks day-to-day venture capital activity in the Southern California region, and uses venture data disclosed by companies announcing funding; self-reported by both technology companies and venture firms; as well as regulatory filings and other sources.
However, Southern California Venture capital totals were up slightly in Q1 of this year from last quarter, to around $718M in deals, according to an analysis of socalTECH.com's proprietary venture database .
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
A recent analysis by socalTECH, of our detailed tracking of venture capital investment activity in Southern California, finds that there was around $932M in funding raised in the area in Q2, a rise from roughly $700M in Q1. in San Diego; actual investment amounts into the firm have not been confirmed by the company. Surprisingly, the numbers--based on information gleaned from funding announcements, regulatory filings, and other sources--are approximately the same as numbers in Q2 of 2008, which total around $955M, according to our own data. PwC/NVCA officialy reported $950M
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Deloitte, which ranks these every year (disclaimer: Deloitte recently became a sponsor of socalTECH, though that has no influence in our coverage), uses the five year revenue numbers of companies to create their listing. Semiconductors — which hasn’t seen much investment in recent years, and seems to have been mostly ignored– still seems to be powering growth rates, with San Diego’s Entropic Communications at number 5 on the list. Perusing the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list for this year — the ranking of the fastest growing companies in North America , based on the last five years of revenue–it’s quite surprising to note the sheer number of Southern California firms listed.
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