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Enplug: Bringing Social Media To A Display Near You

socalTECH

Culver City-based Enplug (www.enplug.com) is looking to change those one way digital displays into social, interactive content. We put our software onto computer chips, which are the size of your credit card, and we give it to customers without charge. How about if you could make those displays interactive and social?

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Interview with Eli Portnoy, ThinkNear

socalTECH

Towards the end of last month, Culver City-based ThinkNear (www.thinknear.com) announced a seed round of funding for its location-based mobile advertising service, with notable inclusion of such firms as IA Ventures, Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and others. Our only customers are merchants.

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Interview with Marc Mitchell, CEO of Lootsie

socalTECH

Culver City-based Lootsie (www.lootsie.com) has createe a product which ties together those loyalty reward programs with the advertising and marketing efforts of brands, to help both those mobile developers and marketers. One technique has been creating real life, loyalty and rewards to users for their activity.

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Changing the Face of Digital Signage: Nanxi Liu of Enplug

Tech Zulu Event

They hold a strong presence in Southern California, with locations in 30 cities. Their unique “provide value to customers first” mantra sets them apart in the digital signage industry. Eventually, the team moved into a house (which at one point supported a crew of 20 people) and are presently in an office space in Culver City.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Does advertising work in the social networking world? What are the risks and rewards?

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Changing the Face of Digital Signage: Nanxi Liu of Enplug

Tech Zulu Event

They hold a strong presence in Southern California, with locations in 30 cities. Their unique “provide value to customers first” mantra sets them apart in the digital signage industry. Eventually, the team moved into a house (which at one point supported a crew of 20 people) and are presently in an office space in Culver City.

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Holey Grail Donuts bites into $9M for Los Angeles retail expansion

TechCrunch LA

That’s particularly helpful inside the food truck where there is limited space, and enables employees to serve a large capacity of customers quicker, Nile Dreiling said. The company uses a donut robot to make and fry the dough so one person isn’t constantly sitting in front of the fryer.