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OCTOBER 3, 2014

In Los Angeles, it seems like everyone has either a script or a startup idea in their back pocket. This is an interesting combination of media and online website, can you talk about the strategy there? However, until recently, the two rarely intersected. We started brainstorming about this a year ago, and just launched yesterday.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

office in Los Angeles, as part of an "aggressive" North American expansion effort by the company. Evvnt develops a software platform which helps event organizers manage and promote events across event listing sites, calendars, directories, ticketing, social networks and search engines. client, The Bakersfield Californian.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Los Angeles-based Demand Media reported today that its Pluck product is being used by the NBA's Chicago Bulls, for a online community and social networking site. Tags: demand media pluck chicago bulls bullsconnect basketball. No details on the financial impact of the win were disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 31, 2014

Los Angeles-based HashAtIt said Thursday that it has launched a brand new search engine, which aggregates and allows users to find hashtags across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest. The search engine revolves around hashtag "boards" which can be embedded into other sites or social networking pages. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Solve Media is that. In the early days of the Internet as an advertising medium the industry organized to create “standard ad units&# for which most media companies would sell their inventory. So the debate in the print media world is whether or not to insert a paywall between users and content. But is there a better way?

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APRIL 29, 2009

Los Angeles-based CrownPeak has set its sights on the social media space, saying this morning that it has launched a new product which publishes content into social networking sites such as Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook. Tags: crownpeak social media publishing facebook software saas.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Users will first pick from a range of templates, be it a theme for a shopping site or a trip to Japan. Co-founder and CEO Josh Xu met his co-founder and CFO Liang Wang, a veteran of ByteDance and the music social network Smule, when the two were studying at Carnegie Mellon University. “We are doing what Jasper and Copy.ai

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Atomkeep , an online service to help users synchronize their social media profiles across a number of social networking sites, has been acquired by Jobscience , a developer of social relationship management software tools. Atomkeep was founded in Los Angeles by Olexiy Prokhorenko and Olexandr Prokhorenko.

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MAY 10, 2013

Four years ago, Los Angeles-based Adly (www.adly.com) launched to much fanfare as one of the first local startups to tie into the brand-new, Twitter micro messaging platform. We''re the leading social advertising platform that leverages celebrity relationships. What is Ad.ly''s business now? It''s not completely self-serve.

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JULY 16, 2012

With the proliferation of social media, how do you--as a brand--manage all of those various websites, content, and media? Los Angeles-based Fliptu (www.fliptu.com), headed by Jeremy Gocke , thinks it has this figured out, by providing a central place to access a brand's content, across social networks.

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OCTOBER 20, 2009

Based on a question I posted in LinkedIn, Serena Ehrlich posted How to Use Social Media to Find Prospects. and provides the following list of suggestions for ways to use social media to build a reputation and to reach prospects. To make life easier to update your status, especially across multiple sites, use Ping.fm.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Last Week, Calabasas-based Masher Media announced it had received a round of angel funding from the Tech Coast Angels to fund its development of MyMiniPeeps (www.myminipeeps.com), a virtual world for children. They're looking for deeper social networking, and more of a gaming element on sites.

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APRIL 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Lunch.com , the online social media and networking site run by J.R. Johnson, is targeting orphaned users of the Ning social networking service, the firm said this week. Tags: virtualtourist users orphan media social online ning lunch.com. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 16, 2010

Los Angeles-based MySpace , the online social networking site, said today that it has named Rosabel Tao as its Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications. Tao was most recently running her own consulting practice, serving clients such as Current Media, PopSugar Media, Spot Runner and REVShare.

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JULY 6, 2010

Los Angeles-based Lunch.com , the social media and networking site run by former VirtualTourist.com founder J.R. Johnson, said today that it has launched a new social game badge feature on the site. Tags: lunch social networking similarity media network badge foursquare.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Los Angeles-based Lunch.com , the online social media and networking site run by J.R. Johnson, told its users today that it has unveiled a new, personal RSS feed feature to the site. According to Lunch.com, the new feed can be added to blogs, personal sites, or elsewhere to help users promote their content.

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AUGUST 29, 2019

Los Angeles-based venture investor March Capital Partners is the lead investor in a new, Series A $4M funding round for a new, video game developer called Knock Knock Games , according to the company on Thursday. Knock Knock develops "chat" games, which run on social media sites and through chat platforms, which it calls "chat-native" games.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

Meanwhile, new venture-backed companies like the superstealthy Shadows, SuperPlastic and Toonstar are all developing virtual characters that will launch via social media channels like Snap and Instagram, or on their own platforms. ” Los Angeles-based Brud is by far the most established of this new breed in the U.S. (at

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JUNE 6, 2011

Los Angeles-based TopSpin Media has inked a deal with Facebook music page application provider RootMusic , to offer up an e-commerce app for musicians on the popular social networking site. According to the two, the deal will allow artists to sell downloads, merchandise, and tickets directly from Facebook.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2021

In startup business plans, a bubble is too many entrepreneurs and too many investors chasing the latest “next big thing,” like Google search engine, Facebook social network, or Amazon e-commerce site. Social media darling Twitter is an example of these bubbles. High valuation, low profit.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace said late Wednesday that CEO Owen Van Natta is stepping down from his position, and will be replaced by co-presidents Mike Jones and Jason Hirschorn. Hirschorn was most recently president of Sling Media , and also had served as Chief Digital Officer at MTV Networks.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Los Angeles-based JuiceCaster, a provider of a mobile social networking application, said Wednesday that the firm has inked a deal with Photobucket, the online photo sharing site owned by Fox Interactive Media. JuiceCaster said that Photobucket will also be a featured channel on its flash player. READ MORE>>

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MAY 27, 2010

For this morning's interview, we have an interview with Kieve Huffman , the co-founder of Dather (www.dather.com), a new Los Angeles startup which has created a tool which helps to aggregate social networking web sites and media. What is Dather? Kieve Huffman: Dather is an event-based, multimedia timeline.

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AUGUST 7, 2009

Los Angeles-based ShopIt , which develops online, e-commerce software which allows people to buy and sell products through social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, has been acquired by Altrinsic. Tags: media ecommerce networking social altrinsic shopit. in a Series B in October.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace , and Katalyst Media, the content production firm co-founded by Ashton Kutcher, said Thursday that MySpace will promote and syndicate the second season of Katalyst's "Blah Girls" title. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 1, 2018

Peter Thiel’s vague idea to do something about Gawker, the site that had outed him as gay in 2007, was concretized into conspiracy on April 6, 2011. This is an excerpt from Ryan Holiday’s new book Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue, available now. It began unremarkably, when Thiel traveled […].

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JULY 7, 2010

Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. com, and was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA.

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DECEMBER 4, 2008

Los Angeles-based ClipBlast, a developer of video search tools and software, said Wednesday that KickApps will integrate the firm's video search products into its platform. KickApps develops social media applications used by brands and companies to create their own social networking and community web sites.

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MARCH 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace announced Monday that it is supporting a pair of Microsoft technologies: Microsoft Windows Mobile and Microsoft Silverlight. Financial details behind the deal were not disclosed. Financial details behind the deal were not disclosed.

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JULY 18, 2012

One way is to create your own, custom video clip which you can share via email, text message, or through a social networking site like Facebook. Los Angeles-based SnapCuts (www.snapcuts.com) does just that, allow users to tap into a wide collection of clips, which can be re-mixed, combined with text, and sent to your friends.

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DECEMBER 15, 2008

Los Angeles-based Sometrics, the venture backed developer of analytics products for the social networking and social media industry, has launched another product, the firm announced this morning. The firm said the new product will manage virtual currency from Super Rewards, Offerpal, and SocialMedia Networks.

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AUGUST 10, 2009

Our interview this morning is with Babette Pepaj , CEO and founder of BakeSpace (www.bakespace.com), a local Los Angeles startup focused on social networking around food. We caught up with Babette to get the story behind the site, and how the site helped her escape from the world of reality television.

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MARCH 24, 2009

Los Angeles-based social networking web site MySpace said Tuesday afternoon that it has named three executives for the firm's music community, MySpace Music. Music / Launch Media and at MTV Networks Online; and Taylor was most recently Senior Vice President, Office of the Chairman and CEO of Warner/Chappell Music Inc.

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JANUARY 7, 2009

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace said Wednesday afternoon that the firm has launched a new offering which will allow users to link to the site while watching TV. Intel's Media Processor CE 3100 systems-on-a-chip are being used to connect the TVs to the service. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 19, 2008

Today's interview with with Rajeev Kapur , Chairman and Chief Wala, Greenwala (www.greenwala.com), a recently launched social networking site focused on green/sustainable topics. I felt that a social networking media company was the best place to be, because I wanted to learn form other people, not companies.

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JUNE 18, 2009

Our interview today is with Santa Monica-based OneCubicle (www.onecubicle.com), a new startup we ran across recently, which is looking to provide a more professional social networking site for younger people. Why did you decide to start yet another social networking site?

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Los Angeles-based Uber, the online social networking web site run by former Friendster CEO Scott Sassa, has shut down. According to the firm's web site, as of September 29, the firm's investors have decided to stop supporting the site, and the company has closed its doors. READ MORE>>

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