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OCTOBER 15, 2009

Santa Monica-based Bestcovery.com , an online expert review and ranking site headed by former Pricegrabber.com co-founder and CEO, Kamran Pourzanjani, said today that it has rolled out a new widget which will allow web publishers to display its content.

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APRIL 30, 2012

Remember Santa Monica-based Mahalo , the startup headed by Jason Calacanis and backed by such investors as Sequoia Capital?

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JANUARY 21, 2014

Beats Music , the streaming music service which is being developed by Santa Monica-based Beats Electronics, officially launched this morning on the web and via an iPhone application. beats music streaming service content hollywood audio' The service, which costs $9.99 READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Santa Monica-based content delivery network provider EdgeCast Networks is expanding its services to Taiwan, with a deal with Chunghwa Telecom Co. EdegeCast said the move will allow HiNet to provide web acceleration and security services to business customers in Taiwan. Financial details of the deal were not announced.

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OCTOBER 30, 2012

Santa Monica-based content delivery network operator EdgeCast Networks said today that it has expanded its global network, opening up new point of presence (PoP) locations in Vienna, Austria, Stockholm, Sweden, and Sao Paulo, Brazil. The firm said the expansion comes to meet "surging" customer demand for its services.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the media firm run by Richard Rosenblatt, former Chairman of MySpace, said Wednesday that it has launched a new service which automatically pulls up and links to related content on web pages. Pluck was a developer of social media software for web publishers. READ MORE>>

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Santa Monica-based VIRURL , which is headed by Francisco Diaz-Mitoma, said today that it has launched a new widget aimed at web publishers. VIRURL said its widget lets users click on a "recommended content" link which links users to extra, sponsored content that might be relevant to the content on a page.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

Santa Monica-based Famous Birthdays , which operates an online website which lets people look up the birthdays and other information on celebrities and other famous people, says it has just passed 25 million monthly unique users. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

Santa Monica startup, Gravity --headed by former MySpace COO Amit Kapur--announced this morning that it has raised $10.6M Gravity develops real-time, personalized web pages based on what consumers are most interested in, serving up personalized content on everything from iPad apps to web pages.

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AUGUST 21, 2014

Santa Monica-based real estate agent recommendation service Agent Ace , which is led by Mazen Fawaz, has scored a win with the U.S. The two companies said that Agent Ace is powering a new, consumer web portal, Best Agents , to help connect readers with real estate agents. News & World Report. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 21, 2010

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing firm headed by Richard Rosenblatt, has updated its S-1 filing, saying it now has around 3 million articles in the firm's library of content. Demand operates Livestrong.com, eHow.com, and other web properties. Demand Media filed for an IPO in August. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 14, 2013

According to Consumer Watchdog , a local Santa Monica consumer group, it has found a legal brief from Google saying that users should not expect privacy using its web-based email. The filing came in a lawsuit which accuses Google of violating wiretapping laws when using the content of a user''s email to target ads to users.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

Santa Monica-based content deliver network provider EdgeCast Networks said today that it has joined with OpenDNS and Google, as well as a number of other CDNs, to speed up the handling of domain name system (DNS) request on the Internet.

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JUNE 18, 2013

Google announced today that Google Adsense --which it acquired when it bought Santa Monica-based Applied Semantics back in 2003--just turned 10 years old, and now has more than 2 million publishers. Google said that last year, alone, publishers earned more than $7 billion from AdSense ads.

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AUGUST 22, 2011

A new analysis of the most popular, YouTube channels, shows that the Los Angeles area continues to lead the world in content production, even as the medium shifts to the web. minutes per viewer; Santa Monica-based Demand Media had 15.2 million total unique viewers in July, with about 265.4 million unique viewers, with 46.1M

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APRIL 13, 2011

Santa Monica-based EdgeCast Networks , the operator of a content delivery network (CDN), said today that it has entered into general availability of its new Application Delivery Network service. The new service is focused on serving up web applications and dynamic customers for its customers. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 22, 2012

Well, a Santa Monica-based service, Mixin , is looking to bring that same pop-up bubble concept to online videos and video sites. The result is essentially, web-video-meets-pop-up-video, with user's comments popping up into a video in bubble boxes.

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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 5, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publisher which runs such sites as eHow.com, typeF.com, and LIVESTRONG.COM, said Thursday afternoon that it is launching a new effort focused on long-form web content.

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JUNE 29, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing empire run by Richard Rosenblatt, has inked a partnership with outdoor retailer REI. Trails.com is Demand Media's online adventure site, providing trail guides, topographic maps, articles, and other outdoors-related content. The companies announced the deal today.

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MARCH 1, 2010

Santa Monica-based Movieclips.com , an online site which allows users to search for scenes from major movies, and embed them on Facebook, MySpace, and other web sites, said today that it has opened up its service to users worldwide. Tags: movieclips movie content social embed video streaming hollywood. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Rustic Canyon Partners has upped its investment in social games firm PlayFirst , which is based in San Francisco. Rustic's Mark Menell and Nate Redmond are involved in PlayFirst, according to Rustic Canyon's web site.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the new media venture of former MySpace chairman Richard Rosenblatt, said today that it has just published its one millionth piece of original content, and is launching an effort to extend health care benefits to freelancers creating that content for the firm. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 13, 2010

Santa Monica-based Tsavo Media , which is developing software which helps to make web sites more relevant to their visitors, announced today that it has added a new feature to match relevant stories with users on its Daymix information portal.

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MARCH 10, 2011

Search engine giant Google , in what might be a preview of a way for users to help filter out low quality web results, said Thursday that it has begun allowing user to block results from sites they do not want to see. Those recent changes have been aimed at sites like Santa Monica-based Mahalo.com.

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MARCH 16, 2010

Santa Monica-based Jacked , a developer of second-screen, companion applications for TV broadcasts, has been acquired by Roundbox , a New Jersey-based developer of mobile broadcast software. Tags: jacked roundbox merger acquisition television content software. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Santa Monica-based Mahalo , the online search site headed by Jason Calacanis, rolled out version 3.0 of the firm's web site. The new version of the site is looking to combine search, content, and Q&A.

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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? They all depend on EdgeCast to deliver content to their customers, anywhere they are, on any device. We've grown really fast.

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JANUARY 13, 2014

Beats Music , the online music streaming subscription service which has been in development by Santa Monica-based Beats Electronics, is set for launch on January 21st, the company said over the weekend. a month for streaming via iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and the web. beats music daisy target streaming content'

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OCTOBER 1, 2012

Is Santa Monica-based Mahalo , the startup headed by Jason Calacanis, just about to reveal a new pivot and new corporate name? Inside.com currently only includes a simple web signup form which adds you to an email list from Calacnisd. According to a story from TechCrunch this morning, yes. READ MORE>>.

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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. Katz 360 Sales said it is using Rubicon Project's Internet advertising infrastructure to customize content and audience selections for its advertisers.

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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. Tsavo develops content-focused web sites which apply technology to serve up more relevant information and advertising depending on who was visiting those web sites.

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APRIL 5, 2012

Actually, no thanks to Santa Monica-based Mobile Roadie. 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. I ran it for almost a decade. Our apps do that extremely well.

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AUGUST 6, 2009

Santa Monica-based FlipGloss Media , a developer of visually driven, photo-centric web technology aimed at the fashion and news industry, announced today that it has launched a new web site for entertainment news provider Variety. Tags: flipgloss content news software photo photography emmy. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 26, 2009

Santa Monica-based automotive information site Edmunds.com is adding new car inventory to its web site, after brokering a deal with AutoTrader.com, the firm reported today. Edmunds.com did not disclose the financial deals of the deal, but said it will provide new car inventory on new car dealer lots on its web site.

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MAY 17, 2011

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