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DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the Southern California's technology ecosystem. Here, we have the thoughts of Scott Alderton of Stubbs, Alderton, and Markiles LLP (stubbsalderton.com). READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The shutdown comes after a reorganization of the digital properties of AT&T, as well as its Otter Media subsidiary. in 2016, in a deal then reported as worth less than $100M. Machinima had been acquired by Warner Bros. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 21, 2017

Santa Monica-based GumGum , which is using computer vision in the programmatic advertising market, sports, and social media, said today that it has just passed up the $100M in revenues mark. GumGum said its revenues in 2016 were $72M, and it expects to have revenues of nearly $110M in 2017. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 10, 2018

Santa Monica-based GumGum Sports , which is using computer vision technology for sports media valuation, said Monday that it has named a former NBC and ESPN executive as its new VP of Sales. Partilla also served at Disney, ESPN Media, and X Games. GumGum Sports said Partilla will be based in Denver. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

presidential elections in the summer of 2016, a year before social media companies admitted that those accounts were tied to the Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency. The Kremlin has run many classic military disinformation campaigns in the past--including in the Ukraine in 2014 , in Sweden in 2016 , and during the Cold War.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Los Angeles-based j2 Global , which owns a vast range of cloud-based businesses, including eFax, OneVoice, FuseMail, and many other services, along with digital media properties such as PCMagazine, IGN, AskMen, Everyday Health, and many other sites, has just passed up $1 billion in revenues. from 2016, when it had $874.3M in revenues.

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JULY 12, 2017

Rao is the former Head of Global Operations at Airbnb, where she was from 2013 to 2016. Rao also has served as an SVP at LivingSocial, CEO of SingTel Digital Media Ptd Ltd., and VP and GM at OldNavy.com; she also was the founder of Eve.com, in addition to working at McKinsey & Co. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

The startup said it is developing AI agents which will learn users' travel preferences via their calendars, emails, and photos, as well as their social media and in-app interactions. Nervana Systems was acquired in 2016 by Intel. The startup said it will launch its first product in the travel and leisure area next year.

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MARCH 15, 2017

Barrett was most recently CEO of Millennial Media, and also had served as Chief Revenue Officer at Yahoo!, for 2016; revenues were up 12% year-to-year, compared with $248.5M Addante remains with the company as Chairman of the company. in addition to serving as CEO of AdMeld; he also has served at AOL and Fox. on revenues of $278.2M

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AUGUST 4, 2016

in cash and investments--said it now expects its revenues to be between $830 and $860 million in its fiscal 2016. j2 Global has been quietly become one of Southern California's largest companies in the technology sector, with a huge number of both cloud and digital media businesses under its umbrella.

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AUGUST 10, 2017

The company's revenues increased from Q2 of 2016, when it had $71.798M in revenues. Venice-based Snap Inc. announced its quarterly results for its second quarter, saying that it had a net loss of $443.0M on revenues of $181.67M for the quarter ended June 30th, 2017. According to Snap, it now had daily active users (DAUs) of 173 million in Q2.

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OCTOBER 5, 2015

Fandango said it hopes to release the first products from the FandangoLabs efforts in 2016. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

I organize everything from documents, media files to trip planning, and family calendars on Notion. His exits in 2016 alone included Science portfolio companies HelloSociety (acquired by The New York Times), FameBit (acquired by Google), and Dollar Shave Club (acquired by Unilever). What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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DECEMBER 26, 2017

I think we will see the rise of a newer and larger mobile-focused media companies and the continued evolution in traditional television entertainment. His exits in 2016 alone included Science portfolio companies HelloSociety (acquired by New York Times), FameBit (acquired by Google) and Dollar Shave Club (acquired by Unilever).

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

His exits in 2016 alone included Science portfolio companies HelloSociety (acquired by New York Times), FameBit (acquired by Google) and Dollar Shave Club (acquired by Unilever). Mike Jones is an internet executive, investor and strategic advisor and CEO of Science, Inc. He is Los Angeles's most active angel investor with more than $2.5B

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JULY 27, 2015

We've figured out how to take the banner into 2016 and beyond. We've been interacting more with media teams, who are much more analytical, and have a math-based way of thinking, versus the creative side, where things are much more subjective. It certainly has challenges. It worked so well, Hollywood abandoned the 40K format.

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MARCH 10, 2017

What we did in 2014-2015 and most of 2016, was to really, really refine the business model, so that we could be a successful company, and not just have a successful product. Not just what the product needed to look like, but how to sell it, and to make sure that the people we sold it to were really successful using it, and stayed with us.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In 2016, that represented a couple of unique concepts. From the media and marketplace standpoint, I think our technology product, our digital store, the app, and our website, needs to become much, much better in terms of engaging the consumer. Brad Stewart: The company had two previous lives. What' next for Fair?

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APRIL 21, 2017

Georg Richter: For the five years before I started the company in January of 2016, I was at Guthy Renker, which is one of the largest and biggest direct marketing companies in the world. You can get orders at a low cost in the beginning using things like social media. How did you get into this? That's a big mistake.

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JULY 15, 2015

They've told their large enterprise customers they're sunsetting the product in 2016, and with that announcement, we've gotten a large number of their base evaluating our system. It's more of the entertainment and media side of town, however, it's a very vibrant place. Chrome River is picking up a number of those customers.

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