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Demand Media Spends $707K On Spanish Language Firm

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Santa Monica-based Demand Media has issued $707,254 in stock as part of the acquisition of a company, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Monday. Demand had revealed in its 10Q earlier that it had acquired an un-named firm which specializes in the creation of Spanish and Portuguese language media content. READ MORE>>.

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AT&T's DIRECTV NOW Tops 500,000 Subscribers

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AT&T , which has been ramping up its efforts and presence in Los Angeles, both with technology and Hollywood, said this week that it has topped 500,000 subscribers on its over-the-top (OTT) streaming platform, DIRECTV NOW.

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Sixty-four Southern California Firms On Technology Fast 500

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1193% Santa Monica Scott Painter 116 Network Solutions Provider 1001% Long Beach Phillip Walker 119 BlackLine Systems Software 973% Los Angeles Therese Tucker 131 Kotura, Inc. 191% Los Angeles Thomas A. 189% El Segundo Nick Hedges 397 Illumina, Inc. 129% Los Angeles David Hagan. Frost, Ph.D.

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Announcing The Socaltech 50: Southern California's Up-and-Comers

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Chance Barnett , Crowdfunder (Los Angeles, crowdfunding). Allison Beal , StyleSaint (Los Angeles, fashion). James Borow and Clark Landry (shared position), SHIFT (Los Angeles, Santa Monica, advertising). Josh Brooks , OnTheRunTech.com dba Post Cards On The Run (Los Angeles, mobile apps).

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Southern California Technology Jobs Surge

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It's been tough to shake people loose from companies," Stuart Macfarlane , CEO of El Segundo-based iChange , explains, saying that the firm is actively looking to hire two to three web developers. We're getting more aggressive in recruitment," explains says Kirsten Mangers , CEO of Irvine-based Webvisible.

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How ConsumerTrack Has Created A Growing, Profitable--and Mostly Unknown Business

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In the Los Angeles startup world, there are lots of high profile, buzzy companies which have lots of attention and funding--but which haven''t earned a dime of revenue. It''s very competitive in the Los Angeles market, and we''ve had a real focus on culture, to differentiate ourselves and continue to hire the top talent in the LA area.

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Interview with Damir Davidovic, NEOGOV

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It's surprising how often we run into rapidly growing companies that not many people have heard of, here in Southern California, but that's the case with El Segundo-based. We're looking at it as an alternative to Taleo, SuccessFactors, Cornerstone On Demand, and so on. We didn't want to break our business model.