Hollar No More, As Five Below Rebrands Site
socalTECH
JULY 2, 2020
Los Angeles-based, low-cost e-commerce products site Hollar is no more, and will be swallowed up by new owner Five Below , six months after the acquisition of Hollar by Five Below.
TeleSign Acquisition By BICS Closes, Deal Value Rises To $335M
socalTECH
OCTOBER 31, 2017
Marina del Rey-based phone verification and user authentication service TeleSign is now officially part of BICS , after the official close of the acquisition, BICS said today. The deal was originally announced in April. TeleSign will continue to be run by CEO Aled Miles.
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Amazon’s Selz Acquisition is Encouraging News for Small Businesses
Tech.Co
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
Many have seen the acquisition as an attempt to fight back against Shopify's rampant growth during the coronavirus pandemic. The Amazon/Selz Acquisition. Selz currently offers three monthly pricing plans which allow you to create your own store using its platform, or attach Selz' smarts to an existing site. Test Score.
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Monoprice Acquisition By Blucora Completes
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AUGUST 22, 2013
The acquisition of Rancho Cucamonga-based Monoprice , a developer of its own line of branded consumer electronics and accessories, has completed, Blucora announced Thursday afternoon, in a deal that had been announced earlier this month. monoprice blucora merger acquisition retail retailer electronics infospace taxact' million to $37.5
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Justin Timberlake Backs Myspace Acquisition
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JUNE 29, 2011
Irvine-based Specific Media , the Internet advertising network run by Tim Vanderhook, has released further details on the company's acquisition of Myspace , saying that Justin Timberlake is taking an ownership stake and major role in the acquisition. READ MORE>>.
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Disney Shutters Parenting Blog Site, Babble
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JANUARY 7, 2019
Burbank-based Disney has shut down parent blog site Babble , according to the site, which did not say why it was shutting down. The site had originally been founded in 2006 by Rufus Griscom and Alisa Volkman, covering topics around parenting and raising children. Disney had owned Babble since 2011. READ MORE>>.
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Leaf Group Seeks To Raise $22M For Acquisition, Other Efforts
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 5, 2018
Santa Monica-based Leaf Group , the publicly traded consumer Internet company best known for running such sites as Saatchi Art, Society6, EHow, and Livestrong, said it is looking to offer and sell approximately $22M in shares of its common stock. Leaf Group says it does not have any specific acquisitions in mind. READ MORE>>.
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Geni Acquisition Opens Up Service For Users
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 28, 2012
The acquisition today of Los Angeles-based family tree and genealogy site Geni has one big benefit: its users now have full access to the service, without having to pay for premium features. Geni.com also said that it will now let users download free family trees to their computer at no charge, and remove ads completely from the site.
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Fullscreen Buys Video Game Content Site ScrewAttack
socalTECH
MARCH 28, 2014
Los Angeles-based Fullscreen , the video content network operator, said Friday that it has acuqired video game media site ScrewAttack. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. According to Fullscreen, the acquisition will significantly increase its presence in the game industry news and entertainment space.
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Gawker To Shut Down After Acquisition By LA's Univision
socalTECH
AUGUST 18, 2016
Online news site Gawker Media will shut down its operations, after its acquisition by LA's Univision on Tuesday, according to the site. Univision won the bid for Gawker via a bankruptcy auction on Tuesday, agreeing to pay $135M for the company.
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Report: Goodreads' Acquisition By Amazon Derailed Apple Deal
socalTECH
APRIL 18, 2013
Goodreads , the online book review and social networking site which started in Santa Monica, represents the heart of a battle between giants Amazon.com and Apple , according to a report Thursday: who will become the keeper of your digital goods? goodreads amazon merger acquisition book review community reviews amzn apple itunes'
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Connectifier Swizzles Service After LinkedIn Acquisition
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MARCH 29, 2016
Costa Mesa-based Connectifier , the recruiting tools developer led by John Jersin, said Monday that it will be making some significant changes to its tool, after its acquisition by LinkedIn in February.
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HauteLook Acquisition Completes
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MARCH 24, 2011
Department store firm Nordstrom said this morning that it has completed its acquisition of Los Angeles-based private sales site HauteLook. Nordstrom announced its acquisition of HauteLook on February 17th. Nordstrom paid $180M in cash plus up to $90M in earn out for HauteLook, for a transaction worth $270M.
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Science Inc. To Buy Social Bookmarking Site Delicious
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MAY 8, 2014
the startup studio and incubator run by former MySpace CEO Michael Jones, has acquired longtime social bookmarking site Delicious , the company disclosed this morning. systems avos youtube software jones michael acquisition merger bookmarking social delicious' Santa Monica-based Science, Inc. , READ MORE>>.
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150 NextSpace Expands Beyond California With New Funding, Chicago Acquisition
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AUGUST 14, 2013
The coworking trend--which started in part in Southern California and its high tech startup ecosystem--looks to be spreading East, with news this week that NextSpace has raised $500,000 and acquired a Chicago company, to establish its first coworking site outside of California. READ MORE>>.
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159 Geni Acquisition News Takes Down Service For Hours
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NOVEMBER 30, 2012
That big acquisition of Los Angeles family tree site Geni had an unwanted side effect: it took down the site for nearly five hours, Geni reports. Geni said it suffered unexpected downtime, starting at 7 a.m. Thursday morning, running until 10:40 a.m.,
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BUZZMEDIA Adds Six Music Sites
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JUNE 1, 2010
BUZZMEDIA said that the six sites have a total of over five million fans every month. Tags: buzzmedia music site merger acquisition publishing hollywood. Bear, The Hype Machine, Concrete Loop and RCRD LBL to the list of its web music properties. Financial details of the deals were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.
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Internet Brands Buys ExpertHub, Shopping Sites
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APRIL 28, 2010
as well as two shopping web sites. The firm also said, in a separate acquisition, that it has acquired DoDTracker.com (Deal of the Day Tracker), and PursePage.com, a site that reviews designer handbags. Tags: internet brands experthub merger acquisition vertical ecommerce content. READ MORE>>.
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PurePhoto Buys PhotographyMentor.com, Launches Photo Site
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JUNE 8, 2010
Westlake Village-based PurePhoto.com , a new startup headed by former NextMedium COO John Ellis, and whose exec team includes prior executives from ReachLocal, ValueClick, and YellowPages.com, said Tuesday that it has acquired the assets of Los Angeles-based PhotographyMentor , an online photography education and social networking site.
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183 Internet Brands Buys Two Web Sites, Looks To Future Acquisitions
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OCTOBER 28, 2008
Los Angeles-based Internet Brands disclosed Tuesday as part of its earnings report that the firm has purchased two web sites, BensBargains.net, and GrooveJob.com. The firm also said it has acquired another unnamed site, which was completed subsequent to Q3. on those web site buys. on those web site buys. READ MORE>>
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FamilyFinds Buys Chicago Daily Deals Site
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JANUARY 5, 2011
Los Angeles-based FamilyFinds.com , the daily coupon and deals site run by Matt Coffin, said today that it has acquired Mamaloot , an online daily deal site located in Chicago. FamilyFinds said the acquisition gives it a head start in Chicago.
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174 Buy.com Updates Mobile Site
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JUNE 2, 2010
Aliso Viejo-based e-commerce firm Buy.com said Wednesday that it has updated its mobile e-commerce web site. The firm said that the mobile site now adds full search and checkout capabilities, and improved mobile shopping. The firm also said the new mobile site supports its third-party, retail marketplace listings. READ MORE>>.
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ModernMom.com Takes On Mommy Sites
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MAY 11, 2009
Television celebrity Brooke Burke and Internet entrepreneur Lisa Rosenblatt said Monday that they have acquired ModernMom.com , an online site focused on mothers, and relaunched the site--powered in part by content from Demand Media, the online media firm headed by Rosenblatt's husband, Richard Rosenblatt. READ MORE>>.
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157 Internet Brands Buys Two Women's Sites From eHarmony
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JULY 11, 2011
Los Angeles-based Internet Brands said Monday that it has acquired two web sites aimed at women, Weddingbee.com , and JustMommies.com from Pasadena-based eHarmony. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Internet Brands and eHarmony said that eHarmony had been operating the two sites for "several years" before the sale.
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Local.com Drops LEC Billing Acquisitions
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OCTOBER 25, 2010
Irvine-based Local.com , the online operator of local search advertising sites, said today that it has suspended its acquisition of LEC-billed subscribers, and will focus on providing its own, credit-card local business product, Exact Match. Local.com said it will instead focus on traditional local business products, charged at $1795.00
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Internet Brands 2009 Acquisition Total: $24.2M
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 18, 2010
in acquisitions, earnout, and holdbacks during 2009, as part of its 2009 fiscal results release. In addition to those details, Internet Brands said it is now seeing a monthly average of 50 million total monthly unique visitors to its collection of web sites, with a total of 56.5 million in January. million in January. READ MORE>>.
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Internet Brands Buys Seven Consumer Web Sites
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 18, 2010
Financial details of the acquisitions were not disclosed. The firm said it has now acquired more than 100 web sites in total. Tags: internet brands merger acquisition consumer ecommerce advertising content. READ MORE>>.
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150 User Interface Beyond the Web Site
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DECEMBER 7, 2009
SEO for Startups and Negative Customer Acquisition Costs ) and, of course, the product itself. Normally the product is defined as a web site. Most founders are fairly passionate about the features and functions of the web site, iPhone application, Facebook application, or whatever web application represents the product.
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Centerfield Buys Business.com and Savings.com
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
Los Angeles-based Centerfield, a marketing and customer acquisition company backed by private equity investor Platinum Equity, says it has acquired both Business.com and Savings.com. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Savings.com is an online coupon site. for the domain name.
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Internet Brands Buys Three Web Sites
socalTECH
JULY 29, 2009
Los Angeles-based Internet Brands is continuing to buy up small, vertically focused web sites to add to its various consumer focused content networks, saying Wednesday that it has acquired three websites. Financial terms of the acquisitions were not disclosed. Tags: domain site acquisition merger brands internet.
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100 Miva Merchant Buys Instructional Video Site
socalTECH
AUGUST 26, 2011
Miva Merchant said it acquired the site from founder and owner Chuck Lasker. The company said Lasker will continue creating videos for the tutorial site. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.
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Workpop: Using UX And Design To Power The Next Career Site
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 26, 2014
Online job and career sites still seem to be in another decade, when it comes to both design--and user friendliness. Can a startup gain a foothold in the competitive market by designing the right UX and user experience to make a job and career site for everyone? The other piece, is user acquisition. That''s a huge different.
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Have you heard? Eyeballs aren’t everything.
Berkonomics
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. And yet, users rave about the service, and spend long durations of time on the site. Revenue experiments (and failures).
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296 Autobytel Gets Acquisition Offer
socalTECH
APRIL 21, 2009
Irvine-based Autobytel , which operates a number of online sites focused on buying and selling cars, said late Tuesday morning that the firm has received an unsolicited offer to acquire the company. According to Autobytel, the bid--from Infield Acquisition, Inc., Tags: autobytel merger acquisition trilogy automotive.
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100 GameFly Buys Game News Site
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 4, 2009
Los Angeles-based GameFly.com , an online video game rental service, said Wednesday that it has acquired Shacknews.com , a news site focused on video game information. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. According to GameFly, the deal also included a videogames related download site, FileShack.com.
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How An Acquisition Is Helping Wittlebee Break Into The Clothing Industry
socalTECH
AUGUST 30, 2012
Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Wittlebee (www.wittlebee.com) announced the acquisition of its own, clothing company--Cottonseed Clothing Company--as it continues to build out its subscription, children's clothing service. Tell us about the acquisition of Cottonseed, the clothing company. Wittleebee is backed by Science Inc.,
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167 biproxi Buys OfficeSpace.com
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Biproxi said it will use that acquisition to consolidate all of its commercial real estate (CRE) data and listings on the OfficeSpace.com website. The firm says that OfficeSpace.com currently has over 550,000 listings for commercial real estate, and claims it is the second-largest CRE listing site in the United States. READ MORE>>.
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J2 Global Buys Four Companies In Q3 2019
socalTECH
OCTOBER 7, 2019
Los Angeles-based Internet information and services giant J2 Global --the relatively unknown owner of such sites as Mashable, IGN, PCMag, and Everyday Health--has acquired four more companies, the company announced this morning. Financial terms of those acquisition were not announced.
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Lynda.com Buys Compilr
socalTECH
APRIL 7, 2014
Carpinteria-based online video education site Lynda.com said today that it has acquired Compilr , a developer of a software coding and development environment which lets people learn how to write, compile, and test code from their web browser. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.
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223 Will Packer Media Buys xoNecole
socalTECH
JANUARY 19, 2018
Los Angeles-based production and content firm Will Packer Media said on Thursday that it has acquired women's lifestyle site xoNecole , a lifestyle site aimed at "urban millenial women". Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
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138 Payscout Buys Paywire
socalTECH
JULY 20, 2018
Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Paywire develops software which integrates payment processing with third party systems, web sites, hardware, SAP systems, and processors. payscout is led by CEO and co-founder Cleveeland Brown.
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113 AT&T Launches Site To Help Locate Family, Friends In Puerto Rico
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
AT&T , which has been seriously ramping up operations in Los Angeles pending its acquisition of Time Warner, says it has launched a new website to try to help people locate family members and friends in Puerto Rico. have been trying to contact them.
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100 SmartLabs Acquired By Richmond Capital Partners, Raises $7.3M
socalTECH
JUNE 14, 2017
Irvine-based SmartLabs , the parent company of smart home controller brand Insteon and home automation e-commerce site Smarthome , has been acquired by private investment firm Richmond Capital Partners. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced, however, Richmond Capital Partners said it is investing $7.3M READ MORE>>.
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DocStoc Buys BestVendor
socalTECH
AUGUST 26, 2013
Santa Monica-based DocStoc , the online small business information and document site headed by Jason Nazar, has acquired a New York company called BestVendor , the two announced today. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. docstoc bestvendor merger acquisition document small business resource jason nazar'
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