Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2013

TechZulu had the pleasure again this year to help bring all the New Media Expo (NMX) 2013 Keynotes sessions live. Scott shared a few secrets that any companies can adopt for their own purposes. Technorati’s netowrk represents 1,300+ influential sites and 129 million+ US uniques/month.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

According to the company, the growth is a huge increase from its start offering up its seasonal subscription box in 2013, when it shipped a mere 2,000 boxes. The site had started in 2010 as a digital magazine focused on beauty, fashion, fitness, wellness, and other areas. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 1, 2016

--said the data stolen included user login data from a portion of accounts that were created prior to June 11, 2013 on the old Myspace platform. Myspace said it had invalidated all user passwords for affected accounts created prior to June 11, 2013. Reports place the number of compromised user accounts at 427 million passwords.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Calabasas-based travel booking site CheapAir.com says that it has begun accepting those two cyber-currencies -- which are similar to Bitcoin -- for booking airline flights, hotels, and train seats. CheapAir.com--which has been accepting Bitcoin since November of 2013--says it has seen sales of more than $1.5M READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2014

Quick - name a phone company. Yep, Facebook is a phone company. In order for them to take full advantage of Facebook the phone company, they will have to abandon traditional online marketing conventions. BIA/Kelsey reports that from 2011 to 2013 there was a 133% increase in the number of mobile phone calls to businesses.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Los Angeles-based Prodege , the company which runs the Swagbucks rewards site, reported today that the firm passed $50M in revenue in 2013, is profitable, and has expanded its executive team to include a new Executive Chairman, Chuck Davis, the former CEO of Shopzilla and Fandango; a new CFO, Brad Kates; and a new CTO, Shane O''Neill.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Docstoc , the online document sharing and business documents site which was founded in Santa Monica by Jason Nazar, is being shut down, according to the website. According to a notice posted on the Docstoc site, the site will be closing down effective December 1st. No reason for the shutdown was given. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 19, 2013

Los Angeles-based streaming television site Hulu said Wednesday that it will reach $1 billion in revenue this year, up from the $695M in revenues it had in 2012, and also now has 5 million subscribers on its Hulu Plus premium service, six years after the company''s launch in 2008.

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MAY 7, 2013

The company also reported net income of $0.7M for its quarter, which ended March 31, 2013. The company said the growth in revenues came from "strong growth" on its owned & operated content and media properties, plus its acquisition of Creativebug, the arts and crafts instruction site. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 8, 2014

in revenues for the similar quarter in 2013. The company said the drop came due to a shift away from higher CPM direct display advertising. The company''s now separated registrar segment actually saw a 13 percent growth. The company''s now separated registrar segment actually saw a 13 percent growth. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 23, 2014

Los Angeles-based movie ticketing site and service Fandango said late Tuesday that it has launched a new app, this time on Amazon''s new Fire Phone. The app--like the company''s other mobile apps--offers up movie discovery and movie ticketing. READ MORE>>. fandango amazon fire phone movie ticketing content hollywood theater tickets'

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APRIL 9, 2015

Carpinteria-based Lynda.com , the online learning site founded by Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin, has been acquired by LinkedIn in a $1.5 The companies said that most of the members of lynda.com''s team are expected to join LinkedIn as part of the deal. billion deal this morning. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 29, 2015

Santa Monica-based eHarmony the online matchmaking site, said Tuesday that it has completed the second phase of a major, IT refresh at the company. allowing the company to scale out its services with Big Data analytics, new data models, and more matches for users. eHarmony said that its service is now built on top of Hadoop 2.0,

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JANUARY 24, 2013

The firm said that the device is now headed into manufacturing stage, and is expected to be delivered in July of 2013. Those battles--and issues working with Kickstarter on refunds and other issues--actually spurred Siminoff to found Christie Street , a crowdfunding site specifically aimed at hardware projects. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 7, 2019

The company is one of a growing number of startups trying to rejuvenate the music streaming market by combining it with social networking so that audiences can listen to the playlists of their favorite athletes and entertainers… and their friends. That site focuses on connecting people with similar musical tastes.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Source: hibobbie.com The company also raised an impressive $70 million in funding in June to acquire the legacy pediatric nutrition brand Nature’s One, bringing its total kitty up to $142 million and helping to secure its competitive advantage in the industry going forward. million site visits in October alone. million in 2022.

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JULY 25, 2012

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology firm OpenX has opened up its fifth data center, the company announced this morning, to help support its online advertising marketplace. OpenX provides online software used by content publishers to handle advertising serving and also for real-time bidding for ad placements on sites.

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JULY 11, 2014

Los Angeles-based deal site Slickdeals (www.slickdeals.com), an online deal site, has nine million, highly loyal users and a daily updated list of great, user-generated, deal listings. There are lots of deal sites out there--how it that different? The company is actually relatively new to the LA market.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

In a sign of how large of an effect Santa Monica-based TrueCar has had on the automotive industry, the company said Tuesday afternoon that its dealer partners have just surpassed 700,000 new and used vehicles sold using its sites. TrueCar's data from those purchasing programs fuel the data it uses on its consumer facing website.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2014

These companies focus on bringing the best selection and new experiences to customers. From it’s inception in April 2013 until December 2013, the company generated $2.1 Silicon Beach has been known in part for fostering and revolutionizing high revenue generating e-commerce startups. Clearance.co

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

It is no secret that Pinterest and other social commerce sites have begun to dial in the commerce equation. These sites (so far) have managed to balance facilitating product discovery and purchase capabilities with users'' desires to entertain and educate themselves without feeling like they are in a marketplace.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 8, 2013

Monday, January 14, 2013 -- Use 90 Sec Videos to Explain Your Product - Create Awesome. A good video will not only engage your target customer but avoid also lots of "how does your site work" emails. A good video will not only engage your target customer but avoid also lots of "how does your site work" emails.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Since 2013, when Elon Musk released his white paper for an emerging mode of transportation using low air pressure within a tube, companies around the world have answered the call to build the next generation of futuristic transportation. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies. Virgin/Hyperloop One.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2016

We caught up with co-founder and CEO Vic Belonogoff to learn more about Render Media, whose flagship site is Opposing Views. Vic Belonogoff: We are a digital publishing company. We started focused on small, niche health sites, and Oppoing Views fell into our lap. Tell us about Render Media? They raised something between $2.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2014

Neutral content, including your membership in business associations, and company affiliations, can at best balance false negative information, or at least make the negatives harder to find. Profile sites. Other user-created content sites. This is especially useful in providing links to other positive and neutral content.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2013

Scott Morrow is an Internet and startup veteran, having run such companies as Oversee.net and ThisNext, and headed up product marketing for IAC/Citysearch. When did you get involved with the company? My mandate coming on was to scale the company to reach its full potential. Why did you decide to get involved with the company?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Statistics show that 60% of projects on crowdfunding sites fail to reach their funding goals. This is because the project itself was poorly planned and companies failed to produce a good video. It is the most viable way to not only get project funding but more importantly to get customer validation. Web Series. Music Project.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

The University of Southern California is home to many innovative students and companies. In order to support all of these teams, there are several on-campus startup competitions every year, from the Silicon Beach USC competition to the New Venture Seed Competition, with prize funds to help build the companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Unlike typical review sites, our platform does not use star ratings or long reviews. If you search for pizza on a site like Yelp , you will see a list of places that are between 3.5 You would have to spend anywhere from 15 – 60 minutes to review all three places on a site like Yelp or TripAdvisor. What is myfab5?

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The company at the center of the scandal is QuadrigaCX, a Canadian cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2013. Gerald Cotton was an original co-founder of the company, a 30 year-old with a passion for digital finance who worked in the field for over a decade. million of the company’s money due to suspicious activity.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

People complete a short profile when they register on DinnerDate.com, where they can express interest in other people on the site. It's very low pressure, and allows you to just meet people for a meal, or connect if you've seen someone on the site and liked their profile. How did you get from working on mobile to online dating?

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 24, 2013

At the bottom in small print it said " (if you would like to see your data could be managed in 2013, please visit us at www.hubba.com/TheNewWay ) ". . In Hubba''s case, the company was well rewarded for its boldness. 230 flyers resulted in 87 site visits (38% conversion rate). Twitter hashtag activity resulted in 4 demos.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

With the Identity Theft Resource Center® reporting a 30% increase in privacy breaches in 2013, there seems to be a growing population out there worried about all the people intent on hurting them. I know companies who collect sensitive data from consumers all the time, and still seem to keep a squeaky clean image (Amazon.com, Ebay).

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Xconomy

JULY 27, 2016

In 2011, state incentives lured the company to Research Triangle Park, where it built a $19 million lab to bolster its molecular diagnostics business. The company said the North Carolina site would expand its reach in genetic testing. In 2013, when Sequenom reported a $107.4

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 11, 2013

LOS ANGELES, December 10, 2013 – Some big news for local startup Plug.DJ is a real-time music discovery site which allows individuals to share music and video links within chatroom style communities. As an early stage user myself from last year, I can attest to the entertainingly addictive quality of their site.

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Xconomy

JULY 18, 2016

The company is developing a nasal formulation of metoclopramide, , an already-approved treatment for digestive pain and other symptoms related to the stomach being unable to empty its contents. Evoke’s late-stage study failed to show a significant benefit to the drug, EVK-001, versus placebo at all 41 of the sites that tested it nationally.

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MARCH 8, 2016

Once upon a time, one of the best benefits that employers could offer up an employee was a company contribution to their retirement plan. Santa Monica-based Tuition.IO (tuition.io) has s created a way for companies to both help their employees tackle that mound of student debt, as well as attract better and more loyal employees.

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