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AUGUST 16, 2018

a provider of e-commerce shipping software. The deal had originally been announced in July. El Segundo-based Stamps.com said Wednesday afternoon that it has completed its $220M acquisition of UK-based MetaPack Ltd. , Stamps said it paid approximately $220M in fash, from its existing cash and investments, for MetaPack.

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OCTOBER 29, 2013

Santa Ana-based electronics distributor Ingram Micro has acquired Shipwire , a provider of e-commerce fulfillment and supply chain management which was based in Palo Alto, California. According to Ingram Micro, the move will help accelerate its growth in the e-commerce fulfillment area. Shipwire was originally based in Los Angeles.

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JULY 19, 2012

Los Angeles investor Baroda Ventures , the venture capital arm of David Bohnett, has re-upped on online fashion and e-commerce site Fab.com , in a big, $105M third round of funding for that site. Baroda has been an investor in Fab since its seed funding back in June of 2010. Bohnett is the founder of Geocities.com. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 9, 2017

Los Angeles-based subscription e-commerce startup Loot Crate , which offers up monthly deliveries of curated "mystery boxes" to fans, said on Friday that former Maker Studios CEO Ynon Kreitz has joined the company's board as Chairman. The company also said it has become profitable for the first time.

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MAY 10, 2016

Irvine-based Western Digital says it has received the final approval needed for its acquisition of memory maker SanDisk , from China's Ministry of Commerce, and now expects the transaction to close on Thursday. The deal is worth approximately $19 billion, and was originally announced in October of 2015.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Technology's big names appear to be rushing to tap into the wealth of talent and creativity in Los Angeles, with the latest firm being online e-commerce giant Amazon.com. According to reports today, Amazon is looking to ramp its efforts in Los Angeles to develop original programming through its Amazon Studios initiatives.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

At the time, the company was based in Shenzhen, the hardware haven also known for its vibrant export-led e-commerce industry — most of Amazon’s sellers are from the metropolis. Last year, we covered how Movio, which was then called Surreal, landed a brilliant use case for deepfake.

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AUGUST 17, 2011

Los Angeles-based Magento , the developer of open source, e-commerce software, has officially become part of eBay , eBay announced Wednesday afternoon. eBay had originally announced its acquisition of Magento in June. eBay said that it is making Magento part of its X.commerce, integrated open commerce platform group.

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DECEMBER 20, 2012

Amazon Studios , the Southern California-based effort by e-commerce giant Amazon.com to produce its own, original content for Amazon Instant Video, has just greenlighted six series pilots for production, the company announced this morning.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Westlake Village-based PurePhoto is announcing today that it has officially exited beta for the site, and is launching a social commerce site focused on sharing and selling original photographic art. The site now features photos selling for as little as $20 and as high as $5,000.

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MARCH 25, 2013

Amazon Studios , the original content development arm of e-commerce giant Amazon, said today that it has greenlighted a new pilot series, from Sony Pictures Television.

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JANUARY 5, 2015

Epicor , the big enterprise software developer which has extensive operations in Orange County, said Monday that it has completed its acquisition of ShopVisible , the developer of e-commerce and order management software. The deal had been announced originally on December 11th.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Los Angeles-based Retention Science , the developer of big data analytics software for online marketing, announced today that it has launched a new "Retention Score", which it bills as a Klout Score of e-commerce. The firm originally came out of the MuckerLab accelerator in Los Angeles, and is headed by Jerry Jao. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 29, 2012

Santa Monica-based ShoeDazzle , the online, subscription commerce startup founded by LegalZoom's Brian Lee, Kim Kardashian, RObert Shapiro, and MJ Eng, is making a major expansion today, saying that it is launching a new apparel collection to its offerings. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Originally called Dopamine Labs, the company was founded in 2015 to bring some of the same technologies that social media companies like Facebook used to boost engagement to a broader range of applications. Arianna Huffington and the co-founders and staffers of Boundless Mind.

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JUNE 5, 2013

The startup--headed by Matt Edelman--said it has added such features as contest creation; ways to highlight collections of its digital magazines in Facebook, a blog, or web site; new e-commerce ability from within its magazines; an iPad app; and Google Image search support, among other tools. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 2, 2014

Wallaby''s Chrome Extension lets users pick the best credit card for their online purchases at merchants, helping users to optimize their points and rewards for what they''re buying online at e-commerce sites. Wallaby said the Chrome extension works with a wide range of merchants, including Amazon, eBay, Staples, and others.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 3, 2018

“Sagewise seeks to bring transactional confidence into the blockchain industry by building a smart contract safety net where smart contracts do not fulfill the original transactional intent,” Wan wrote. Co-founded by a longtime lawyer, Amy Wan, whose experience runs the gamut from the U.S.

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MARCH 2, 2011

John Ellis: PurePhoto is a social commerce network, for buying, sharing, and selling original photographic art. John Ellis: There are e-commerce site which exclusively sell artwork, or in some cases photographic prints. He told us all about what the company's trying to do. What's the story behind PurePhoto?

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Essentially, we are giving the control back to them on the e-commerce channel, to make sure they are making the right sales, to the right places, to the right people, and to lock down an optimized sales channel through their partners. The first piece of this is getting really great visibility of the landscape of e-commerce.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

At Nike, Buckley served as the vice president of digital commerce operations and new business models. It’s the first public launch of a new initiative headed up by Mike Buckley, a veteran Nike exec who Postmates poached in August to become the company’s senior vice president of business.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

When it's all about trading, swapping, lucky finds, and more--explains Dan Murillo , who is CEO and Founder of Little Black Bag (www.littleblackbag.com), an online e-commerce community based in Los Angeles. Can you talk about what Little Black Bag is and the origins of the company? When is shopping a sport?

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MAY 14, 2010

San Diego-based Confident Technologies , the new startup which is using image authentication technology originally developed by Vidoop, has rolled out its image-based CAPTCHA tools, the firm said this week.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

FameBit connects YouTube influencers and brands to collaborate and create original video content. The Runway Show includes the latest in wearable technology, innovative manufacturing, and e-commerce brands. It’s like a bar crawl but featuring tech companies instead of bars! Kicking off at 7 p.m. appeared first on TechZulu.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2022

As I’ve said before, everyone talks about innovation, but the majority of new business plans I see still reflect linear thinking – one more social network with more features, another smartphone app for marketing, or one more platform for faster e-commerce. Historic changes and great successes don’t come from linear thinking.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

We also spoke to Mike Patryn, an original co-founder of QuadrigaCX, and asked for his opinion on the story. Gerald Cotton was an original co-founder of the company, a 30 year-old with a passion for digital finance who worked in the field for over a decade. What is QuadrigaCX, and Who Was Gerald Cotton?

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JULY 9, 2015

The two have a long history in the subscription area, so we though tit would be intersting to hear from Quarterly's CEO, Zach Frechette and Science's co-founder, Mike Jones to hear more about how the two are hoping to work together to expand the use of influencer marketing in e-commerce. His boxes have reflected that creative impulse.

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MAY 14, 2021

Convince customers that you are selling at a loss, or use a sale price much lower than the original price. With e-commerce online, I see many new industries jumping in. If competitor prices are high, keep yours in the same ballpark, but slightly lower, despite lower cost. Include free digital products to enhance physical ones.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. And it wasn’t just Google Ad Words that originated in Los Angeles. Commerce: What is less known is just how important LA is as a commerce hub.

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DECEMBER 17, 2022

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. These are appearing earlier and earlier in emerging companies, as well as in mid-sized and mature companies: Your original market becomes saturated.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

Those references drive trillions of dollars of commerce. We automatically add tracking and point those product references to e-commerce merchants. What we do is draft over the existing product mentions that happen a billion times a day, and point that into commerce. Jordan Glazier: I was based in Chicago, originally.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

And here, (wait for it) there are ONMs — original news manufacturers. The report notes how e-commerce is pushing this delivery phenomenon forward. Two forecasts worth noting: expecting no acceleration in e-commerce adoption trends, KMPG estimates that by 2040 e-commerce will reduce shopping trips in the U.S. Cymbal clash!)

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2020

He is the founder, CEO, and ten percent owner of Amazon, the world’s largest e-commerce retailer, with an estimated employee count now approaching one million. For example, he continues to invest in space travel and energy harvesting ( Blue Origin ), even though we haven’t yet run out of energy, and we still have space for growth.

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JULY 7, 2010

They've acquired CAPTCHA security tools originally developed by Vidoop, and looking to market that technology to e-commerce web sites, social networking sites, and others looking to reduce spam and fraud. Internships.com / Robin Richards - Richards most recently sold The NTI Group to Blackboard, was founding president and COO at MP3.com,

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2016

I am much more attracted to technical product teams than to new business concepts or commerce types. How I Invest was originally published in Both Sides of the Table on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. Innovator’s Dilemma. Read the responses to this story on Medium.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. These are appearing earlier and earlier in emerging companies, as well as in mid-sized and mature companies: Your original market becomes saturated.

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JUNE 27, 2019

Michael Greenberg: My original background was in theoretical physics, at UCLA. It showed me that, especially with venture backed startups and e-commerce, a lot of startups are going into an un-tenable space, because they're not paying back their costs. How did you start the company? Michael Greenberg: Yes.

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