socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.COM , the online health and fitness site run by Demand Media for Lance Armstrong, reported today that its new site for Team RadioShack, the professional cycling team of Armstrong, has grown to one million visitors in just seven days. READ MORE>>.

Sites 140

Sites Report Santa Monica Demand 140

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Last month, Santa Monica-based ThisNext announced that it was acquiring Stylehive, an online site focused on fashion and beauty. For additional verticals, we'll expand that through additional acquisition or through organic sites launched internally. What verticals are you thinking about?

Content 165

Content Demand Sites Media 165

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

-Search leverages selective filtering via XMPP versus site indexing; only real-time search player to do so. Founded in November 2008 by Jack Moffitt and Patrick Mahoney; CEO is Gerry Campbell (ex-AOL, ex-Reuters/OpenCalais). Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. A demand side advertising platform which allows advertisers to bid on individual ad impressions in real time, based on the site and who would see it. Current round: $4.

Zag 248

Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

The narrow, 3-mile strip of land that runs from Santa Monica through Venice, and is now stretching down to Playa Vista, has been dubbed "Silicon Beach" due to the heavy concentration of Internet companies and executives there. with her husband, Douglas, a former Google chief information officer, in late 2008.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44