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JUNE 12, 2012

Uncovet says its site helps map a shopper's "style graph", and provide discounts and tailored shopping recommendations to users. The new site helps shoppers fine sought after fashions at a discount, and also provides discounts to users who influence their friends.

Commerce

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal said today that it has launched three, brand new services today, including a new website focused on the booking of home services. All of those new services were launched in addition to the new consumer service, ClubLocal.com. READ MORE>>.

ReachLocal

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OCTOBER 19, 2016

Los Angeles-based Loot Crate , which delivers monthly bundles of pop culture, gaming, and entertainment products to fans, launched a new fan commerce site, Loot Vault on Tuesday. The new site lets fans of the service snag some of the company's prior "crates", as well as special products.

Commerce

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NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Amazon.com is in a bid to take a share of the Los Angeles market for local referrals for handymen and service providers, as Los Angeles continues to be a major launch market for on-demand, services marketplaces. amazon local service referral citygrid serviz handybook pathjoy' READ MORE>>.

Services

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JANUARY 31, 2022

Santa Monica-based Arrive, a developer of a technology and reverse logistics services, says it has added resales to its enterprise rental platform. The company's product is focused on what the company says is roughly 25% of e-commerce orders are returned which cannot be resold full--price.

Commerce

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Craigslist and other listing sites leaves millions of buyers to find all kinds of goods and services. Like a virtual yard sale and a bulletin board combined, listing sites can connect everyone within a vicinity for a specific deal. eddi is a product and a service. Communication is important for both buyers and sellers.

Commerce

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MAY 22, 2013

In a move to attract e-commerce companies to its content delivery network, Santa Monica-based EdgeCast announced today that it has launched a new, PCI-compliant product specifically aimed at online retailers. The company said it''s the first to offer up a CDN specifically built for e-commerce providers. READ MORE>>.

Company

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

It is no secret that Pinterest and other social commerce sites have begun to dial in the commerce equation. These sites (so far) have managed to balance facilitating product discovery and purchase capabilities with users'' desires to entertain and educate themselves without feeling like they are in a marketplace.

Entrepreneur

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

How do you capture the interest of male users, and not only capture their eyeballs--but drive some e-commerce revenues? Tapiture's site centers around a visual tableau of different products, photos, videos, and more, which can be browsed, voted up and down, and which users can interact with.

Commerce

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Entrepreneur's list included the Southern California startups across a number of areas -- tech, apps, travel, geek chic, invention, retail, social media, and music/art.

Dollar Shave Club

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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.

Commerce

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

BeautyMint , the celebrity skincare service started by Jessica Simpson and BeachMint , the e-commerce meets celebrity startup headed by Josh Berman and Diego Berdakin, has gone live, and started taking signups this morning.

Beverly Hills

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MARCH 3, 2011

San Diego-based ShowUhow , the developer of video product guides for e-commerce sites, said today that it has named Anthony 'Tony' Wyatt as its EVP Sales and Marketing. Wyatt joins the firm from Indyme Solutions.

Marketing

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DECEMBER 12, 2014

If you''re a brand or retailer, needing to get online, there are a lot of things to deal with to run your e-commerce business smoothly--everything from your e-commerce site itself, to taking photos of your products, packing and shipping, to digital marketing. John Tomich: OneStop Internet is an e-commerce services company.

Commerce

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Many hosting services offer free tools, or will build a default website for you. If you want to also accept all the popular credit cards, that will require a merchant services account for a low monthly fee. Start simple.

Commerce

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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.

Commerce

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JANUARY 12, 2012

Santa Monica-based JewelMint , the jewelry service run by former MySpace co-founder Josh Berman and Diego Berdakin, said Thursday that it is launching an online "fashion film" series featuring Kate Bosworth , along with a national television commercial campaign.

Santa Monica

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JANUARY 10, 2013

Online e-commerce giant Amazon.com just announced a new service this morning, which looks to be one of the biggest moves the company has made in digital music recently: it is now automatically providing MP3 format tracks for CDs sold on its site, including every single CD a user has purchased since 1998. READ MORE>>.

San Diego

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MAY 20, 2011

Westlake Village-based PurePhoto , the developer of an online, social commerce site to help photographers sell their photos, said today that it has launched a new, Groups feature to help its users discuss topics in photography with other users. The site is headed by John Ellis. READ MORE>>.

Westlake Village

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AUGUST 6, 2012

The fashion and e-commerce site also said it had a "record number" of item sales in July. According to ShoeDazzle, the gains game because the firm switched from its earlier, subscription model, and is now able to serve an "enormous segment of women" looking to buy from the firm but who don't want to sign up for a monthly service.

Santa Monica

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JUNE 8, 2010

Los Angeles-based Magento , a provider of e-commerce software, and site search firm Celebros said this morning that they have linked their products. According to the firms, they have partnered in a deal to bring the Celebros site-search and merchandising software to Magento Enterprise and Magento Community customers.

Commerce

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Many hosting services offer free tools, or will build a default website for you. If you want to also accept all the popular credit cards, that will require a merchant services account for a low monthly fee. Start simple.

Commerce

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JUNE 3, 2014

Agoura Hills-based TouchCommerce , which helps provide brands with online software and services for helping better connect with their customers and potential customers, said today that it is planning growth and hiring at a new headquarters in Agoura Hills. The company explained it moved to the new building due to a rapidly growing workforce.

Agoura

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NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Is your cell phone the secret to fixing e-commerce''s problem with abandoned shopping carts? Sekur.me , a new Santa Ana-based startup, has come up with a new app and service to use your cell phone for payment, bypassing the complexity of shopping carts. Explain what your service/app is all about?

Startup

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Mov, launched just a few weeks ago, is more than a rebranded eBay or NBA auction site. The product started as a video e-commerce platform, basically creating a video version of eBay. For example, Pat Connaughton’s Jersey made $2,164 on Mov versus $560 on the NBA auction site. “We send it as is,” he said. “We

Startup

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AUGUST 12, 2014

Los Angeles-based e-commerce retailer Newegg said this morning that it is in a major expansion in both Asia and Europe, and has launched new, multilingual websites in India, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland and Singapore. According to NewEgg, the new websites are its first foray beyond the U.S., READ MORE>>.

NewEgg

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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.

Demand

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Lockerz , the Seattle-based social shopping and e-commerce site backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has axed the company's San Diego office, in addition to laying off around 30 percent of its staff.

San Diego

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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Aliso Viejo-based ecommerce provider Buy.com said today that the firm has added support for Amazon's payment services, Checkout by Amazon and Amazon PayPhrase. According to Buy.com, the firm recently added the support to its store, which allows Buy.com buyers to purchase products from the retail site using Amazon.com accounts.

Commerce

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APRIL 12, 2012

I think the average tenure now is north of six years, and we have several employees over ten years, with a few in the thirteen and fourteen years of service. We partnered with the world's largest distributors, Ingram Micro and others, to provide great services, prices, and products to consumers. There's a couple of things we offer.

Sites

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Search leverages selective filtering via XMPP versus site indexing; only real-time search player to do so. Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.;

Venture Capital

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APRIL 10, 2014

Agoura Hills-based TouchCommerce , which provides Internet and mobile chat technology and services which helps to engage customers browsing e-commerce sites, reported today that it has signed up Total Gym Fitness as a customer for its new mobile products.

Agoura Hills

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MAY 11, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based EcoMom (www.ecomom.com) launched its "green" parenting site, with backing from Dave McClure. Jody Sherman: We are a site for eco-conscious, health minded parents. How long has the site been around? In February of this year, we bought EcoMom, a community and content site.

Software Review

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JANUARY 7, 2014

Agoura Hills-based TouchCommerce , the provider of online chat services and products aimed at e-commerce retailers, reported today that it has partnered with German travel operator FTI, to provide a chat feature to FTI''s 5vorFlug brand page. Financial impact of the deal was not disclosed.

Agoura Hills

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MARCH 22, 2013

Santa Monica-based e-commerce site The Honest Company has launched an iOS application, which run on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. The app also ties into The Honest Company's subsciprtion service, letting members manage their accounts, orders, and subscriptions. READ MORE>>.

Company

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 6, 2016

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MAY 14, 2010

The firm said the tool is targeted for use by e-commerce sites, blogs, social networking sites, and Web-based email, as well as other web services. The company--which is headed by Curtis Staker--said its image-based CAPTCHA alternative greatly increases website security and user experience.

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