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MAY 20, 2011

Westlake Village-based PurePhoto , the developer of an online, social commerce site to help photographers sell their photos, said today that it has launched a new, Groups feature to help its users discuss topics in photography with other users. The site is headed by John Ellis.

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APRIL 11, 2011

Westlake Village-based Zumbox , the digital postal delivery service headed by John Payne, announced this morning that it has scored a licensing deal with New Zealand Post. Zumbox is developing white label software for delivering digital mail based on street address, rather than a user's name or email address.

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JUNE 8, 2010

Westlake Village-based PurePhoto.com , a new startup headed by former NextMedium COO John Ellis, and whose exec team includes prior executives from ReachLocal, ValueClick, and YellowPages.com, said Tuesday that it has acquired the assets of Los Angeles-based PhotographyMentor , an online photography education and social networking site.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Westlake Village-based Row 44 , the developer of in-flight wireless broadband access equipment, has inked a deal to stream in-flight video on demand from Disney , Warner Bros. The deal comes just a couple of weeks after a deal announced with MLB to stream live games via the in-flight broadband service. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

Westlake Village-based ValueClick said this morning that it has launched a new Platform Services offering within its ValueClick Media division. As part of the new platform, the firm said it has named Nancy Hall as Vice President, Platform Services, the lead the new offering. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Westlake Village-based Row 44 , the developer of in-flight broadband products, said today that it has hired on Southwest Airlines vet Doug Murri. Row 44's biggest win to date has been with Southwest, where it provides its hardware to power Southwest's in-flight Wi-Fi services. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A major competitor to Westlake Village-based Row 44 , which develops Wi-Fi equipment for the commercial aviation market, has scored a big funding round this morning. Those investors include Ripplewood Holdings, Blumenstein/Thorne Information Partners and other investment entities associated with Oakleigh Thorne.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Westlake Village-based Zumbox , a startup developing a service to help companies sent electronic notices based on physical, postal addresses, reported today that it has signed on Mother Earth News as a customer.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Westlake Village-based Zumbox , which is starting up a service to deliver messages electronically based on postal addresses, said today that it has launched its service in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The firm said that the City of Minneapolis is using its service to send public notices and other municipal mail.

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DECEMBER 27, 2010

Westlake Village-based Zumbox , which is developing an electronic bill payment service, has raised an additional $9.7M in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. The firm previously raised $8.0M in funding in August of 2009.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Westlake Village-based Row 44 , the developer of in-flight broadband products, said today that it has hired on Southwest Airlines vet Doug Murri. Row 44's biggest win to date has been with Southwest, where it provides its hardware to power Southwest's in-flight Wi-Fi services. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

Westlake Village-based Zumbox , the startup developing an online mail delivery service based on street addresses, said today that it has partnered with GovDelivery , a provider of a communications platform for goverment-to-citizen communications. Financial details of the deal between the firm was not announced.

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MAY 4, 2010

Westlake Village-based Zumbox , a developer of a digital mailbox intended to replace delivery of mail by the post office, said today that it is now licensing its technology as a white label software offering. The firm said it has created a new subsidiary, Zumbox Software, Inc., READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

Westlake Village-based Specialists On Call , a firm developing a service to provide physician specialists to urban, suburban, and other hospitals via videoconferencing, has raised around $11.73M in a series of fundings, according to regulatory filings by the firm this week.

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

Westlake Village-based Row 44 , a developer of satellite-based, wireless Internet connectivity for commercial aircraft, said today that it has created a "walled-garden" portal for airlines. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

Westlake Village-based Zumbox , a developer of a system for sending electronic mail to postal addresses, announced today that it has raised $8M in a funding. Zumbox develops a service--aimed at marketers and businesses--to target individuals with electronic mailings, based on their street address, rather than their email inbox.

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JUNE 10, 2009

Westlake Village-based Zumbox , which is developing a system which allows organizations to send mail electronically, based on postal addresses, announced this morning that it has partnered withh a marketing services firm, and appointed that firm's Chairman and CEO as its own CEO. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 24, 2009

Your Software Development Partner. We are seeking a Product Marketing Manager, who plans, develops, and implements marketing programs designed to increase product penetration of commercial customers. Westlake Village. We put the "Service" back into Internet Service Provider. Startups Made Simple.

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APRIL 9, 2020

One of the companies to recently raise funding is SteadyMD (www.steadymd.com), a developer of an online telehealth service which matches up people with their own, personal doctors they can access via video, text, and phone. Guy Friedman: I'm based in Saint Louis, Missouri, and Yarone is based in Westlake Village.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

It costs anywhere from $200 to $300 a month per workstation, which is full service gross, Internet, and shared equipment and conference rooms. Alex Schneider: It all started in 2003, when the city created an economic development fund worth $5M. It was a kind of rainy day fund, available for economic development purposes.

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