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The Mobile Majority Buys Qualcomm Spinoff Gimbal

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Santa Monica-based The Mobile Majority , the mobile advertising technology developer led by Rob Emrich, says it has acquired Gimbal , the Qualcomm spinout focused on mobile engagement and location intelligence in the retail market. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Vertical Networks Acquired By Whistle

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Santa Monica-based Vertical Networks , a "mobile-first" content studio which was backed by Snap , has been acquired by New York-based entertainment and sports media company Whistle. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Vertical Networks was founded by Elisabeth Murdoch. READ MORE>>.

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eHarmony In Second Phase of Major IT Refresh

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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 ha completed the first stage of the big refresh in Q4 of 2014. eHarmony said that its service is now built on top of Hadoop 2.0, READ MORE>>.

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Interview With Jamie Montgomery, March Capital Partners On The Firm's New Fund

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Santa Monica-based venture investor March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) announced last week that it has raised a second fund, worth $300M. We did our first close in the summer of 2014, and over the first nine months we raised our fund and started investing. Tell us a little bit about the new fund?

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Interview with Jason Reid, Giftagram

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funding round this week for its mobile gifting app. Jason Reid: Giftagram is a mobile first company, that really redefines the way people gift. What is unique about our mobile app, is you can send a physical gift without actually having a physical address to send it to. How did you end up in Santa Monica?

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TZ & GR Present REACH | The Wearable Future

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Event Details: Where : Cross Campus 1558 10th st, Santa Monica, CA 90401. Date: Thursday, June 26, 2014. Including wearables, gaming, smartphones, home and the car. Event Start and End Time: 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM. Panel: 7 PM to 8:15pm. Mixer: 8:15pm to 11PM (FREE food and drink).

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). billion by 2014. Calls are changing but not dying. There are 2.9

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