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AUGUST 9, 2018

TaskUs has made its name providing much of the back end customer service and business process outsourcing for many, on-demand and Internet companies, across the ride sharing, social media, online food delivery, e-commerce and other areas. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 14, 2013

The new center was created by the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce. The center will focus on adtech, mobile, digital and social media, gaming and clean tech. bixelexchange bixel exchange startup center incubator accelerator chamber commerce' READ MORE>>. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 27, 2015

Los Angeles-based two-factor authentication and mobile identity services provider TeleSign said today that it has inked an agreement with Telefonica , which will help address account security and fraud prevention for enterprises and service providers in financial services, e-commerce, cloud and social media. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 8, 2014

Doty will lead Saban Brands'' digital products and services, including online, mobile, games, apps, e-commerce, and social media efforts. Los Angeles-based Saban Brands , which manages such brands as Power Rangers, Paul Frank, Macbeth, Julius Jr.,

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FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Los Angeles-based Represent , a social commerce startup which helps influencers and celebrities sell T-shirts and merchandise to their fans, has been acquired by custom T-shirt site CustomInk. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced, however, reports place the acquisition at around $100M. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

Indi is focused on powering individual commerce. In essence, we want to give every individual their own, e-commerce store. Our team has a passion for e-commerce, and we also have athletes and others on our team. We run our day-to-day business with professional athletes and folks out of the e-commerce industry.

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APRIL 8, 2011

Culver City-based NXTM , a company developing social media and e-commerce tools for the music industry, has raised funding, according to lead investor Spring Mountain Capital. Size of the funding round was not disclosed. Spring Mountain Capital said it now holds two seats on the board of NXTM.

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

percent of Relativity Media, and now has an option to take a majority stake of the company over the next 24 months. YuuZoo is an online operator of social media, e-commerce, and gaming properties, and says it has the ability to reach more than 4 billion consumers. The two said that YuuZoo will initially buy 33.3

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

In a proof that it's not all social media and e-commerce here in Southern California, number two ranking startup in The Wall Street Journal's ranking of the "Top 50 Startups" is none other than wireless hardware provider Xirrus , based in Thousand Oaks.

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DECEMBER 26, 2013

Disney said the move will give it a perspective into the "latest technologies and platforms" to reach more people, due to his influence in the social media and commerce space. Dorsey was co-founder of Twitter, and also co-founded mobile payment service Square in 2009. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

Represent operates e-commerce sites for celebrity clients, and counts such clients as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ed Sheeran, Jennifer Lopez, and Kendall Jenner, among many others. Financial details of the buy were not announced. Represent was founded in 2014.

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APRIL 13, 2011

The firm has been in beta since December on the service, which is being used by such customers as Gawker Media. EdgeCast says the service is targeted at customized information portals, e-commerce applications, social media services who aren't able to cache their content at the edge. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

Jordan Glazier: Wildfire has developed a platform for monetizing social messaging. When you look at social messaging, and talk about social messaging, we're talking about social media, text messaging, email, and chat applications. Those references drive trillions of dollars of commerce.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

E-commerce has become a huge factor. Prior to the pandemic, about 1/3 was e-commerce. We've recently added an incremental social product, we're leveraging all of our keyword intent data and recapturing them on Facebook to add incremental customers our advertisers are doing on social media.

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JUNE 11, 2013

ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. Social Media. and launching at Silicon Beach Fest.

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AUGUST 25, 2011

The last part that we're working on is social media, giving you the ability to look at your contacts in your database and news feed, and figure out the connections between that information and your CRM. Those resellers include customers like chambers of commerce. That kind of data is very difficult to come by.

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APRIL 15, 2016

With my background at Box, I could see that was not a scalable business model, but it would be, if we used the same concept and applied it online for e-commerce. We're not testing the algorithm on influencers yet, but so far in testing, people have been willing to share the brand on social media for that discount.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

The Dollars and Sense of Apps as Commerce Build vs. Buy: The Biggest Question Customer Conversations: Are Apps A Shout Out or a Deep Discussion Survival of the Fittest: Darwin's Law of Apps and packed with case studies! High-Level Sessions Include Should Every Brand Have an App?

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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. We provide artists with e-commerce infrastructure that fulfills digital and physical orders, anywhere on the Internet. What's the idea behind Audiolife?

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APRIL 16, 2010

I noticed that in the e-commerce realm, there was a tremendous uptick in sales, where people were promoting bargain hunting for nationwide merchants such as Amazon and Best Buy--especially as the recession hit in 2007 and 2008, and started taking a toll. Albert Ko: With social media right now, it's definitely scalable.

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AUGUST 7, 2014

It''s all over the map, from content moderation for applications like Whisper and Tinder, to photo retouching for e-commerce websites. So, we wondered what we could do at a low price point, things like transcribing voicemail, things like social media sentiment analysis.

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

The florist business center we launched recently empowers florists, with tools to run email marketing campaigns, reach out through social media, and even gives them a point of sale system and website builder. It''s all about empowering the florists, and have them show up on local results.

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AUGUST 30, 2012

and co-founder Sean Percival is a MySpace vet and a familiar face in Southern California's social media circles. How has the transition from social media and the Internet to hard goods been for you? I definitely am more well known for social media and blog content. Wittleebee is backed by Science Inc.,

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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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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.

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