Monday, October 25, 2010Laserfiche Sues SAP Over TrademarkLong Beach-based Laserfiche, a developer of enterprise content management products, said Monday afternoon that it has sued SAP America, SAP AG, and SAP Global Marketing over the trademark Run Smarter. The firm said that it has been using Run Smarter as a trademark since 2004, and that SAP has been using its trademark without permission. The firm said the lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court in Los Angeles (CV10-7843 JFW). SAP is rolling out a "Run Better", "Run Smarter" and "Run (More info...)
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MeFeedia Snags Eytan Elbaz As AdvisorBurbank-based MeFeedia, the online video guide site run by Frank Sinton, said today that it has added Eytan Elbaz to the firm's advisory board. Elbaz is one of the co-founders of Appled Semantics, the firm which developed Google AdSense. Elbaz is currently head of Deep Dive Media. MeFeedia said that the addition of Elbaz will help the firm strengthen the technology behind its video services.
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Awareness Technologies Ties With Ingram MicroLos Angeles-based Awareness Technologies, a provider of data loss prevention software, said today that it has inked a strategic marketing agreement with Ingram Micro, the technology distributor. The firm said it is working with Ingram's services division to market its On-Demand Insider Security products. Awareness Technologies' products include web filtering, employee monitoring, laptop recovery, and other products; the firm is one of the Southern California companies that just made Deloitte's T (More info...)
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Row 44 Names Lefkowitz As ExecWestlake Village-based Row 44, the developer of in-flight wireless systems, said today that it has added Howard Lefkowitz as the firm's Chief Commercial Officer. Lefkowitz was most recently CEO of Vegas.com, and also joins the company's board. Row 44 said Lefkowitz will be based in a new, Las Vegas office, and will be responsible for marketing and branding of the firm. Row 44 is providing in-flight wireless to Southwest Airlines. Lefkowitz previously served at Earthlink, Dick Clark Productions, (More info...)
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AeroVironment Completes Global Observer Flight DemonstrationMonrovia-based Aerovironment, the developer of unmanned aerial vehicles and electric transportation products, said today that the first aircraft developed under the Global Observer program has completed initial flight testing. Global Observer is a program to develop long-term flying aircraft to provide surveillance for the military; the goal is for aircraft to fly as long as a week at a time at very high elevations, between 55,000 and 65,000 feet. Aerovironment said the test consisted of multipl (More info...)
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Interview with Kevin O'Connor, FindTheBest.comKevin O'Connor is the co-founder of DoubleClick, which he took from startup to IPO on the Nasdaq in 1998, sold it to private equity firm Hellman & Friedman for around $1.2 billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 billion. After DoubleClick, Kevin eventually settled down in Santa Barbara, which is where his newest startup--FindTheBest.com (www.findthebest.com) is headquartered. We caught up with Kevin to hear what FindTheBest is all about, and why he decided to get back (More info...)
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WebVisible: Small Business Advertising Increases, But SlowlyIrvine-based WebVisible, which provides local search marketing and ad placement for small businesses, reports that its latest quarterly advertising report shows that search advertising spending by small business is increasing, but is doing so more slowly that recent quarters. The firm said that the average advertisers in its survey spend $2,327 on paid search advertising in Q3, up 43 percent over Q3 of last year. However, the growth was much slower than previously quarters. Last quarter, the fir (More info...)
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Local.com Drops LEC Billing AcquisitionsIrvine-based Local.com, the online operator of local search advertising sites, said today that it has suspended its acquisition of LEC-billed subscribers, and will focus on providing its own, credit-card local business product, Exact Match. The firm had recently been acquiring small business customers being served by LEC (Local Exchange Carrier) billing, where customers were billed for operating their web sites through their phone bill. Local.com said it will instead focus on traditional local b (More info...)
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EdgeCast Gets Into Cloud StorageSanta Monica-based EdgeCast said Friday that it has entered into the cloud storage market. EdgeCast said that it is offering up cloud-based storage using its content delivery network as a beta service, and would start offering its service and transfer fees for free during the beta. EdgeCast is an operator of a content delivery network (CDN). The company said that, after the beat, it will charge 7.5 cents per gigabyte per month for the starge service.
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