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Los Angeles Sues Uber Over Background Checks, Advertising

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Los Angeles has joined with San Francisco to sue on-demand ride service Uber , alleging that the company''s background checks are "completely worthless", because the company--although it conducts background checks--does not fingerprint its drivers. angeles uber background check advertising lawsuit legal attorney'

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AWS Opens New Los Angeles Zone

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Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing service of Amazon, has launched anew Los Angeles zone, which will give local customers and companies much faster access to the AWS cloud. READ MORE>>.

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Odell Beckham Jr. turned to Mojichat’s advertising features during his inaugural live-stream

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Mojiit, the Los Angeles-based company behind the popular avatar generation service Mojichat, has landed one of its highest-profile users with the launch of Odell Beckham Jr.’s Disrespect , he turned to Mojichat to create the pop-up onscreen emote that danced above a logo from Scuf Gaming , a retailer of customized controllers.

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DataPop Launches New Semantic Advertising Product

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Los Angeles-based online advertising technology provider DataPop , the startup led by Jason Lehmbeck, announced this morning that it has launched a new semantic advertising product specifically aimed at Google Product Listing Ads (PLA). Pricing on the new platform were not announced by the company.

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MGID: Move to Los Angeles Helped Drive Record Growth

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Santa Monica-based MGID , which provides native advertising, says its move from New York to Los Angeles earlier this year helped drive "dramatic growth" at the company. MGID moved to Los Angeles in July. mgid native advertising exchange' MGID said it saw a 21.7 READ MORE>>.

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SteelHouse Names Chief Customer Officer

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Los Angeles-based SteelHouse , which develops online retargeting and advertising software, has named Rory Mitchell as Chief Customer Officer (CCO) at the company. Mitchell was previously VP of Client Success at SteelHouse, where he has been for less than a year.

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MediaAlpha Gets Funding For Insurance Advertising Technology

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Los Angeles-based MediaAlpha , a developer of performance-based, real-time bidding advertising technology specifically aimed at insurance ads, has raised a round of funding and launch of its product. which will go towards its advertising technology platform. which will go towards its advertising technology platform.