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AUGUST 9, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing empire run by Richard Rosenblatt, said Tuesday afternoon that it has acquired two companies, plus renewed a deal with Google. As part of that effort, Demand Media said its inventory will be included in the premium Google Display Network Reserve. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 22, 2012

Los Angeles-based SodaHead , the online social discussion and voting site, is one of the launch partners for the new Google Analytics Social Media features, Google said this week. Other sites providing their information include Reddit, Disqus, Delicious, and Meetup. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Venice, California-based social media app developer Snapchat has made a significant, high visibility hire, saying this week that it has hired Peter Magnusson, a former engineering director from Google, as its new Vice President of Engineering. snapchat google executive vice president engineering' READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

San Diego-based Brickfish , a developer of social media and networking software being used by brands, reported today that it has hired on a Paul Botto, most recently Head of Analytics for the North American Sales Organization at Google, as its Vice President of Sales. Brickfish is venture backed by DCM, Draper Richards L.P.,

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APRIL 6, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has extended its Pluck social media platform to mobile devices, the company said today.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Los Angeles-based Artie, a new startup developing mobile games which can be played inside social media, video, and messaging platforms, said this week that it has raised $10M in a seed funding round. The company's founders are Ryan Horrigann and Armando Kirwin.

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DECEMBER 11, 2013

Plug.dj''s social service lets people curate video and music content, sharing that with friends and others, working with a user''s Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus accounts. plugjd music video sharing venture capital content social media' The firm said it was launched in February of 2012. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 18, 2017

Wpromote said the event, in El Segundo, runs from 8am to 5pm, and will help nonprofits learn about things like paid and earned social media, boosting a charity's visibility on Google, increasing open and click through rates on email campaigns, and more.

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JANUARY 9, 2018

According to REX, the funding included investments from Scott McNealy, co-founder and former chief executive officer, Sun Microsystems; Dick Schulze, founder, Best Buy; Gordon Segal, founder, Crate and Barrel; Amit Singhal, former senior vice president of search, Google; Jack Greenberg, former chief executive officer, McDonalds; and others.

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DECEMBER 17, 2012

San Diego-based StockTwits said today that it has launched a new, app for HootSuite , the provider of software used for social media management. HootSuite allows businesses and others to run marketing campaigns across multiple social networks, and is commonly also used by people to time announcements on Twitter, for example.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

The startup said it is developing AI agents which will learn users' travel preferences via their calendars, emails, and photos, as well as their social media and in-app interactions. Section 32 is the venture capital fund led by former Google Ventures CEO and founder Bill Maris, which is also based in San Diego. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 10, 2013

Los Angeles-based technology incubator and studio Science said today that it has hired on Matt Monahan as its new Vice President of Social Media Marketing. Monahan also co-founded The Comotion Group (acquired by Sharethrough) and was also an advisor to Wildfire (acquired by Google).

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AUGUST 27, 2018

According to GoGuardian, the new software assesses the content students are creating and interacting with online via web searches, social media, chat, forums, email and online collaboration tools. Pricing on the new software was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

MSN, or Google for the social media age." CHNL's software lets users create their own "channels", incorporating content from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, and elsewhere, and share that out to their friends. CHNL is headed by John Wander. The company says its goal is to become the "Yahoo!, READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2014

In an interesting move, Saatchi Gallery , Saatchi Art , and Google+ said they are running a new prize competition to encourage the creation of "motion photography" -- better known to you and I as animated GIFs.

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JULY 28, 2015

The new product, ypPresence Starter , helps business owners share content with consumers, engage in social media, and more from a central location. YP said the tool connects into such sites as Google+, Yahoo Local, Yelp, and Facebook. The tool runs on iOS and Android.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Jon Waterman: We envision ourselves today as a marketplace outside Google and Bing. Our core competency, historically, has been in the pay-to-click space, but we've focused completely outside of Google and outside of Bing. Talk about the market, when you say you're outside Google and Bing, explain what that means?

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MARCH 5, 2013

According to MomentFeed, 7-Eleven, JCPenney, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, and The Home Depot have all selected the company's platform to power their social marketing efforts at the local level. Financial details of the wins were not disclosed.

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MARCH 12, 2015

TicketManager said that the center--which is the home of the NBA Dallas Mavericks and NHL Dallas Stars--is featuring the company''s service through a branding presence, which includes promotional giveaway nights, social media, and more. TicketManager''s service help corporate customers manage tickets to their premium suites.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Hip hop artists and rock stars, comedians, TV and film talent and Internet-born celebrities will show how they have used new social media technologies and services such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo and Google to promote their own brands and reach new audiences.

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DECEMBER 10, 2008

Hip hop artists and rock stars, comedians, TV and film talent and Internet-born celebrities will show how they have used new social media technologies and services such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo and Google to promote their own brands and reach new audiences.

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DECEMBER 9, 2008

Hip hop artists and rock stars, comedians, TV and film talent and Internet-born celebrities will show how they have used new social media technologies and services such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo and Google to promote their own brands and reach new audiences.

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JULY 21, 2011

Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0. Now, what we've entered is actually Social Media 2.0, Now, what we've entered is actually Social Media 2.0, That was in addition to the social media work I'd done.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

Patrick Ip: My background is I spent the last three years at Google, working on advertiser retention for small and medium businesses. There, I learned that there is a lot of top level churn from small businesses because Google ads cost too much. Patrick Ip: I was in San Francisco for the last five years at Google.

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

For today's Insights and Opinions article, where we feature insightful articles and opinions from the Southern California technology community, we have a piece from Dustin Luther , chief storyteller and founder of social media consultancy 4realz.net. Be linkable. or don't waste your time.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

Jordan Glazier: Wildfire has developed a platform for monetizing social messaging. When you look at social messaging, and talk about social messaging, we're talking about social media, text messaging, email, and chat applications. The ones who did leave were being poached by Google and Amazon, and moving North.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

Bourgeois is currently head of "Team FREDNET", which is developing a robotic Lunar Lander for the Google Lunar X Prize. Robertson is the outspoken founder of MP3.com, com, and also founded Linspire and Gizmo5. Senturia is CEO of Blackbird Ventures, and a notable San Diego angel investor. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. Opening Party hosted by Demand Media with KCRW at the Viceroy.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

Essentially, we help them learn how to get more with less, and also how to consider new investments in things like social media, mobile marketing, or video. We're building very advanced analytical models which look at both direct and indirect effects, so that we are able to quantify how different media interacts with each other.

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DECEMBER 26, 2012

I think we're going to see a real shakeup in how people view social media. Finally, Google. Google continues to shape our futures. Whether its through tie-ins with games or social media, I think that, along with the rise of big data, our mobile advertisement technologies are going to change in a big way.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

Cameo--worth now over $1 bihllion--is backed by Amazon, Google, UTA, and others. Represent operates e-commerce sites for celebrity clients, and counts such clients as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ed Sheeran, Jennifer Lopez, and Kendall Jenner, among many others. Represent was founded in 2014.

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AUGUST 30, 2012

and co-founder Sean Percival is a MySpace vet and a familiar face in Southern California's social media circles. We actually found them organically, through Google search. How has the transition from social media and the Internet to hard goods been for you? Wittleebee is backed by Science Inc.,

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OCTOBER 26, 2017

As more and more revelations of abuse of advertising systems at Google and Facebook by Kremlin-linked advertisers continue to surface--Venice, California-based Snapchat has managed to keep itself free of "fake news" using a secret weapon: humans. elections.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

seamlessly connect to your smartphone, PC, and streaming media services. features an interface powered by Google TV, and delivers both the web and streaming. Access your media collection, connect to the Internet, stream video from Hulu, NetFlix, YouTUbe, and more. Is your pet dog a social media maven? Sonos Play:3.

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MARCH 21, 2011

What do children's vitamins and social media have to do with one another? Gordon Gould , the co-founder of SmartPants, talks about the company and how it's applying what he learned founding ThisNext and from a long experience in the social media market to the consumer products goods area--what he describes as Brands 2.0.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

You can press a button, and it scans the social media chatter and organizes highlights aroundyou, of relevant conversations around a particular location and particular time. At Microsoft, I was part of Bing Maps, which is Microsoft''s response to Google Maps. That was a completely different view of the same problem.

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JUNE 26, 2012

YouTube was offering specific advice and active assistance on everything from program development to search visibility and social media. Their team will not only get on the phone (or a Google Hangout) with their partners, but also have several “YouTube Next” Labs scattered about the country, where partners can get hands on training.

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