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JANUARY 30, 2014

Los Angeles-based NewsCrafted , a company which provides elementary and middle schools with professionally designed, high quality newsletters -- including content, has raised $1.1M in an angel financing round, the second angel round for the company. NewsCrafted is led by David Koenig. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Los Angeles-based SodaHead , the developer of online polling services and software, has just launched a major upgrade to the company''s polling software for WordPress. The company is backed by Mohr Davidow, Mission Ventures, The Tech Coast Angels, Ron Conway, and others. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 28, 2013

Los Angeles-based advertising technology provider OpenX has launched a new product today, saying it has launched a new, real-time traffic quality monitoring system to help filter out suspicious advertising traffic for its customers. Non-human traffic, and unscrupulous publishers, are a major issue with online advertising.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Online advertising provider Real Media Group , which is part of 24/7 Media, said today that it has launched three new video formats. 24/7 Media acquired Los Angeles-based Panache in December of 2011. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 25, 2013

Fans of Los Angeles subscription razor firm Dollar Shave Club might have noticed a lot of the firm recently on television. Convertro said it has been working with Media Design Group , a direct response TV advertising agency, to help measure the efficacy of broadcast marketing.

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MAY 11, 2010

Irvine-based WebVisible , which helps small businesses place online advertising, said this morning it is in a big hiring push, and is immediately looking to hire over 75 employees across sales, IT, software engineering, and product design positions. The firm said it received more than 600 applications from that job fair.

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DECEMBER 18, 2014

Los Angeles-based Factual said Wednesday that it has rolled out two new tools, one aimed at geofencing of data, and another for audience targeting. The company said its Geopulse Proximity Designer and Geopulse Audience Builder are specifically aimed at marketers, and use its Global Places data to help target ad campaigns. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 22, 2014

For our profile today, we had a chat with Jonathan David , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Tapstone (www.tapstone.com), a company providing media buying and optimization. We spoke with Jonathan about the company and where it fits into the advertising market. That strategy seems to be quite effective for our advertisers.

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MAY 21, 2014

Los Angeles-based Boingo has signed on another sporting venue for its services, saying Wednesday that it has signed up the Atlanta Hawks Philips Arena as a new partner. The Wi-Fi will be provided for free to fans via sponsors and advertisers. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed.

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MARCH 13, 2013

Los Angeles-based Myspace has a new design, and a new brand sponsor, the first since its redesign and relaunch over the last few months. Myspace said the new brand promotion includes original content and Chevrolet advertising across Specific Media's digital network. No financial details of the sponsorship deal were announced.

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DECEMBER 10, 2015

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology developer Rubicon Project has added a new member to its board, the company said earlier this week. Coleman also sits on the boards of Immune Design, DCI LLC, and eBond Advisors. Coleman also sits on the boards of Immune Design, DCI LLC, and eBond Advisors. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 19, 2014

Los Angeles-based Wi-Fi network operator and provider Boingo Wireless said today that it has been selected by the Air Force Academy, to deploy a Wi-Fi and small cell network for the Air Force Academy''s Falcon Stadium and Cadet Field House. Boingo will also manage advertising services and sales for the venues. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 12, 2012

Los Angeles-based social game developer Scopely announced today that it has launched a new, developer program called LeveUp, which looks to help top independent game studios co-develop titles with Scopely. The firm said it will tape a small group of partners to help develop, design, distribute, scale, and monetize their mobile games.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Los Angeles-based Ad.ly , the Twitter advertising startup, is further looking to diversify its service from Twitter, saying this week that it has added support for Facebook. had added support for MySpace in June, shortly after Twitter said it would not allow other companies to automatically include advertising into Twitter.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Launchpad LA , the Los Angeles startup accelerator program which is run by Sam Teller, and was founded by venture capitalist Mark Suster, is gearing up for another class, to start next month. Interested in getting some help in getting your startup off the ground and funded? READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Los Angeles-based Slickdeals , the online coupon and deal site led by Josh Meyers, has tapped two technology veterans for its board. Prior to becoming CEO of OpenX, Cadogan was Senior Vice President of Global Advertising Marketplaces at Yahoo! Prior to Twitter, Hubbard was CEO of Live Nation Ticketing, and was CEO of Musictoday.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Last week, we ran into Deena Varshavskaya , the founder of Los Angeles-based Wanelo (www.wanelo.com), a social shopping site focused on allowing women to share and follow others as they shop online. Deena Varshavskaya: I was thinking about alternatives to advertising, because I think advertising just fails to deliver relevance.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Los Angeles-based Demand Media , the online media site run by Richard Rosenblatt, said Friday that it has updated its eHow web site, the firm's questions and answers site. Demand said that it has created a "crisp, clean" design update, and also added new content channels, a new video series, and social tools to the site. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 27, 2013

Los Angeles-based Myspace has a new design, new owner, and is hoping for some new users with its brand new, music-focused, user interface--and says that so far, the response is good. Myspace has been on a quest to win back mind share and users, after it was acquired by Specific Media almost exactly two years ago.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2018

Last week, the Los Angeles-based startup led by Trevor McFedries , outed itself as the collective consciousness behind the virtual celebrity Lil Miquela and her less well known contemporaries Blawko22 and BermudaisBae in a choreographed melodrama worthy of Los Angeles’ best reality television. It worked. .

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project said this morning that it has snagged a Google veteran, as its new Chief Product & Engineering Officer. Kershaw will be based in Los Angeles. Kershaw also has previously worked at Ericsson/Telcordia, VeriSign, Clarent Corporation, Unisys, and SS8 Networks. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Jace Hall is the President and founder of HDFILMS INC.

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JUNE 5, 2012

Allison Beal and Brian Garrett are trying to figure that out with their new, Los Angeles startup, StyleSaint (www.stylesaint.com). We will design and manufacture an apparel brand based on the inspiration of collective editors. Allison Beal: I've been in fashion design and manufacturing for about nine years.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Created by founder Toby Daniels , Social Media Week Los Angeles will focus this series of discussions around the theme of “Empowering Change Through Collaboration.” Monday: Los Angeles – The Social City. Why Los Angeles Is The Next Silicon Valley. A City of Angels: How Social Media is Bringing LA Closer to Utopia.

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DECEMBER 19, 2008

The Los Angeles-based advertising network said Talisman will direct its in-house creative team and, as such, will oversee the development of original creative that yields the highest-possible conversion results. He has also managed advertising campaigns for Boeing, Cathay Pacific, AltaVista and Shell. READ MORE>>

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

Los Angeles-based FastPay announced today that it has acquired AnchorOps , a developer of electronic payment solutions for media buyers. The two said AnchorOps' payment solutions were exclusively designed for media industry. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

gallery ids="1706929,1706930,1706927,1706928,1706931"] The app is designed to take the relationship beyond videos and encourage a more interactive experience. Creators take a 60 percent cut of all revenue with the remainder going to Binary Bubbles, the Los Angeles-based startup behind the service.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Los Angeles-based Sometrics said Monday that the firm has officially launched a new product, Social Ad Manager, which the firm says is designed to help developers and social networking sites optimize their advertising inventory.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Shani Higgins joined Technorati in 2007 to lead strategy and day to day operations for the company¹s advertising sales, business development and the Technorati Media advertising network. Jace Hall is the President and founder of HDFILMS INC.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The Internet thus far has been monetized by display, video, and in-text advertising — but the one place every user’s eye focuses on first are photos. GumGum is led by founder and Los Angeles native wunderkind, Ophir Tanz. Photos…the final frontier. He began programming courses at UCLA while in high school and went on to earn a B.S.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. Yarnell Design (www.masonyarnell.com/tech). Brilliant web and iPhone app design. Advertisers. Advertisers. Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch - February 24th - UCLA. Fast Pitch Los Angeles is one of the best start up networking events of the year.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Raised angel money from Rob Lord, Reid Hoffman, Benchmark Capital and others. But we had a great chance to talk about the recent moves that Twitter has made to “plug holes” and changing its “TOS” on advertising. Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Here’s this week’s outline: INTRO to FARB NIVI. Total round was $2.5

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

We did a lot of testing before we actually started designing and building Bingie, including running surveys, and started with kids as young as fourteen and people as old as 70. We're startng with advertising, but we want to do a really good job and not have things look like NASCAR. Who is the target audience for the app?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2016

As a startup advisor and aspiring angel investor, I’ve long been wary of startups trying to create new markets out of problems people didn’t know they have, or problems generally accepted as unsolvable. Overtly design the ecosystem as well as product. Uber and Airbnb did the same for transportation and hospitality.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Who are the top tech companies to work for in Los Angeles? popped up consistently in an informal (and highly non-scientific poll) of a number of readers, executive recruiters, and others in the Los Angeles area, who cited growth, brand, profitability, and other factors in their suggestions to us of the top companies. Rubicon Project.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

Design a product or service that you can sell. Yet it took almost six years to become profitable, with revenue only from advertising. What most people don’t realize is that the total outside funding to get it there has been estimated at over $800 million, which is a bit more than you will get from any angel investor.

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JUNE 16, 2009

Santa Monica-based Tsavo , the online media company which owns Manolith, Twirlit, Kidglue, and Nibbledish, has lost its Vice President of Product and Design, Mike Macadaan. Macadaan is well known in the Los Angeles technology community for creating and running Twiistup, the popular Los Angeles technology networking and startup showcase event.

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