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JULY 15, 2011

The organizers of Social Media Week Los Angeles said today that they have kicked off plans to feature more than 50, free, public events across LA during Social Media Week, September 19-23rd. The local events--part of a broader, global Social Media Week effort--will include keynotes and meetings, breakfasts, and parties.

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JUNE 10, 2013

Silicon Beach--the self-appointed name that has been used to describe many parts of Southern California''s tech community, but which has seemed to have centered itself over Santa Monica and surrounding towns--has no shortage of events and conferences. Last year''s event attracted more than 2,000 attendees. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 19, 2013

It''s all Silicon Beach, all the time, for all of the rest of the week--starting today--as Silicon Beach Fest , the combination conference, networking session, party started by Kevin Winston, kicks off at noon. Disclaimer: socalTECH is a media sponsor of Silicon Beach Fest). READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Los Angeles is looking to prove it is a center of the social media universe next week, with a roster of events for Social Media Week Los Angeles. According to local event organizers, the Los Angeles Social Media Week events--75 in all--are expected to have well more than the 4,000 who participated last year.

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JANUARY 28, 2010

Richard Rosenblatt , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Demand Media said today at the Twiistup conference in Los Angeles, that he sees an IPO as a possible opportunity for the firm. conference the firm was looking at exit optioins. Tags: demand media exit content. Rosenblatt had suggested earlier this year at the Web 2.0

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Southern California's top startups showed up in force Friday at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, for the Technology Council of Southern California's annual VentureNet conference. socalTECH was a media sponsor of the conference).

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APRIL 28, 2010

Los Angeles-based Digital Media Wire , the entertainment and technology conference organizer, said today that it has added Peter Levin, founder of GeekChicDaily, to its advisory board. Digital Media Wire is run by Ned Sherman. Digital Media Wire said Levin will help advise the firm on new business initiatives.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Los Angeles-based BeautCon , which organizes conferences and runs a website focused on beauty and fashion as it intersects with online media, has raised $5M in a seed funding round. beautycon conference fashion beauty online media seed funding venture capital' The funding came from Hearst Corp., READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

According to the accelerator, based in South LA, says it is looking for start-up founders focused on healthcare technology, climate and sustainability, digital media, and edtech. The program, led by founder Derek Smith, said the accelerator benefits include potential grants of up to $40K, possible seed investments, and pilot partnerships.

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MARCH 14, 2018

This year, we're sponsoring the Recurring Revenue Conference (www.recurringrevenueconference.com), presented by Sutton Capital Partners. We were also one of the earliest to apply social media to business processes when most business owners did not yet understand the evolution of the social customer. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Costa Mesa-based Veritone says its artificial intelligence software was deployed for the 2019 College Football Playoff (CFP) National Championship, and was used to produce transcriptions, automated facial recognition of players and coaches, logo identification, and other tasks for the CFP's Media Day.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Traditional media has been disrupted. How do agencies drive their own innovation to ensure success for themselves and their clients in today's data-driven digital media landscape? Save $100 on the Digiday Agency Conference with Coupon Code SOCALTECH. Advertisers are faced with more options than ever to reach consumers.

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OCTOBER 4, 2013

Other awardees at the event included Ringadoc (Cloud services), Adomic (Advertising), Retention Science (Data), Circa (Social Media), Daily Look (eCommerce), and SongSpace (Music). startup award conference wavemaker siemer adomic' READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 28, 2014

Los Angeles-based Fullscreen , the video content network operator, said Friday that it has acuqired video game media site ScrewAttack. ScrewAttack runs a YouTube channel, website, as well as an annual gaming focused conference, SGC. fullscreen merger acquisition content youtube screwattack videogame video game gaming conference'

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JANUARY 5, 2015

Los Angeles-based Oversee.net has sold off its flagship, domain name industry conference, DomainFest , as the compny continues to diversify away from its roots in the domain name management market. Domainfest had been produced by DomainSponsor, which Oversee.net had sold to Rook Media in April of last year. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 8, 2011

The Los Angeles technology industry appears to have landed as the first stop of Prince William and new bride Catherine in Los Angeles today, as the two are scheduled to present at the Variety Venture Capital and New Media Summit in Beverly Hills. Prince William and Catherine are making a whirlwind stop in Los Angeles over the weekend.

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JULY 8, 2011

The Los Angeles technology industry appears to have landed as the first stop of Prince William and new bride Catherine in Los Angeles today, as the two are scheduled to present at the Variety Venture Capital and New Media Summit in Beverly Hills. Prince William and Catherine are making a whirlwind stop in Los Angeles over the weekend.

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JUNE 13, 2013

The Search Agency said it will award search marketers in the area of paid search, search engine optimization (SEO), social media marketing, mobile marketing, comparison shopping and search retargeting. The company said the awards will be given as part of the Direct Marketing Association''s annual conference. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 10, 2010

Los Angeles-based Meetrix , a developer of an online virtual conference room service, said today that it has granted a patent by the U.S. The patent, number 7,664,056, was issued February 16th, and covers "Media based collaboration using mixed-mode PSTN and Internet networks". Patent and Trademark office. Dye and Thomas A. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 20, 2009

tech, new media, entertainment and consumer industries. Dealmaker Media www.undertheradarblog.com is presenting their 13th Under the Radar conference in Mountain View, CA. 50% Off Conference Passes for. socalTECH readers. 50% Off Conference Passes for. socalTECH readers. on April 24, 2009.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Editor's note, TuesdayNights is running its Impact Conference in Santa Monica on Friday, where we are a Media Partner) Photo: Left, Melinda Moore and Right, Justine Lassoff. She, as well as several other, wonderful female investors, will be at our upcoming conference. What is TuesdayNights?

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

As part of the funding, Andrew Goodenough--formerly of Summit Business Media and Thomson Media''s Banking Publishing/Conferences Group--will join the company''s board of directors. The startup, which is led by Robert Flynn, said it will use the funding to launch new sites and grow its advertising sales.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

The company disclosed the new product launch through an invite for media, analysts and investors to a live conference call. Monrovia, California-based Green Dot , the provider of prepaid cards, is getting set to launch a new, mobile bank account product, the firm said Wednesday afternoon. Green Dot is headed by Steve Streit.

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APRIL 3, 2014

Hood was a regular at local technology and media conferences. Hood had previously served as head of USC''s Communication Technology Management Institute with the Marshall School of Business, and also had been at News Corporation, serving as founding President of Fox Mobile Entertainment. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

rolled out the new device at an industry conference for Salesforce.com, Dreamforce 2014. said the new device will also offer up a "intelligent personal assistant"--courtesy Nuance COmmunications--which will dictate text and emails, play music, post to social media, and more.

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JUNE 20, 2014

Kevin is also well known as the organizer of the Digital LA networking group (digitalla.net), which hosts dozens and dozens of events in Silicon Beach every year (Editor''s note: socalTECH.com is a media sponsor of the event). We''re showing people that we have the cool media-entertainment stuff, which is cool and great, and we love that.

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DECEMBER 28, 2017

I'm also looking forward to traveling the world speaking at other conferences and to the publishing of my weekly podcast, Crypto Leaders, and video series by Agora Financial, the largest financial newsletter publisher in the nation. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that particularly caught your eye in 2017?

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MARCH 22, 2010

announced today that it is launching today at the DEMO Spring 2010 conference in Palm Desert. The firm, which is self funded, says that it allows individuals, businesses, and nonprofits to raise money for any project, using social media. Tags: investedin fundraising nonprofit demo launch startup social media twitter facebook.

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APRIL 15, 2010

Los Angeles-based Demand Media , the online content publishing firm run by Richard Rosenblatt, has reportedly selected Goldman Sachs to run its IPO effort, according to a report this evening from the Financial Times. The report says that Demand Media has hired Goldman Sachs to explore an initial public offering for the firm.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Marx joins Los Angeles from Qualcomm Labs, where he was VP of Business Development, and he also served on the digital and technology side of Mattel, along with media-technology consultancy Analog Protocol; Vividenti-Universal Games; Universal Studios; Electronic Arts; UCLA, and 3M. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 15, 2013

Montgomery''s current investments in Southern California includes such firms as FindTheBest, Specific Media, and Vantage Media. The company has been well known in recent years for its technology conferences in Santa Monica. The move represents a return to Montgomery & Co.''s s roots as an investment firm. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 16, 2012

A conference being held this week by the OpenStack cloud software group has surfaced what looks to be a surge in cloud-based companies in Southern California, including a number of startups.

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AUGUST 22, 2014

For our profile today, we had a chat with Jonathan David , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Tapstone (www.tapstone.com), a company providing media buying and optimization. Jonathan David: We''re essentially a media buying and optimization platform. We spoke with Jonathan about the company and where it fits into the advertising market.

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JULY 7, 2009

Twiistup , the technology and media networking event being held July 30 and 31st at the Universal Hilton, released its list of companies being featured at the event today, saying that it has picked 11 companies to present at the event. Tags: startup networking media conference twiistup.

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JULY 22, 2010

On a conference call discussing the firm's quarterly results Wednesday, Jacobs said that the firm is "engaged in discussions" with partners regarding the direction of the business. Tags: qualcomm mediaflo television content streaming media. Qualcomm's MediaFLO business streams television channels to mobile phones. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 17, 2011

A report today from Greentech Media says that Pasadena-based Idealab 's sale of portfolio firm RayTracker was worth $44.8M. The disclosure of the sale price came at a solar power conference, from the firm's former founder, who said the investors scored a multiple of 12.8 Idealab, Quercus Trust, and Phoenix Fire had invested $3.5M

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OCTOBER 21, 2010

John Doerr, Managing Director at Kleiner Perkins, said, at a press conference announcing the new sFund, that the world is in the "third wave of incredible, disruptive innovation," in the social space. KPCB said its new sFund will focus on the next generation of social entrepreneurs.

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