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MARCH 3, 2011

In the latest makeover of one of the original, Web-based automotive sites, Los Angeles-based CarsDirect has updated its website. The site includes better navigation features, more research and in-depth specifications and reviews, articles, breaking automotive news, and more. READ MORE>>.

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CarsDirect Internet Brands Research News 133

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Ze Frank Games , the Los Angeles startup led by web video's Ze Frank , has been acquired by BuzzFeed , a social news publisher, the firm said Friday. According to BuzzFeed, Ze Frank has joined the company to build a team of video producers in Los Angeles, setting up a studio to create content native to the social web.

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Buzzfeed News Web Blogging 145

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The company also disclosed that it has acquired three more websites, as the firm continues to acquire web properties in various vertical markets. for 29 website related acquisitions during 2008. Tags: brands merger acquisition internet. No financial details on the buys were disclosed, however, the firm said it spent $62.6M

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Internet Brands Acquisition Web Sites 124

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APRIL 27, 2010

Los Angeles-based Mail.com Media Corporation (MMC), which operates the Mail.com email service and portal, as well as its own network of content-focused web sites, said today that it has acquired BGR.com , a mobile/gadget review and news site. Tags: content publishing gadget blog acquisition merger bgr.com mail mail.com.

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Blogging Content News Sites 133

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Los Angeles-based MySpace has been among the most visible of Southern California's Internet era success stories, although the site--now owned by News Corporation--has had its own share of ups-and-downs, as well as questions about its future. It's unclear if Platform G has any other acquisitions or projects up its sleeve. Let us know!

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Guardian News & Media , the firm behind web publisher ContentNext , is in discussions with potential buyers about a possible sale, according to a report from the firm's own site, paidContent.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

From research and working with IAC, was saw that more than fifty percent of the videos online are web humor and comedy. We saw that one third of Americans under 40 have started using satirical news sources as replacements for news from someone like Fox News or CNN. What's the business model behind Laffster?

Content 230

Content News Startup Research 230

SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2012

Hiring seems to be the preferred use of seed funds (by investors and founders), whereas I'd prefer a focus on customer acquisition. Of course, there's still hard work to be done to as the bad news is that its hard finding good Web Development in Los Angeles and certainly its tough Finding Developers Here in Los Angeles.

CTO Hire 205

CTO Hire Outsource Development CTO Coach Develop 205

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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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DECEMBER 28, 2020

What was the biggest news for you/your company this year? In 2020, the pandemic radically changed the customer acquisition process for many consumer-facing industries. We also updated more than 43,700 attributes as new amenities became commonplace, like curbside pickup and contactless delivery. Contact our editors for details.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Not Really At first you may be thinking that this is all bad news. However, the good news is that for most investors, you can certainly change the question and get a lot more information without ever building the MVP. But now that you have a product, you should be able to show that people want to and/or are willing to pay to use it.

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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

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JUNE 19, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. They include: Sponsors. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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JUNE 18, 2010

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. Total raised: $5.0mm.

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JUNE 26, 2009

Southern California's high tech news and companies. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network. They include: Sponsors. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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JUNE 5, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. They include: Sponsors. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

SoCalTech 100

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

Without all of you, we wouldn't be able to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network.

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JULY 24, 2009

Southern California's high tech news and companies. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. While Senior Director of Corporate Development & Acquisitions at Salesforce.com, he grew the B2B sales division to $100M.

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AUGUST 7, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Once again, we'd like to thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. They include: Sponsors.

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MAY 22, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

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JULY 5, 2017

There were lots of things we did around investment and acquisitions. The last piece, was we figured that we could disintermediate a broken, retail channel, by creating a customized, sophisticated, Web 2.0 I had the opportunity to work with such aspirational brands as Lululemon and Underarmor. I was in the consumer, retail space.

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APRIL 24, 2009

Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Sam Teller, the Managing Director of Launchpad LA hinted that big news would come soon. Divshot, a tool for web designers and developers, won a national pitch competition and one of it’s founders Michael Bleigh created a popular open source library now included in Ruby on Rails. This is class four for Launchpad LA.

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GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. 10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. Acquisition. Whats Hot Menu. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. what’s hot? Star Trek Contest.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Bitcoin has had a rough start to the year (to say the least) – with a never-ending news feed consisting of massive bankruptcy , scandal stories, and car chase media fiascos. Zeroblock , the highly successful mobile and web app was recently acquired by the world’s most popular Bitcoin site and online wallet, Blockchain.info.

Startup 104

Startup Venture Capital Draper Invest 104

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 21, 2011

Quick Web App Builder (QWAB) – parts prebuilt before competition. A senior marketing director that will run online marketing, customer acquisition, and customer development efforts, 2. Several junior sales associates to handle online customer acquisition and orientation; and, 3. Teams: CoderTie. Where is my Shit?

Santa Monica 90

Santa Monica Startup PHP HTML 90

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

People can buy anything, look up news, watch videos, and the list goes on and on. App developers are coming up with new ideas daily to make our lives easier. We launched with a web app, so we are only web-based. We haven’t had any capital to really test customer acquisition strategies.

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Technical Review Mobile Startup Los Angeles 87

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

For those who may be new to Pubcon its an educational conference and industry trade show programmed specifically for web professionals and website site owners.

SEO 64

SEO Advertising Conference Social Media 64

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

A mistaken assumption can result in a crash landing, and the pilot’s grieving family on the 11:00 news. Capital efficient, web-based businesses should have a credible plan to self-sustainability. Once he proved his negotiating skills, people from all over the company brought him significant acquisitions for him to negotiate.

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Startup Pricing Entrepreneur Email 221

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. Our largest investment was a partnership with Norman Lear's Act III Communications, we did a series of acquisition in the movie theater space.

Startup 162

Startup Content Advertising Sites 162

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. He is also an active investor with stakes in companies like Hipmunk, GroupMe, Facebook, Zynga (acquisition stock), and SV Angels. He received a B.S.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Mobile Web America, Inc. Early-stage companies in the web, mobile and ecommerce space are encouraged to apply for the program which completes four cycles per year, culminating in Demo Days that are attended by the region’s top angel investors and VCs. It’s a clutter-free, haggle-free, hassle-free solution to self storage.

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

I spent a lot of time watching the evolution of Web 1.0, Even then it was astounding--they were adding 70,000 people a day when we bought the company at News Corp., It was almost a no-brainer for News Corp. explosion, and what I saw was a fundamental shift on how consumers used the Internet. to take a chance on MySpace.

Advertising 100

Advertising Media Startup Woodland Hills 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Patrick is the man behind all the marketing aspects of what could be called one of the funniest sites on the web. Above is an interview we did with Patrick at BlogWorld Expo New York 2011. It will really depend on how Facebook manages the acquisition of the up and coming generation.

Sites 61

Sites Marketing Social Media Tips 61

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

Gil Elbaz: I ended up at Google in 2003, through the acquisition of Applied Semantics, which we started working on in 1998. At Applied Semantics, the information was about words, so we could algorithmically determine the context of a web page or news article. What's the story on how you ended up starting Factual from Google?

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Startup Google S3 Platform 190