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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Lalawag , the technology-meets-gossip blog run by Sean and Laurie Percival, is shutting down, according to a post from the two Thursday afternoon. According to the Percivals, they no longer have time to properly run the blog, due to a tough job and a new baby. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 6, 2010

Los Angeles-based GameTrailers.com , the online gaming entertainment and news site owned by MTVN, said Monday that it has launched a new site, GT Motion, focused on motion-based gaming on the Nintendo Wii, PlayStation Move and Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360. GameTrailers is a unit of Viacom Inc.'

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Hollywood-based BUZZMEDIA , the online publisher of entertainment focused blogs and web sites, said today that it has linked with photo sharing site Plixi , which until recently was known as TweetPhoto. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Microsoft's MSN, and Santa Monica-based media firm BermanBraun Interactive said today that they have rolled out a new celebrity news site called WonderWall , which will feature information on what the companies described as the "hottest" pop culture stories, personalities, and trends. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 15, 2014

According to USC Marshall''s Sports Business Institute, and USA TODAY Sports Media Group, the new online publication will provide daily content on breaking news, current events and ongoing topics in the sports industry, including media trends, emerging technologies, new venues, sponsorship deals and marketing campaigns impacting the sports world.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

News today that AOL has acquired technology news blog TechCrunch highlights the growing place of blog publishers in the online world. Here are three, Southern California blog networks which have quietly growing their network of properties: BUZZMEDIA. Did we miss your favorite, Southern California blog empire?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Gabe Rivera wrote a post on why TechMeme is now using its editors to curate titles that appear on its site. When I first started writing this blog several years ago I had less followers than you have right now. So I need to stand out in two areas in which I compete for attention – social media and news readers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2011

With as many as 100 million active blogs (web logs) in English alone on the Internet, how can you find and read the ones you need to be a leader in your business domain? Business site expert blogs. Blog aggregators. LinkedIn groups news links. Facebook for Business news links. User generated news links.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2013

paidContent , the online news site started in Los Angeles by Rafat Ali, is officially disappearing, according to current owner and publisher GigaOm. Rafat Ali--who is now running a New York travel news startup, Skift --had built an empire of news sites on the brand new concept--at the time--of blogging articles and news digitally.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2010

With as many as 400 million blogs (web logs) now active on the Internet, how can you find and read the ones you need to be a leader in your business domain? Business site expert blogs. Blog aggregators. Most bloggers, and many other news sources, are also active on Twitter. LinkedIn groups news links.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

We’ve recently launched a video series called T3:Today’s Tech Trends to further support our shows by adding a video component that can be shared directly from YouTube, our blog or embedded in the radio show website, blog or any other website/blog willing to carry the free content. The Make It Work Mini Cooper Fleet.

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APRIL 29, 2010

In the newest bid for revenue at the Los Angeles Times, the paper said this week that it will begin adding green, affiliate revenue links within its news stories. The links also will show up in a number of the paper's blogs, although so far the paper is steering clear of links within its mainline news reporting.

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DECEMBER 18, 2009

Los Angeles-based entertainment news blog Deadline.com is trumpeting its readership numbers today, saying that the site had 1,111,000 unique visitors in November, more than industry publications Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. The site, run by Nikke Finke, was acquired by Mail.com in June.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Value of Blogging I started the presentation talking about the value of blogging. Tom Peters No single thing in the last 15 years professionally has been more important in my life than blogging. But from a value perspective, it really comes down to the numbers I showed for my eLearning Technology blog. This is that post.

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JUNE 17, 2010

Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.COM , the online health and fitness site run by Demand Media in a partnership with Lance Armstrong, said today that it has partnered with RadioShack Corporation for an iPhone app. Financial arrangements between LIVESTRONG and RadioShack were not released. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based BUZZMEDIA , the vast network of entertainment and music related blogs and websites, said that it is now number one in entertainment news, according to rankings from comScore. The company, which is run by Tyler Goldman, says it is now seeing more than 502 million monthly page views across its sites.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Los Angeles-based BUZZMEDIA , the publisher of entertainment related blogs and websites, said Friday that it has acquired The Frisky , an entertainment news, celebrity, and fashion site, from Turner Broadcasting Systems. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I began publishing my blog in 2008. I was hesitant to use my own name, as I did not want my blog to be perceived as a self-promotional vanity project. In addition, my role as Partner at Rincon Venture Partners provided me with a business reason to invest additional time and effort into my humble blog. I was not disappointed.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Martin Rushe, the CEO and founder of Selz wrote a blog post announcing the deal. Selz currently offers three monthly pricing plans which allow you to create your own store using its platform, or attach Selz' smarts to an existing site. We also don't know exactly how much Amazon paid for Selz. App required. ?. App required. See Deals*.

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MARCH 5, 2014

Burbank-based Nerdist Industries , the online site focused on popular culture and "nerd" content, said today that it has named tow executives. Nerdist began as a blog, but now also features a Youtube channel, and podcast network. nerdist blog news content video executive' READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 13, 2013

Sean Percival , the founder of Wittlebee and former MySpace, Tsavo Media, Docstoc, and Mahalo executive, has surfaced at hyperlocal news site Topix as VP of Marketing. Percival, who had been very visible in the Los Angeles technology scene, had left Los Angeles in July seeking new pastures. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 12, 2010

Los Angeles-based GameRevolution , the online gaming unit of AtomicOnline/Evolve Media , said today that it has signed on online gaming site Destructoid.com , an online gaming blog site. Destructoid offers video game industry news and commentary. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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APRIL 27, 2010

Los Angeles-based Mail.com Media Corporation (MMC), which operates the Mail.com email service and portal, as well as its own network of content-focused web sites, said today that it has acquired BGR.com , a mobile/gadget review and news site. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

El Segundo-based Aggregage , which develops software driven B2B websites and newsletters which aggregate blog and news postings for specific industries, has raised $1M in a convertible note, the company said today. Aggregage''s B2B websites are published in conjunction with trade and professional associations. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Guardian News & Media , the firm behind web publisher ContentNext , is in discussions with potential buyers about a possible sale, according to a report from the firm's own site, paidContent. Ali had founded the blog after he lost a job immediately after September 11th. Names of potential buyers were not discussed.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

As noted in Hacking Hacker News , the company previously dominated the mindshare of the web development community by facilitating the spread of a random posting on Hacker News. Similar to their prior guerilla-marketing stunt, their April Fool''s Day posting topped Hacker News. We didn''t ask people to tweet it, they just did.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2011

With sites like TurnTable.fm , Chill , and Shaker to name a few. Although Worlize may be news to some they have been around for just over a year and they are based right here in Los Angeles. Their latest addition to Worlize is the ability to for a “Chat Now” badge to be placed on your blog.

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DECEMBER 3, 2012

For our Insights and Opinions section this morning, we asked Michael Terpin , the founder of SocialRadius , to lend some hard-earned perspective on fake releases following the flap last week over a fake press release involving Google, ICOA, PRWeb, and half the Internet news and blogging sites.

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

According to Gorilla Nation, the firm will handle advertising inventory for Retuers.ca, the international news agency's Canadian site, as well as inventory for traffic coming from Canada to Reuters main site, Reuters.com. Financial impact and details on the customer win were not disclosed.

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APRIL 14, 2011

I ended up passing on the Twitter investment, but I put out a blog post at the time--I was working for CBS--asking if someone would want to build it, and a kid named Soren MacBeth emailed me back saying he'd build it, which started the idea of StockTwits. So, we built our own, new and improved version of a microblogging platform.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 1, 2009

I am excited to be participating in and announcing the of: Southern California Tech Central This is a community of people in Southern California who have come together to help find and organize the best content from blogs, news sources and other web sites all around technology in So Cal. And perhaps to stimulate new connections.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Since then, the two left to start a brand new startup, SendLove.to (www.sendlove.to), which launched Tuesday, focused on allowing users to rate public figures in news stories, blogs, and elsewhere. As you know, the comments at the foot of every blog out there that is really kind of a big waste of time.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. Our tool is integrated onto their site.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 9, 2009

Thursday, August 13, 2009 -- Entertainment News Goes Social Panel. Join us for our panel discussion on how industry news sources are using online, especially social media, to report entertainment news. Digital LA. Extra extra read all about it! online, your iPhone, Blackberry, tweets, etc! See [link] (more).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Tonight I was reading a good blog post ( here ) from Sean Powers with Alistair Croll on preparing yourself for the TC50 “bump” – the rise in traffic that a company gets from presenting at TechCrunch 50. Worth a read on how to maximize the traffic that comes to you site since much of it will be fleeting. Don’t drink it.

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

Santa Monica-based Mahalo, the search and news site run by Jason Calacanis, has cut 10 percent of the firm's staff, Calacanis said in a post on his blog Wednesday. Mahalo is venture backed by Burda Digital Ventures, CBS, News Corp., and Sequoia Capital, and provides human-edited search pages and news summaries.

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