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MARCH 19, 2020

Venice, California-based Snapchat is launching its new set of health and wellness tools, well ahead of schedule, due to the growing threat of the COVID-19 virus threat, and will surface educational information on the new virus and health measures, as well as mental health content.

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APRIL 17, 2013

Venice Beach-based Bitium , a new startup out of LA''s Amplify accelerator, announced this morning that it has raised $2.4M Bitium said it is developing a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) operating system, offering up everything from authentication and authorization of cloud-based software to features like consolidated messaging for apps.

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OCTOBER 25, 2017

The first, LA Tech Gives Back event was held this last week, on Thursday, October 19th, with 157 volunteers attending from 32 companies helping out Thursday at three different volunteer sites: Mark Twain Middle School in Venice, The Center at Blessed Sacrament in Hollywood, and LA Child Guidance Clinic in Downtown LA.

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OCTOBER 25, 2012

High tech startups--and the service providers who serve the industry--are continuing to cluster along Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade, as Stubbs, Alderton & Markiles LLP , one of the Los Angeles legal firms focused on the high tech market, announced a grand opening date for a new office on the 3rd Street Promenade.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

In the case of Tapiture , you create a Pinterest-inspired, visual, social discovery service which surfaces photos of men's fashion, food, motorcycles, funny videos, and more, and inspires those men to learn more about those products. Tapiture is led by John Ellis, and was founded by John and Leo Resig of Resignation Media.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

Miso Media. Miso Media's guitar learning app is changing how people learn music, listening to musicians, letting them know if they're playing the right notes, and teaching them how to play a guitar, all from their iPad. Earbits has created a service which lets you browse through over 200 stations of streaming audio, advertising free.

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OCTOBER 26, 2017

As more and more revelations of abuse of advertising systems at Google and Facebook by Kremlin-linked advertisers continue to surface--Venice, California-based Snapchat has managed to keep itself free of "fake news" using a secret weapon: humans. elections.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

If a consumer will pay a fixed price for a product or service then the battle over who gets the margin in any sale is between the person who merchandises a product and the person who manufactures it. This is true whether it’s physical products or media products. from Charter’s subscribers. What is it, really? even a DTC company?—?if

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JUNE 20, 2014

Kevin is also well known as the organizer of the Digital LA networking group (digitalla.net), which hosts dozens and dozens of events in Silicon Beach every year (Editor''s note: socalTECH.com is a media sponsor of the event). We''re showing people that we have the cool media-entertainment stuff, which is cool and great, and we love that.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

In a sign of the growth of the Silicon Beach technology world, last year, Google moved its headquarters out of a space on Arizona Avenue in Santa Monica, and into a new fancy headquarters space in Venice. Instead, we partner with all the companies provide those services. We're even building a digital media lab on our second floor.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Demand Media. Demand Media consistently popped up near number one in the list of "companies to work for" from our readers. apps, and more, it continues to be a major force in automotive information and services. (Readers in San Diego, Orange County, Ventura County, and elsewhere, please comment or send us your comments!).

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

At the Twiistup panel last week, there was a debate over whether big companies could be created here, which is ridiculous--Demand Media is the latest example there, we've got Cornerstone OnDemand coming out soon, and there is no question there are market leading, large revenue companies coming out of Southern California.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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MARCH 21, 2011

What do children's vitamins and social media have to do with one another? Gordon Gould , the co-founder of SmartPants, talks about the company and how it's applying what he learned founding ThisNext and from a long experience in the social media market to the consumer products goods area--what he describes as Brands 2.0.

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AUGUST 15, 2012

Uber is an easy to use door to door car service knocking out the need for taxi cabs like bumper cars. the Viddy crew headed to the Arbor Collective showroom on the Venice boardwalk for an exclusive party. They partnered with Uber to drive people to and from the event.

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JUNE 12, 2014

However, TechZulu will be doing an official pre-event on Tuesday June 17th with our #TZTechCrawl in Venice. Startup Tables: Available in / near the panel venues to promote your product or service, do demos or giveaways to SBF attendees including startups, VCs, investors, Hollywood studio execs. Its that time of the year again!

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

Venice-based Amplify LA (www.amplify.la) is celebrating its fifth anniversary as a startup accelerator here in the Los Angeles area � one of the few in the area to have survived in more or less original form after the launch of a number of startup incubators and accelerators five years ago.

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JANUARY 12, 2015

Prior to working at Greycroft, Vishal worked for Bain & Company, a management consulting firm, where he advised clients in media, healthcare, tech and utilities. We actively monitor your performance and provide support and guidance throughout your stay at our campus in Venice Beach, California. YouTube, Microsoft and SyFy.

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MAY 23, 2012

and are now one of the largest media outlets for entertainment on the web and Facebook. I'm going to move to LA, and we're pretty close to the Movieclips guys, and we think we'll have some support from them and start in Venice somewhere. Do you see a lot of competition from current US services?

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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. Venices median home price in the first eight months of 2012 broke the $1 million barrier, rising to $1,012,000 from $899,000 in the first eight months of 2011. VENICE RISING.

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JUNE 8, 2014

Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. A move to more urban environments (SF over SV, Cambridge over Waltham, London over Thames Valley, Santa Monica / Venice, Flatiron and so forth) as basically young people want to live where young people want to live. I wish every city could have an 1871.

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