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JUNE 20, 2016

Santa Monica-based MGID , a provider of native advertising software and a native advertising network, said last week that it has launched a new, anti-ad blocking product. The company said its new technology allows publishers to trigger warnings and bypasses blocking attempts by software ad blockers. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 19, 2020

Another, Southern California technology company has ended up in the middle of increasingly divided U.S. politics, after Culver City-based Jukin Media issued a takedown request for a misleading, manipulated video that has been retweeted by Donald Trump.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. What new technology area, startup, service, or app did you find most interesting or useful this year, and why? Think Google Ad Words for podcasting.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Next week is the Montgomery Summit (www.montgomerysummit.com), one of the longest running technology conferences held in Los Angeles. It's now an internationally recognized showcase for technology here in Los Angeles, and we also get to showcase Southern California companies, as well. We've seen some notable successes.

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MARCH 1, 2011

Johnson, announced a move to allow other sites to host and show content via a new Lunch Network effort. Johnson: Essentially, we built Lunch to be the source of the highest quality user generated content out there, all built on top of our similarity network. So is this a white label view of the Lunch content?

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OCTOBER 5, 2011

X1 Discovery said today that it has launched a new, electronic discovery software called X1 Social Discovery, which is specifically aimed at helping computer forensics professionals address social media content. X1 Discovery said it will be releasing its software on October 18th, priced at $945 per seat annually.

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MARCH 17, 2016

There has been a lot of worry recently in the high tech industry and from venture investors about "headwinds" in the technology market, particularly with valuations of "unicorn" companies dropping, investors shying away from investing in rounds, and even employees looking for safer jobs. billion. >.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

According to Eric Robison, the firm's CEO, the funding round will go towards increasing the firm's global reach and expanding content. Lynda.com is unique in that it started out as a bootstrapped business operated out of the personal website (Lynda.com) of co-founder Lynda Weinman, in the not-so-technology hotbed town of Ojai.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. I had worked as a tutor for Princeton Review, and Jake for Kaplan. We thought, we could put out a better product than Kaplan or Princeton Review, which would be more compelling, and also would tie in a strong social mission.

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OCTOBER 8, 2015

Four of the companies in this year's accelerator class (FEM, MakieLab, Littlestar, and HYP3R) now have operations in Los Angeles, three having set up shop in Los Angeles due to their involvement in the program.

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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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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

The company was founded by Bong Koh, a former EIR at Prism VentureWorks and venture capitalist at Advanced Technology Ventures; he also co-founded ibeatyou. We want to create the right mix of the types of activities, price points, and make sure we have high quality content and high quality activities. What is LifeCrowd? READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

One of Urbandig's co-founders, Mike Macadaan -- the former VP of User Experience at MySpace, and creator of the technology conference Twiistup--sat down to talk to us about the company. We've spent the time to find the experts, scouting out the best bloggers and others who know the community, for our reviews.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

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AUGUST 28, 2012

VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. Whats Hot Menu. what’s hot?

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Help us understand your technology--is this focused on the automated language translation technology, or on the process of localizing a web site? Idris Manley: Essentially, what we do is we create a global layer for web sites, that supports multiple language content channels.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The company announced a first round of funding Monday for its technology. We have a new piece of technology, which figures out social value, and delivers something to companies they never had before, which is the ability to measure influence among people, and to do so with hard numbers. Explain what Ninja Metrics is doing? READ MORE>>.

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MAY 7, 2010

Marc Friedmann: SciVee serves the STM - Science, Technical, Medical - market. One is software, which is very much like software-as-a-service, where we deliver that software to publications and conferences, to enable rich media on their sites. It synchronizes the timeline of the video with document content.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. ” Residents of Northern California (everyone north of Bakersfield) don’t understand how we do it, constantly touting Palo Alto’s tech scene. Follow PandoDaily: Search. Post navigation. Howard Marks.

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OCTOBER 30, 2008

We're always interested in how technology is influencing the business of Hollywood, and recently ran across Los Angeles-based Scripped. to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. What's Scripped?

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NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The company announced a first round of funding Monday for its technology. We have a new piece of technology, which figures out social value, and delivers something to companies they never had before, which is the ability to measure influence among people, and to do so with hard numbers. Explain what Ninja Metrics is doing? READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The company announced a first round of funding Monday for its technology. We have a new piece of technology, which figures out social value, and delivers something to companies they never had before, which is the ability to measure influence among people, and to do so with hard numbers. Explain what Ninja Metrics is doing? READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 8, 2011

We also have a partnership with Trion Media, which is one of the largest content providers to the radio industry. We actually built that about a year and a half ago, and are bringing that back due to overwhelming demand. In April of 2010, we put up Dealcurent.com, and we started indexing number one on Google for daily deals software.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

It's been awhile since we last caught up with Los Angeles-based Language Weaver (www.languageweaver.com), a venture-backed firm which develops language translation software, so we sat down the other day with Mark Tapling , the President and CEO of the firm, to hear more about where the company is nowadays--plus its strategy for growth and an exit.

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MARCH 4, 2009

That's what the Cogi service offering is all about--giving you the ability to capture, review, and share the content of your important conversations. At a high level, what that means you can capture the content, record it, and also capture what you believe is the important parts of the conversation.

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DECEMBER 1, 2008

What kinds of companies are you looking to invest in, when you say digital media--content, technology, or both? But we're also technology focused, looking primarily at consumer facing software and services firms in digital media. Richard Yen: We're fairly broad in respect to digital media.

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DECEMBER 1, 2008

What kinds of companies are you looking to invest in, when you say digital media--content, technology, or both? But we're also technology focused, looking primarily at consumer facing software and services firms in digital media. Richard Yen: We're fairly broad in respect to digital media.

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MAY 18, 2010

Al Eisaian: IconApps is built around simplifying people's lives through mobile technology. As of the last four months, we've had about 200,000 plus downloads, a bunch of great write ups, and a lot of mom bloggers who have been reviewing the app and writing stories on it. We built that and put it on the App Store on December 24 of 2009.

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AUGUST 27, 2012

We had the chance to speak with William Volk , Chief Creative Officer of Playscreen (www.playscreen.com), who talked how his company is looking to crack the code with Crickler 2: Daily Word Puzzle , which is among the most popular puzzle games on iTunes, and recently number one in free educational games. stars, mostly five star reviews.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2008

in a venture round for the firm's software recommendation startup. Darrius Thompson: We came from a company called DivX, where we had built a business primarily around consumer software. We got really good at figuring out how to get wide distribution for our software, and how to monetize that software in unique ways.

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

How do you take a business you started as your own personal web site, and turn it into an online powerhouse, completely bootstrapped, from the little town of Ojai, California--not exactly known as a technology town? Lynda Weinman: With the downturn due to the dot com crash, our school business died on the vine.

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