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TigerText Reports Big Sales Increase, Doubles Staff

socalTECH

Santa Monica-based secure messaging app provider TigerText , which is led by Brad Brooks, said yesterday that its annual sales grew more than 300 percent in 2014, and also doubled the size of its staff. TigerText did say that more than 500 million messages per month are now being sent using its platform. READ MORE>>.

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TakeLessons CEO Discusses Chromatik Buyout, Why it’s a Good Fit

Xconomy

San Diego-based TakeLessons set out nine years ago to create a Web-based platform that helped match music students with qualified instructors. The company’s last VC round in early 2014 raised $7 million. Now TakeLessons has completed another acquisition, buying Chromatik, a Santa Monica, CA-based provider of digital sheet music.

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On Launching a Brand – Upfront Ventures Four Months In

Both Sides of the Table

Build platform services that provide more value to our startups than just money (putting our fees into our ecosystem and not just our pockets). Platform Services – And I haven’t announced it before but we’ve also beefed up our platform services quite a bit. You can follow Hamet on Twitter here.

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Dreamhammer's Dream Of Interoperable Drones

socalTECH

However, Santa Monica-based Dreamhammer (www.dreamhammer.com) has a different vision of the world, where entire fleets of aerial drones and robotics surface vehicles can all operate off a single, interoperable operating system--much like you get multiple smartphones running on Android today, or computers on the same OS.

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Interview with Jason Reid, Giftagram

socalTECH

We've done that, by bringing some really, cool, awesome curated gifts to our platform, and made it really easy to send those to people in essentially two clicks. The other, interesting part of our platform, is it integrates with all of your contacts. How did you end up in Santa Monica? How does Giftagram work?

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Siemer Summit: Connecting Global Digital Media & Technology Leaders

Tech Zulu Event

This month, Siemer and Associates hosted its 4th Annual invitation-only Silicon Beach Summit at Casa Del Mar and Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica, California. This honor was presented to ShipHawk, described as the kayak.com of shipping, allowing users to ship anything, anywhere from one platform. “We

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

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TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2014 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. 28 from 7pm-10pm in Santa Monica. We will have a line up of amazing panelist who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2014. There will be plenty of FREE food and drinks!

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