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APRIL 1, 2011

Visitors to Los Angeles-based video streaming service Hulu Friday were greeted with a surprise "redesign" of the web site, as part of a Hulu April Fool's gag. Hulu's gag website was one of a number of April Fool's efforts by technology firms Friday. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 8, 2014

MGID , a provider of native advertising services and technology, said Tuesday that it is moving its U.S. headquarters to Los Angeles, to be closer to its sports, entertainment and lifestyle clients. The native advertising company--which helps place native ads on publisher web sites--was previously headquartered in New York.

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JULY 26, 2016

Dropoff , an on-demand, same day delivery startup, said today that it has launched its services in Los Angeles, as the first expansion of the startup into California. Dropoff's platform includes web and mobile ordering capability, real-time tracking and confirmation of deliveries, an API for integration with e-commerce sites, and more.

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MARCH 24, 2011

Los Angeles-based QR code startup ShareSquare is announcing today that it has opened up its QR code service to the public, and also outlined its pricing plans and tiers. ShareSquare has been in private beta for the last three months. The startup is headed by Matthias Galica. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 29, 2013

DreamHost , the Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud services provider, said Tuesday that it has debuted its DreamObjects public cloud storage service into general availability, aiming the service at application storage, Web site backup, content storage, disaster recovery, as well as personal backups.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2012

If you're a web publisher, or even a brand developing your own outreach to customers through a newsletter or microsite, how do you efficiently gather and curate all of the news and information out there? Right now, it's a manual process--unless you're using the tools from Los Angeles-based PublishThis (www.publishthis.com).

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Los Angeles-based Evite , the online invitations business which is a unit of IAC, said today that it has launched an extensive redesign of the firm's website. The site said that--after 10 years on its old platform--it was time to bring an upgraded service to its users. designs to the online invitations space. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 11, 2012

Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud hosting provider Media Temple is looking to maker it easier for people to migrate their websites and domains to the service, through a new service called Otto.

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JUNE 29, 2010

Los Angeles-based Hulu , the video streaming site which features television and other content from major content providers, has finally released details on its rumored subscription service, Hulu Plus. a month, and that the service is slated to go live in July. a month, and that the service is slated to go live in July.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Los Angeles-based BakeSpace.com , the online social networking and recipe site, has a new product for you. According to the firm, its new, Cookbook Cafe product allows grassroots cookbook authors to create, market, and sell their very own cookbooks for the iPad, as well as the web.

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AUGUST 24, 2017

Los Angeles-based web hosting provider Dreamhost apparently is the latest ISP to get caught up in the game of "hot potato" with neo-Nazi, white supremacist website The Daily Stormer. According to a post by the founder of The Daily Stormer, Dreamhost booted the website earlier today citing its terms of service.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Los Angeles-based location data provider Factual said Wednesday evening that it has made its Places data available in the AWS Data Exchange, a new service rolled out by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to allow its customers access to third party data via the cloud.

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APRIL 19, 2011

Los Angeles-based Woo Media , the firm behind video speed dating site WooMe, said today that it has launched a new, group video communications service called MonsterChat. The firm said the new service allows users to conect in live chats and in group chat rooms, with up to 24 people in a simultaneous chat session.

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AUGUST 14, 2017

Online web hosting site GoDaddy has booted a neo-Nazi publication, the Daily Stormer, from its hosting services, after users pointed out the site's articles celebrating the death of a woman in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend. GoDaddy has major operations in Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 12, 2012

Los Angeles-based Invested.in , the developer of web-based software for managing crowd funding efforts, has connected its service into the popular AngelList service, saying last week that it is launching Crowdcelerator.com , a new service which uses AngelList's API to help startup companies raise funds and close their fundraising rounds.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2008

San Diego-based BrightQube, an angel-backed stock photo search site, has updated its web services to make it easier for photo buyers to find images. BrightQube rolled out its new web site earlier this week, adding such features as pop-up search tips, new navigation options, filtering, and other features.

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JUNE 18, 2014

Los Angeles- and San Francisco-based Black Lotus Communications , which offers up distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) mitigation services to SMB and enterprise clients, said this week that it has opened up two new centers in Ashburn, Virginia, and Amsterdan, Netherlands. READ MORE>>.

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Los Angeles-based web and cloud hosting service provider DreamHost said this week that it has added full support for HTTP/2, the new web standard used for transporting web pages across the Internet. DreamHost ssaid that HTTP/2 currently only works with secure websites hosted on Nginx. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 25, 2013

Los Angeles-based TheBouqs (www.thebouqs.com) thinks so, with its new, cut-to-order online flower delivery service for the iPad generation. There''s no continual upsell like you might encounter on other floral sites. The third part of this is the subscription service we offer. What are the details on your seed funding?

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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.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

For today's Insights and Opinions section, where we feature insights and analysis from the local technology community, we have an article from Jeff Cohn , an entrepreneur and veteran of the angel and VC investment community here in Southern California. Read the rest of Jeff's post on on angel and venture capital shareholder liquidity.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

Los Angeles-based SendLove.to , a new startup headed by Chris Lyman and Corey Brundage, debuted today, saying it will provide a "people-polling" platform which will allow users to rate and share their opinion on people in the news. Lyman and Brundage were most recently at Fonality. As part of the launch, SendLove.to READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 20, 2008

Pasadena-based OpenX, maker of the popular web advertising server of the same name, said Monday that it has launched a new set of professional services and support packages for web publishers. The new services are aimed at large and medium sized publishers. The new services are aimed at large and medium sized publishers.

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AUGUST 16, 2012

Huntington Beach-based AnyMeeting , which develops free web conferencing and online meeting software, reported this morning that it has released a new feature which lets users share any YouTube video into their meeting, and has also hit a milestone of 200,000 registered users. READ MORE>>.

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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. Virb provides a service which helps creative types to create their own websites. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 31, 2013

Stickam , the live video streaming service, announced on its web site Thursday that it would be shutting down its services, effective 11:59PM PST. The Los Angeles-based company said that it "did everything we could to keep this dream alive", but was "sad to have to say goodbye." Stickam had been founded in 2005.

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

Los Angeles-based advertising marketplace operator Rubicon Project and its partner White Ops , a provider of human verification services for the digital ad market, said their combined efforts have protected buyers on sellers on Rubicon's marketplace from a major Russian advertising fraud effort uncovered this month. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 5, 2012

Los Angeles-based Invested.in , the online crowdfunding service headed by Alon Goren, is shifting its focus towards helping companies raise money from accredited investors. The new site also comes as Invested.in The new site also comes as Invested.in

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The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Barter your services for their services. Use crowd funding to build reserves.

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APRIL 3, 2014

Los Angeles-based Cloud Takes , an online project collaboration site focused on feature films, post production, and other content work, has been acquired by Technicolor. Cloud Takes'' software was used to manage digital assets, track project progress, and more, and ran on Amazon Web Services. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 9, 2012

Los Angeles-based live broadcasting site Stickam said this week that it has launched a new, VIP membership program, which will let users on the site better promote themselves. Stickam said the new service will cost $3.99 The company also provides its service as a white-label product to professional broadcasters.

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AUGUST 14, 2017

Google has revoked the domain registration for the neo-Nazi web publication, The Daily Stormer, after the site attempted to move its domain registration and host‌ing to Google, according to reports. Both Google and GoDaddy have major operations in Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 13, 2015

Los Angeles-based streaming television site Hulu and wireless carrier AT&T have reached a deal to offer up video-on-demand services on AT&T later this year, the two said Wednesday. Pricing on the service and details have not been announced. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 2, 2011

Los Angeles-based ShareSquare , the QR code marketing startup run by Matthias Galica, said Tuesday that it has linked its service to the e-commerce APIs from Amazon.com and Songkick. In addition, ShareSquare's link with Songkick links with the Songkick API, to show a dynamic feed of upcoming events to fans from the Songkick service.

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OCTOBER 23, 2013

Los Angeles-based Hulu said Wednesday that it will begin offering up free clips from the site to mobile users--the first time that Hulu has offered up content to mobile devices outside of Hulu Plus. The new clips are available via Hulu''s mobile web interface, at Hulu.com. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 30, 2010

Los Angeles-based Catchpoint , a new web monitoring service headed by former DoubleClick executive Mehdi Daoudi, reports that yesterday's downtime of e-commerce site Amazon.com lasted for three hours. Catchpoint provides an online service which uses 26, distributed monitoring stations in the U.S.

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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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