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MARCH 16, 2017

Are you an entrepreneur, looking for capital here in Southern California? Here's a rundown of some of the venture capital investors who have set up shop in Southern California, plus those with big new funds, which have been announced so far since January of this year. Watertower Ventures. www.amplify.la.

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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. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Advertisers. SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

Monday, January 23, 2017 -- LA Advertising Professionals. Mix, mingle, and network with other advertising professionals. See https://www.eventbrite.com/e/la-advertising-professionals-tickets-28930021473. Find partners, meet new people, and do deals.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Tuesday, September 20, 2016 -- LA Advertising Professionals. Mix, mingle, and network with other advertising professionals. See https://www.eventbrite.com/e/la-advertising-professionals-tickets-27292423373. Find partners, meet new people, and do deals.

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DECEMBER 18, 2012

It looks like all of the flap over Instagram 's change in its terms of service--which some had interpreted as giving Instagram the right to sell users' photos--has missed impacting a number of Southern California's startups. Munson did say that it's a logical move by Instagram towards Facebook's advertising model.

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JULY 17, 2019

Tuesday, July 23, 2019 -- Blockchain and Advertising: State of the Industry. It's been a few years since the initial fan-fare around blockchain for advertising and marketing-based solutions. And what about Facebook jumping into the crypto mix? See [link] (more)

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Venice-based Snapchat might be the darling of the technology startup scene, but there are at least three, privately held startups--and maybe, more--in Southern California who recently passed $100M in revenues, according to a look through recent announcements. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 6, 2011

In a sign that demand for employees from Southern California technology firms is on the rise, two, separate announcements Wednesday from local companies indicates that hiring demand at local companies is up, and companies are again scrambling to fill positions.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Pandora has some Southern California connections--beyond its relationships with music studios here--including Jon Kraft , who co-founded Pandora, and Peter Gotcher , the co-founder and Chairman of Los Angeles-based TopSpin.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

Monday, August 22, 2016 -- Los Angeles Advertising Professionals. Mix, mingle, and network with other advertising professionals. See https://www.eventbrite.com/e/los-angeles-advertising-professionals-tickets-26470825953. Find partners, meet new people, and do deals.

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JULY 13, 2016

Tuesday, July 19, 2016 -- Los Angeles Advertising Professionals. Mix, mingle, and network with other advertising professionals. See https://www.eventbrite.com/e/los-angeles-advertising-professionals-tickets-26473289321. Find partners, meet new people, and do deals.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2014

This weekend marks the 12th consecutive Southern California Linux Expo, SCaLE12x. This year, the 12th anniversary of the Southern California Linux Expo will take place at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport hotel as a three-day event, now with 85 speakers and over 100 exhibitors. See you at SCaLE12x this weekend!

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

Thanks to all of our sponsors and advertisers, who make our coverage of Southern. California's technology industry possible. Looking to reach Southern California's high tech executives and. socalTECH.com offers up continuous coverage of Southern California's growing high. Advertisers.

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JUNE 3, 2010

Los Angeles-based MySpace and startup Ad.ly , also based in LA, said today that they have linked in an in-stream advertising deal. helps celebrities, musicians, and other social influencers monetize their Twitter and other activity streams with advertising; the firm is backed by GRP Partners, Greycroft Partners, and LowerMyBills' Matt Coffin.

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JULY 7, 2010

One complaint we sometimes hear from venture capitalists visiting Southern California for the first time, is the difficulty of finding experienced entrepreneurs and executives. Mahalo / Jason Calacanis - Calacanis, often known better in Silicon Valley than Southern California, had his last success in Weblogs, Inc.,

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APRIL 22, 2019

Thursday, April 25, 2019 -- Navigating the Green Rush: Canna Advertising, Marketing and Branding. Learn how to build brand and audience, and design campaigns, while simultaneously navigating shifting regulations and approaches that require a re-think in terms of traditional digital advertising and marketing tactics. See [link] (more)

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

Tuesday, October 18, 2016 -- Los Advertising Professionals Mix Mingle Network. Mix, mingle, and network with other advertising professionals. See https://www.eventbrite.com/e/los-advertising-professionals-mix-mingle-network-tickets-28066064354. Find partners, meet new people, and do deals.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

In what is a fairly unusual move, last week, Tradesparq (www.tradesparq.com), a Chinese startup in the area of B2B trade information, said it was planning on setting up its operations here in Southern California, as part of an expansion and scaling of the company. We started our company in China, however, for two reasons.

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AUGUST 28, 2012

5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California. For anyone from California, you know there are vast differences between the northern and southern parts of the state – so vast in fact that, to us, they could just as easily stand alone as two separate states. Social networking. Social games.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Los Angeles-based Dollar Shave Club made its Super Bowl advertising debut on Sunday afternoon, during the Super Bowl 50 broadcast, went head to head against Schick in running advertising on the big game. Dollar Shave Club appears to have been Southern California's only startup debuting as a national Super Bowl advertiser.

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

Geocities , the original Southern California internet startup--which was founded all the way back in 1994 in Los Angeles--will finally disappear completely from the Internet, as Yahoo said today that it will shut down its Japanese Geocities site. Geocities was one of the first Internet IPOs out of Los Angeles, and sold to Yahoo for $4.5

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Southern California is often criticized for having too many startups which only revolve around brand, celebrity, ecommerce, and. We've identified ten of the more technically interesting companies working on software in Southern California, using our unscientific, unproven, and undoubtedly biased informal polling.

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JANUARY 29, 2013

Rubicon Project , the online advertising technology firm headed by serial entrepreneur Frank Addante, looks like it may just be the next Southern California company to file for an IPO, based on a number of executive appointments made Tuesday.

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AUGUST 8, 2014

Los Angeles-based advertising technology developer Strike Social is bolstering its board and advisory team, saying that it has named Lawrence Chu to its board of directors, and signed up Dr. Arif Ansari, a big data systems researcher at the University of Southern California, as an advisor. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 25, 2018

One of Southern California's promising startup entrepreneurs, Jason G. He previously was the co-founder of NearWoo (previously known as PageWoo), a Santa Monica startup developer of mobile advertising software for local businesses. Crilly passed away last weekend.

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JULY 9, 2019

Hedges is a longtime Southern California technology veteran, who was most recently President and CEO of Velocify. Hedges served in that position until its recent acquisition by Ellie Mae. Hedges also previously has served at Bain & Company, Accenture.com, and Ogilvy & Mather.

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

According to AWS, the new zone will provide very low latency (single-digit millisecond) access to application access from Los Angeles and other locations in Southern California.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

As we go into Halloween this weekend, we want to thank all of our sponsors, advertisers, and members, who make it possible for us to exist. Without all of you, we wouldn't be able to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Vadio , a startup which had been developing software to synchoronize music and advertisements with online videos, is winding down, according to a number of reports on Tuesday. The company had been backed by Mucker Capital, Amplify.LA, as well as along list of local Southern California angel investors.

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JULY 27, 2011

Washington, DC-based TroopSwap.com , an online site offering daily deals to military families, has scored a new round of funding from a number of Southern California investors, the firm said this week.

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JUNE 18, 2013

One of Southern California''s most successful--and unheralded--inventions for the Internet world earned online publishers more than $7 billion alone last year, Google said this morning. google adsense applied semantics online advertising angeles' Google relaunched AdSense under its own name on June 18th, 2003. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 2, 2014

Santa Monica-based The Rubicon Project , which develops ad optimization technology and operates a related online advertising exchange, closed up 33.60% at $20.04 All three exits will help bolster Southern California''s reputation as a technology startup hotbed. Rubicon was venture backed by Clearstone Ventures, News Corp.,

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AUGUST 18, 2014

Los Angeles-based Vantage Media , the advertising technology company led by Patrick Quigley, said last week that it has launched a new product, providing a private, self serve, real-time bidding marketplace for publishers. campusexplorer advertising bidding time real marketplace private media vantage' READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Gradient X , the online mobile marketing and advertising technology developer backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, Crosscut Ventures, Founder Collective, Double M Capital, Baroda Ventures, Siemer Ventures, and others, has snapped up some talent from OpenX with its latest hire. He was at Overture before it was acquired by Yahoo.

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DECEMBER 7, 2012

According to the report , issued by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, three areas in Southern California ranked among the top 25 metro areas for high-tech employment concentration. The highest ranked was San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos , with 11.1 percent of jobs in technology, ranked at 20. percent of jobs in technology.

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MARCH 20, 2014

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology developer Rubicon Project set the pricing range for its initial public offering Thursday, saying that it hopes to offer 6,770,995 shares of its common stock at between $15.00 rubicon project advertising merger exchange exit technology rubi' and $17.00 Mayfield, as well as others.

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

Westlake Village-based online advertising company Conversant --which until recently was known as ValueClick--is now officially part of Alliance Data , after the completion of Alliance Data''s acquisition deal with the company. conversant valueclick merger acquisition alliance data alliancedata advertising online marketing' READ MORE>>.

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