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MAY 8, 2012

Los Angeles-based movie site Fandango reports that it hit another ticketing record this weekend, after the debut of The Avengers. Fandango said it was selling as many as 68,000 Avenger tickets per hour during its peak sales times, with record setting mobile purchases, as well. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The startup--created by Robert Earl (Founder and CEO of Planet Hollywood), Grant Hosford (formerly of eHarmony), and Connell (formerly of Nokia)--is using the Internet to arrange group dates at local restaurants, to connect people in person and offline. It was a mixture of mobile and device-centric and Internet development.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Despite the proximity to Hollywood and the entertainment world, in the world of Southern California startups, actually combining the two world is quite difficult. Sara Bordo: My co-founder, Brad Sexton and I, both come from the Hollywood studio world. Everything on a page on our site is not only about engagement but transactions.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

At Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood 2012 Kevin Winston organized a panel called “How to Find and Hire a Developer”. A developer should be asking you questions trying to identify how users interact with a site or application. web & mobile development resources to find and hire a developer.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

In the world of many online television, movie, and video sites, scores of music streaming services, and other entertainment content, it''s often a difficult task to find what you really want to watch, listen to, or read. But, by the time you go to all of those sites, you have dozens of tabs open. It''s a very fractured process.

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APRIL 17, 2010

Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. The company’s first offering will be a mobile retail commerce platform.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

TechZulu will be streaming Digiday : Mobile live from 8:00am - 5:00pm PST Monday 3/8. Scott will share data and results from both ChaCha and other industry sources that will highlight the compelling opportunity that brand advertisers now have in the mobile arena. Presenter: Scott A. Presenter: Scott A.

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JULY 1, 2010

Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc). Includes content mobile guides, ie. Hollywood Walk of Fame. Includes 70,000 apps for all major mobile OS platforms, including Apple’s.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

Lynn Walford of Wireless and Mobile News shows it off for us here. A gorgeous day to talk tech while enjoying some of Hollywood’s premiere theme park attractions. One of Forbes’ Top 50 Power Social Media Influencers, Chris Voss films a quick video by the Hollywood Backlot for his show. . Keep your eyes on the prize!

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

This morning, Los Angeles-based Mogreet (www.mogreet.com) announced it had raised a Series B funding round for the firm's mobile greeting services. We caught up with James to hear more about the company, how he managed to get funding even in this economy, and his view on the mobile market. Why and how do people use your site?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 4, 2010

Hot New Mobile Devices and Window Mobile Development with Loke Uei Tan. broadwayallday : The Man Behind The 50 Cent Web Empire. 0: All Web Leads. Tweetphoto: One Of The Fastest Growing Twitter Photo Sharing Sites On The Web. Twingly Channels: Cutting Out the Noise Of Online Search And The Real-Time Web.

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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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socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

Harrison created one of the Internet's first video search sites, FastTV, and also ran IFILM, which he sold to Viacom in 2006. You helped define video on the web with iFilm. We caught up with Blair to learn more about his new startup, and why he thinks we need Frequency. What is Frequency?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. Overture never built the destination site to monetize from. So when Google started pushing AdSense (ads for affiliate or 3rd party sites) they had a HUGE cost advantage. High Profile Deal of the Week: 1. This is “Adsense for Twitter.”

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Iroko Patners had , a souring relationship with YouTube, Google Ads Words, Amazon Web Services even though the movie streaming firm had about eight million YouTube streams a month, with a $1 million revenue run-rate in 2011. Subscribers can pay online and will soon be able to pay by mobile phone – it’s simple and safe.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The next generation of social networking and communications companies are very interesting, people are thinking about taking identity and their social graph everywhere on the web with you, which I think will lead to a bunch of interesting companies. There are big companies being build around the mobile phone. I respond to everybody.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

This year, it being our third year in a row conducting on site interviews and live streaming, we definitely had to ensure this year’s lineup was up to snuff with the great ongoings of SXSW. James Citron – Outspoken , pioneering the combination of mobile messaging and advertisements.

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Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

The Winklevoss twins, the 31-year-old Harvard grads who are probably best known for their years-long legal fight with Mark Zuckerberg over the founding of Facebook, have put $18 million of their Facebook settlement cash toward buying a brand new bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills, according to a report today out of TMZ.*. Enterprise.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Assignmint is a web-based platform to list freelancing work for employers and help writers find the right freelance job for them and standardizes the paperwork between the two parties. Is Assignmint national or a global web-system? Where do you see mobile going? I think mobile is proving to be a good companion to journalism.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

When I arrived in Hollywood, everybody had written a screenplay," he says. Last summer, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss—twins best known for suing Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook, and who recently formed a venture-capital firm—bought an 8,000-square-foot bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills for $18 million.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

20 Recommended Quora Threads for Startups - ReadWriteStart , November 1, 2010 The Q&A site Quora has become an indispensable trove of knowledge and expertise when it comes to the tech industry. Ask a question and get an answer - that is, after all, what all Q&A sites offer. This should not deter you. What went wrong?

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