Los Angeles-based Internet Brands reported its results Thursday, saying that the firm saw record revenues in Q2. According to Internet Brands, it had net income of $4.6M on $28.1M in revenues, up from $2.5M in net income on revenues of $23.2M in Q2 of 2009. Revenues were up by 21 percent from the prior year, driven by increases in internet advertising revenues. The firm said it saw growth in its Auto Enthusiast, Home, Travel and Legal verticals, but saw a $1....Continue →
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- Friday, July 30, 2010
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- Friday, July 30, 2010
Irvine Firm Goes On Patent Offensive
Irvine-based Uniloc USA, a firm which develops anti-fraud technology based on physical device recognition, said this morning that it has filed a patent infringement suit against Sony America, McAfee, Activision, Quark, Aspyr Media, and Borland Software. According to the firm, it has filed suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division over unauthorized use of its anti-piracy product activation method and system....Continue →
- Friday, July 30, 2010
RealD Powers Starplex Cinemas

Beverly Hills-based 3D movie projection equipment provider RealD is supplying discount theater chain Starplex Cinemas with its equipment, according to Starplex. According to Starplex, it has plans to add Real D 3D capability to its discount theaters, beginning with locations in California, Mesquite, Texas, and Irving, Texas. Financial impact of the deal was not disclosed....Continue →
- Friday, July 30, 2010
Interview with Jeffrey Stibel, Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.
Thursday afternoon, Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp., a new firm built on assets spun out of Dun & Bradstreet, announced that it had raised $100M in funding from Great Hill Capital. Little noticed by most, the new firm is headed by Jeffrey Stibel, who is involved in such firms as Edgecast, Autobytel, The Search Agency, was CEO of Web.com, and had served as GM at United Online....Continue →
- Friday, July 30, 2010
Derycz Scientific Gets $3M Line of Credit
Santa Monica-based Derycz Scientific, which operates Reprints Desk and Pools Press, provider of reprints for such things as medical and technical journals, said Thursday that it has received a $3M, revolving line of credit from Silicon Valley Bank. The firm said the funding will go towards managing and growing its business. Derycz Scientific is publicly traded OTC as DYSC.Continue →
- Friday, July 30, 2010
SYSPRO Wins Startup Customer

Costa Mesa-based SYSPRO, a developer of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, reported this week that it has signed up medical device startup NeoTract as a customer. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. SYSPRO said that NeoTract will use its ERP software to manage its financial, manufacturing, and distribution operations.Continue →
- Thursday, July 29, 2010
X Prize Foundation Puts Up $1.4M Prize For Oil Cleanup Invention

The X PRIZE Foundation has detailed the plans for a new competition to develop technology to clean up crude oil, on the heels of the environmental disaster caused by BP's oil spill in the Gulf. The foundation said Thursday that it is launching a new, $1.4M award--the Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Challenge--which will award the prize to the top team which creates technology to efficiently and rapidly clean up oil on the ocean surface....Continue →
- Thursday, July 29, 2010
Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp., Led By Jeffrey Stibel, Gets $100M
Los Angeles-based Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp., a new firm headed by Jeffrey M. Stibel, the former CEO of Web.com and former GM at United Online, said Thursday afternoon that it has secured $100M in financing from Great Hill Partners. The firm said it has also acquired the North American Credit-on-Self division of D&B (NYSE: DNB), in a deal worth approximately $100M. The firm said that Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp....Continue →
- Thursday, July 29, 2010
Quest Software Buys Surgient

Aliso Viejo-based enterprise software maker Quest Software announced Thursday afternoon that it has acquired Surgient, a developer of private cloud automation software. Financial terms of the buy wer enot disclosed. Surgient is based in Austin, Texas, and is privately held. Quest said that the buy will give its access to a platform to quickly implement private cloud infrastructure. Quest says that Surgient has more than 60 customers with 160 successful deployments....Continue →
- Thursday, July 29, 2010
Four Sites To Add Adventure To Your Summer Travel Plans
Planning out the rest of your summer travel plans? Hoping to get out of the office before the summer is over? Trying to figure out what/where you will go in August? We've dug through our database of high tech companies, web sites, and startups and found four Southern California companies and web sites looking to cater to that adventure traveler in you....Continue →
- Thursday, July 29, 2010
Invested.in Powers Business Education Fundraising Site

Los Angeles-based Invested.in, the online fundraising site run by Alon Goren, is powering a new effort to help educators raise money for educational programs from the BizWorld Foundation. According to The BizWorld Foundation and Invested.in, the two are partnering on a fully customized fundraising portal, which will help educators raise money to purchase BizWorld's educational programs for their classroom....Continue →
- Thursday, July 29, 2010
Insights and Opinions: Where are the Social Media IPOs?

For today's Insights and Opinions piece, we have an article from Michael Terpin of SocialRadius, who asks: Where are all the social media IPOs?....Continue →
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