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Demand Media Buys E-Commerce Marketplace Society6 For $94M

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Santa Monica-based Demand Media has acquired Society6 , an online e-commerce marketplace centered around artists, the company announced Monday afternoon, as part of an effort to expand its content and media platform. According to Demand Media, it paid $94M for Society6, including $75M in cash and approximately $19M in its common stock.

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TechZulu Presents 2012 Startup Forecast | Featuring Science, Tech Coast Angels, Amplify, StartEngine, upStart.LA

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TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2012 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. We have a line up of amazing speakers who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2012. 24 7pm at Coloft in Santa Monica. His passion has always been working with startups.

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Walmart: Turning San Diego Into A Key Technology Center

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However, the company's technology team, Walmart Labs (www.walmartlabs.com)--which said this month that it is planning on major growth in San Diego is responsible for the company's key supply chain technology, online e-commerce site, and much more. We've actually open sourced Test Armada, our open source platform for testing.

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Walmart: Turning San Diego Into Its Technology Center

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However, the company's technology team, Walmart Labs (www.walmartlabs.com)--which said this month that it is planning on major growth in San Diego is responsible for the company's key supply chain technology, online e-commerce site, and much more. We've actually open sourced Test Armada, our open source platform for testing.

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With $30M Infusion, Certona Aims for Bigger Share of Digital Retail

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After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. We’ve been fairly capital-efficient in this fast-growth e-commerce space,” Sheik said. “It

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SURE: Bringing The Insurance Industry Into The Digital Age, With Wayne Slavin

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By the end of the year, we expect to have ten to twelve different types of insurance available on our platform. We're here to serve, as a technology distribution platform, to help those insurance carriers become digital. We were eventually acquired by a large competitorin 2012. Wayne Slavin: That's a good question.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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We don’t seem to get credit as a community for SpaceX or recognition as one of the fastest growing communities for commerce: Honest Company & JustFab. We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms. Commerce: What is less known is just how important LA is as a commerce hub.