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APRIL 17, 2017

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Aurora Capital Group has sold Chicago-based Market Track , a provider of advertising, e-commerce, brand protection, and other information to retailers, brands, manufacturers, and others, to private equity buyer Vista Equity Partners. Financial terms of the sale were not announced.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

Irvine-based Advantage Solutions , which provides technology-enabled sales and marketing services to manufacturers and retailers, has acquired Quantum Networks , a New York City-based e-commerce retailer and agency. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Los Angeles-based personalized advertising technology developer AdGreetz has been powering personalized ads for Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart , according to AdGreetz.

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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' READ MORE>>.

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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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NOVEMBER 19, 2014

ventureLab is currently targeting companies in the area of advertising technology, social/gaming media, content and community. The studio also said it will be expanding in the future to include digital health and app-driven commerce. The company did not say how much funding it intends to provide to startups.

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JANUARY 31, 2014

Irvine-based BlueCava , a developer of a cross-screen advertising platform, said Thursday that it has raised $13M in a new funding round. The company also said it has appointed Phil Myers as Executive Chairman--Myers was previously CEO of StoredIQ (also backed by S3), and also served at Cyclone Commerce, SalesLogix, and other firms.

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MARCH 4, 2011

E-commerce giant Amazon.com has told the California Board of Equalization that it would cut ties to its California affiliates, if any of four bills looking to force Internet retailers to collect sales tax are passed. Amazon.com threatened the cuts in a February 24th letter to the BOE.

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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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FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The company said its Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) chip is aimed at use in always-on, location-aware applications such as social networking, place-based mobile commerce and local merchant advertising. According to Broadcom, the chip consumes 60x less power than other chips while running those always-on, location-aware apps.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

OpenX and Steelhouse are in the online advertising industry, and Thrive Market is an e-commerce company focused on organic food. OpenX said in January it just passed $140M in revenues; Steelhouse said it had $130M in revenues in 2015 at the end of January , and Thrive Market disclosed it passed a $100M run rate this week.

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DECEMBER 7, 2012

BAT said that Printroom will manage the online photo store for the schools, including designing the storefront, handling e-commerce, marketing, advertising, and more. Financial impact of the deal was not disclosed. BAT recently acquired Printroom. 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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JUNE 9, 2011

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , the online marketing and advertising firm headed by Zorik Gordon, said Thursday afternoon that it has launched ReachDeals, a daily deals syndication platform. ReachDeals is a relaunch of the deal commerce software platform it acquired when it acquired DealOn, a daily deals publisher, in February.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

Indi is focused on powering individual commerce. In essence, we want to give every individual their own, e-commerce store. Our team has a passion for e-commerce, and we also have athletes and others on our team. We run our day-to-day business with professional athletes and folks out of the e-commerce industry.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

The eight startups are pitching their investors to startups at CrossCampus in Santa Monica this afternoon.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

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. Prior to becoming CEO of OpenX, Cadogan was Senior Vice President of Global Advertising Marketplaces at Yahoo!

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

Right now, when people are communicating using Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, and others, those businesses are principally using display advertising and sponsored listings to monetize those users. Those references drive trillions of dollars of commerce. We're taking a different approach. What does that look like?

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The new products are part of a push by the company to expand the services it offers to small and medium sized businesses, beyond its roots in helping those firms advertise their businesses online. According to ReachLocal, it has launched three new products, ReachSite , ReachConvert , and ReachCommerce.

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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. www.amplify.la.

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OCTOBER 20, 2008

Westlake Village-based online advertising firm ValueClick disclosed today in a regulatory filing with the SEC that it has divested its AdVault software suite, and sold its inkjet e-commerce business. The firm also said it sold its inkject e-commerce business to an undisclosed buyer. READ MORE>>

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MAY 20, 2009

Two local online advertising businesses--Westlake Village-based ValueClick , and Irvine-based Specific Media --are showing growth in the latest comScore ranking of advertising networks. Tags: valueclick specific media online advertising. The two are just behind Google, which had 164.5M uniques for April.

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JUNE 8, 2011

In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising. We learned that Groupon was taking their advertisers. We also mail checks to the advertisers every day, to make sure people get paid. You see lots of them selling small business advertising, neighborhood magazines, and the like.

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JUNE 29, 2017

Investment interests: Consumer Internet, eCommerce, enterprise software, cloud computing, financial technology, advertising technology. Fund size: $250M growth fund Los Angeles Partners: Dana Settle, Mark Terbeek, Dylan Pearce, Paul Bricault, Jon Goldman. Section 32. www.section32.com. Fund size: $230M fund. Watertower Ventures.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

Sometrics says it has rolled out a new "Shop & Earn Shopping Feed" service, which will allow game participants to earn virtual currency when they purchase products from e-commerce retailers. Tags: sometrics virtual game currency social networking advertising. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 23, 2017

TPage is led by CEO Allon Caidar, and says it is developing "omni-channel video commerce technology", to help digital media publishers monetize their video content. Silverman is the former president of Warner Bros. READ MORE>>.

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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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MARCH 12, 2019

Less than 10 percent of people are taking public transportation, and only about 20 percent of commerce is online. Through this insurance journey, and using behavior-based insurance, we opened up this world around commerce. We're applying that same platform and are now using it for information, commerce, and advertising in vehicles.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based e-commerce agency CPC Strategy has been acquired by digital marketing agency Elite SEM , according to private equity backer Mountaingate Capital. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

According to Rubicon, it has named Tom Kershaw--most recently Director of Product Management for Google Ads and Commerce, to the position, where he will be responsible for product development, platform strategy, product design, prioritization, and go-to-market planning, as well as oversight of the company's engineering capabilities.

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MAY 21, 2013

A consumer piece is a big part of our business, and the next big piece is the advertiser platform, plus everything we wrap around the advertisers experience, helping them to manage their content, and provide great reporting, and helping them to understand the ROI of doing business with us. We''re coining the term search commerce.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

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. Internet Brands said it had net income of $4.3M in the fourth quarter on revenues of $27.7M. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 30, 2010

Revenues were up by 21 percent from the prior year, driven by increases in internet advertising revenues. decrease in automotive e-commerce revenues, related to continued weakness in demand from automotive dealerships. According to Internet Brands, it had net income of $4.6M in revenues, up from $2.5M in Q2 of 2009.

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JUNE 5, 2012

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. Brian Garrett: The way I describe it, is it's a fashion, media, and commerce company. We intend to sell through direct to consumers using an e-commerce model.

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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. When is shopping a sport?

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

A lot of those brands, on the e-commerce side, are becoming more data driven. Maybe they might be using a platform like Shopify to sell their products and power their website, and they might use Facebook for advertising, and maybe they're using paid search with Google. What's your background, and how did the startup come about?

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MAY 4, 2011

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , the pay-per-call technology provider to the affiliate marketing industry, has inked a partnership with Pepperjam Network , an online performance marketing firm owned by GSI Commerce.

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