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DECEMBER 17, 2012

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. HootSuite also connects into social networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+. StockTwits is lead by Howard Lindzon.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Nimble's web-based software lets users track all of their interaction with a customer or client, including emails, social networking activity, phone calls, and more. The firm has been looking to bring contact management into the web-based, social age with its software.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2013

According to Nimble, the new update provides significant updates to the software, and also includes widgets which integrate the software with Google Gmail, Microsoft Outlook, and HootSuite. The new software also includes features to remind users to stay in touch with certain people.

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DECEMBER 5, 2011

MovieGoer provides information, social networking, and other information about movies at local theaters, allowing users to get showtimes, see what movies your friends are watching, access trailers, record movie reviews, and more. The company is backed by Google Ventures, Advancit Capital, 500 Startups, and angel investors.

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OCTOBER 28, 2011

Taking a chapter out of the popularity of sites like Chatroulette in connecting up strangers with one another, Los Angeles-based Anybeat , the alternative social networking site run by Dmitri Shapiro, said Friday that it has rolled out a new feature called "Interest Roulette". READ MORE>>.

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MAY 19, 2010

Los Angeles-based social networking service MySpace is looking to attract mobile developers, saying today that it has released a new SDK which will allow developers to integrate the site into mobile applications. Tags: myspace mobile development developer software android google apple iphone. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

Los Angeles-based social networking site is looking to court developers with the launch of a development contest, the MySpace Developer Challenge , the firm said recently. Judges on the contest include Mike Jones, COO of MySpace; angel investor Ron Conway; Google's David Glazer; and blogger Robert Scoble. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 9, 2010

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace reported Tuesday that the firm is now the top, social application on the Android platform, and is the third most popular downloaded application overall on the Android Market. Tags: myspace android market mobile google. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 7, 2011

With the proliferation of social networks, communications clients and VoIP phone services, users often find they need to use multiple ways--Twitter, Facebook, phone, FAX, and more--to communicate with their contacts. Why would your users want to manage all of their communications, social networking, and so forth in one place?

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MARCH 25, 2010

Los Angeles-based Taltopia , an angel backed, online social networking site focused on Hollywood, said today that it has launched both Apple iPhone and Google Android applications. In related news, the firm said it now has over 400,000 registered members on the site, and is getting around 30,000 new members per month.

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JUNE 20, 2012

The firm--which did not disclose any actual revenue numbers--develops a cloud-based product which helps users track their business contacts, including emails, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Google+, and other social service. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Santa Barbara-based introNetworks, a developer of social networking software for connecting trade show attendees and organizations, has released an update to the firm's software. The new feature maps out members of a social network on a browseable world map, with additional information about members shown via a pop up box.

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JULY 7, 2010

They've acquired CAPTCHA security tools originally developed by Vidoop, and looking to market that technology to e-commerce web sites, social networking sites, and others looking to reduce spam and fraud. The firm has backing from such investors as Google Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, and OReilly AlphaTech Ventures.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

Facebook became so dominant in social, not even Google could touch them. Yet a tiny 13 person company called Instagram, leveraged the massive growth of mobile to create a new social network. Analyzing massive quantities of data used to be something only Google did.

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace , in a bid to connect with the "real-time" web, said early this morning at the LeWeb conference that it has launched a new, real-time API. As part of the launch of the new API, the firm said Google, GroovyCorp, and OneRiot have already started using the API. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 21, 2011

Instead, they are using Outlook's address book, and Google contacts to communicate. The problem is that they don't live in those CRM tools like they do in Outlook, or on social sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter. That is relationship nirvana, my vision of social business. That's a problem. Everything is in one place.

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OCTOBER 21, 2008

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace said today that the firm has launched an application for Google's Android mobile operating system. According to MySpace, its new MySpace Mobile experience is available via Android Market, and allows MySpace users to access the firm's mobile web site.

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MAY 15, 2010

$11.65mm in Series C – Investors: not announced – likely an inside round; previous investors: Redpoint and JAFCO – Read more: : SEC Registration Form D , peHUB , SoCalTech. Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Los Angeles-based mobile social networking service JuiceCaster said today that the firm has rolled out a new iPhone app, called Flutter. JuiceCaster's free service sends pictures to other mobile phone users, and is targeted at helping users share both pictures and their location information pinpointed on Google Maps.

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JULY 6, 2015

Between 2004 and 2009, things were driven by Google's search engine algorithms. If you had a good keyword, that might give you a better place in Google's search engine, and that became the dominant reason for a domain. Page Howe: I think, if we didn't have mobile apps and social networks, domains would be ten million dollars each.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

Recently, San Diego-based Rippol (www.rippol.com) launched its web site, a service which uses social networking to help people find and discover interesting videos related to their interests. So is this more social networking, or is this search? We caught up with CEO Aaron Crayford to learn about the company.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Jo told us why, in a world full of social networking apps, why Pod.io We're using Google Maps for our GPS component. Today's interview is with Jo Webber , the CEO and founder of Pod.io , a startup which has developed an app to help people connect with others over shared interests. What is Pod.io?

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

really, that opportunity has only recently been realized fully with Apple in 2008, and later with Google. Speaking of Apple's iPhone and Google, it seems like you're one of the few mobile game firms for phones which has made the transition more or less smoothly into this new world of iOS and Android. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 30, 2019

So we look at the front end, where social was new at the time, and what we were seeing was that social was becoming a wonderful search engine for jobs, through Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, where people were using those services to uncover opportunities. People were not just going to Google, they were looking all over the place.

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APRIL 10, 2015

is looking to take that same, fundamental idea of personal referrals to jobs, and scale it out through social networks and the social graph. Another thing we are pushing, is going beyond just LinkedIn, to Facebook, Twitter, and Google, and focusing on monetizing those networks, and not just LinkedIn. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 8, 2012

Pasadena-based Triptrotting , which operates an online service to help connect travelers with local hosts, has raised $1M in a Series A funding, the firm said this morning.The funding came from Google Ventures, Mark Suster, 500 Startups, WI Harper, Bill Gross of Idealab, Safa Raschtchy, and Eric Chen.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

We support various translation gateways from Google, Microsoft, and other third party translation engines. There's Google, Microsoft, Lionbridge, SYSTRAN, all of whom are spending huge amounts of money to be able to become the dominant language translation vendor. You could use it to break down language silos in those social networks.

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DECEMBER 19, 2008

Today's interview with with Rajeev Kapur , Chairman and Chief Wala, Greenwala (www.greenwala.com), a recently launched social networking site focused on green/sustainable topics. I felt that a social networking media company was the best place to be, because I wanted to learn form other people, not companies.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Whether someone is in Google address book, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter, they all end up in one place. It also generated search alerts--like a Google alert, for mentions of that person's name, company, and also keywords. Tags: tyler koblasa mingly contact startup interview entrepreneur social networking. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 16, 2012

The new feature comes as part of a relaunch of Triptrotting's website, which also includes enhancement of member profiles and other social features. Triptrotting said it now has expanded to over 2,000 cities worldwide. The company is also part of the Launchpad LA accelerator. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Facebook filed for its IPO Wednesday afternoon, saying that it is looking to raise up to $5 billion, in what is expected to be the biggest IPO since Google. Will the filing of an IPO by Menlo Park-based Facebook unclock the pipeline of would-be Southern Calfornia IPOs? The firm reported net income of $1 billion on revenues of $3.7

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

We just recently started rolling out ad-related products, like Ad Manager, which is like Google's ad manager with baked-in social targeting. What do you mean by social targeting? We also just recently launched a standard API, which allows any social networking site to use our analytics code.

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OCTOBER 14, 2011

One, is it makes it easy for businesses to embed that video on their own website, on blogs, and Facebook, and they can also link to that video on their Google Places page. To the extent that a business is not familiar with embedding, we also help them with that process, with claiming their Google Places page, and link that video.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

We just recently started rolling out ad-related products, like Ad Manager, which is like Google's ad manager with baked-in social targeting. What do you mean by social targeting? We also just recently launched a standard API, which allows any social networking site to use our analytics code.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Eric Bjorndahl: At the highest level, we're a social networking web site for travelers. How we differentiate from other social networks that are more general, is that we offer lots of features specific to travelers. Things like Google Maps, five years ago, would have costs tons of time and resources to develop.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

In particular, we're targeting 18-34 year olds, people in college, people who are social networkers, and people who are using every means conceivable to stay in touch with friends and business associates. There's a lot of big guys in this business --Google, Yahoo, etc.--how That's our initial target. how do you compete?

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JULY 29, 2009

You could create a business process design Genie, and announce it through public relations or social networking efforts, and direct them to a login page. As part of your launch, we can integrate Google or Paypal payment options into the login page. You'll also be stuck with a few, well-placed Google Adwords ads, as well.

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