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Infographic: Social Media Spurring E-Commerce Activity

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A new study of social media activity and e-commerce, compiled from Los Angeles social tools developer Social Annex , shows that social media is--not surprisingly--playing a far bigger role in online shopping this year.

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Why Sidevision Is Tying Content, E-Commerce Together, with Justin Wu

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Los Angeles-based Sidevision (www.sidevision.com) has developed a set of tools--aimed at content creators, multi-channel networks (MCNs), and others--to help connect online videos with e-commerce. Justin Wu: We all met at the University of Washington, and studied computer science. What is Sidevision all about?

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Onestop Internet: Amazon Serious Threat To Apparel Brands

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Los Angeles-based e-commerce service provider Onestop Internet --which is backed by Bessemer Ventures and Fung Capital USA--said it has run a new consumer survey, which shows that Amazon is a "serious threat" to its customers, apparel brands. The company said it tapped Survata for the study, which interviewed 501 online respondents.

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Why We Need to Elect @EricGarcetti on Tues as Next Mayor of Los Angeles

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On Tuesday Los Angeles will elect a new mayor. I’d love to see a mayor in Los Angeles who does, too. In 2010 the City of Los Angeles started trying to crack down on tax receipts of Internet startups allocating them to the least favorable gross-receipts tax bracket taking up their city tax by 500%. LA needs Garcetti.

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Movio wants to make your marketing videos with generative AI

TechCrunch LA

Co-founder and CEO Josh Xu met his co-founder and CFO Liang Wang, a veteran of ByteDance and the music social network Smule, when the two were studying at Carnegie Mellon University. Movio recently moved to Los Angeles, where Xu previously worked for six years as a Snap engineer. “We are doing what Jasper and Copy.ai

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3rd Annual India Trade Conference

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The Third Annual India Trade Conference is being presented by Southern California Edison; the Port of Los Angeles; the U.S. Department of Commerce; Network of Indian Professionals, and Quanta Consulting, Inc. Commercial Service, U.S. See [link] (more).

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Startups Weekly: VCs are drunk on beverage startups

TechCrunch LA

Liquid Death has attracted nearly $2 million in funding from angel investors like Away co-founder Jen Rubio and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. For one, because millennials, according to various studies, are consuming less alcohol than previous generations and are therefore seeking non-alcoholic beverage alternatives. Founders say yes.

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