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DECEMBER 21, 2010

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing firm headed by Richard Rosenblatt, has updated its S-1 filing, saying it now has around 3 million articles in the firm's library of content. Demand Media has applied to list on the NYSE as DMD, but has not yet set an offering range or pricing on its IPO. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 24, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. OnHollywood socalTECH is proud to be an affiliate partner of the upcoming OnHollywood event, where cutting-edge technology CEOs from the back streets of Silicon Valley meet the Hollywood digital entertainment and media elite. 50% registration discount for friends of socalTECH.

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MAY 18, 2010

Los Angeles-based Demand Media , the user-generated content venture of Richard Rosenblatt, has new competition this afternoon, from Yahoo , after Yahoo announced it would acquire content publishing firm Associated Content. Financial terms of the acquisition of Associated Content were not disclosed.

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DECEMBER 23, 2010

A report today says that the latest updates to Demand Media's S-1 are a result of government scrutiny over how the firm is accounting for content developed for its sites. Currently, Demand amortizes those expenses over five years, and apparently other publishing firms typically amortize those expenses over much less time.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the media firm run by Richard Rosenblatt, former Chairman of MySpace, said Wednesday that it has launched a new service which automatically pulls up and links to related content on web pages. Pluck was a developer of social media software for web publishers. READ MORE>>

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MAY 22, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

socalTECH has mined our proprietary database of startups and other tech companies to find some of the firms spawned by former MySpace executives. Here are four startups of them, and what they're doing: Demand Media. It's unclear if Platform G has any other acquisitions or projects up its sleeve. www.demandmedia.com).

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DECEMBER 11, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Sponsoring socalTECH's Executive Moves section. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services. Need office or Tech Space?

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MAY 2, 2014

To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media. Steve Banfield: What will become Rightside has been part of Demand Media.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Sponsoring socalTECH's Executive Moves section. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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JULY 30, 2010

decrease in automotive e-commerce revenues, related to continued weakness in demand from automotive dealerships. Internet Brands--which has been an aggressive acquirer of web sites--also revealed that it acquired six websites in Q2, for a total of $8.6M. Tags: internetbrands internet brands merger acquisition. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Sponsoring socalTECH's Executive Moves section. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Brilliant web and iPhone app design. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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JUNE 13, 2019

In January, Los Angeles-based Pluto TV (www.pluto.tv) was acquired by Viacom for $340M, one of the largest acquisition deals so far in the region this year. I started a web design company, and ended up going to college in Florida, but kept on running the company on the side. Other people have tried to put linear television on the Web.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Sponsoring socalTECH's Executive Moves section. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services. Need office or Tech Space?

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

If you measure success by exits, the Ring acquisition by Amazon and Cylance acquisition by Blackberry, each for $1 billion, were among the biggest stories of 2018. Signal Sciences, a Culver City web application security company, is adding impressive clients and just closed a $30M Series C that will help it continue to scale.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

Jeff is the founder of crowd-sourcing location based mapping services web sites DeadCellZones.com and PhotoEnforced.com. Skype, Green Dot (Tech Coast Angels get 110X return), Tesla Motors, Demand Media, Linked In, Zynga, Glam Media, Gilt Groupe and Yelp all have very disruptive business models. However (More.).

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

We let restaurants set pricing based on demand, and then if you're hungry looking for a place to eat, we match you up with a restaurant offering a great deal. Also, restaurants really love it because they only pay per customer, that they can take control of how many customers they are receiving based on demand. How do users do that?

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MARCH 19, 2019

Stacy Stubblefield: We do two factor authentication, which basically means we send text messages with the codes you get when you log into a web site or even when you're just registering for a website. We were really focused on customer acquisition. Talk about Telesign and what you do? How did the company start?

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2014

Smartify''s software-as-a-service platform automates all aspects of their digital marketing, across their channels, including mobile, social, email, and web. We''re growing and scaling to meet the demands of the market. We can help brands achieve, on average, conversions that are 10 times higher than the industry. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

That allows our media buying team an dour content team to make moves, to buy more inventory on the web, and drive more traffic on the website, with the whole goal of bringing in more consumers and acquiring more customers for our clients. We''re able to track everything we''re doing, and report back on it. We do that methodically.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

People are demanding more and more experiential opportunities out of their leisure holidays. It's the first year that baby boomers have been eligible for retirement benefits, and there are people with discretionary income, even in these economic conditions, who are demanding these experiences. For the most part, tour operators love it.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We've been quite active, and have had a bunch of acquisitions lately -- including Internet Brands and MySpace -- a total of over 2 billion in acquisition in Southern California. On Demand enterprise, and consumer software-as-a-service is also very interesting to us. We really believe in the market.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

The other key business we are in is the aftermarket and registrar business, through SnapNames and Moniker, two acquisition we made. So, we've started to do that organically, and through some acquisitions. We are aggressively talking to people who want to sell a web site, and might have a great property but need to scale to grow faster.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2011

It's been a very busy for coupon and deal sites over the past few months, with a giant, $950M round of funding for Groupon, and the acquisition of at least three locally headquartered coupon and deal sites--LogicBuy.com, NextCoupons.com, and DealPerk--in the last month. What's the story behind Savings.com?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2009

In your launch you mention that Demand Media and others are using the platform. In the case of Demand Media, they looked at us to be a host for their data within the health vertical. The reason we are excited to partner with Demand is they know something about how to crowd source structured information. How does that work?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

We were literally on the cusp of launching our prpoduct, and all of our work and money to date had gone into getting the innovative technology out of Caltech, exploring the marketplace, and making sure the product features matched with the demand of the market, which it clearly did. Interesting. So what's going on with the fund nowadays?

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

However, 18-34 year olds have been in high demand by marketers, TV advertisers, and consumer companies as an audience. It was the late 90's, and everything was exploding, there were lots of IPOs and acquisitions, and it was a very exciting time to work in that space. They are getting more an dmore challenging to reach.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

I believe that the advertisers they started with were probably disappointed that the cost per customer acquisition was not the same as search. I think that's too bad, actually, because what search does is capture demand very specifically for your product--but broadcast will generate demand for advertisers. Radio does work.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. Entrepreneurs love being around other entrepreneurs, and thats driving demand toward the beach," says Mr. Miller. FourSquare.

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