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JULY 26, 2016

Los Angeles-based advertising software developer SteelHouse said this morning that it has sued French retargeting firm Criteo , claiming false advertising, intentional interference with contract, intentional interference with prospective economic advantage and unfair competition. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Los Angeles-based native advertising startup Nativo said this morning that it has snagged comScore CEO Serge Matta for the company''s board of directors. comScore is well known for its measurement of digital advertising and e-commerce. nativo executive board native advertising publishing content'

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based SteelHouse , a promising ad technology company backed by Qualcomm Ventures, Daher Capital, Baroda Ventures, Greycroft Partners, and Rincon Venture Partners, has rolled out a new advertising technology today. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

The accelerator is among a number that have emerged in Los Angeles in the past year or so; StartEngine specifically has been focusing on startups targeting consumers, small to medium sized businesses, and web infrastructure. The eight startups are pitching their investors to startups at CrossCampus in Santa Monica this afternoon.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2013

On the legal side, my practice in North California and we have an advertising and media group in New York City. If you look at the trend lines, I think about it as commerce which is what ultimately business is all about. Commerce to me, involves a lot of advertising spend. We hired Peter Csathy in May of this year.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project said this morning that it has snagged a Google veteran, as its new Chief Product & Engineering Officer. Kershaw will be based in Los Angeles. Kershaw also has previously worked at Ericsson/Telcordia, VeriSign, Clarent Corporation, Unisys, and SS8 Networks. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Los Angeles-based FastPay , which provides specialized line of credit to online publishers, e-commerce companies, videogame companies, and other digital media companies, reports this morning that it has placed over $100M in funding to over 100 customers since its launch in 2010.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Los Angeles-based Slickdeals , the online coupon and deal site led by Josh Meyers, has tapped two technology veterans for its board. Slickdeals said Thursday that it has named Tim Cadogan , the CEO of Pasadena''s OpenX , along with Nathan Hubbard , head of commerce at Twitter , to its board of directors. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 16, 2017

Managing Director: Derek Norton Investment interests: Connected consumer, Internet infrastructure, next generation e-commerce, digital media, gaming, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, consumer Internet, and some ad tech. Watertower Ventures. www.watertowerventures.com) Fund size: $5M. Fika Ventures. Fund size: $40M. greycroft.com.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

Two Southern Californians are in the running for $10,000 for their entries into a user generated advertising effort from e-commerce site Amazon.com. Amazon ran its advertising through its site, Withoutabox, a Los Angeles startup which was acquired by Amazon subsidiary IMDB back in January of 2008.

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JUNE 29, 2017

Fund size: $250M growth fund Los Angeles Partners: Dana Settle, Mark Terbeek, Dylan Pearce, Paul Bricault, Jon Goldman. Investment interests: Consumer Internet, eCommerce, enterprise software, cloud computing, financial technology, advertising technology. Greycroft Ventures. greycroft.com. Section 32. www.section32.com.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

Los Angeles-based Sometrics , which develops virtual currency products for social networking game developers, is linking holiday shopping and social games with a new product. Tags: sometrics virtual game currency social networking advertising. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands revealed it spent $24.2M The firm's results were helped by increases in consumer Internet advertising revenue and licensing revenues, but hurt by a continuing weakness in its automotive e-commerce efforts. million in January. Internet Brands said it had net income of $4.3M READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Los Angeles-based Steelhouse , a provider of behavioral targeting technology for e-commerce sites, has raised $3.8M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Tuesday. The funding is a Series B, and was led by Rincon Venture Partners and Greycroft Partners.

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JULY 30, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands reported its results Thursday, saying that the firm saw record revenues in Q2. Revenues were up by 21 percent from the prior year, driven by increases in internet advertising revenues. Revenues were up by 21 percent from the prior year, driven by increases in internet advertising revenues.

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MAY 6, 2011

Los Angeles-based MashOn , a firm providing web-based personalization and brand marketing services, has raised $620,000 in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Friday. MashOn develops web software, e-commerce tools, plus digital agency to clients; the firm says its has a team of 25 professionals.

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JULY 29, 2011

The battle of states against e-commerce giant Amazon.com appears to be moving to Congress, on reports that a bill was expected to be introduced today giving states the ability to tax Amazon.com. Jerry Brown signed into a law requiring the e-commerce firm to collect sales taxes on purchases made by California residents.

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MAY 21, 2013

One of the largest concentrations of technical talent in Los Angeles is in Glendale, at YP (www.yp.com) -- staffed with a surprising number of Los Angeles startup vets. But, I think where we have a long term advantage is, the 600,000 advertise relationships and a strong presence with consumers.

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JUNE 5, 2012

Allison Beal and Brian Garrett are trying to figure that out with their new, Los Angeles startup, StyleSaint (www.stylesaint.com). We then take that information and find trends and metadata, and all that content and sharing, and use it to drive e-commerce, and to design and manufacture apparel products.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Los Angeles-based Steelhouse , the behavioral targeting firm backed by Ron Conway and Geocities' founder David Bohnett, said Tuesday that Cooking.com has been using the firm's technology to ramp sales of its online site. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 12, 2019

At the intersection of those two is Los Angeles-based Connected Travel (www.connectedtravel.com), the startup which is behind Honda's Drive Drive platform. Less than 10 percent of people are taking public transportation, and only about 20 percent of commerce is online.

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JULY 29, 2009

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands reported its quarterly results Wednesday afternoon, reporting that it saw 50 million monthly unique visitors to the firm's websites in June, up 35 percent from 37 million uniques in June of last year. in automotive e-commerce revenues, one of the firm's major segments.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

When it's all about trading, swapping, lucky finds, and more--explains Dan Murillo , who is CEO and Founder of Little Black Bag (www.littleblackbag.com), an online e-commerce community based in Los Angeles. We think there is a new category of the e-commerce and shopping sector, the entertainment sector. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 21, 2013

One of the largest concentrations of technical talent in Los Angeles is in Glendale, at YP -- staffed with a surprising number of Los Angeles startup vets. But, I think where we have a long term advantage is, the 600,000 advertise relationships and a strong presence with consumers.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

As one of the organizers, Jay Tucker explained, “The Silicon Beach movement is the future of the Los Angeles tech area – tech, mobility, digital content, entrepreneurship, etc. Sellbot, an e-commerce platform for sellers made by USC graduates Michael and Payam Ahdoot, took home the grand prize of $25,000.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Are you an entrepreneur hoping to startup a company in the Los Angeles area? The latest to enter the scene is Los Angeles accelerator Start Engine (www.startengine.com), which was created by Howard Marks and Paul Kessler. We need the resources here in Los Angeles, and not force those companies to go elsewhere.

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JULY 7, 2010

Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. com, and was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA.

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JULY 25, 2012

One way is through Insteegram (www.insteegram.com) , a service recently launched by Los Angeles-based Rnddr Labs, which allows users to buy their own Instagram images printed onto a high quality T-shirt. has been a reliance on advertising revenue. What's next on your horizon? Edward Park: One problem with Internet 2.0

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Those retailers look over at the online world, and wish they had the same kinds of tools that e-commerce retailers had to help them improve their business. Los Angeles-based Bridg (www.bridg.com), led by CEO and founder Amit Jain , has created a solution which it's been offering to those offline retailers for several years now.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

Is there a way you can make direct mail perform more like digital advertising channels? Los Angeles-based Postie (postie.com), backed by Bonfire Ventures and Crosscut Ventures, is applying machine learning and other techniques to direct mail. I understand both of you came out of Science Inc, the startup studio/incubator?

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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. At that time, monetizing by advertising didn't exist, and web developers were having to hand roll those experiences. plus range.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

Please join us at digiday:APPS on December 10th, in Los Angeles. The Dollars and Sense of Apps as Commerce Build vs. Buy: The Biggest Question Customer Conversations: Are Apps A Shout Out or a Deep Discussion Survival of the Fittest: Darwin's Law of Apps and packed with case studies! Win a ticket to digiday:APPS. REGISTER TODAY!

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

LA Tech Summit takes place the following day and takes a more comprehensive look at the entire tech eco-system in Los Angeles, not just Hollywood. This one-day conference has been created and produced by David Beebe Projects led by Emmy winning Digital Entertainment Executive and Producer, David Beebe himself.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Sara Bordo: I started working on the brand side at Estee Lauder in New York, and DDB in Chicago doing advertising. I came to Los Angeles 7 years ago, and worked for a small entertainment marketing firm. We've got a photo gallery, commerce box, and we let the studios import ticketing information with an iframe into a page.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

PC Mall said the new site is rolling out a beta in Chicago, Los Angels, and Seattle, offering off discounts on national brands, local restaurants, spa and salon services, and more. Torrance-based PC Mall , the IT solutions provider and catalog retailer, said today that it has officially opened up its OnSale daily deals business.

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

Venice-based Amplify LA (www.amplify.la) is celebrating its fifth anniversary as a startup accelerator here in the Los Angeles area � one of the few in the area to have survived in more or less original form after the launch of a number of startup incubators and accelerators five years ago.

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JUNE 11, 2013

Silicon Beach Fest covers more than 30 topics that uniquely reflect LA’s strengths, including: Investors, Entrepreneurship, Entertainment, Games, Social Media, Digital Content, Advertising Technology, Design UX/UI, Fashion, and more. June 18: Hollywood Day at Hollywood Economic Development Summit by Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.

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