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OCTOBER 22, 2015

Santa Monica-based videogame publisher Activision Blizzard announced this morning that it has launched a brand new, Esports division, which will focus on competitive gaming and growth of esports.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Santa Monica-based Boingo Wireless has inked a deal with a telecom organization to help provide its members with Wi-Fi offloading. Boingo operates a nationwide network of Wi-Fi hotspots. The two said that Boingo will white label Wi-Fi solutions to CCA carriers as part of the deal.

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DECEMBER 5, 2011

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the developer of customer relationship management and contacts management software headed by Goldmine Software founder Jon Ferrara, looks to be shifting its sights to paid, business accounts. The firm's biggest competition is Salesforce.com. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Santa Monica-based Activision reports that its Call of Duty Elite online networking service for players of Call of Duty has hit one million memberships, just six days after launch.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

In what might be some new competition for Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project , the high profile ad optimization firm headed by Frank Addante, search engine giant Google told its advertisers late Wednesday that it will begin to offer similar capabilities in its AdSense program.

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DECEMBER 5, 2011

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the developer of customer relationship management and contacts management software headed by Goldmine Software founder Jon Ferrara, looks to be shifting its sights to paid, business accounts. The firm's biggest competition is Salesforce.com. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

We could talk with customers, meet the entire management team, review financial plans, review customer purchasing cohorts, evaluate the competition, etc. I think most people know we’re HQ’d in LA (Santa Monica to be exact) but we invest nationally and internationally. In 2009 we could take a long time to review a deal.

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JULY 27, 2020

Our interview today is with Nick Hedges , the CEO of Santa Monica-based MomentFeed. Oftentimes that will be Google, sometimes that will be Apple, sometimes it will be another network. But there are also hundreds of other listing locations across the Internet, which have some impact on those core networks as well.

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OCTOBER 25, 2012

CHNL aggregates content from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, SoundCloud, Tumblr, Instagram and Flickr into one place making it fast, easy, and a beautiful way to discover content as well as to easily share it back out to my social networks, or engage in the conversation happening around that content. Silicon Beach (Santa Monica).

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OCTOBER 7, 2008

Santa Monica-based nonprofit the X PRIZE Foundation has added another firm as a "preferred partner" for the firm's Google Lunar X PRIZE, the challenge to send a robot to the surface of the moon. AGI joins Space Exploration Technologies, the SETI Institute, Universal Space Network, and Space Florida as partners in the prize.

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JUNE 20, 2012

Sam Teller: Launchpad is an accelerator in Santa Monica. Last year, I joined up with Mark, and we raised a small fund and opened up an office in Santa Monica, one block from the beach. More importantly, we give you access to a massive network of mentors, investors, and advisors.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

For the first half of our show, we actually set up a store front on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, and put their product in a retail setting, and let consumers and investors run through the gamut, allowing them to interact in real time, and get feedback on their packaging and products, and even recommend it to their friends.

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JULY 18, 2016

Startup of the Year competition, which will be held in San Jose, CA during the Innovate! We will have cocktails, snacks, and great networking. Equity Directory – an invite-only network of entrepreneurs and startup talent exchanging work for equity. Where : Philosophie (1615 16th St, Santa Monica, CA 90404).

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AUGUST 30, 2012

On September 7th, Coloft in Santa Monica, California will be hosting the AT&T Mobile App Hackathon. Produced by the AT&T Developer Program and organized by Alex Donn , this competition is tied to AT&T’s larger, It Can Wait Don’t Text and Drive campaign.

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JUNE 18, 2010

I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google). Online social game network; make their own games (FarmVille, Mafia Wars, FrontierVille) in addition to allowing third-party developers to access network.

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OCTOBER 26, 2017

TransPod was founded by Sebastien Gendron and Ryan Janzen in September 2015 as Toronto Hyperloop, which was one of the 120 that competed in Elon Musk’s pod design competition. Musk has been forthcoming with his desire to apply his TBM technology at The Boring Company towards making ultra-high-speed transportation networks along the U.S.

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JUNE 13, 2016

STREAM Conference Came to Santa Monica. Breakfast networking at #stream16 at @FairmontHotels @thebungalowSM pic.twitter.com/ug6gklIne7. RECESS Finals Competition Wrapped at CTRL. GOOGLE Moving into Howard Hughes’s Spruce Goose Hangar ( link ). LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) June 6, 2016. pic.twitter.com/lEBAoLTN1R.

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APRIL 10, 2016

In a world that is hyper competitive – even amongst VCs – I can honestly say that not only is the media recognition accurate but it is amongst the proudest days I’ve had in developing Upfront Ventures and our future. Move our offices to Santa Monica so we could be closer to the early-stage companies being created in LA.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Though competitors have sprung up, Tanz welcomes the competition to help define the market. Creating very natural and appealing social engagement opportunity, as well as video without the television network costs. GumGum has two clients, the ad agencies/brands and the publishers. Their analytics drill down the CTR and other actions.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

If I write back, and tell them to stay at the Marriott in Del Mar, we would detect the Marriott Del Mar in your message, whether that's on Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, in a text message, in an email, or whatever, and convert that into a link to one of our merchants who are part of the Wildfire network.

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MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. I don’t intend either, Burstly has respectable and strong competition. He knows the ad management and ad network businesses. How can they claim this?

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MARCH 26, 2012

It's great for networking, and for developing friendships. Aigerim Duiseneyeva: We met with Idealab through a USC Marshall competition. We were then invited to join LaunchpadLA with Mark Suster, the accelerator in Santa Monica, and we also just raised funding in the last two months. It's also great for networking.

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JUNE 19, 2013

Burstly is located in Santa Monica. It''s not just about banner ads, it''s a tool that allows you to integrate with an ad network, giving you the flexibility to pick what ads and offers you want, where in your app. The way we go about that is different than the competition. What is Burstly? It''s for beta testing of apps.

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JULY 13, 2012

On Tuesday, July 10, Crowdfunder hosted Crowdstart LA, the first crowdsourced startup contest at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica. The panel of experts not only judged the competition but also gave the companies feedback after their pitch. This will most likely take event in January 2013.

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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. News, ABC competition game shows, feature films, etc.--people We're doing that by powering some really exciting initiatives for both brands and TV networks.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Bring your products to your Customers, their social network and their influencers with DoTogether Hosted Facebook Applications. Founded in 2006, Demand Media is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with offices in Bellevue, WA, Austin, TX, New York, NY and London, UK. Where: Wokcano, 1413 5th Street, Santa Monica, CA.

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

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AUGUST 3, 2009

As should Eric Sikola and ExpenseBay who won the “Showoff&# judges competition ( Photos featured here taken by (cc) Kenneth Yeung – [link] ). Anyway, to close my Twiistup 6 Summary post I will borrow from the wisdom of my forefathers, “next year in … Santa Monica.” Now back to work – we’ve got a venue to get booked.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Bring your products to your Customers, their social network and their influencers with DoTogether Hosted Facebook Applications. Founded in 2006, Demand Media is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with offices in Bellevue, WA, Austin, TX, New York, NY and London, UK.

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

Those included things like downloadable content, and analytics, and things like sharing games with friends, which we were doing in the old days, but which are much easier now with social networks. Amazon has shown an interesting blueprint of how someone else can get another app store to be competitive in the market.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

When I as a 41-year old living in Santa Monica with 2 young boys type “Halloween Costume&# into Google it is pretty clear that there is a highly likelihood or intent by me to shop for Halloween goods. People mistook the fact that these text advertisements worked in Google to say they would work in social networks.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I live in the city of Santa Monica. It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. Great companies like BeachMint that are growing at a rapid clip have to dig deep into their networks to meet hiring needs. Let me use LA as an example. Los Angeles.

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