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MAY 10, 2011

Los Angeles-based Anti-AgingGames.com , a new startup offering up brain fitness games, has launched today, aiming at healthy people looking to help their memory, concentration, and focus.

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JUNE 12, 2013

Los Angeles-based Myspace officially launched its new site design and a mobile app today, firmly centering the online site on music, music discovery, and streaming. According to Myspace, its new site offers up a persistent music player, offering up 53 million songs from a library of digital music. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 8, 2012

Los Angeles-based Virurl , a new startup headed by former Titan Gaming foundder Francisco Diaz-Mitoma and co-founded by Tim Symington of LAST.VC, has raised $1.2M The funding came from Tice Capital, the Los Angeles Syndicate of Technology, and angels. in a funding round, and launched its service. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 23, 2017

Los Angeles-based Ground Control , the new digital content startup led by serial entrepreneur Mike Macadaan, is powering a new online site, Biden's Briefing , which features podcasts and other content from former Vice President Joe Biden.

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AUGUST 29, 2013

The Huffington Post is abandoning its video effort, HuffPo Live , in Los Angeles, according to a report today, and is laying off around 20 staffers from its office here. HuffPo Live was launched about a year to, to provide live-streaming, video coverage to the Huffington Post site. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 6, 2012

Are you one of the folks who spent this afternoon changing your LinkedIn password, after a password leak at the popular business social networking site? If so, Los Angeles-based MySocialCloud has a feature for you: an automatic, random password generator. LinkedIn said Wednesday afternoon that about 6.5

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JANUARY 6, 2014

Los Angeles-based ranking and polling website Ranker , the startup led by Clark Benson and backed by Draper Associates, Rincon Venture Partners, Siemer Ventures, Lowercase Capital, BullPen Capital, Data Collective, TenOneTen Ventures, Tech Coast Angels, and Pasadena Angels, said today that it hit 11.5 READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 19, 2013

Los Angeles-based Ebyline , the online marketplace which connects publishers with freelance writers, has inked a new content partnership with Scoopshot , a provider of crowdsourced photos and videos. According to the two, they will package together Scootshot''s photos and videos alongside the written content produced by Ebyline.

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JUNE 11, 2010

Los Angeles-based GotCast , the online casting and talent site run by Alec Shankman, announced Friday that it has reached 400,000 users on its site. The firm said it has now hosted over 6,000 castings on the site. Tags: gotcast online talent casting content hollywood. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Los Angeles-based Digital Domain said late Thursday that it has partnered with Deutsche Telekom , to create a new virtual reality destination called Magenta VR. According to Digital Domain, Magenta VR bundles the best VR content from the fields of sports, music and entertainment. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 25, 2013

Los Angeles-based Tongal , which operates a crowdsourced site for creating commercials, reported today that it has hit $1 million in current projects in its reward pool. The site said that so far, its users have earned $4M working on its various creative projects, with many earning more than $100,000 for their work on the site.

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JULY 11, 2014

Los Angeles-based deal site Slickdeals (www.slickdeals.com), an online deal site, has nine million, highly loyal users and a daily updated list of great, user-generated, deal listings. The really amazing this, is those deals are all user generated content, from our users finding the best deals on the Internet.

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AUGUST 16, 2011

Los Angeles-based AudioMicro , which operates a network of online content licensing marketplaces for audio, photos, and more, is announcing today that it has grown its library of pictures on site ImageCollect to 1.5 million photos. ImageCollect is focused on celebrity photos, offered up using the microstock photo model.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Los Angeles-based HitFix , the entertainment news site headed by Jennifer Sargent and backed by angel groups the Tech Coast Angels and Golden Seeds, said today that it is in a strategic partnership with film and awards blog In Contention. The two did not explain the details of that effort. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

A new, Los Angeles-based startup, 6feet.com said it has launched this week, aimed at offering up a lifestyle site aimed at the age of COVID-19. The startup says it will be provide both original and source content focused on health, wellness, lifestyle, food, travel, and other topics.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

In a move which will no doubt be music to Hollywood's ears, Facebook is reportedly planning to spend as much as $1 billion next year on building out its own, original video content. According to the WSJ , the spending will go towards making Facebook a destination site for people looking for television shows on its "Watch" video tab.

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OCTOBER 19, 2016

Los Angeles-based Recursor.TV said on Tuesday that it has launched a brand new site, which is focused on indie, science fiction video. The site--founded by E.J. Kavounas, Edouard de Lachomette and Steve Tao--said it will feature curate short films and series from independent filmmakers, and its own original content.

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MAY 22, 2012

Los Angeles-based Xfire is continuing its expansion into Southeast Asia with a new partnership, the firm said today, with Southeast Asian games publisher SEA Gaming. According to the two, SEA Gaming will integrate Xfire's online gaming utility into its massively multiplayer online games offerings.

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

Despite the huge surge of content specifically being developed for the web--and for sites like YouTube--making that content profitable and sustainable continues to be an issue for content creators. We had hit the masses, but the ad revenue model would take us forever to pay for the content costs.

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JUNE 6, 2013

A new, Los Angeles-based startup, iCrumz , said today that it has launched a new, free social bookmarking tool aimed at helping users find their way back to websites and share content with others. The firm said it is in the midst of raising $1M in funding for the venture.

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MARCH 7, 2011

Recently, we ran into Edo Cohen , CEO of Los Angeles-based Seevolution (www.seevolution.com), a firm developing web site heat map tracking software. Edo Cohen: Seevolution is a real time analytics and heat map company for web sites and web applications. Edo Cohen: Anyone with a web site. What is Seevolution all about?

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AUGUST 5, 2020

Los Angeles-based BidGarage.com announced late Tuesday that it has launched a new, online classic car auctino site. According to BidGarage, it offers up real time bidding, fully vetted vehicles, and a library of relevant content; the company offers up listings for free, and charges a 5% total commission split betwen buyer and seller.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Right now, it's a manual process--unless you're using the tools from Los Angeles-based PublishThis (www.publishthis.com). The firm has created a tool which uses software and semantic search to help in the whole process of curating content. I ran that between 2001 and 2008, and then left to start what has become PublishThis.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

One of the major growth areas along Silicon Beach has been in the whole area of creating content for digital platforms. But, how do you figure out what actual content will resonate with online consumers? I figured out that there was this massive market for comedic content, but the market was extremely scattered.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Los Angeles-based streaming television site Hulu has inked a deal to stream every episode of South Park , the site said over the weekend, According to Hulu, all seventeen seasons of South Park--over 200 episodes--are now available on Hulu. television episodes streaming killed kenny park south southpark hulu hollywood content'

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AUGUST 20, 2014

Does the entertainment industry need its own social networking site? Los Angeles-based Stage 32 thinks so--and so far, has 325,000 members for its online social networking site, which it says ties together film, television, and theater creatives. stage32 social networking hollywood content film theater television artist'

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APRIL 23, 2013

Los Angeles-based Nativo , the online advertising technology firm led by Justin Choi, has raised $3.5M in seed funding from Signia and angels. in seed funding from Signia and angels. Nativo''s technology revolves around inserting sponsored content into the site of publishers automatically. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 4, 2013

Docstoc was venture backed by Rustic Canyon Partners, Crosscut Ventures, as well as local angel investors like Mike Jones, Scott Walchek, Matt Coffin (LowermyBills), Brett Brewer (Intermix/MySpace), Robin Richards (MP3.com), com), and others.

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JULY 2, 2015

Los Angeles-based streaming media site Pluto TV has inked a deal to stream free content from Hulu, Jukin Media, and a number of others , to bolster the content lineup for the service. operates an online and mobile service which provides curated access to video streaming content, and is venture backed by U.S.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Los Angeles-based movie ticketing and information site Fandango has tied with Spanish language broadcaster Telemundo , to launch a new online site aimed at Hispanic movie fans, Fandango Cine , the two announced Monday. tv, and fandango.com.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We all know media companies are suffering as CPMs (the amount they can charge per thousand visitors) are falling, available inventory is climbing, free content and blogs are proliferating, user attention is being divided with social networks and the core media business cash cows like classified ads have been disrupted by companies like CraigsList.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

One of the hottest area for online publishers, has been the move back towards paid subscription paywalls for content. One of the companies which has been helping to drive that trend is Los Angeles-based MediaPass , a supplier of software which helps online publishers meter and paywall their content.

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MAY 27, 2011

Los Angeles-based JibJab Media , the online, humorous content producer and personalized electronic greeting cards, has inked a deal with MLB Advanced Media , the companies said Thursday. The videos will be featured on the MLB website , as well as all 30 of the MLB club web sites. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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JULY 9, 2018

Los Angeles-based Famous Birthdays , the online information provider led by Evan Britton, is expanding into the Spanish language market, with a new Spanish site called Famous Birthdays Español. According to Famous Birthdays, the new site will provide its brand, technology, and user experience to the Spanish market.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

According to Los Angeles-based FEM (fem-inc.com), video recommendations can make a significant difference in how long a user spends on a website or app. In that capacity, I realized that there were huge opportunities to drive more optimization and monetization for content creators, as well as more opportunities for audiences.

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JULY 17, 2014

Los Angeles-based Moviepilot , the online film review and publishing site which recently sold off its German operations , has hit the hiring accelerator here in Los Angeles as it has shifted its plans to here in the U.S. The startup--which moved here back in 2012 --offers up a wealth of movie related content on its site.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Who are the top tech companies to work for in Los Angeles? popped up consistently in an informal (and highly non-scientific poll) of a number of readers, executive recruiters, and others in the Los Angeles area, who cited growth, brand, profitability, and other factors in their suggestions to us of the top companies. Demand Media.

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