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AUGUST 27, 2012

Mobile consumers drove what Los Angeles-based movie ticketing and information site Fandango says is its best summer in its history today, as mobile purchases drove a 26 percent year-to-year increase in ticket sales on the service. The company reports that it saw more than 26 million downloads of its various mobile apps.

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Tech.Co

MAY 18, 2017

Los Angeles, for one, is not only brimming with innovative ideas, it’s also home to a wide range of unique startups that are solving the problems of the world. This is evident from the fact that they are owned and run by EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year award finalists in the Greater Los Angeles area. Direct Relief.

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APRIL 9, 2012

Santa Monica-based Kuapay , a new startup aiming at the mobile payments and loyalty markets, has scored $2M in funding, the firm has disclosed. The startup is headed by Joaquin Ayuso de Paul, one of the angel investors in Border Stylo and co-founder of Spanish social network Tuenti.com (acquired by Telefonica). READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

Los Angeles-based Mogreet , the video-based, mobile marketing firm headed by James Citron, reported today that it has named Jesse Silver as Senior Sales Director. Mogreet said it is expanding the sales team to drive new business for the company. SIlver was previously at OpenMarket, and also served at MX Telecom.

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APRIL 26, 2012

Los Angeles-based movie site Fandango is expanding its rollout of mobile ticketing, saying this morning that it has added more than 1,400 additional screens across the country to its paperless mobile ticket program. Fandango said it now accepts mobile tickets at 2,600 screens. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 23, 2011

Proving that iPhone mobile applications are now fully mainstream, the Girls Scouts of the USA, the organization which oversees Girls Scouts in the US, said today that it has released the Official Girl Scouts of the USA Cookie Finder for the iPhone or iPod touch. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 19, 2012

Los Angeles-based Mogreet , coming off a new round of venture funding, is in expansion mode, saying that it has opened up a new Midwest sales office for the company. Mogreet said it has opened up a new office headed by Joshua Pyne, who the firm snagged from ChaCha, the mobile questions and answers service. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

Los Angeles-based Appetize , a startup which is backed by Guggenheim, the Jacksonville Jaguars and San Francisco 49ers family offices, Marc Geiger of William Morris, and Roar Entertainment, has signed up Live Nation Entertainment as a customer, the company said this week. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 18, 2013

in a seed funding round, for its interactive mobile magazine. According to the firm, the funding was led by the Tech Coast Angels, and also included the Desert Angels, Pasadena Angels, and other independent angel investors. San Diego-based Yapert said this morning that it has raised $1.2M READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Online Black Friday sales hit a record $3.34 percent increase year over year, the first time, sales on Friday were over $3 billion. billion of that spending was made via mobile devices. billion, according to numbers tallied by Adobe over the weekend--a 17.7 According to Adobe, about $1.2 billion was spent online, a 17.7

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JUNE 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based Fandango , the movie ticketing and information service, said today that it has had the best ever number in May for traffic and ticket sales, for the company's entire 12-year history. Fandango is owned by Comcast, which acquired the movie site back in 2007.

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JULY 16, 2012

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , the online advertising optimization firm headed by Frank Addante, has launched an offering for the mobile advertising market, the company said this morning. Rubicon said its new REVV for Mobile product helps publishers to sell mobile ad inventory, through both direct and indirect sales channels.

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JULY 8, 2013

If there were such a thing as a "Dream Team" for mobile advertising, you would be hard pressed not to pick the founding team of Los Angeles-based Gradient X (www.gradientx.com), whose founders include Michael Lum (formerly of OpenX), Brian Baumgart (formerly at Adconion), and Julie Mattern (formerly of Rubicon Project).

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MARCH 26, 2012

Los Angeles-based Fandango said today that this weekend's release of The Hunger Games, the movie based on the book of the same name by Suzanne Collins, broke its sales records, with 22 percent of domestic opening weekend ticket sales being made through its system.

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DECEMBER 22, 2021

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Diversis Capital Management said this week that it has backed field sales software developer SalesRabbit. SalesRabbit offers up both native mobile and web-based software aimed at field sales organizations. The company is based in Utah.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Los Angeles-based Mobile Roadie , the developer of branded mobile apps for celebrities, musicians, and brands, has snagged a VP away from fellow Los Angeles firm Topspin Media. According to Mobile Roadie, it has added Andrew Mains as its Chief Operating Officer. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

San Diego-based MeLLmo , the firm behind the Roambi mobile business application, said today that it has hired on Brad Freitag as the firm's Vice President of Sales. Freitag has previously worked at Oracle, IBM, and Hyperion Solutions, and was most recently at Host Analytics, where he was Vice President of Sales. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Hyundai Motor Group said it will jointly develop an electric vehicle platform with Los Angeles-based startup Canoo, the latest startup tapped by the automaker as part of an $87 billion push to invest in electrification and other future technologies. Hyundai Motor Group has committed to invest $87 billion over the next five years. ”

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Los Angeles-based Mobile Messenger , the mobile marketing firm majority owned by Silver Lake Partners, said earlier this week that it has named Larry Robiner as its VP of CRM Channel Sales. Tags: sales executive messenger mobile. Robiner joins the firm from Epsilon, where he was VP of Business Development.

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APRIL 5, 2012

The popularity of "The Hunger Games" has apparently helped out Los Angeles-based Fandango , which sells online and mobile tickets to movie-goers, as the firm said Thursday that it had the best selling, first quarter in the company's history. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

Los Angeles-based mobile game developer Scopely is buying mobile game studio FoxNext Games Los Angeles , the studio behind the mobile game Marvel Strike Force. Financial terms of the sale were not announced. Disney acquired FoxNext Games Los Angeles when it purchased 20th Century Fox.

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

Los Angeles-based videogame rental service GameFly said today that it has launched a new, PC client, which allows subscribers to play free PC games from the service. GameFly also said it will begin selling PC games on GameFly.com, as well as on its mobile apps for iOS and Android. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 11, 2015

Los Angeles-based gay dating app and website developer Grindr is looking for a buyer, according to Bloomberg. Bloomberg said that Grindr has hired investment banker Raine Group to advise the company on a sale. Grindr was founded by Joel Simkhai. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 3, 2011

Los Angeles-based Evolve Media COrp and fellow Los Angeles online ad firm >b>AdColony , which is a division of Jirbo , said yesterday that the two are in a partnership deal. The two said that the deal will combine Evolve's online ad sales force with AdColony's mobile ad network.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Advisors Douglas Merritt, CEO of Splunk, and Mike Scarpelli, CFO of Snowflake, also made individual investments as angels. SpotOn is paying $415 million in cash and stock for the Los Angeles-based company. But the company says its offering extends beyond traditional payment processing and point-of-sale software.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Tuesday, December 4, 2012 -- Graziadio Alumni Network of Los Angeles presents their Small Business Breakfast Series: New Trends in Mobile and Online Marketing. In this interactive and collaborative session, we will discuss: mCommerce vs eCommerce and the impact of SmartPhone sales overtaking PC sales. Old Media?,

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

The dinner parties now are filled with self-righteous angel investors bragging about how many deals they are in on. Logic tells me the following: It is hard to make money angel investing. The best angels will do very well just at the best real estate investors did well in good times and bad. It is slowly becoming Florida Condos.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Climbing the ranks for our Los Angeles, CA region, Mobile Therapy was one of two semifinal winners. If they come out on top, Mobile Therapy can expect prizes and support from Tech Wildcatters, 500Startups, Consumer Electronics Association, Crowdfunder, Techstars, American Airlines, and more!

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 29, 2019

Los Angeles-based Ordermark , the online delivery management service for restaurants founded by the scion of the famous, family-owned Canter’s Deli, said it has raised $18 million in a new round of funding. The round was led by Boulder-based Foundry Group. Canters restaurant royalty raises $9.5

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APRIL 18, 2014

So, we were surprised to learn about the backing that Los Angeles-based mobile app provider TRUCKAST (www.truckast.com) has from investor Gary Winnick (who co-founded Global Crossing). We caught up with CEO Todd Davis to learn why the company and its investors think mobile apps for construction are the next big thing.

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JANUARY 17, 2013

It's a huge development task to develop your own mobile application, connect into Facebook, and create an online ordering system--unless you use the software from ChowNow (www.chownow.com), one of the newest startups to get funding here in Los Angeles. One is the mobile app. The platform can be divided into three products.

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JUNE 27, 2019

Los Angeles-based AdQuick.com , which is developing software to help marketers and agencies measure the effectiveness of both out-of-home and digital out-of-home advertising, has named Max Polisar as the company's Chief Revenue Officer. Polisar was most recently Chief Revenue Officer at Awesomeness.

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

That's the story behind Los Angeles-based Kixer (www.kixer.com), which saw a great exit last week as it was acquired by content management software developer Lakana. The startup was co-founded by Keith Bonnici, Omar Nicola, and Jake Moilanen, and was venture backed by TenOne Ten Ventures, Lowercase Capital, and local angels.

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JUNE 2, 2020

Los Angeles-based Trait Signal , a new, automatic analytics startup, said this morning that it has launched a software platform to provide car dealers insights on cars for sale. and Europe, aggregates information on automobile mobiles, providing information to help buyers understand a vehicle's "defining traits."

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 16, 2020

For the greater Los Angeles-based Openpath, the new funding offers a chance to boost its sales and marketing efforts and develop new security-focused products for companies and property managers trying to woo tenants back to the shared office space during a global pandemic. ”

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JANUARY 2, 2013

Los Angeles-based Fandango , the online and mobile movie ticketing service which is a unit of NBCUniversal, said today that its 2012 was its "best year in company history". The company said it had a 12-year record high in ticket sales, web and mobile traffic, and app downloads. Fandango is run by Paul Yanover.

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AUGUST 23, 2018

Los Angeles-based Appetize , which develops modern, tablet-based and other point of sale (POS) systems, said this morning that it has linked with SIDEARM Sports , a provider of mobile apps for the collegiate athletic market. The two said the first client using the joint solution is the University of North Carolina.

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