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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. 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. “We are doing what Jasper and Copy.ai

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Atomkeep , an online service to help users synchronize their social media profiles across a number of social networking sites, has been acquired by Jobscience , a developer of social relationship management software tools. Atomkeep was founded in Los Angeles by Olexiy Prokhorenko and Olexandr Prokhorenko.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace has rolled out new tools for its MyDebates.org website, the joint effort of the firm with the Commission on Presidential Debates. READ MORE>>

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OCTOBER 25, 2017

Dating apps from Los Angeles-based Tinder --not to mention similar apps from Bumble, OK Cupid, Zoosk, WeChat, and many others--are apparently full of security holes , according to researchers.

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MARCH 10, 2010

Los Angeles-based MySpace said today that it has launched a new, revamped version of the firm's game homepage, as a new MySpace Games site, to provide a more social gaming environment. The site also said it has rolled out a new iPhone application which allows users to play any of the games on the MySpace site on their iPhone.

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JANUARY 26, 2010

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace has launched a beta of a new social playlist service, My Music 2.0 , the firm said Tuesday. According to MySpace, the music playlist hub will allow users to build and manage their own social playlists from its music catalog. Among features of My Music 2.0

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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. Wish that cookbook for your church, school, or club could enter the modern age?

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JANUARY 20, 2010

Hollywood-based Taltopia.com , an online social networking site for artists, said today that it is launching a new tool which aggregates casting calls and job postings in the entertainment and arts industry. The firm is backed by angel investors. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 3, 2011

Los Angeles-based SocialVibe , the online advertising firm run by Jay Samit, said today that it has launched a new, political advertising solution ahead of the 2012 elections. SocialVibe's campaigns have previously been for major brands.

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AUGUST 25, 2010

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace reports today that it has rolled out a new profile and theme gallery, to help with "cleaning things up a bit" on the site. MySpace said the changes are a result of feedback that users were having a "tough time" navigating profiles on the site. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. Advertising revenue is generated from each site visitor, paid or otherwise. Our fitness events and mapping tool is a key differentiator.

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MARCH 10, 2010

Van Nuys-based Audiolife , a firm that develops tools and technology to sell merchandise to music fans, announced today that it has raised $1M in a bridge round of funding. Audiolife's software allows artists to sell downloads, ringtones, CDs, and other merchandise from their web sites, blogs, or social networking sites.

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MARCH 9, 2010

Los Angeles-based live streaming site Stickam.com has launched a new Facebook application, the firm announced this morning, which allows Facebook users to create their own live video broadcasts. Stickam.com said its new app --which is free--allows users to create accounts on the Stickam site, and broadcast live video to others.

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JUNE 23, 2010

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based startup Worlize (www.worlize.com) announced it had received a seed round of funding, and launched a firm to focus on social gaming and chat. Brian McKelvey: We're building a virtual world, which attaches to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and all the social networks.

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JULY 11, 2012

What does social networking have to do with the stock market? According to Vinny Jindal , the CEO of Los Angeles-based startup Stockr (www.stockr.com), everything. Vinny talked with us about his start, which allows users to discuss and collaborate on their stocks and finances in a social way. What is Stockr all about?

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JULY 16, 2012

With the proliferation of social media, how do you--as a brand--manage all of those various websites, content, and media? Los Angeles-based Fliptu (www.fliptu.com), headed by Jeremy Gocke , thinks it has this figured out, by providing a central place to access a brand's content, across social networks.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Los Angeles-based Sometrics said Monday that the firm has officially launched a new product, Social Ad Manager, which the firm says is designed to help developers and social networking sites optimize their advertising inventory. The software has been available in beta since the beginning of June.

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MAY 27, 2010

For this morning's interview, we have an interview with Kieve Huffman , the co-founder of Dather (www.dather.com), a new Los Angeles startup which has created a tool which helps to aggregate social networking web sites and media. We have been really excited to be part of the startup community here in Los Angeles.

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JANUARY 21, 2009

Los Angeles-based Geni, an online genealogy and social networking site, upgraded the firm's services last night, adding new statistics features and gift accounts. The gift accounts will cost $50, and allow recipients to gain access to the site's additional features. Geni allows users to create online, Web 2.0-style

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DECEMBER 4, 2008

Los Angeles-based ClipBlast, a developer of video search tools and software, said Wednesday that KickApps will integrate the firm's video search products into its platform. KickApps develops social media applications used by brands and companies to create their own social networking and community web sites.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In his quest to better connect with new friends, Alex Capecelatro had a problem: none of the existing social networking sites were really designed to connect people with who you didn't know, and might share your hobbies and interests. Alex Capecelatro: Hyphos is a social discovery platform. What is Hyphos?

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APRIL 21, 2010

entrepreneur Wil Schroter (I am an angel investor in Affordit). companies need a “multi-channel&# customer support tool to become the Zappos of their industries. Increasing this is also migrating to social network messaging but email is still king. The build “implicit social networks.&#

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, lawyers, venture capitalists, or Angels. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites, for example, cost a million dollars to set up. Download free website tools. Personalize a simple web site.

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JULY 7, 2010

Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Rumored to be prepping for an IPO, just inked a deal to launch a new beauty and fashion site with Tyra Banks. Less known--a healthy domain name registration business. which he sold to AOL.

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JANUARY 10, 2013

Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, venture capitalists, or Angels. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Download free website tools. Many hosting services offer free tools, or will build a default website for you.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Los Angeles-based FreedomSpeaks.com an online web site focused on political social networking, said Tuesday that it has launched a new application programming interface (API) targeted at helping developers tap into information about publicly elected officials. READ MORE>>

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MARCH 17, 2009

Rob Farrow is one of the co-founders of Chi.mp , a new startup which is getting set to launch a service to allow users to manage their profiles across the many sites on the Internet. We had a concept around creating a platform, using open standards, to resolve lots of the issues surrounding social networking and the issues of identity.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

” Los Angeles-based Brud is by far the most established of this new breed in the U.S. (at “Algorithmically generated content and how things like generative adversarial networks are being used to create and synthesize new photo and video content.” at least in terms of the amount of money it has raised).

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Last Week, Calabasas-based Masher Media announced it had received a round of angel funding from the Tech Coast Angels to fund its development of MyMiniPeeps (www.myminipeeps.com), a virtual world for children. They're looking for deeper social networking, and more of a gaming element on sites.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, venture capitalists, or Angels. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Download free website tools. Many hosting services offer free tools, or will build a default website for you.

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MARCH 24, 2010

Van Nuys-based Audiolife (www.audiolife.com), a new startup focused on providing e-commerce tools to musicians, recently raised $1M in angel funding. The store allows in-page transactions, and never redirects them to another site, keeping them captive and leveraging impulse buys. What's the idea behind Audiolife?

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MARCH 12, 2012

"I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. LinkedIn - This remains one of my primary tools. Here's an example of that kind of email. Find out who is good.

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JULY 18, 2012

One way is to create your own, custom video clip which you can share via email, text message, or through a social networking site like Facebook. Los Angeles-based SnapCuts (www.snapcuts.com) does just that, allow users to tap into a wide collection of clips, which can be re-mixed, combined with text, and sent to your friends.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. We've created bi-directional, and real-time links between a web site and translation software. What is NativeTung?

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, venture capitalists, or angels. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Look for simple and free tools. Many hosting services offer free tools, or will build a default website for you.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Solaborate is a blend of great social network platforms, by taking in all the greatest bits and putting it all into one. Consumers all have access to social networks, but the business-side has never really caught on. I was very inefficient at doing my job with the lack of tools. What is Solaborate all about?

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MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. Subscribe to RSS.

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