Berkonomics

JULY 28, 2015

September 21st, 2015 marks the sixth anniversary of publication for BERKONOMICS , the blog containing insights for business management, entrepreneurs, and investors. Starting with just 4,000 circulation in 2009, BERKONOMICS has grown to well over 100,000, and is read on five continents by an audience that is 45% female.

RSS

socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2012

The company said the redesign came after finding that users were interested in using its tools to create blog-like travel and trip journals, rather than the original, animated slideshows the tool provided.

Blogging

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 6, 2009

And here's where you can find more events: SoCalTech Calendar – A great aggregation of events around Southern California that has been pulled together for years by Ben Kuo. Southern California Tech Central – Brings together posts from top bloggers around Southern California including John's blog and this blog.

Southern California

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2019

Burbank-based Disney has shut down parent blog site Babble , according to the site, which did not say why it was shutting down. The site is not the first in the sector shut down by Disney; Kaboose, another parenting blog site, was acquired by Disney in 2009 for CAD $23.3M, but was shut down sometime sometime in 2016. READ MORE>>.

Blogging

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.

Venture Capital

socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2013

Online photo blogging platform Tumblr is the latest, hot Internet startup to set up shot in Los Angeles, saying that it has opened up its first, official West Coast office in the city. publisher publishing employment jobs tech high expansion blogging angeles tumblr' Tumblr is based in New York. READ MORE>>.

Los Angeles

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

Los Angeles-based content delivery network provider NetDNA is powering a web performance optimization service for WordPress blog owners this morning. netdna wordpress optimization maxcdn service software blog' Financial impact of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

Services

socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2010

Santa Monica-based content delivery network provider EdgeCast announced this morning that it has won blogging site Wordpress.com and blog search site Technorati. Tags: hosting blog technorati wordpress edgecast. Financial impact of the deal was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

Blogging

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2011

Johnson, has launched a new, community feature which allows third party website and blogs to host and provide communities on their own sites. The firm said the new, Lunch Network lets blogs and websites create their own, interest-based communities, which tap into the content and information from Lunch.com's website.

Blogging

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

In a post on its blog, Geni said it was working on the "Next Stage of Genealogy" and showed a brief YouTube video with what appeared to be a Geni application running on an iPhone. Los Angeles-based Geni.com , the online family tree site, hinted this morning that it is about to release an iPhone application for the service.

Geni

socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2011

Batt co-founded BUZZmedia, originally known as Buzznet, out of his efforts photo blogging, scoring his first funding round back around 2006. Katalyst was founded in 2000 by Goldberg and Kutcher, and includes clients such as Gatorage, Levi's Nikon, and Intel. The firm creates programming for television, film, and the web. READ MORE>>.

Buzznet

socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2010

According to Cheezburger Network, which is run by Ben Huh and based in Seattle, Whitman used the firm's FAIL blog site without permission in its latest ad against Democrat Jerry Brown. In the ad, Whitman uses a faked screenshot of the FAIL Blog with the words FAIL over Jerry Brown.

Blogging

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

Wish you could automatically hear and follow the latest tracks people are talking about on music blogs? Galica's new service allows users to automatically stream the tracks being talked about on a range of music blogs, for free. The firm is tapping streams from Shuffler.fm, Youtube, Soundcloud, and others for its tracks.

RSS

socalTECH

MAY 9, 2012

According to Lijit, which is part of Federated Media, it has linked with FinDTheBest to provide customizable widgets and Wordpress plugins which allows blogs and other sites to embed comparisons of different products within those sites.

Santa Barbara

socalTECH

MAY 10, 2011

Los Angeles-based BUZZMEDIA , the online entertainment blog and web publisher, is trumpeting its ranking today by comScore as one of the sites with the highest young adult reach. BUZZMEDIA said that 18-34 year olds are more likely to be found on its site than on Facebook and other sites.

Buzznet

socalTECH

MAY 17, 2013

Santa Monica-based startup VIRURL said Thursday that it has launched its technology, which automatically publishes sponsored content into blogs. virurl native advertising blogging blogger content' According to the firm, its product allows bloggers to insert sponsored posts that match a blogger''s audience on a cost-per-click basis.

Advertising

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2010

Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project , the online advertising optimization firm founded by Frank Addante, is on track to do $100M in revenues this year and will reach profitability in Q4, according to a blog post by Addante Tuesday afternoon.

Clearstone

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2013

Quaterly said that Jobson, which creates and edits the blog Colossal , has joined the service, letting subscribers receive a package every three months with personally curated gifts of things Jobson finds inspiring. Jobson''s blog is focused on art, sculpture, photography, and design. READ MORE>>.

Design

socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2013

publishthis wordpress plugin publishing content blog blogging partnership' PublishThis says its tools are now being used by such customers as Ziff Davis, Sporting News, Cox Media, and others. READ MORE>>.

Blogging

socalTECH

JANUARY 21, 2011

According to the list, put together by Larry Cheng and based on Compete traffic numbers, Suster was ranked number 3, with 53,655 monthly unique visitors to his blog, Both Sides of the Table. The venture capital blog ranking was the fourth annual ranking of 149 venture capital, microVC/seed, and growth equity blogs.

Venture Capital

socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2014

fieldsofgreen today usatoday publication content sports business online blog' Financial details of the deal were not announced. READ MORE>>.

USC

socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Johnson has been vocally protesting his exclusion from the Republican debates, saying in a letter in his blog last week that he has been "excluded from the conversation" with Republican Candidates--writing that the "Republican National Committee bears some responsibility" for that exclusion.

Santa Monica

socalTECH

MAY 4, 2011

But, I'd like to extend a personal invite to socalTECH readers, because I've been reading the blog forever, and if they click on this link they can access Namesake directly. We think it's important, because you can always go downstream but you can't go upstream when you're building a social environment.

Social Network

socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2014

near real-time automated intelligence gathering systems that scour public and private data sources like websites, blogs, social media and email to unearth information businesses can use for competitive advantage. The funding was led by serial entreprenur Yuri Pikover, as well as $1M from crowdfunding.

Software

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2011

I understand you managed to get funding through interest from a blog post? Fred had been blog posting about this problem, about how he spent a whole day getting off of email lists he was on. We came out with it a little earlier than we would have wanted, because Fred wanted to blog about it. What are you doing with that funding?

Newsletter

socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2013

Fanmix , a startup developing "social inbox" software to manage a user's social conversations on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs, comment threads, and elsewhere, has spun out of Los Angeles-based Social Engine , according to Social Engine co-founder and new FanMix head Charlotte Genevier.

Silver Lake

socalTECH

MAY 9, 2011

According to StockTwits, the content partnership with CNNMoney will feature editorial content from its blog network, linking directly to individual blogs its its StockTwits Blog Network, and also includes an advertising revenue share program. Financial detail fo the deal were not disclosed.

Content

socalTECH

JULY 17, 2013

It looks like the battle between Los Angeles e-commerce startup Beachmint and technology blog PandoDaily is flaring up into a major firestorm, over the accuracy of a story posted a couple of weeks ago by the tech blog.

Blogging

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

HipGeo said that users can download HipGeo, enter a special code, and blog to their Vagabondish blog to win various prizes. The tie allows users to upload their pictures using HipGeo to a pool to share with other Vagabondish users. Financial details of the partnership were not disclosed.

eHarmony

socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Los Angeles gossip and technology blog Lalawag , run by Sean and Laurie Percival, has been sold. The blog--which the Percivals had announced on September 16th that they would shut down--has been acquired by Valley Girl Inc. , a publication that is run by Jesse Draper, the daughter of venture capitalist Tim Draper.

Draper

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Sean Percival, best known for founding Los Angeles tech blog lalawag, in addition to his work as an executive at MySpace, has booted up a new effort--Santa Monica-based Wittlebee , a new, online subscription service for baby supplies. The new effort emerged this week, revealing that it is backed by Science, Inc. ,

Santa Monica

socalTECH

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.

Entertainment

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Kilar detailed the numbers and provided commentary in a blog post Monday morning. Hulu attributed the big gains in both reenues and subscribers to the "crest of two massive waves": the rise of online video advertising and the rise of online video subscription services. READ MORE>>.

Hulu

socalTECH

JULY 14, 2011

Users of the Twitter micro-blogging service snapped up a special, JetBlue promotional offer yesterday offering up $4 flights between Long Beach Airport and Burbank's Bob Hope Airport Saturday, selling out the special flight offer in less than 4 hours.

Long Beach

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

According to a statement on Twitter's blog, it shut down the access, for "violating our policies." Taking aim at Pasadena-based UberMedia , the Twitter client firm headed by Bill Gross, Twitter has shut down access to the firm's API for two of UberMedia's clients, including Twidroyd and UberTwitter.

Idealab

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

According to Jason Calacanis , in a blog post, $75M to $150M. How much is Santa Monica-based Mahalo worth? In a list of 10 acquisitions he suggested Yahoo make "on day one", Calacanis--not one to shy from self promotion--said that Yahoo could acquire Mahalo for $75M to $150M, with a chance of closing a deal at greater than 50%.

Mahalo

socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2012

Uber's CEO, Travis Kalanick, is actually a Los Angeles native, having grown up in Northridge, saying in the blog post launching the service that he's a "3rd generation Angeleno". Uber, which is based in San Francisco, uses its smartphone application to connect riders with private sedan companies who serve those different cities.

Northridge