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Divshot Sets Up Shop In Los Angeles

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What would convince you to drop everything, get on a plane, and move your startup to Los Angeles? In the case of Divshot , a developer of user interface development tools for web apps, it was a chance to join Los Angeles accelerator Launchpad LA.

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Chrome River Launches New Hotel Expense Handling Feature

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Los Angeles-based Chrome River , which develops cloud-based expense and invoice automation software, has extended its software to handle hotel bills and folios, the company said today.

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Whim Takes On Instant, Mobile Dating

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A new, Los Angeles startup, Whim , has recently launched, looking to cut the time between mobile contact and a real date--saying that its app make it possible for users to find a person, and get a date the same day.

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GameSalad Unveils HTML5 Game Publishing Support

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GameSalad , the developer of Apple iPhone and iOs games which has operations in Los Angeles, Austin, and San Francisco, said today that it has added HTML5 game publishing support to its software. HTMl5 is the next-generation, HTML standard which brings a new level of interactivity to web browsers.

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How Addroid Is Hoping To Solve The Ad Industry's Flash Problem, with Matt Cooper

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One company which has been working on solving the Flash problem is Los Angeles-based Addroid (www.addroid.com). What that means, is the banner is no longer Flash, but it slcearly HTML-based, and video based. HTML will get you modern browsers, but won't work on old browsers. Where do you fit into the mobile ad market?

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How Nix Hydra's Egg Baby Cracked The Code For Female Gamers

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The company just raised a $5M funding round for its efforts, from Foundry Group and a number of angels. We''re based in Los Angeles, and make a game called Egg Baby, which so far has had more than nine million downloads, with zero marketing spend. So what finally convinced other people to invest for your first angel round?

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Interview with Rahul Sonnad, Geodelic

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A few weeks ago, Rahul Sonnad --a serial entrepreneur who is best known for founding and selling thePlatform to Comcast--alternately confused and dazzled attendees at Twiistup, the Los Angeles tech conference, with a fake-stilted-Indian-immigrant and ukulele-singing-and-dancing studded pitch for his firm, Geodelic (www.geodelic.com).