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JULY 10, 2019

” Citing a Bloomberg report, the site explains automakers may have had the worst first half for new-vehicle retail sales since 2013. My favorite car blog Jalopnik said it best: “Cars Sales Could Be Heading Straight Into the Toilet.” Car sales are tanking, but people still need cars.

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AUGUST 1, 2019

Calabasas-based online travel booking site CheapAir.com is ramping up its attention on cryptocurrency users, saying on Wednesday that it has partnered with Bitcoin.com to support Bitcoin Cash. CheapAir.com has long been a supporter of cryptocurrency users, having first started accepting Bitcoin for payment back in 2013. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 25, 2013

Oh, and did we mention the dedicated WiFi (a notorious problem at SXSW), on-site bar and expansive views? The post TechZulu Trend Lounge Creates the Stage at SXSW Interactive 2013 appeared first on TechZulu. Aaron Gustafson, Adaptive Web Design. Vine Tree from the SXSW Trend Lounge. Aaron Hoffman, Nudge Yourself.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Business Insider cited a leaked pitch deck from Interactive Media Holdings, which also showed Specific Media and MySpace estimating 2013 revenues of $328M, with MySpace generating $15M in revenues in 2012, and the site generating and estimated $58M in 2013. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 10, 2017

Calabasas-based CheapAir.com , an online travel site which accepts Bitcoin for payment for airplane flights and hotels, said on Thursday that it has seen a surge in purchases using Bitcoin, as the electronic currency hits new highs. CheapAir.com is led by CEO Jeff Klee. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 9, 2013

In a big win for Docstoc , the online business documents site run by Jason Nazar, the firm announced Tuesday that it has teamed up with Microsoft , to offer up small business documents for sale online. Docstoc''s online site offers up resources for small business owners and entrepreneurs, including premium documents and much 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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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. Technorati’s netowrk represents 1,300+ influential sites and 129 million+ US uniques/month. The post Dana White, Scott Monty, Guy Kawasaki and More | NMX Keynotes 2013 appeared first on TechZulu.

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

Irvine-based Myspace , now an online site focused on music and musicians, said Wednesday that it has linked up with Vevo in a new music distribution partnership, and also enhanced its mobile support. million monthly uniques on its site, which it says is a 170 percent growth since its mid-2013 relaunch. READ MORE>>.

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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

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AUGUST 22, 2013

million in the third quarter of 2013. Blucora owns a number of Internet businesses, including online search site Infospace and online tax site TaxACT. According to Blucora, it expects Monoprice to deliver revenues in the range of $36.5 million to $37.5 READ MORE>>.

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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.

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APRIL 12, 2017

Creativebug , the online educational video site for the arts and crafts market which was last owned by Otter Media , the joint venture between AT&T and The Chernin Group, has been acquired by Jo-Ann Stores , the arts and crafts retailer. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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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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JULY 24, 2015

Los Angeles-based online trending news site Opposing Views said Thursday that it is now seeing an average of more than 23 million unique visitors per month, up from around 14.4 million in 2013. million unique monthly visitors last year, and 2.8 The website features trending, viral news stories and photos and video news.

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APRIL 2, 2012

According to reports , the further work at Virgin's launch and landing site in New Mexico will cost $7M, funded by local taxpayers, and are being made to address safety concerns of Virgin Galactic. Virgin Galactic apparently determined, through test flights and simulations, that it needed more room for landings at the site.

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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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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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DECEMBER 8, 2015

One, high flying online document sharing site Docstoc has quietly closed its doors, as of December 1st--and now only features a simple message saying that the service is closed for business. Docstoc--which was founded by Jason Nazar--had been acquired by Intuit in December of 2013.

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MARCH 21, 2013

The school said on its Facebook site that it hopes to launch on the Westside with 6th and 7th grade classes in the 2013-14 school year. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 22, 2014

Santa Monica-based car shopping site Edmunds.com says that it has set a new, electric vehicle travel record using a 2013 Tesla Model S, driven by two of it staffers.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 9, 2013

I also expanded the syndication of my articles to mainstream sites, such as TechCrunch, Inc. Exposure on these sites more than doubled my readership from 2011. Unfortuately, link-bait titles generate a disproporionate number of views on mainstream sites in which readers decide which articles to explore based solely on their titles.

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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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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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2021, from 280 to 360 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Just make sure you can fill in all the details.

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AUGUST 8, 2014

in revenues for the similar quarter in 2013. Demand Media operates such sites as eHow, Livestrong, and CollegeHumor. Santa Monica-based Demand Media reported a steep drop in revenues for the last quarter, saying that it had $89.8M in revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2014, down from the $101.1M READ MORE>>.

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MAY 7, 2013

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. The company also reported net income of $0.7M

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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 billion deal this morning. LinkedIn said it has agreed to buy lynda.com, for approximately $1.5 billion, split between 52 percent in cash and approximately 48 percent in stock. 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. eHarmony has been in a major refresh of its servie since 2013, when founder Dr. 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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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 18, 2013

Thursday, January 24, 2013 -- Intro to Facebook Ads. Learn to leverage Facebook Marketing and get traffic flowing to your site tomorrow. Coloft Academy. Facebook has over 1 Billion users, are you reaching them?

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JULY 25, 2012

OpenX said the data center is the first new data center in a major expansion for the firm, and that it expects to open four, additional data centers by the end of 2013. OpenX provides online software used by content publishers to handle advertising serving and also for real-time bidding for ad placements on sites. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2019, from 280 out of 100,000 to 310 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Just make sure you can fill in all the details.

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MARCH 15, 2012

Cisco, which is shutting down its Flip video division, has told its users that it will run its FlipShare service until December 31, 2013. Givit is headed by Greg Kostello, and looks to be a new incarnation or offshoot of video sharing site VMIX. Financial details between Givit and Cisco were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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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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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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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2014

From it’s inception in April 2013 until December 2013, the company generated $2.1 The flash ­sales site is known for selling personal goods such as clothing, accessories, electronics, and home furnishings to over 550,000 users, and is currently on target to reach $10 million in revenue for 2014.

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