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asterRIDE Launches Ride Service In LA

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Los Angeles--which already has a long list of smartphone driven, ride summoning services like Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar--can add another one to ths list, AsterRIDE. Los Angeles--which already has a long list of smartphone driven, ride summoning services like Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar--can add another one to ths list, AsterRIDE.

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Delivery.com Expands Into Los Angeles

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The New York company said it will provide its delivery services in such areas as Central Los Angeles, Hollywood, and Beverly Hills. Delivery.com's service lets users search for nearby restaurants, and browse prices and menus of items for delivery. READ MORE>>.

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BeautyMint Goes Live

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BeautyMint , the celebrity skincare service started by Jessica Simpson and BeachMint , the e-commerce meets celebrity startup headed by Josh Berman and Diego Berdakin, has gone live, and started taking signups this morning.

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Mike Jones On Science Inc.'s First Firms

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We realized that one problem with event venues, is that each city has a wedding website, but no one can actually determine pricing and availability of those venues. Knowing what it costs to run special events for parties and weddings, that's an incredible price. Right now, it's a LA-based service only.

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Wrapal: Creating A Marketplace For Film Locations

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How would someone typically use your service? We're facilitating connections, and we let both parties interact, and negotiate their own prices, the days they want to shoot, and insurance requirements. With a film shoot, they pay tens times the price, and they reset everything to original condition, and it's covered by insurance.

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Interview with Bruce Nash, OpusData

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Last month, Beverly Hills-based Nash Information Services , the firm behind The Numbers --one of the most extensive database of financial information about movies--announced a new service which allows third party software applications and websites to pull information from the firm's database, via OpusData (www.opusdata.com).

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Interview with Adam Wicks Walker, Hydra

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Publishers run with Hydra because we've eliminated the risk and so forth in pricing. How much of your business is technology versus service? It's really a high touch service. Hydra's service is very high touch, end-to-end, so an advertiser doesn't have to do any campaign management. It's a whole different thing.