Demand Media Extends Pluck To Mobile
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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.
Demand Media Names Kirby As Mobile Head
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MAY 16, 2011
Santa Monica-based Demand Media announced today that it has named Michael Kirby as head of its mobile efforts. Kirby has been appointed SVP & GM, Mobile, to lead the company's mobile strategy. Kirby joins Demand Media from GOGII, where he was Chief Revenue Officer. READ MORE>>.
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TechZulu Final Friday at ROC Santa Monica (#TZFF)
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JUNE 4, 2013
Santa Monica, CA 90401. You cal also download the free mobile apps iPhone and Android. Santa Monica Parking Powered by ParkMe. During TechZulu events you will connect with developers, designers, investors, media, potential new hires, and more. Startups Apply Here. When: June 28, 2013 8pm – 11:00pm.
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Luxury Travel Hackers Gets Seed Funding For Travel Technology
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JUNE 9, 2021
Santa Monica-based Luxury Travel Hackers said today that it has launched a new company, focused on helping the "mobile millennial" book "influencer-curated" trips via social media, with a seed funding.
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Demand Media Releases Trails.com App
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JANUARY 14, 2011
Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing firm headed by Richard Rosenblatt, said this morning that it has updated its mobile application for its web property Trails.com. The application also provides information about weather conditions, elevation, sunrise and sunset, and a virtual compass. READ MORE>>.
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Interview with Michael Schneider, Mobile Roadie
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APRIL 5, 2012
Actually, no thanks to Santa Monica-based Mobile Roadie. Mobile Roadie, headed by Michael Schneider , develops tools that make easy for non-programmers to create their own mobile apps. Describe what Mobile Roadie does? We sat down with Michael to hear more about his company. How did this all come about?
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MomentFeed Names Tech Veteran Nick Hedges As CEO
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JULY 9, 2019
Santa Monica-based MomentFeed , which develops software that helps national brands keep information on their stores up to date across mapping and mobile services, has named Nick Hedges as CEO of the company, MomentFeed said this morning.
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Vertical Networks Acquired By Whistle
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OCTOBER 4, 2019
Santa Monica-based Vertical Networks , a "mobile-first" content studio which was backed by Snap , has been acquired by New York-based entertainment and sports media company Whistle. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Vertical Networks was founded by Elisabeth Murdoch.
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Culture Genesis Buys All Def
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DECEMBER 19, 2019
Santa Monica-based Culture Genesis , the venture-backed "digital studio" funded by Mucker Capital, betaworks, plus actor T.I., Grand Hustle founder Jason Geter, and NBA star Baron Davis, has acquired All Def , the media and content company which was founded in 2013 by hip-hop's Russell Simmons. READ MORE>>.
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MomentFeed Launches Local Landing Page Templates
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JANUARY 15, 2019
Santa Monica-based MomentFeed , which develops software tools that helps multi-location brands manage the customer experience of mobile consumers, says it is making it easier for its customers to build landing pages for their locations. MomentFeed's CEO and Chairman is Robert Blatt. READ MORE>>.
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Saatchi Rolls New Virtual Reality, Art Buying App
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DECEMBER 11, 2014
Santa Monica-baesd online art site Saatchi Art 0--part of Demand Media--said Thursdya that it has launched a new, mobile app that lets users use virtual reality to see how a piece of art might look like on their wall. saatchi wall preview augmented reality virtual mobile' READ MORE>>.
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Announcing The Socaltech 50: Southern California's Up-and-Comers
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NOVEMBER 19, 2013
James Borow and Clark Landry (shared position), SHIFT (Los Angeles, Santa Monica, advertising). Josh Brooks , OnTheRunTech.com dba Post Cards On The Run (Los Angeles, mobile apps). Sean Callahan , SlimSurveys (San Diego, mobile apps). Greg Cohn , Burner (Los Angeles, mobile app).
MomentFeed Raises $5.5M
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DECEMBER 11, 2013
Santa Monica-based MomentFeed , which develops mobile marketing software which lets marketers understand correlate the activities of mobile users with the physical locations of those consumers, said this morning that it has raised $5.5M in a Series A funding round. READ MORE>>.
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Mobcrush Gets $20M More For Videogame Streaming
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OCTOBER 26, 2016
Santa Monica-based Mobcrush , which operates a live streaming platform and community focused on mobile games, has raised $20M more, in a Series B funding round. The funding was led by Evolution Media, and also included Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, Raine Ventures, Lowercase Capital, First Round Capital and others.
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FEBRUARY 20, 2014
Santa Monica-based NearWoo , the provider of mobile advertising software for local businesses, announced this morning that it has signed up twenty partners which it says provide advertising marketing and marketing services to small businesses. nearwoo marketing local advertising mobile partnerships partners' READ MORE>>.
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Entravision Buys Headway
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MARCH 2, 2017
Santa Monica-based Entravision , a media company which focuses on Latino audiences, announced on Thursday that it has acquired Headway , a provider of mobile, programmatic, data and performance digital marketing services and technology. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.
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100 Emotional Intelligence Technology To Light Up Santa Monica at 2015 Twilight Concert Series At The Pier
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JULY 28, 2015
Light Emotion Data) to the Santa Monica Twilight Concert Series. Utilizing technological innovations spun out of the renowned MIT Media Labs and visual artistry by GMUNK , TrueCar is melding the company’s data analysis and visualization abilities with new, entertainment technology. The TrueCar L.E.D. now to September 10.
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40 Tastemade Gets $25M For Foodie Videos
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JUNE 26, 2014
Santa Monica-based Tastemade , a publisher of food focused, video content led by Larry Fitzgibbon, said this morning that it has raised $25M in a Series C funding round. The funding was led by Scripps Networks Interactive, and also included Liberty Media, Redpoint Ventures, Raine Ventures and Comcast Ventures. READ MORE>>.
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March Capital Partners Launches $240M Venture Fund
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MAY 24, 2016
Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners , the venture capital investment firm founded by venture investment veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery, said this morning that it has had a final close on its first fund, at $240M.
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Catching Up With Joanne Bradford, Demand Media
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AUGUST 6, 2012
Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. What is Demand Media doing nowadays? We do all of those things. more) READ MORE>>.
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Sidebar Signs Two Partners
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FEBRUARY 14, 2011
Santa Monica-based Sidebar , the developer of mobile menu systems which is backed by Mobile Media Ventures, said today that it has inked two strategic partnerships. The firm said it is in strategic partnerships with Takenet and UTV Indiagames, to delier its products to mobile operators and telcos.
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Jetpack Gives a Boost to Mobile and Rich Media Advertising
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JUNE 25, 2015
Advertising technology is hot with the rise of mobile, evidenced in part by Verizon’s merger with AOL valued at $4.4 billion, and on a much smaller scale, Undertone’s recent acquisition of mobile ad provider Sparkflow. Jetpack was founded in 2009 by digital media veterans Marc Brown, Chris Tragos and Kevin Woolery.
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WhisperText Gets $3.0M
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APRIL 4, 2013
A stealthy, Santa Monica-based startup, WhisperText has raised $3.0 whispertext venture capital mobile texting secret social networking' from what looks like a number of high profile investors. No details on the funding or company have been announced. The filing indicates 22 investors participated in the funding. READ MORE>>.
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157 LIVESTRONG.COM Challenges Users To Quit Smoking via iPhone App
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NOVEMBER 17, 2010
Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.COM , the online health and fitness site joint venture of Demand Media and Lance Armstrong, said this week that it has launched a new, iPhone application geared at helping users quick smoking. Tags: livestrong iphone application mobile quit smoking cancer lung myquit. READ MORE>>.
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WhipClip, Founded By Richard Rosenblatt, Debuts App
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MARCH 26, 2015
Santa Monica-based WhipClip , the content discovery startup which was co-founded by former Demand Media founder Richard Rosenblatt, debuted its mobile app today , looking to help users create, share, and find music and television video clips. READ MORE>>.
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YieldMetrics Becomes Adomic
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JULY 31, 2013
Santa Monica-based online advertising firm YieldMetrics has renamed itself Adomic , as part of a rebranding effort, the firm said today. Grossman was previously at Demand Media and Scripps Networks Interactive, and was founder of mobile advertising firm Sidebar. The start is led by Gabe Gottlieb. READ MORE>>.
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FEBRUARY 3, 2015
Santa Monica-based MamaBear , which develops a family communications and parenting app, said Monday that it has named Suzanne Horton as the company''s new President and CEO. mamabear executive bejane suzanne horton mobile communications fmaily' READ MORE>>.
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MamaBear Dangles Free Premium Services For Mother's Day
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MAY 7, 2015
Santa Monica-based MamaBear >, the developer of a mobile app which helps mothers keep track of and manage their families, said it will offer up a free premium services to users who sign up for the service during May. All of those firms are offering similar, premium memberships to new users with varying terms. READ MORE>>.
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Cinq Music Finds Funding
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MARCH 11, 2015
Santa Monica-based Cinq Music , which helps music companies distribute their music digitally, through mobile, and physical channels, has raised a round of funding, according to GoDigital Media Group, the investor in the company. Size of the funding was not disclosed.
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100 All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding
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JUNE 28, 2018
My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.
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Younity Extends Personal Cloud Service To Facebook
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APRIL 25, 2013
In a big extension for personal cloud storage service Younity , the Santa Monica-based startup announced today that it has connected its service into Facebook, letting users access any file from Facebook, and also share those with friends on the popular social networking service.
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eHow Rolls Android App
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FEBRUARY 9, 2010
Santa Monica-based eHow , the question and answer site owned by Demand Media, said this week that it has rolled out a new, mobile application for the Android operating system. Tags: ehow android demand media question answer mobile phone google. The firm said the new app is available for free. READ MORE>>.
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Tecca, Backed By Best Buy, Launches Personal Electronics Shopping Service
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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010
Santa Monica-based Tecca said today that it has launched a new, personal electronics shopping and information service with the backing of Best Buy Co. Tecca's software currently runs on Apple iPhone and Google Android devices, and the firm said it will be offering up mobile web, PC, and tablet versions later this fall.
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LIVESTRONG.COM, RadioShack In iPhone App Partnership
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JUNE 17, 2010
Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.COM , the online health and fitness site run by Demand Media in a partnership with Lance Armstrong, said today that it has partnered with RadioShack Corporation for an iPhone app. Tags: livestrong radioshack team bicycling cycling iphone mobile. READ MORE>>.
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Reflections on 2016: Rob Freelen, Silicon Valley Bank
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DECEMBER 30, 2016
In 2016, our Santa Monica office more than doubled market share of early-stage companies. One example is Santa Monica-based hardware company, Ring, who transitioned to a hybrid business model that now includes recurring revenue. In the interest of full disclosure, Headspace is a client of SVB Santa Monica.
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Sidebar Teams With Indiagames
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MAY 12, 2010
Santa Monica-based Sidebar , a developer of mobile content recommendation software, has tied with Indian mobile and online games firm Indiagames Ltd. , Sidebar Games is venture backed by Mobile Media Ventures. Tags: sidebar indiagames mobile games recommendation software. the two said today.
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140 The Truth About the Scooter Economy?—?An Insider’s Perspective
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APRIL 18, 2019
They are no longer remarkable in Santa Monica or Venice or in many cities in America, Europe or South America. In my home town of Santa Monica they painted 19 miles of bike lanes green to help delineate bikes & scooters from cars and they built 3 miles of soft barriers to test how this works with traffic flow.
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250 OpenHouse Rolls Out Personalized Real Estate Recommendations
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FEBRUARY 17, 2016
Santa Monica-based OpenHouse has launched a new site which helps home buyers get personalized, real estate recommendations and information on neighborhoods, the company said today.
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100 Google Goggles In Marketing Experiment
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NOVEMBER 16, 2010
Google Goggles , the mobile visual recognition application being developed by search giant Google, said today that it has launched a new "marketing experiment" around Buick, Disney, Diageo, T-Mobile, and Delta Airlines.
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Google Googles In Marketing Experiment
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NOVEMBER 16, 2010
Google Googles , the mobile visual recognition application being developed by search giant Google, said today that it has launched a new "marketing experiment" around Buick, Disney, Diageo, T-Mobile, and Delta Airlines.
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Ranker Names COO, Taps Jones For Board
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JANUARY 18, 2012
The company, headed by Clark Benson, said that Dhillon was most recently the GM of Urbanspoon, and has also served at EA Mobile and Cisco. Jones, who is CEO of Santa Monica-based Science, was formerly CEO of MySpace, and also founded Tsavo Media and Userplane. Ranker said it is now getting around 4.5
Interview with Jonathan David, Tapstone
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AUGUST 22, 2014
For our profile today, we had a chat with Jonathan David , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Tapstone (www.tapstone.com), a company providing media buying and optimization. Jonathan David: We''re essentially a media buying and optimization platform. I''ve now been in Santa Monica as an entrepreneur for thirteen years, at this point.
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230 Total Beauty's John Hadl Joins USVP In Los Angeles
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AUGUST 19, 2010
Santa Monica-based Total Beauty Media 's John Hadl has joined venture capital firm U.S. Hadl is also CEO of Brand-in-Hand (BIH), a provider of mobile advertising to brands. Hadl is also CEO of Brand-in-Hand (BIH), a provider of mobile advertising to brands. According to U.S.
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Siemer Summit: Connecting Global Digital Media & Technology Leaders
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JULY 31, 2014
This month, Siemer and Associates hosted its 4th Annual invitation-only Silicon Beach Summit at Casa Del Mar and Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica, California. The event also showcased a variety of promising startups from digital media, mobile, cloud, entertainment, advertising, and eCommerce. Hitesh Chawla, CEO.
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