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HireRight Adds Social Media Screening

socalTECH

Irvine-based HireRight , which provides employment background checks, drug testing, education verification, and other services, says it has added new social media screening, via a partnership with Fama Technologies. Financial details of the deal were not announced.

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Free Movie Screening Social Media Week

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, September 22, 2011 -- Free Movie Screening of Participant Media's Circumstance presented by Take Part and SMW LA. Attend a Movies and Social Media event hosted by the industry leader in social action campaigns, Participant Media which has the current top two box office leading films in distribution (Contagion and The Help).

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How Facebook Videos Can Boost Your Social Media Campaign

Tech.Co

Here at Sparkhouse in southern, California, we aren’t aware of a decrease in literacy (though the replacement of emoticons for words might say otherwise), but perhaps it tickles a certain part of the brain that enjoys the easiness of visual stimulation over reading all those words on that tiny screen. Social media is popular.

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Social Media is a Boon to Startups Who Do It Right

Startup Professionals Musings

If your startup can’t be bothered with social media, or has no plan to take advantage of it, then you are definitely at risk these days. Before you start spending money and time being a user, you need to understand how it can help you and your business. Not having a social media policy.

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Nimble Ties Into HootSuite

socalTECH

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the developer of customer relationship management and contact management software, said today that it has linked its app into social media management service Hootsuite. nimble hootsuite social media management contact sales software saas' READ MORE>>.

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Startups Should Avoid These Social Media Mistakes

Startup Professionals Musings

If your startup can’t be bothered with social media, or has no plan to take advantage of it, then you are definitely at risk these days. Before you start spending money and time being a user, you need to understand how it can help you and your business. Not having a social media policy.

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Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global is buying a startup that uses neuroscience to boost app usage

TechCrunch LA

When Arianna Huffington stepped down from her role at the Huffington Post to start Thrive Global, she said the goal of her new business was to help a generation “avoid the burnout that all too often comes with success today.” Meet the tech company that wants to make you even more addicted to your phone.