socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2009

Los Angeles-based SodaHead.com , the social question-and-answer and polling startup headed by former MySpace VP of Operations Jason Feffer, is morphing its focus towards the social news area, saying last night that the company is looking to become a "social newspaper." million people who visit the site monthly. READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

As of an August Pew Research study , 43 percent of Americans report “often getting news online,” just seven percentage points lower than the number who get their news from TV sources. In other words, the internet is a huge and growing source of news — and it’s a lot harder to regulate the internet than television.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

While some of the largest privately held technology companies, like SpaceX and Tesla , have shifted to manufacturing ventilators, smaller companies are also trying to pitch in and relieve scarcity locally. 3D-printing companies are working on new ways to manufacture personal protective equipment and swabs for COVID-19 testing.

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socalTECH

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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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2009

San Diego News Network , an online, local community news site run by Neil Senturia and Barbara Bry, as well as former executives of the San Diego Union Tribune, has raised $707,220 in funding, part of a $2.0M funding effort by the company. Tags: news local investment capital venture sdnn network diego. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Paul Graham and the folks over at YCombinator have done much to reenergize early-stage entrepreneurship and encourage the creation of many new and innovative startups including DropBox, Posterous, Loopt, Justin.TV, Scribd and many others. They also gave us Hacker News , which for me was a welcome addition for discovering tech stories.

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Tech.Co

JULY 13, 2023

Despite a packed schedule of obnoxious tweeting, lawsuits, and organizing a cage match with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk has found time to launch a new AI company called xAI. Subscribe xAI: What We Know so far xAI, as the company’s website states, has been set up to “understand the true nature of the Universe”.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

That big acquisition of Los Angeles family tree site Geni had an unwanted side effect: it took down the site for nearly five hours, Geni reports. on the surge of traffic received by the company after it was announced that it is being acquired by genealogy service MyHeritage. Thursday morning, running until 10:40 a.m.,

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Los Angeles-based Centerfield, a marketing and customer acquisition company backed by private equity investor Platinum Equity, says it has acquired both Business.com and Savings.com. Business.com, as well as its companion sites, Business News Daily and BuyerZone help connect professionals with business servies.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Los Angeles-based Break Media , which operates a network of online content sites focused on men, said today that it has launched a new NASCAR-themed site called All Left Turns. Break said the new site will offer news, race analysis, driver interviews, and profiles on NASCAR. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 15, 2009

Encinitas-based Verve Wireless is powering a new web site launch for local news publisher Examiner.com, as Examiner.com said it has launched a new mobile site, m.examiner.com. According to Examiner, the mobile site will highlight content produced by the firm's US coverage.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2018

The Young Turks , the online political news and video site led by Cenk Uygur, said this morning that it has rolled out what is its first, native mobile app, called TYT Plus. The new app, for iOS, allows users to view all of TYT's content, including video, podcasts, live shows, and members-only features. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The company said the round came from Personal Capital, The Doyle Investment Group, and Adam Townsend. Stockr, which was co-founded by Vinny Jindal, Tim Symington, and Brendon Crawford, helps investors by connecting them with news, information, discussion, and more about stocks. in a seed funding round, the firm said yesterday.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

In the second big piece of news in Los Angeles from Chinese company Bytedance , Bytedance said on Friday that it will invest $50M in a Series B funding in Los Angeles-based Live.me , a developer of an online livestreaming service. is a subsidiary of Chinese company Cheetah Mobile. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 2, 2012

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing engineer and PageWoo ’s CEO and co-Founder Jason Crilly about his side project, the new hacker news site for the Southern California tech community called Develop.la. s own hacker news, Develop.la First off, there are a few things about Jason you should know. Creating L.A.’s

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socalTECH

JULY 12, 2019

The CEO of Santa Monica-based Bird has gone on the offensive, following a report that said the company was seeking $300M and making only around $15M in yearly revenues. In a series of tweets , VanderZanden called the report from The Information "(fake) news" and referred to the site as "DisInformation" and claimed Bird is making $1.75

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Max Q is a new weekly newsletter all about space. This week turned out to be a surprisingly busy one in space news — kicked off by the Trump administration’s FY 2021 budget proposal, which was generous to U.S. Blue Origin is opening its new rocket factory. Sign up here to receive it weekly on Sundays in your inbox.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2018

An influencer marketing firm, based in Los Angeles, has tallied up the valuation of companies in "Silicon Beach", and say they're worth $155 billion. Influencer marketing firm MediaKix said it scoured online news searches, top lists, venture capital portfolio sites, and other sources for its report.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Irvine-based Esports Entertainment announced this morning that it plans to start covering e-sports news, and offer up live and pre-recorded, streaming content for the esports industry, with a plan to open up what it calls a "Southern California Esports Broadcast Center". The company is led by chairman and CEO Mark Thimmig.

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socalTECH

JUNE 22, 2018

Los Angeles-based digital advertising provider H Code Media reports that it has signed a new partnership with Peruvian radio and television broadcast company Radio Programas del Peru (RPP). Financial impact of the win was not announced. H Code media is led by CEO Parker Morse. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Eytan Elbaz , the co-founder of gaming developer Scopely , and one of the founders of Applied Semantics, which is now Google AdSense , said he has launched a new company in Los Angeles called Render Media. Elbaz said the new company was launched with Vic Belongoff, and will focus on digital media publishing.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 26, 2019

Some Seriously Great News. Andrew and Petri had left game developer Rovio (of Angry Birds fame) and were creating a new games company called Seriously that would combine compelling intellectual property (characters), great narratives, and fun game play in a mobile-first application. Some Seriously Great News.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2018

Hispanic market, has signed a deal with media and publishing company Metro LATAM. According to H Code, it will exclusively represent all ad inventory in the US for Metro LATAM's sites in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Chile, and Colombia. Los Angeles-based digital advertising firm H Code , which focuses on the U.S. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Lynda Weinman , the co-founder of online video education site Lynda.com , is one of the angel backers in a funding round for online education-technology news publisher EdSurge. edsurge education news analysis venture capital publishing content lynda weinman angel investment school' READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2022

I know companies who collect sensitive data from consumers all the time, and still seem to keep a trusted image (Amazon.com, Ebay). Here are a few specifics on how to be part of the solution, without the costs, rather than part of the problem: Put a personal face and address on your site; don’t hide behind an “info” email address.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2019

CoverHound , the online insurance shopping marketplace with offices in Westlake Village, apparently raised a funding round, according to what appears to be a broken embargo by a Silicon Valley technology news site. Coverhound's offices are split between San Francisco and Westlake Village. Coverhound is led by CEO Keith Moore.

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2019

El Segundo-based online postage and shipping software developer Stamps.com says it has named Katie May, the CEO of e-commerce software company ShippingEasy.com , to its board of directors. Before ShippingEasy, May was the founder of Kidspot.com.au (sold to News Corp) and she was also involved at job site SEEK.com.au.

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2018

Hawthorne-based SpaceX hope to hire another 700 employees in Los Angeles, at a new site at the Port of Los Angeles, to work on its Mars rocket, according to officials in Los Angeles on Monday. The new facility would employ up to 700 people in its operations. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Los Angeles-based SodaHead , the developer of online polling services and software, has just launched a major upgrade to the company''s polling software for WordPress. The company is backed by Mohr Davidow, Mission Ventures, The Tech Coast Angels, Ron Conway, and others. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2014

Quick - name a phone company. Yep, Facebook is a phone company. In order for them to take full advantage of Facebook the phone company, they will have to abandon traditional online marketing conventions. Agreed, this ain''t a news flash. The post Remember The Phone Company? Share and Enjoy.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Los Angeles-based political news site The Young Turks says that it saw record ratings for its live coverage of the Iowa Caucases earlier this week. The broadcast featured founder Cenk Uygur, plus Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola, Ben Mankiewicz, Jimmy Dore and Jordan Chariton.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2012

The site and bus is the brainchild of Robert Lambert and Jeremy Gocke. One of the key pieces of Silicon Beach LA is a link with Fliptu--Gocke's other business--to higlight social media from various local companies into a single display on the Silicon beach LA site. socalTECH is a news partner of Silicon Beach LA).

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JANUARY 17, 2013

StackSocial , the online technology deals site out of the Amplify LA accelerator, said Wednesday afternoon that it has tied with two more, technology sites to distribute its deals. Both sites will offer up deals powered b StackSocial. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JULY 15, 2016

And then the news flowed, from a fast reprieve for Juno Therapeutics to no mercy for Elizabeth Holmes. There were other goodbyes: Peter DiLaura said so long to Second Genome, the microbiome company he led for six years. —Enough good trial news. —In other Merck news, U.K.-based —With $1.25 —With $1.25

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socalTECH

MARCH 7, 2017

According to Soylent, its new "nutrition-obsessed artificially intelligent spokesperson" will appear both on its virtual store on its site, as well as other channels, including broadcast, digital social, and beond. The new "bot" was created by marketing/creative firm Wieden+Kennedy (W+K). READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 29, 2013

Online viral news and media site BuzzFeed is further expanding its operations in the Los Angeles area, and has set up a "social studio" in Los Angeles to help "influencers, thinkers and celebrities" to create videos for the social web. The company said the newly constructed studio will also include a coffee shop and store.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2016

Online news site Gawker Media will shut down its operations, after its acquisition by LA's Univision on Tuesday, according to the site. Univision won the bid for Gawker via a bankruptcy auction on Tuesday, agreeing to pay $135M for the company. READ MORE>>.

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