Tech.Co

JULY 25, 2017

They played music, allowed us to text, and the very pioneering apps tracked our daily step count and sent us news alerts. That all changed with social media , and now everyone is glued to their phone’s screen. On-demand companies broke into the national consciousness as much as a cultural phenomenon as a commercial one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2020

If your business is to be a thought leader in the social media world, you need a system of grading how much influence you have online, much like the original Klout score, as explained in the classic book on this subject, “ Klout Matters ,” by Gina Carr and Terry Brock. Allocate some time to spend on social media. Build a team.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Mining that same well of a demand for whodunnits, a roughly one-year-old Los Angeles-based startup called Solve has raised $20 million in financing to update the genre for a new generation of media consumers. All of the major internet-age media companies had their own mobile strategies. ”

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socalTECH

APRIL 19, 2010

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the publishing and social media firm run by Richard Rosenblatt, announced today that it has appointed Peter Guber , chairman of Mandalay Entertainment Group, and Josh James , SVP and GM of Omniture, to its board of directors. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

Image via Pixabay After a frustrating meeting with a small business client recently who didn’t “have time” for social media, I was surprised to find evidence on the Internet that up to one quarter of small business owners are still hesitant to invest time, money, and effort into a social media strategy.

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Tech.Co

JULY 13, 2023

Initially pinned as a generative AI startup for Twitter when it first hit the headlines back in April, the xAI website seems to suggest that the new startup will remain separate from the social media platform, as well as Musk's collection of other technology companies. The post What Is xAI?

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2016

Los Angeles-based Render Media (www.rndr.com), which is creating a publisher geared at the social world, social channels, and sharing. We caught up with co-founder and CEO Vic Belonogoff to learn more about Render Media, whose flagship site is Opposing Views. Tell us about Render Media? Demand Media made a business out of that.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Most of these startups spend the lion’s share of their marketing budget in today’s social media channels: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Snap, TikTok and so on because?—?no eCommerce for example grew 39% just last year - so there’s simply more demand. no surprise?—?that’s that’s where the customers are.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

Los Angeles-based Jukin Media (www.jukinmedia.com) thinks it has figured that out, and instead of trying to create viral videos, has been buying up the rights to those videos--before they really go viral--to create not just a one-hit, viral video wonder, but a sustainable business. What is Jukin Media?

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

Southern California is already establishing a reputation as the home of one of the biggest online publishers, Demand Media. Like Demand Media -- but perhaps more so -- Breitbart.com is also under fire from "mainstream" journalists, who have decried the site's news tactics in multiple political scandals.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Los Angeles-based MySpace has been among the most visible of Southern California's Internet era success stories, although the site--now owned by News Corporation--has had its own share of ups-and-downs, as well as questions about its future. Here are four startups of them, and what they're doing: Demand Media. Let us know!

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media. Check for positive or negative news articles, press releases, relationships, and support of community organizations. Another approach is to ask the investor for references, where their involvement has made a real difference, leading to success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2023

If your business is to be a thought leader in the social media world, you need a system of grading how much influence you have online, much like the original Klout score, as explained in the classic book on this subject, “ Klout Matters ,” by Gina Carr and Terry Brock. Allocate some time to spend on social media. Build a team.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2012

In what can only be good news for the ecosystem of content providers and startup firms here in Southern California, Google's YouTube said Sunday that it is expanding into Europe, and adding more than 50 original channels to the 100 it introduced last year. READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Verifying Looking for regular tech news straight to your inbox? RunwayML Runway is an applied AI tool artists can use to create AI-generated media, like video, audio and text. And with direct traffic making up 71% of Caledly’s total traffic, demand for the scheduling tool is likely to remain strong into 2024.

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socalTECH

JULY 25, 2011

Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.COM , the health and wellness site run by Demand Media, is trumpeting two pieces of app news today.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

A Santa Monica-based domain venture, Plan Bee LLC , has selected domain name auction site NameJet--a joint venture of Santa Monica-based Demand Media and Web.com--along with domain marketplace AfterNic--to power initial distribution for its new top level domain,BUILD.

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2010

Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.COM , the online health and fitness site run by Demand Media in a partnership with Lance Armstrong, said today that it has partnered with RadioShack Corporation for an iPhone app. Financial arrangements between LIVESTRONG and RadioShack were not released. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2022

Make navigation simple and consistent, with abundant online help The good news is that, if your company does it right, it might be another Amazon. Young people naively enter their pictures and personal data for fun on social networking sites, ignoring constant feedback from the media that these are bad practices.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 23, 2020

The news is significant because this is the first major music licensing deal signed by TikTok as part of its wider efforts in the music industry. “We are seeing a new generation of music services and a new era of music-related consumption, much of it driven by the global demand for independent music.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

This morning, Pasadena-based Perfect Market (www.perfectmarket.com) announced a new, $9M round of funding for the firm's technology, which is used to help publishers monetize their content. When you see a story from the LA Times, you know there is a certain level of quality, and that it's written by a news publication you know about.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Drop-off on the first page of an application is bad news. An empty textbox, demanding to be filled with a concise, compelling summary to impress potential employers is daunting. This isn’t just our opinion - our startup metrics prove it! Even with the pop-up suggestions, we saw significant drop-off during user onboarding.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2011

Santa Monica-based Mahalo , the online human-curated news and search site headed by Jason Calacanis, has cut 10 percent of its staff, according to reports. According to a report by CenterNetworks, the changes were a reaction to the search algorithm and quality changes made by Google last week. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2020

Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media. Check for positive or negative news articles, press releases, relationships, and support of community organizations. Another approach is to ask the investor for references, where their involvement has made a real difference, leading to success.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The good news: We received over 700 nominations for the awards , where we''ll be identifying the top new entrepreneurs, innovators, and others in the technology industry. The bad news? We also have a long list of community partners (which we will list soon), who are also helping to support the event.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. We spoke with Jennifer about what HitFix is looking to do, her own background, and how HitFix is different from the many celebrity gossip and news sites out there.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Tags: Social News TechZulu Law Video AOL Art Neill Bing Blogs BlogWorld BlogWorld Expo 2010 Christina Gagnier Copyright Creative Commons Demand Media Facebook Farhad Mohit FTC Guides Internet JD Lasica Lisa Borodkin Mozilla New Media Rights Startups TechZulu Live TZ Law Yahoo.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

The only good news for investors: at least theyre not in the territory of Demand Media, which now trades about 70 percent below its first day of trading back in January. As Blodget expected, insiders were indeed the big winners. Investors who bought at the peak that opening day are now down about 20 percent since then.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 18, 2019

This enabled many aspects of the dark side to emerge (fraud, invasion of privacy, fake news, denial of service, etc.). The decline began in the early 1990s when spam first appeared at the same time there was an intensifying drive to monetize the Internet as it reached deeply into the world of the consumer.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

It's the source for keeping a pulse on the dynamic world of technology, reaching venture capitalists, angel investors, entrepreneurs, CEOs, social media. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. PRTechConnect (www.prtechconnect.com)  You've Got News, Now Get Heard. to San Diego. audience, please contact us to.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

What was the biggest news for your company in 2018? The biggest news was the continued bullish market now coming on ten years even though historical cycles show markets don't usually last more than 7-8 years. On Demand). I am answering this as the exec chairman of HelloTech and a venture partner at Amplify.LA

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socalTECH

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.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 28, 2022

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Finally, we started talking about the event on our radio show, Tech News, powered by Make It Work who is a co-sponsor now. Through the use of social networking, we have sold out all 150 spots available for this event two weeks before the date and recently added another 50 to accommodate the demand. We are expecting a full house!

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Santa Monica-based Mahalo, the high profile startup headed by Jason Calacanis, has launched a new questions and answers site it is calling Mahalo Answers. The new service is similar to offerings from Yahoo with its Yahoo Answers service, Los Angeles-based Sodahead , and Demand Media's Answerbag Q&A service. READ MORE>>

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socalTECH

MAY 16, 2017

Santa Monica-based Cuteness.com has recruited two comedians, Allegra Ringo and Renee Colvert, to run a new weekly podcast for pet lovers on the site, the site said on Monday. The podcast is the first for Cuteness, which already publishes online articles on pets, ranging from health and training tips to funny pet stories.

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Tips Santa Monica Training News 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2019

Make navigation simple and consistent, with abundant online help The good news is that, if your company does it right, it might be another Amazon. Young people naively enter their pictures and personal data for fun on social networking sites, ignoring constant feedback from the media that these are bad practices.

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