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OCTOBER 15, 2019

The new service offers those vehicles through a monthly price which includes maintenance, comprehensive and collision insurance, and roadside assistance--all through a mobile app or web interface. The new Turn service looks to be a direct competitor to Santa Monica-based car subscription service Fair. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. SoCal tech and life science companies are scaling faster than at any point in history.

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Southern California SoCal Culver City Venture Capital 133

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FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Philz Coffee , the Silicon Valley coffee chain which has a single outpost outside of the Bay Area--in Santa Monica has raised $15M to expand its footprint, the company said Wednesday. The funding came from Cowboy Ventures, Crunchfund, Maynard Web, Snoop Dog, and a number of other angels.

Santa Monica 100

Santa Monica Southern California Venice Technical Review 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2014

Santa Monica-based mobile dating app developer Flikdate has gone public, via a reverse merger into a shell company called CrossBox, according to the firms today. Flikdate''s executives include Olivier Chaine, a Southern California technology executive who was previously Vice President of Web Operations at LowerMyBills.com.

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Southern California Santa Monica Google Web 147

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2011

Santa Monica-based Docstoc , the online business documents site headed by Jason Nazar, has quietly been ramping a video content effort at the site.

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Content Causecast Santa Monica Southern California 217

socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2013

One of Southern California''s most successful--and unheralded--inventions for the Internet world earned online publishers more than $7 billion alone last year, Google said this morning. Google said that last year, alone, publishers earned more than $7 billion from AdSense ads.

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Google Develop Development Southern California 198

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community.     We became the largest accelerator in Southern California with 80 investments in over 30 countries globally. We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks.

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Southern California Technical Review Santa Monica Invest 113

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Looking for a high tech job in Southern California? Despite the economy, Southern California's high tech job outlook is better than it has ever been, with hundreds of open positions and many companies eagerly seeking high tech talent. Linux System Engineer , Santa Monica, Adconion Media Group.

Malibu 145

Malibu Oversee.net Southern California High Tech 145

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2012

For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. We'll head back to the beach on the first week of summer for a week-long Silicon Beach Fest in Santa Monica June 2013. READ MORE>>.

Dollar Shave Club 272

Dollar Shave Club Technical Review Santa Monica Southern California 272

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Here's the rest. Top for January 16, 2009 - January 31, 2009 Posts Are You Selling Online Yet? Here’s how to do it.

Layoffs 159

Layoffs Woodland Hills Southern California Orange County 159

socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2010

The latest comScore Media Metrix ranking of top growing Internet properties shows that, among Southern California's Internet companies, Gorilla Nation , ProFlowers , and eHarmony saw big gains in their Internet traffic in February. comScore runs monthly numbers tracking Internet traffic across the largest web sites.

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Gorilla Nation eHarmony Southern California Santa Monica 150

SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 6, 2016

Join us in Santa Monica for a sneak peek of AirMap’s brand new platform, APIs, and SDK for drones, apps for iOS and Android, and Web. Friday, August 12, 2016 -- AirMap Developer Conference and Launch Party. The sky’s the limit when it comes to the potential for unmanned aircraft. Space is limited. RSVP to attend.

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Conference Develop Development Santa Monica 100

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 23, 2007

I went to an event by Amazon on their Amazon Web Services in Santa Monica today. The focus was S3 - storage service, EC2 - their compute cloud, their queuing system, and their flexible payment system. The S3 system is not a transactional object system, it's for larger objects, larger updates.

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Web S3 EC2 Services 150

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) has just announced a brand new, $240M venture investment fund, led by longtime venture investing veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery. Southern California, in particular, has a lot of talent in ad tech.

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Southern California Capital Funding Invest 113

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 24, 2013

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 -- StartEngine is pleased to present our latest class of startups at our Demo Day on Wednesday, January 30th at CrossCampus in Santa Monica. This is your chance to hear their stories and support a new batch of L.A. tech entrepreneurs.

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Santa Monica Commerce Class Mentor 124

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

In the same way that the technology community is not the same when you''re talking San Francisco versus Palo Alto versus San Jose, Southern California''s technology communities have their own neighborhoods. It started around a year ago, as I was driving back from Santa Monica from an event. We were at ground zero.

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Pasadena Santa Monica CalTech Technical Review 242

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens. It is no wonder web content players with large audiences are all inking deals with them now.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

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JUNE 6, 2011

I've also worked with startups in Southern California, including TouchCommerce, and I was with them when they were on their first round of funding. I moved to Southern California in 1992, when Microsoft transferred me to here. I moved to the Santa Monica office of Microsoft Consulting Service.

Startup 221

Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Wanna learn how search engines rank web pages and optimize yours to out-rank competitors? Come to the SEO in Social Media panel moderated by a former MySpace VP and founder of Lalawag.com, Sean Percival, on Tue, Sept 20, 2011 at BLANKSPACES in Santa Monica. See [link] (more)

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SEO Social Media Media Santa Monica 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 23, 2012

Santa Monica, CA The future of the World Wide Web is local. Friday, April 27, 2012 -- CityGrid LA Hackathon.

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Santa Monica Advertising Web Mobile 113

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Like other people that live here, I personally love Southern California, and wanted to live here. However, we think there are probably enough great companies and entrepreneurs in Southern California to full up the classes. Erik Rannala: The application process is open as of today, and we have applications on our web site.

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Technical Advisors Startup Southern California Los Angeles 176

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Rahul Sonnad: We did a seed round with Clearstone Ventures, that incubated us in their Santa Monica office. Rahul Sonnad: I had just moved to Southern California, so I didn't have the largest local network here. How did the incubation part come about? What's the next big thing for you?

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Clearstone Incubator HTML Twiistup 124

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

So can you really build a great tech firm outside of Silicon Valley? I live in the city of Santa Monica. My fund – at $200 million – is the largest in Southern California. That sets us up nicely for the next phase of the web. Sure, but it will be different than the Bay Area ones. Los Angeles.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). Tags: Featured SoCal Stuff. And this part of the product is entirely free to use.

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Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology.

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Los Angeles Angel Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 150

socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2009

Our interview today is with Santa Monica-based OneCubicle (www.onecubicle.com), a new startup we ran across recently, which is looking to provide a more professional social networking site for younger people. So, we do share resources, but we operate as two different companies and staffs. How are your two companies connected?

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Social Network Entertainment Startup CTO Coach 100

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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. We own all of that content, and are putting it anywhere in any format.

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Demand Media eHow Content 240

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

So, yeah, I would like LA to be LA. I guess Santa Monica is officially “Silicon Beach” in the local people’s minds. Still, I kind like the name, well, um, … Santa Monica. So his Twitter handle is @infoarbitrage and his excellent (must read) blog is Information Arbitrage. And for me.

Startup 304

Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. Mobile Web America, Inc. in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology. The time has finally arrived! Bill received his B.S.

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

CODA Automotive is a privately held company headquartered in Santa Monica, California that designs, manufactures and sells electric vehicles and lithium-ion battery systems purpose-built for transportation and utility applications. Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. wonder what that might be?

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

IngBoo is an online marketplace for information updates-where consumers receive timely updates on relevant topics and web publishers compete effectively for consumer attention. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. You can now switch your phone and take your apps with you.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 26, 2011

Spotlight: LA Tech is part of a quarterly demo series that will highlight the finest technology entrepreneurship in Southern California. CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica. As of May 2010, CallFire has over 20,000 customers! mt) Media Temple, Inc.

Tech Coast Angels 80

Tech Coast Angels Southern California Los Angeles Santa Monica 80

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

After months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. If you’d like to see some of the best technologies and meet some of the brightest minds in beautiful Southern California, SIGN UP NOW. Event Details.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away. In Los Angeles we are at a disadvantage because the founder(s) often have no experience in building consumer web applications. There simply are NOT enough venture capital firms in the Southern California.

Company 111

Company Companies Startup Twiistup 111

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

This way the voyeurism elements are preserved but done so that can’t be harmful to others. CODA Automotive is a privately held company headquartered in Santa Monica, California that designs, manufactures and sells electric vehicles and lithium-ion battery systems purpose-built for transportation and utility applications.

CalTech 100

CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

IngBoo is an online marketplace for information updates-where consumers receive timely updates on relevant topics and web publishers compete effectively for consumer attention. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. You can now switch your phone and take your apps with you.

Social Media 60

Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I then worked as a product manager at NetZero/United Online in the VOIP group, and then most recently at Google as a product manager on the Picasa/Photos team based in Santa Monica. Fascinating that you are going against the trend of trying to make everything a web application. What are you working on now?

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Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150