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JANUARY 31, 2012

Santa Monica-based GraphEffect , which develops social marketing software, is tapping a bank of experts in the social media industry for its advisory board, the company announced today. Ollinger was an earlier employee at Facebook, and also served at Launch.com and Yahoo. GraphEffect said it has added Paul Ollinger, J.B.

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AUGUST 17, 2010

Peter Gotcher , the Chairman and co-founder of Santa Monica-based music startup Topspin Media , has scored an Emmy award, for his work in co-founding firm Digidesign. Topspin, is run by Ian Rogers, the former GM of Yahoo Music, and is backed by Redpoint Ventures and The Foundry Group. The Philo T. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 21, 2014

Beats Music , the streaming music service which is being developed by Santa Monica-based Beats Electronics, officially launched this morning on the web and via an iPhone application. Beats Electronics is being run by Ian Rogers , the former head of Topspin Media and GM of Yahoo! The service, which costs $9.99 READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

Santa Monica-based CHNL , a startup which is developing a social content browser for smartphones, tablets, and PCs, said today at CES that it has launched a new daily deals feature into its product. The company says its goal is to become the "Yahoo!, MSN, or Google for the social media age." CHNL is headed by John Wander.

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APRIL 13, 2011

Adconion Media Group , the online advertising network firm which has its North American headquarters in Santa Monica, said today that it has named Bruce Wiseman as Chief Operating Officer for North America. He also has served as SVP Finance and Operations at Veoh Networks, and roles at Yahoo! READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 10, 2013

Santa Monica-based Beats Electronics , the headphone and audio equipment maker co-founded by Dr. Dre and Interscope Geffen's Jimmy Iovine, has snagged high profile CEO Ian Rogers away from Topspin Media. Rogers was also formerly GM of Yahoo! Ian Rogers remains on the board of Topspin Media as Exec Chairman.

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has hired a new executive to head up the firm's advertising sales, the firm disclosed Tuesday. Demand Media has appointed George Stewart as the company's Executive Vice President of Advertising Sales, heading up sales for all of the company's sales channels. READ MORE>>

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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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JULY 21, 2009

Topspin Media , the high profile, Santa Monica-based music startup headed by former Yahoo Music GM Ian Rogers, has inked a deal with independent music promoter INgrooves. Tags: topspin media ingrooves music content marketing. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 18, 2009

Santa Monica-based Topspin Media , the online music startup of former Yahoo Music GM Ian Rogers, said today that the firm has inked a deal with Berkleemusic.com, the online continuing education division of the Berklee College of Music, to partner on a set of online music courses. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 6, 2009

Santa Monica-based FlipGloss Media , a developer of visually driven, photo-centric web technology aimed at the fashion and news industry, announced today that it has launched a new web site for entertainment news provider Variety. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 15, 2008

Santa Monica-based Mahalo, the high profile startup headed by Jason Calacanis, has launched a new questions and answers site it is calling Mahalo Answers. The new service is similar to offerings from Yahoo with its Yahoo Answers service, Los Angeles-based Sodahead , and Demand Media's Answerbag Q&A service.

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

Ian Rogers is the CEO of Topspin Media (www.topspinmedia.com), a venture backed, Santa Monica-based startup developing web applications for the music industry. Rogers is the former GM of Yahoo Music, and sat down with us to talk about the company and his view of the music business and where it is going.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Microsoft's MSN, and Santa Monica-based media firm BermanBraun Interactive said today that they have rolled out a new celebrity news site called WonderWall , which will feature information on what the companies described as the "hottest" pop culture stories, personalities, and trends. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Santa Monica-based Tsavo Media, the startup headed by former Userplane CEO Michael Jones, said today that it has acquired Better Inc, the SEO and pay-per-click marketing software firm headed by Ben Padnos. in 2001, after having previously served at Yahoo! Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Better Inc.'s

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

We moved from our loft in Venice to a new tech campus in Santa Monica. Prior to CrossCut, Clinton served as the COO at Square Enix, a $3 billion video game and media publisher. We've always known how important it is as VCs to invest in founders.

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

Santa Monica-based Zag, a venture-backed developer of online car buying software, said this morning that it has made. Brenner has served at 1-800-CARSEARCH, PromiseMark, and CARFAX; Pributsky joined Zag in 2006 and served at eVox Productions and Malldecker Media; Easterby was most recently at Yahoo!;

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FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Corey Weiss , IPSY's Head of Business Development, is based in Santa Monica, and helps to run that effort. Social media allows women to seek out other, like minded women, and learn from them. Before that, I was heading up global consumer marketing for entertainment, sports, and video at Yahoo.

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APRIL 17, 2010

We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, DataPop : DataPop was founded by performance marketing veterans from Yahoo!, DataPop launched its initial Search Marketing application across Google, Microsoft and Yahoo late last year and leading marketers and agencies are seeing breakthrough results.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

28 from 7pm-10pm in Santa Monica. Pierce is an advisor to Casual Connect, GamesBeat, and Digital Media Wire, an active angel investor and member of BitAngels and an active supporter of non-profit and advocacy organizations and is a member of Clinton Global Initiative. Peter Csathy - CEO Manatt Digital Media Ventures.

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JANUARY 20, 2009

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AUGUST 25, 2011

Video chat by Stickam.com Last Friday, about 80 business leaders assembled at the Huntley Hotel in Santa Monica, CA, for CallFire’s first ever “un-conference&# called Biz2Beach. At their respective discussions, they spoke about online marketing, mobile marketing, company culture, and social media ROI, among other topics.

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OCTOBER 25, 2013

The area between Santa Monica and Playa Vista, otherwise known as Silicon Beach, houses more than 35% of startups in Los Angeles. With Yahoo!, Google, Hulu, Riot Games, Demand Media, and many other big name players residing in Silicon Beach, it is no small wonder why many tech startups flock towards the sunny beach-side view.

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JUNE 17, 2011

He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

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JUNE 15, 2015

Santa-Monica based Tapiture has grown in traffic by 300%, monetized from year one and raised $2.25 If Pinterest is catnip for girls, Tapiture was founded to go after the men, but quickly evolved into a more sophisticated artistic social media community. million in seed funding since its founding in 2012. I am drawn to it.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

We are a city unique in merging the world’s best content with digital media and technology expertise. There are now a second generation of entrepreneurs and companies that have learned from their last successes and are producing great new companies like TopSpin Media , Sometrics and GumGum.

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MARCH 17, 2010

And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo. DemandMedia has already scaled a tech team to a considerable size in Santa Monica. Los Angeles.

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JULY 1, 2010

Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Competitors: Google (Invite Media) , MediaMath , X+1. -A location based service which incorporates social and gaming elements. Competitors: Gowalla.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. And it is the most notable media darling not making any money so everyone is asking the question – how will they make money? So did the media. Advertising is also what allows you to watch Hulu for free, use Yahoo! was the “static&# web.

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AUGUST 23, 2010

Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement. Mediacode was sold to Yahoo. LowerMyBills, Inc.

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JULY 10, 2012

Further to the south are the legendary companies of Cisco, Apple, Intel, eBay, Yahoo!, It’s becoming harder to distinguish tech companies from media companies. These days it’s Santa Monica and Venice. In fact, so many DID NOT that companies like Google & Yahoo! It is the birthplace of Hewlett Packard.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I live in the city of Santa Monica. In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. I don’t see this changing much like I don’t see you building blockbuster movies outside LA or shift the media buying center of gravity out of NY. Let me use LA as an example.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Yahoo. There is a feeling that techies are the new celebrities," says Eric Kuhn, an agent who heads the social-media department at United Talent Agency. Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo. COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB. NAME Facebook. SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. NAME Google.

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