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SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The company's first expansion beyond the Bay Area was in Santa Monica in 2014, due to the concentration of high tech startups in the area. Philz Coffee is about to open its first location in Glendale this week, just opened a location in Huntington Beach , and opened a location in Hollywood in June. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 7, 2014

Santa Monica-based videogame publisher Activision Blizzard said late Tuesday that it saw better than expected financial results for the first quarter of 2014. The company reported net revenues of $1.111 billion, compared with an earlier expectation of only $885M in sales.

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JUNE 5, 2013

Santa Monica-based SolarReserve , the utility scale solar power projects developer, has received project approval on a 100 MW project in Arizona. Construction is expected in 2014. SolarReserve said its Quartzsite Solar Energy Project, which is based in La Paz County, Arizona, has received approval from the U.S. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 23, 2015

Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , the developer of cloud-based, enterprise talent and employee management software, said today that it has named a new member of its board of directors. Cavanaugh had served in his position at Concur since 1999 until its acquisition by SAP in 2014. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Santa Monica-based subscription airline Surf Air has partnered with Uber , as part of the launch of Surf Air into Palm Springs. Uber launched in Palm Springs back in April of 2014.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Santa Monica-based online matchmaking site eHarmony is continuing its big marketing push, saying this morning that it will be featuring a float for the 2014 Rose Parade. eHarmony--which is in the midst of a big marketing and advertising push--said that its float will feature musician Natalie Cole.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Santa Monica-based MGID , which provides native advertising, says its move from New York to Los Angeles earlier this year helped drive "dramatic growth" at the company. MGID said it saw a 21.7

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AUGUST 8, 2014

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 in revenues for the similar quarter in 2013.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Santa Monica-based Demand Media said Monday afternoon that it has lost its CFO, Mel Tang, who the company said will depart at the end of the year. The announcement was made as Demand Media reported its third quarter 2014 results. Reason for the departure was not given.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Santa Monica-based utility-scale solar power plant developer SolarReserve announced Tuesday afternoon that it has received an approval from Maricopa County, Arizona, for a 150 megawatt solar energy project. The company said the approval came on Monday, from the Board of Supervisors of Maricopa County, Arizona. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 22, 2015

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has had another shuffle in its executive ranks, saying late Thursday that it has named Brian Pike, currently its Chief Technology Officer, to the role of Chief Operating Officer. Pike had joined Demand Media in November of 2014 from Rubicon Project, where he also served as CTO.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Santa Monica-based online auto pricing and sales site TrueCar said it is l‌ooking to improve services to dealers and strengthen relationships with its dealers, through the appointment of a new executive. TrueCar said it has named Brian Skutta as its new Executive Vice President of Dealer Sales and Service.

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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 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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FEBRUARY 13, 2015

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. The private held company did not disclose any financials behind those numbers or say how many employees it now has.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Google aid over the weekend that it has hired on John Krafcik , most recently President of Santa Monica-based TrueCar , as CEO of its self driving car project. Krafcik had been President of TrueCar since April of 2014.

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JANUARY 20, 2016

Santa Monica-based TaskUs , the outsourcing firm founded by Jaspar Weir and Bryce Maddock, said today that it has just passed up 5,000 employees. The company--which had just over 1,000 employees in 2014, and started with a mere 5 employees in 2011--says it now has five outsourcing centers in the Philippines.

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MARCH 6, 2015

Santa Monica-based Demand Media said Thursday that it has named a new CFO, appointing Rachel Glaser to the position. The announcement came as part of Demand Media''s quarterly results announcement, where the company reported 2014 revenues of $172.4M. Glaser was most recently the CFO of Move, Inc.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Santa Monica-based Demand Media is continuing to see a steep drop in revenues from its content and media efforts, reporting Thursday afternoon that it had $15.9M in the same quarter in 2014. in revenues from its Content & Media segments, compared with $33.6M

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APRIL 17, 2017

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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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Event Details: Where: Santa Monica. Date: Thursday, November 13, 2014. Events REACH TechZulu Apps Content crowdfund Experience Food GadgetReview Gadgets Gaming Giveaway Indigogo Instagram partnership Santa Monica Smartphones Technology VCs Wearables' Including wearables, gaming, smartphones, home and the car.

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APRIL 30, 2014

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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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Applications are being accepted starting today, through April 16, 2014 for early-stage companies with innovative consumer media and entertainment product ideas. Also joining the team will be Yohei Nakajima , former academy program director at CoLoft, a popular co-working space for tech entrepreneurs in Santa Monica, California.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

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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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

What’s mostly been keeping her busy in the last few months is onboarding our new CFO – Audrey Lee – and handling the 10-month buildout of our new Santa Monica offices, which are expected to come online in Feb or March of 2014. We have also hired Kyle Taylor to run platform services as his full-time job.

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DECEMBER 2, 2013

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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JULY 31, 2014

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. 2014 Wavemaker Award recipients are: Hang Ten Award: Advertising & Marketing Services. Hitesh Chawla, CEO. Silver Push. Impact Zone Award – Data & Analytics.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2016

As we have developed over the last few years, we've started running our own events, and tried out our own connect weekend in 2014, and that went to a full week the next year. We looked at other sites, such as Cross Campus Santa Monica, and we saw the events they were running, which we went to a lot before they opened a location here.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

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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JUNE 12, 2014

Silicon Beach Fest is LA’s original festival celebrating LA tech, entertainment & startups with panels, keynotes, workshops, mixers, and more in Santa Monica. For those who may be wondering with Silicon Beach Fest is (and you should know by know!). Plus VIP-only parties and other networking events.

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MARCH 14, 2014

The company recently ran a hackathon at the company''s Santa Monica offices, bringing in outside teams to build and create new, innovative products built on to of its software interfaces--something a lot of companies have been thinking about. Last year, we had our first hackathon, Hackamotive, since we are in the automotive category.

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APRIL 22, 2016

We were incubated and launched in Canada in 2014, and at the end of 2015, we launched in the U.S. How did you end up in Santa Monica? That is sent to our partners, and they package that item in a Giftagram box, and they get the gift typically two to five days later.

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JUNE 15, 2015

Santa-Monica based Tapiture has grown in traffic by 300%, monetized from year one and raised $2.25 With the mobile app launched in 2014, Tapiture continues to refine its technology to reach its users. million in seed funding since its founding in 2012. I am drawn to it.

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DECEMBER 24, 2014

AJ: Buddytruk has been active and accepting pickups in Los Angeles since August 1, 2014. After we had our app completed, our initial batch of drivers recruited, insurance in place, and a solid operational foundation set, we were able to open our doors for business on August 1, 2014. TZ: How long has Buddytruck been active?

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JANUARY 14, 2014

billion by 2014. It’s funny but recently I was at the CornerstoneOnDemand conference in Santa Monica. I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you. There are 2.9 billion email accounts.

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OCTOBER 25, 2012

Silicon Beach (Santa Monica). Our model has us at break-even in our second full year post launch (2014). What is CHNL? It’s a web app that pulls all the content from across your social networks and puts it in one place – your channel. Where is it Based? What Problem Does it Solve? Are You Alone in This Space?

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

Santa Monica, CA-based Kite noted that three patients whose non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma was wiped out with Kite’s KTE-C19 remained in remission after 12 months. The first PARP blocker to win approval was AstraZeneca’s olaparib (Lynparza), for certain forms of ovarian cancer, in 2014. T CELL TIDBITS.

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DECEMBER 23, 2013

They’ve expanded their sales and operations from Santa Monica to include New York, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, and Atlanta. The company consists of 50+ people with a planned 19 more hires in Q1 of 2014. Ophir considers GumGum as part technology and part media company. We wish Ophir and GumGum all the best!

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