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DECEMBER 18, 2013

Santa Monica-based Bitium , the Amplify startup which is developing app management, single sign-on, and other cloud-based app tools, said Tuesday that it has linked up with two companies in partnerships. Financial details of the deals were not annoucned. The firm announced its seed funding in April. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. What is Demand Media doing nowadays?

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Despite the economy, Southern California's high tech job outlook is better than it has ever been, with hundreds of open positions and many companies eagerly seeking high tech talent. Linux System Engineer , Santa Monica, Adconion Media Group. Tech Lead Adserving Engineer , Santa Monica, Adconion Media Group.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Santa Monica-based ShopNation has raised $800,000 in a seed funding, and launched a new fashion discovery site today. The company--one of the companies in the LaunchpadLA effort--is the second startup for Schneider and Kervin, who founded StarBrand Media, a celebrity shopping startup acquired by Sugar Inc.

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

Kevin Winston , is the organizer of Digital LA , the popular and widely attended networking organization for the Los Angeles startup, web, movie, music, marketing, and social media community. We'll head back to the beach on the first week of summer for a week-long Silicon Beach Fest in Santa Monica June 2013.

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MAY 2, 2014

To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media. Steve Banfield: What will become Rightside has been part of Demand Media.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 19, 2009

This month’s “Startups Uncensored” will be on “Outsourcing Web Development & Businesses”. It will be an open and frank town-hall conversation revealing the best practices and methodologies for building your web-based company through outsourcing. These events are put on in conjunction with our friends at DealMaker Media.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

After weeks of StartupDemo submissions we are now ready to announce the participating startup companies for the StartupDemo event being held at Wokano Sept. We took great consideration for every startup company that applied. Codeita is a powerful, easy to use, cloud-based, web development environment. 22, 2010.

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AUGUST 12, 2009

Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project has signed a New York company, Katz 360 Sales, to give Katz access to its inventory of premium display ads, the firms announced today. Rubicon Project provides online Internet advertising infrastructure for publishers, which optimizes the advertising placed on their web sites.

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MARCH 19, 2010

The latest comScore Media Metrix ranking of top growing Internet properties shows that, among Southern California's Internet companies, Gorilla Nation , ProFlowers , and eHarmony saw big gains in their Internet traffic in February. comScore runs monthly numbers tracking Internet traffic across the largest web sites.

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AUGUST 12, 2009

Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project has tapped a New York company, Katz 360 Sales, to sell premium display ads to advertisers, the firms announced today. Rubicon Project provides online Internet advertising infrastructure for publishers, which optimizes the advertising placed on their web sites.

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

Santa Monica-based ContentNext Media, the parent company of digital media publisher paidContent.org, said this morning that it has hired Lauren Rich Fine, CFA, as Research Director at the firm. ContentNext said that Fine will author research reports and briefing notes on the digital media industry for the firm.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2009

When I drill down on that term, you can see why with posts like: Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals Lops A Third Of Company THQ Lays Off 100 Employees, Closes San Diego Office Citrix Cuts 10 Percent; Santa Barbara Hit And it's also interesting to see what geographies are being associated with "Layoffs" more often than others: Layoffs Woodland Hills Layoffs (..)

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JUNE 16, 2009

Santa Monica-based Tsavo , the online media company which owns Manolith, Twirlit, Kidglue, and Nibbledish, has lost its Vice President of Product and Design, Mike Macadaan. According to Macadaan, this week is his last at Tsavo. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Tecca (www.tecca.com) launched a consumer electronics, consumer information service, backed by Fuse Capital and Best Buy. We caught up with Mickie Rosen , the firm's CEO, about the company, its links to Best Buy, and how it was incubated out of Fuse Capital. What was behind that decision?

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has released traffic statistics for its LIVESTRONG.COM web site, its joint venture with cyclist Lance Armstrong, saying that the site now has more than 4 million monthly visits and over 650,000 registered members. Demand Media also said that more than 4,300 groups have formed on the site.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

I recently hosted a panel at the Twiistup Conference about LA tech companies. I have some pretty specific thoughts on the differences between companies in the two cities, as I wrote about in my previous post A Tale of Two Tech Cities. Challenge #1 – Tech Companies are Not Typically Started by Technologists.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2013

Where: The ROC (Real Office Centers) 604 Arizona Ave Santa Monica, CA 90401. Cameron has consulted to clients such as MTV, Del Taco, Samsung, HP, and many other companies large and small. He is also a former Founding Partner of Performa Media, a performance-based lead generation company with a successful exit in 2010.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The Walt Disney Company & Techstars have officially announced the Disney Accelerator, a three-month mentorship and seed-stage investment program for 10 lucky companies. Applications are being accepted starting today, through April 16, 2014 for early-stage companies with innovative consumer media and entertainment product ideas.

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MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We caught up with James Segil , the firm's President, to hear the story behind that big growth at the company. We've grown really fast.

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JUNE 18, 2010

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

The Spotlight is shining down these amazing LA companies! And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Winners: Spotlight Companies. It gives music companies a direct pipeline to market their products and services to music fans. Spotlight: LA Tech Summer SuperDemo is all electric car company CODA.

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

Ian Rogers is the CEO of Topspin Media (www.topspinmedia.com), a venture backed, Santa Monica-based startup developing web applications for the music industry. Rogers is the former GM of Yahoo Music, and sat down with us to talk about the company and his view of the music business and where it is going.

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

After months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Companies: Spotlight Companies. It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship. View Larger Map.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Think about how many images are on the web. The old media companies were resistant to change. Early on GumGum began to experiment with overlaying rich media ads through Flash with photos until technology progressed and they moved over to Javascript. What started as a tech company is gaining ground as a media company.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

We will be announcing the StartupDemo companies very soon. We give a huge Thank You to the following sponsors: Demand Media is a leading online media company that informs, entertains and connects millions of people every day. Where: Wokcano, 1413 5th Street, Santa Monica, CA. to 11:00 p.m. Price: FREE.

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Technical Review Software Review Santa Monica Tech Coast Angels 58

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APRIL 5, 2012

Actually, no thanks to Santa Monica-based Mobile Roadie. We sat down with Michael to hear more about his company. Michael Schneider: I was running a design agency, Fluid Design, in Santa Monica, which I started in high school. Taylor actually came in through the front door, and just signed up on our web site.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

And she didn’t start her company in Northern California. Tracy built her company, Recycled Media , out of necessity. She drove her company to profitability before paying herself a modest salary. This was the first in her string of web properties. She put all of her savings into her company.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We will be bringing you some of the hottest startups around to give you a quick rundown about their companies and get to know the entrepreneur behind those companies. Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media.

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

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MARCH 2, 2010

Alec Shankman is CEO of Santa Monica-based Gotcast (www.gotcast.com), an online site focused on casting of actors for television shows, movies, and other productions. We sat down with Alec the other day to hear more about the company and what it's try to do. It seems there are few companies that have figured it out.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. So did the media.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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JULY 23, 2010

This week, Santa Monica-based ThisNext (www.thisnext.com) said it has raised another round of funding for the firm's social shopping site. Matt Edelman: The last company I ran and co-founded PeopleJam, which was a social media business for people interested in self improvement. How long have you been at the firm now?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

We would like give a huge thank you to Social Media Week and the supportive startup community here in Los Angeles. TechZulu captured the entire VC/Angle panel and we also had a chance to interview every StartupDemo startup company that participated. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media.

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Jason Nazar

NOVEMBER 23, 2008

I’ve spent the last year running a tech company based in Santa Monica , CA and I’ve spent countless weeks in the Bay meeting with hundreds of tech founders. Mark Zuckerberg & Reid Hoffman – hands down built the two best consumer internet applications on the web. Peter Pham – best networker / connector in web 2.0.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

Excellent companies being submitted and most of which I wish could all be part of this amazing night. He is also an active investor with stakes in companies like Hipmunk, GroupMe, Facebook, Zynga (acquisition stock), and SV Angels. OrangicStartup’s is a company that helps Internet startups start. He received a B.S.

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JUNE 18, 2009

Our interview today is with Santa Monica-based OneCubicle (www.onecubicle.com), a new startup we ran across recently, which is looking to provide a more professional social networking site for younger people. How are your two companies connected? Gregg Champion: They're two different companies. It's not in my make up.

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