socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Los Angeles- and New York-based PlaceVine , which operates a web-based service to connect brands and agencies to product placement opportunities in film, television, and new media, said Wednesday that it has scored a round of seed financing from a New York-based angel fund, NYCSeed. Amount of the investment was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Seed Funding Funding Hollywood Web 100

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2011

CBS said that Clicker Media will become part of CBS Interactive'roster of properties. The acquisition is a quick one for Clicker, which only launched public access to its site in November of 2009.

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Redpoint Guide Acquisition Los Angeles 140

socalTECH

JULY 2, 2012

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. MOG, which was based in Berkeley, California, provided an online, streaming radio and music services which competes against such sites as Pandora and Slacker. Dre headphones, is acquiring online music service MOG , the two firms said over the weekend.

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Entertainment Equity Acquisition Sites 162

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2011

To build out our technology and ad serving platform, we made the investment and acquisition around a video ad server, with a strategic investment in Redlever for branded entertainment, and the acquisition of Joost's assets. Are all those visitors going to your Joost site, or is that also spread out elsewhere? READ MORE>>.

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Santa Monica Content Platform Networking 149

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

A few companies have aggregated all of that free media out there from those marketing materials. Because things are moving toward streaming, and online, we become an interesting funnel to move people along the chain to actually consuming that media. We represented Google in the acquisition of YouTube.

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Startup Los Angeles Content Hollywood 190

socalTECH

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. I do energy and materials investment, Internet investing, digital media investing, and financial services investing. We really believe in the market.

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Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2011

Santa Monica-based The Wrap News , an online news site covering entertainment and media, said this week that it has acquire ItsontheGrid.com , an online, subscription service providing information on ongoing movie projects. Financial terms of the cash and stock deal were not disclosed.

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Santa Monica News Entertainment Report 147

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. We spoke with Jennifer about what HitFix is looking to do, her own background, and how HitFix is different from the many celebrity gossip and news sites out there.

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News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Hollywood Walk of Fame. Site launched in October and CEO stated ad impressions are increasing ~200% month; now at 15 billion impressions/day. Competitors: Google (Invite Media) , MediaMath , X+1. Foursquare. -A Competitors: Gowalla.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Overture never built the destination site to monetize from. So when Google started pushing AdSense (ads for affiliate or 3rd party sites) they had a HUGE cost advantage. I think everybody heard about this acquisition. The reason is that like Hollywood these seem to require large up-front investments and seem to be hit driven.

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Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

If a person from outside Los Angeles is a fan of the city, dig a little and you’ll probably find that they like it for the celebrities, Hollywood not LA. Adam Goldenberg’s JustFab is one of the new heavy-hitting membership fashion sites. Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. Matt Coffin – LowerMyBills.com.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

This year, it being our third year in a row conducting on site interviews and live streaming, we definitely had to ensure this year’s lineup was up to snuff with the great ongoings of SXSW. Joergen Aaboe – Momentfeed , combining life foot traffic with reduced customer acquisition costs.

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Entertainment Google Entrepreneur Course 99

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

There is a feeling that techies are the new celebrities," says Eric Kuhn, an agent who heads the social-media department at United Talent Agency. When I arrived in Hollywood, everybody had written a screenplay," he says. In the end, he sold an $8 million home in the Hollywood Hills to the entrepreneur. View Interactive.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

20 Recommended Quora Threads for Startups - ReadWriteStart , November 1, 2010 The Q&A site Quora has become an indispensable trove of knowledge and expertise when it comes to the tech industry. Ask a question and get an answer - that is, after all, what all Q&A sites offer. This should not deter you. This doesn’t make sense.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175