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JUNE 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based PriceGrabber , the online comparison shopping site now owned by Experian, said today that it has officially launched a new, daily deal site at deals.pricegrabber.com. PriceGrabber said it is aggregating over 20 group buying sites--including Groupon and LivingSocial--on the site.

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APRIL 7, 2011

San Diego-based Active.com announced this morning that it is taking its new daily deals site, Schwaggle , nationwide. Active offers its Schwaggle deals via email, Facebook, and through the site. The daily deals are all focused on sports and other fitness-related activities. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Los Angeles-based Zenvoy has formally launched its business matchmaking service and platform, aimed at helping professionals network with others and spur business. Zenvoy said it poll users with questions such as professional specialty, industry, age, experience and location, and matches users with mutually benificial needs.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

The roughly 300,000 marchers that filled the streets of downtown Los Angeles for the third annual Women’s March received more than just an opportunity to hear from some of the state’s high powered politicians, they were also part of a new experiment from local March organizers in bringing technology into the movement.

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

Los Angeles-based Docstoc , an online document and sharing startup, said Wednesday that it has added email uploading and publishing to the service. The firm said that any document can be uploaded to the firm via email, and it will automatically be published publically on the site. READ MORE>>

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 17, 2021

A California-based medical startup that provides COVID-19 testing across Los Angeles has pulled down a website it used to allow customers to access their test results after a customer found a vulnerability that allowed access to other people’s personal information. How Jamaica failed to handle its JamCOVID scandal.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Los Angeles-based StartEngine , the equity crowdfunding site led by serial entrepreneur Howard Marks, told its supporters on Friday that it is planning to launch a new, equity crowdfunding effort: for itself.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Los Angeles-based electronics e-commerce giant Newegg appears to have become the victim of a card-skimming attack on its e-commerce site, according to reports. Newegg did not say how many credit cards numbers and other information may have been released through the compromised payment site. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 18, 2017

Los Angeles-based j2 Global , the provider of Internet services and digital media publisher, has acquired four more cloud companies, the company said on Monday. Los Angeles-based j2 Global , the provider of Internet services and digital media publisher, has acquired four more cloud companies, the company said on Monday. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 29, 2014

A new, Los Angeles-based Connect6 launched this week, with a new, Chrome browser extension which looks to bridge the web--and such sites as Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, and other services--with LinkedIn-like information on potential contacts. Connect6 is headed by Vik Kashyap. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

AT&T , which has been seriously ramping up operations in Los Angeles pending its acquisition of Time Warner, says it has launched a new website to try to help people locate family members and friends in Puerto Rico. AT&T said it will then let those registered know--via email--when service in Puerto Rico has been restored.

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OCTOBER 16, 2008

Los Angeles-based You2Gov, an online social networking startup focused on politics, said this week that it has added new technology to allow its users to directly contact members of Congress. The firm's site now allows users to email, write, or make calls via Skype and Jaxtr to their political representatives. READ MORE>>

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AUGUST 22, 2017

Pasadena-based people search site Spokeo has named longtime Los Angeles technology veteran Tom Fuelling as its new Chief Financial Officer, the company said today. Fuelling was most recently CFO over at Laurel & Wolf, and also has served at such companies as OpenX and Hulu. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Los Angeles-based Causecast, a new startup focused on promoting causes and non-profits, launched this week at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco. The site features videos of celebrities promoting their causes, profiles of nonprofits, and ability to donate to organizations.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Ziff Davis , the publishing arm of Los Angeles-based Internet services firm j2 Global , said Tuesday that it has acquired deal aggregation site TechBargains.com , from Exponential Interactive. Financial terms of the acquisition were not anounced.

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APRIL 7, 2022

Add to that knowing that there are three distinct buying seasons each year, and that this site was offering to mix and match sizes to fit, leaving orphan matching skirts and pants – and you can see why my concern. You see, women’s clothing is subject to fashion changes so frequently that inventory becomes obsolete quickly.

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DECEMBER 15, 2014

Los Angeles-based streaming television site Hulu has rolled out a fun new tool to help you channel your holiday spirit (or lack of holiday spirit) into an animated GIF, with a new service called the Hulu Perfect GIF Generator. The tool lets users share those animated GIFs via email and social networks. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Users will first pick from a range of templates, be it a theme for a shopping site or a trip to Japan. Movio recently moved to Los Angeles, where Xu previously worked for six years as a Snap engineer. “Videos are powerful — just imagine if marketers can send emails with talking human avatars instead of plain text.”

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APRIL 19, 2011

Los Angeles-based Savings.com , which operates an online deal and shopping site, said today that it has launched a new, personalized online shopping feature on its site. According to the firm, shoppers on the site can now create a profile which will filter out only the most useful and relevant deals for users.

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DECEMBER 10, 2013

Los Angeles-based Family Archival Solutions is hoping that its new, online service will help address those issues, by letting users manage both their digital--and physical--documents. One of the biggest issues that families have after the loss of a loved one, is the sticky mess of unraveling piles of bills, bank accounts, wills, and whatnot.

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AUGUST 15, 2017

Los Angeles-based hosting firm Dreamhost is fighting the U.S. According to Dreamhost , it has decided to fight a Department of Justice search warrant, requesting information on all of the visitors to the site disruptj20.org. million visitor IP addresses, emails, photos, and more of anyone who has visited the disruptj20.org

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 22, 2019

EV Connect , the Los Angeles-based company that sells software to manage electric vehicle charging, has raised $12 million in a Series B round led by investors Mitsui & Co. The company provides and manages 1,000 electric vehicle charging sites through its EV Connect network. and Ecosystem Integrity Fund. Clients include Yahoo!,

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MAY 26, 2011

The first outgrowth of relationship between Los Angeles-based Goldstar and LA entrepreneur Matt Coffin appears to have surfaced in an email promotion to Goldstar members, inviting Goldstar members to join FamilyFinds , the family-focused, daily deals site started by Coffin. Coffin was the founder of LowerMyBills.com.

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OCTOBER 27, 2011

BeautyMint , the online commerce-and-celebrity site that was announced by BeachMint and celebrity Jessica Simpson, is getting set to launch Monday, according to emails to potential users of the site. BeachMint announced the site September 8th. The company is venture backed by Scale Venture Partners and Lightbank.

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APRIL 16, 2010

Los Angeles-based Break Media , the online operator of a network of sites focused on men, announced Friday morning that it has launched a new division focused on CPA, performance marketing. Break Media said that Apogee Media Network will focus on customer acquisition, email marketing, and social media for advertisers, on a CPA-basis.

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OCTOBER 16, 2012

Los Angeles-based Nimble , the developer of cloud-based, customer relationship management (CRM) and contact management tools, has hired a new VP of Engineering, the company said today. Nimble's online tool helps users track their personal contacts and interactions across email, real life, and social sites. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In what appears to be a major deal with online e-commerce site eBay , Los Angeles-based BeachMint , which is led by Diego Berdakin, appears to be powering a brand new site from eBay called FashionVault. Neither ebay nor BeachMint have officially announced details of the site to the press, outside of the email to users.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In what appears to be a major deal with online e-commerce site eBay , Los Angeles-based BeachMint , which is led by Diego Berdakin, appears to be powering a brand new site from eBay called FashionVault. Neither ebay nor BeachMint have officially announced details of the site to the press, outside of the email to users.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Los Angeles-based MMC , the online publisher headed by Jay Penske, is getting out of the email business. The firm--formerly known as Mail.com Media Corporation--said it is selling off its Mail.com email service to United Internet Group , based in Germany. Tags: mail.com merger acquisition email united internet.

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JULY 18, 2012

Los Angeles-based Media Temple , the web hosting firm, is partnering with Virb to help small businesses, artists, musicians, and others to create their own web sites, the firms said this morning.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace has acquired Threadbox , a developer of email messaging software, according to Threadbox. Tags: myspace threadbox email software messaging merger acquisition. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. Rumors of the acquisition had first been reported in July.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

A new, Los Angeles startup, Scoutfit , said today that it has launched a new, online shopping service which helps users track discounts and get price alerts on items during the holiday. The startup said it emails out price alerts to users whenver new promotion codes are available or a specific item dropes in price. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Los Angeles-based KnotPic , a new online web site, said today that it has launched a new service to allow users to share their wedding photo albums. The site--developed by Maximilian & Co.--said The site did not say if there are any size limits on its new service. KnotPic lists the cost of the new service at $29.00

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JUNE 23, 2010

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace announced Wednesday afternoon that it has integrated the site into Windows Live Messenger and Hotmail. MySpace said it will begin rolling out the beta integration of the features to their users tomorrow. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 17, 2011

Los Angeles-based Goldstar , the online, discounted event tickets service run by Jim McCarthy, is getting close to hitting 5 million tickets sold on the site, according to an email to users by CEO and co-founder Jim McCarthy. The business is directly aimed at the issue of unsold inventory at entertainment venues. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

Los Angeles-based mobileStorm , the email marketing and digital marketing provider headed by Jared Reitzin, has revamped the company's offerings. The firm's new offerings and site actually launched on August 18th, according to Reitzin in his blog, and is the output of a project launched in January to position the firm in the market.

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JULY 26, 2012

Los Angeles-based Teeology , the latest startup backed by tech entrepreneur Brian Lee (ShoeDazzle, LegalZoom), has started signing up users today, telling people via email and Twitter that they can now sign up for the service. READ MORE>>.

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