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JANUARY 20, 2012

the parent firm of AtomicOnline, SheKnows, and a network of other digital media sites, announced this morning that it has acquired two sites-- RealityTea.com , focused on reality entertainment, and WebEcoist.com , a green living site. RealityTea.com was founded in 2009, and gets more than 550,000 unique monthly visitors.

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MARCH 7, 2012

Continuing its push into original content, Los Angeles-based Break Media said today that it has launched a comprehensive redesign of Game Front , its online video game site, to add new, original editorial content, videos, and commentary to the site. Break acquired Game Front from Ziff Davis back in 2009, when it was known as FileFront.

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APRIL 29, 2010

Los Angeles-based Total Beauty Media , the online beauty site run by Emrah Kovacoglu, said today that it has relaunched BeautyRiot.com , the celebrity hairstyle and beauty site it acquired in 2009. The firm said it has given the site a "complete makeover" and is relaunching the site with a number of promotions and giveaways.

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OCTOBER 28, 2013

Los Angeles-based streaming television site Hulu announced late Friday that it has named Elaine Paul as its new CFO. Hulu said that Paul had been involved in Disney''s original investment in Hulu back in 2009. Paul replaces Tom Fuelling, who had been at Hulu since 2007.

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JANUARY 4, 2010

Looking back at 2009 we had our ups and downs within the industry but the need to innovate, produce amazing content and the creation of great gadgets still remained. The Best of 2009: Interviews: Interview with Microsoft's First Blogger: Don Box. Tweetphoto: One Of The Fastest Growing Twitter Photo Sharing Sites On The Web.

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JANUARY 10, 2013

The Honest Company , the online brand offering up natural products for babies and families founded by Jessica Alba, has teamed up with daily deals site Zulily , the two said Wednesday afternoon. Lee also headed up LegalZoom, and also runs ShoeDazzle. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2014

According to the WSJ, Amazon.com has already started connecting its users with plumbers, electricians, stereo installers, and others in Los Angeles, after they purchase specific items from the e-commerce site.

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JULY 30, 2012

As part of the integration, Chartly's site now redirects to the StockTwits site. Chartly, originally a developer of publicly accessible stock charting tools, had been acquired by StockTwits in 2009. Stocktwits said the deal allows users to search, view, and share charts and videos within its service. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

a white labeled and co-branded deals platform, and an online exchange for trading deals with other deal sites. DealOn was founded in 2009. ReachLocal said it would pay approximately $10M for DealOn Media LLC, which offers up local deals businesses in 18 markets across the U.S., READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 27, 2011

Los Angeles-bsaed Fastpoint Games , the online fantasy game development shop headed by Kelly Perdew, has shut down, according to a notice on the firm's site. According to the site, the firm is "winding down" all of its Fastpoint Games branded fantasy sports games over the next 45 days. The company was originally known as Rotohog.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Los Angeles-based Savings.com said Tuesday that it has pinpointed the best days to buy products, based on data from the last four years gathered on its site from 25,000 retailers, and for monitoring more than 1.5 million deals during the 2009 to 2013 period.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Los Angeles-based StyleSpot , an online fashion and social shopping site founded by Rafi Gordon and Alex Amin, has been acquired by Kaboodle , the online social shopping site owned by Hearst Corp. StyleSpot was venture backed by Idealab, and had been founded in 2009. Kaboodle announced the acquisition late Friday.

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DECEMBER 29, 2010

Irvine-based Local.com , the operator of local search sites, said this morning that it has appointed Ken Cragun as CFo of the company. Cragun was Vice Presdient of FInance at Local.com since April of 2009, and has also been at ModtechHOldings, MIVA, ImproveNet, and NetCharge.com. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2012

A group of startups have moved into a new, downtown San Diego startup incubator run by CommNexus , as that group's EvoNexus incubator expands into a second site. Those twelve companies include Antengo , BigSho , Chatmeter , Fashioning Change , Saambaa , SwoopThat , TapChow , TapHunter , UgliApps , Voluware , Xpenser , and Zambig.

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JUNE 30, 2010

Los Angeles-based startup NeighborGoods.net , an online site which allows users to lend out their "stuff" to others, said Wednesday that the firm has expanded its site nationally. The site has been live since October of 2009. The site has been live since October of 2009. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Los Angeles-based video site Hulu said Thursday that it will be featuring commercials from this weekend's Super Bowl XLIV on the site, in a special section it is calling the Hulu AdZone. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 31, 2012

The new campaign--a spin on its 2009 Alec Baldwin ad--features actor Will Arnett and the Hollywood sign, plus the hashtag "mushymush". The firm has already posted a teaser ad on its own, Super Bowl advertising section of its site. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Los Angeles-based HauteLook , the flash sales site run by Adam Bernhard, has been acquired by Nordstrom for up to $270M. The firm had only been formed over a little more than three years ago, in December of 2009, when Bernhard founded the company. HauteLook had raised somewhere around $41M in total funding. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 13, 2015

Chill had undergone a huge number of pivots, having been at one point a premium video distribution service; social sharing and live video chat service; and a real time social conversation site. back in 2009. Norgard and Gould rejoin Sean Rad, who the two had worked with on founding Ad.ly READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Los Angeles-based television streaming site Hulu expects to make $240M in 2010, according to Jason Kilar, the firm's CEO. Kilar, who revealed the numbers at today's NewTeeVee conference in San Francisco, also said the firm had $108M in revenues in 2009.

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AUGUST 8, 2011

Online spending on e-commerce sites hit $37.5 Online sales have been growing since Q4 of 2009, with the last three quarters seeing double digit growth. billion in Q2, according to the latest numbers from comScore. According to the Internet measurement firm, online retail spending was up 14 percent in Q2 versus a year ago.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Santa Monica-based Edmunds.com , which offers an online site for automotive information and analysis, has taken a close look at GM's new online eBay store for its autos, and concludes that buyers will be better off making an offer than accepting the "Buy It Now" price on the site. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 2, 2011

Mindflash, which is based in Palo Alto, offers a site which helps companies create online training courses. The firm said that the Investment Group of Santa Barbara also led its prior $5M funding, which closed in December 2009. The firm is led by Donna Wells, the former CMO of Mint.com.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Active Network operates a network of online sports registration, community activity and group sites, and other related Internet services. in 2009, and a net loss of $18.18M on revenues of $188.5M The firm is venture backed by ESPN, Canaan partners, ABS Ventures, as well as others. The firm said it had a net loss of 37.8M

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JANUARY 20, 2011

Adconion acquired the assets of Joost from the founders of Skype in November of 2009. Joost offers up video advertising for brands, as well as related services such as site and inventory representation in addition to content production. Adconion said the new unit will be led by Nick Higgins, former head of global video at Adconion.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

The San Diego arm of the Founder Institute , the entrepreneurship mentoring effort started by Adeo Ressi, said Friday that it has graduated 12 companies from its Fall 2009 San Diego semester.

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MARCH 4, 2010

Buy.com said 46 percent of its orders in Q4, and more than 50 percent of its Q1 2010 site orders came from the Buy.com Marketplace, and that the sales were behind its strong Q4 2009. The e-commerce retailer said it saw 146 percent, year-over-year sales growth from its marketplace, which lists products from third party retailers.

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MARCH 4, 2011

The acquisition is a quick one for Clicker, which only launched public access to its site in November of 2009. CBS said that Clicker Media will become part of CBS Interactive'roster of properties. Clicker was venture backed by Benchmark Capital, JAFCO, Redpoint Ventures, and Blake Krikorian, and had raised around $21M in funding.

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OCTOBER 20, 2010

Irvine-based Local.com , which operates a network of local search sites, said late Tuesday that it has named Ken Cragun the firm's interim Chief Financial Officer. Cragun was most recently Local.com's Vice President of Finance, having joined the firm in April of 2009.

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JULY 30, 2010

in Q2 of 2009. Internet Brands--which has been an aggressive acquirer of web sites--also revealed that it acquired six websites in Q2, for a total of $8.6M. Los Angeles-based Internet Brands reported its results Thursday, saying that the firm saw record revenues in Q2. According to Internet Brands, it had net income of $4.6M

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JANUARY 27, 2010

Pasadena-based online dating site eHarmony has settled a class action lawsuit over its lack of support for gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals, the firm reported Tuesday evening. The firm later launched Compatible Partners , a same-sex matching service, in March of 2009, on pressure from the State of New Jersey. eHarmony, Inc.,

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

In a move which might affect California's renewed efforts to tax sales on Amazon.com and other similar e-commerce sites, the e-commerce giant is preparing to shut down a distribution center in runs in Dallas, Texas, over a $269M tax bill presented to the firm by the State of Texas.

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JANUARY 20, 2009

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. One of the more interesting new features is that the site now takes into account social signals. I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. This technology allows us to see what is hot.

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JUNE 22, 2011

Fisker said it will be hiring around 120 employees, part of an initial group at the site, which will include engineering staff, electro-mechanical technicians, and early teams of production workers for its Project Nina vehicle. Fisker acquired its Delaware plant from GM back in October of 2009, using funding from a Department of Energy loan.

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AUGUST 8, 2010

For the year ended December 31, 2009, the firm had a net loss of $21.9M Among warrant holders of the firm's stock are Lane Armstrong and his foundation--which has lent Armstrong's backing of LiveStrong.com, the firm's health and fitness portal--Bobbi Brown; Tyra Banks--who recently started fashion site with Demand--and InfoSearch Media.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 16, 2009

Thursday, January 22, 2009 -- The Conversion Forum: Proven methods for increasing your site's registrations, leads, sales and other conversions. See [link] (more).

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DECEMBER 20, 2010

Ryan was the CEO and founder of DoneRight, which was sold to tree.com in 2009, and also served as CTO at Overture Services. Los Angeles-based OneClickPolitics , a new startup headed by former DoneRight founder Paul Ryan, has surfaced, focusing on helping users connect with elected officials. READ MORE>>.

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