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Whole Foods Customers In Sherman Oaks To Pilot Amazon Technology

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Customers of the Whole Foods Market in Sherman Oaks will soon get a new option for purchases: they will be able to "just walk out" the door and have their grocery purchases automatically charged based on computer vision and other sensors. According to Amazon, two stores--one in Washington D.C.,

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Serviz Acquired By Porch

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Sherman Oaks-based Serviz , the on-demand home services company founded by serial entrepreneurs Zorik Gordon and Michael Kline, has been acquired by Porch , another online marketplace for home services. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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HubHaus $1.4M To Match Professionals With Shared Housing In LA

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in a seed funding round, the company disclosed this week. The company currently offers up its service only in San Francisco and Los Angeles. HubHaus--which shows locations right now in Studio City, Sherman Oaks, Glendale, and Pasadena--matches up applicants for its houses with others with similar professions and personal interests.

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RingDNA Gets $650K For Real Time Sales Info

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Sherman Oaks-based RingDNA , a provider of mobile tools to provide real-time CRM data, social media streams and behavioral marketing information to salespeople, has raised $650,000 in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. No details of the funding have yet been announced by the company. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Monica Tech Community Grows, As Another Tech Law Firm Sets Up Shop

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High tech startups--and the service providers who serve the industry--are continuing to cluster along Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade, as Stubbs, Alderton & Markiles LLP , one of the Los Angeles legal firms focused on the high tech market, announced a grand opening date for a new office on the 3rd Street Promenade. READ MORE>>.

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Advertise.com Plans Hiring Boost

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Don't tell that to Sherman Oaks-based Advertise.com , the online advertising network run by Daniel Yomtobian. Advertise.com said it recently move dinto new office space, as part of that plan for growth, across technology, sales, and marketing departments. The company cited eMarketer forecasts of 20.2 Lousy economy?

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Schaaf Consulting Buys PartnerCentric

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Sherman Oaks-based Schaaf Consulting , a firm that manages affiliate programs for online retailers, has acquired PartnerCentric , an internet marketing firm, the two said last week. The new company will be headed by Brook Schaaf, who was previously the Afiliate Program Manager for Zappos.com, Shoes.com and Edmunds.com.