Demand Media Extends Pluck To Mobile
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APRIL 6, 2011
Santa Monica-based Demand Media has extended its Pluck social media platform to mobile devices, the company said today.
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Demand Media Names Kirby As Mobile Head
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MAY 16, 2011
Santa Monica-based Demand Media announced today that it has named Michael Kirby as head of its mobile efforts. Kirby has been appointed SVP & GM, Mobile, to lead the company's mobile strategy. Kirby joins Demand Media from GOGII, where he was Chief Revenue Officer.
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Catching Up With Joanne Bradford, Demand Media
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AUGUST 6, 2012
Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. What is Demand Media doing nowadays? For Legalzoom, it's a very different model.
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Announcing The Socaltech 50: Southern California's Up-and-Comers
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NOVEMBER 19, 2013
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). Sean Callahan , SlimSurveys (San Diego, mobile apps). Greg Cohn , Burner (Los Angeles, mobile app).
Demand Media Releases Trails.com App
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JANUARY 14, 2011
Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing firm headed by Richard Rosenblatt, said this morning that it has updated its mobile application for its web property Trails.com. The application also provides information about weather conditions, elevation, sunrise and sunset, and a virtual compass. READ MORE>>.
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LIVESTRONG.COM Challenges Users To Quit Smoking via iPhone App
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NOVEMBER 17, 2010
Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.COM , the online health and fitness site joint venture of Demand Media and Lance Armstrong, said this week that it has launched a new, iPhone application geared at helping users quick smoking. Tags: livestrong iphone application mobile quit smoking cancer lung myquit. READ MORE>>.
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Esri Powers Pokemon Hunting Map From Santa Monica's Pokevision
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JULY 27, 2016
Redlands, California-based mapping software developer Esri said today that it is powering a new, mobile app which helps Pokemon Go players find Pokemon hot spots. Pokevision apparently has been seeing a huge spike in demand for its service, with nearly 20 million unique users in its first five days. Pokevision is based in Santa Monica.
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Lyft Launches Ridesharing App In LA
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JANUARY 31, 2013
Lyft , the developer of a service and mobile app which lets users find, and offer, rides across town, said it is launching today in the Los Angeles area. Lyft's app--which works with both iPhone and Android--lets users offer rides to people on-demand, at what it says is a "fraction of the cost" of a cab.
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LIVESTRONG.COM, RadioShack In iPhone App Partnership
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JUNE 17, 2010
Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.COM , the online health and fitness site run by Demand Media in a partnership with Lance Armstrong, said today that it has partnered with RadioShack Corporation for an iPhone app. Tags: livestrong radioshack team bicycling cycling iphone mobile. READ MORE>>.
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Capturing The Entrepreneurial Energy At StartEngine's Demo Day
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JANUARY 31, 2013
It was standing room only at StartEngine 's Demo Day Wednesday afternoon, held at Santa Monica's Cross Campus , as the startup accelerator launched eight of its latest startups into the world, after a 90 day process of mentoring, honing their business model, and heads down development.
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StartEngine Debuts Eight New Startups At Demo Day
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JANUARY 30, 2013
StartEngine , the startup accelerator headed by Howard Marks, is launching its newest class of startups today in a private event in Santa Monica. The eight startups are pitching their investors to startups at CrossCampus in Santa Monica this afternoon.
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Instacart Expands In Los Angeles
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MAY 1, 2014
On-demand grocery delivery service Instacart has expanded in Los Angeles, saying recently that it is now covering downtown Los Angeles and Culver City, and will deliver groceries from Ralphs and Costco. instacart peer marketplace delivery mobile market grocery shopping' READ MORE>>.
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eHow Rolls Android App
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FEBRUARY 9, 2010
Santa Monica-based eHow , the question and answer site owned by Demand Media, said this week that it has rolled out a new, mobile application for the Android operating system. Tags: ehow android demand media question answer mobile phone google. The firm said the new app is available for free. READ MORE>>.
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ParkMe Launches Real-Time Parking Solutions For LA & Santa Monica Drivers
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DECEMBER 14, 2012
Based in Santa Monica, California and founded by Sam Friedman and Alex Israel, ParkMe , a leading provider of parking information to navigation companies and smartphones to simplify parking using dynamic and real-time parking data has partnered with Los Angeles and Santa Monica cities to help motorists find available parking quickly.
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Squeegy Officially Debuts On-Demand Car Wash Service In LA
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SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
Los Angeles-based Squeegy , an on-demand, car wash service, said Wednesday that it has officially launched its service in Los Angeles. The startup, led by Andrew Davis, let users request a car wash from their mobile app, anywhere within Squeegy's service area. Squeegy's on-demand app currently runs only on iOS.
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Saatchi Rolls New Virtual Reality, Art Buying App
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DECEMBER 11, 2014
Santa Monica-baesd online art site Saatchi Art 0--part of Demand Media--said Thursdya that it has launched a new, mobile app that lets users use virtual reality to see how a piece of art might look like on their wall. saatchi wall preview augmented reality virtual mobile' READ MORE>>.
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153 ZIRX Expands To LA
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NOVEMBER 24, 2014
On demand valet parking service ZIRX said today that it has expanded into the Los Angeles area, and will begin offering up its on-demand, valet parking downtown Los Angeles and Santa Monica. The startup has previously been offering up its on-demand, valet service in San Francisco and Seattle. READ MORE>>.
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YieldMetrics Becomes Adomic
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JULY 31, 2013
Santa Monica-based online advertising firm YieldMetrics has renamed itself Adomic , as part of a rebranding effort, the firm said today. Grossman was previously at Demand Media and Scripps Networks Interactive, and was founder of mobile advertising firm Sidebar. The start is led by Gabe Gottlieb. READ MORE>>.
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Honk Technologies Adds $18M For On Demand Towing
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JUNE 27, 2018
Santa Monica-based Honk Technologies , the on-demand, roadside assistance app startup led by Corey Brundage, said Wednesday that it has raised $18M in a new funding round. Honk Technologies offers up a mobile app which lets motorists requests help for a jump start, tire change, or other on-the-road road assistance.
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Honk Gets $12M For On-Demand, Roadside Service
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MARCH 26, 2015
Santa Monica-based HONK , the on-demand, roadside assistance app startup led by Corey Brundage, said this morning that it has raised $12M in a Series A funding round. capital venture brundage corey uber smartphone mobile assistance roadside honk' Honk said the new funding brings its total raised to $13.8M. READ MORE>>.
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Lime is building its first scooter ‘lifestyle brand store’ in LA
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OCTOBER 22, 2018
Apparently with a physical storefront where it can convince customers of the wonders of on-demand mobility. “Lime would have an opportunity to control the narrative, engage with the local community, and invest in Santa Monica. The big motive here is for Lime to repair relationships with the local community.
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221 All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding
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JUNE 28, 2018
My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.
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Livestrong.com Trumpets Apps Milestone
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JULY 25, 2011
Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.COM , the health and wellness site run by Demand Media, is trumpeting two pieces of app news today.
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Vetted Finds $3.47M For In-Home, On-Demand Pet Care In LA
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AUGUST 1, 2017
Venice, California-based Vetted , a new startup offering up on-demand, veterinary services at your home, has raised $3.47M in seed funding, the company disclosed this week. Vetted says it is currently offering its services in Bel Air, Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Culver City, Inglewood, Santa Monica, Sherman Oaks, Van Nuys, Venice, and Westwood.
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113 Squeegy Launches On-Demand Car Washes In LA
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AUGUST 21, 2015
Los Angeles-based Squeegy has recently launched into the market, with an on-demand, car wash service--currently serving the west side.
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AUGUST 6, 2015
Rinse , a San Francisco-based on-demand dry cleaning and laundry service, said Thursday that it is expanding it service to Los Angeles, after raising a $3.5M The company offers up many features familiar to on-demand app users, including emailed photos of your items and SMS pick up and scheduling. funding round.
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Bird is testing Bird Pay, which lets users purchase items from local businesses using its main app
TechCrunch LA
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
Another on-demand transport app is making a move into payments to expand the existing relationship with its customers (and subsequent margins that it makes from serving them). The service is being tested first in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, the company said.
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Vet On Demand Launches New Service To Connect Pet Owners, Vets
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OCTOBER 21, 2015
Santa Monica-based Vet On Demand announced a new, on-demand pet health app for iOS and Android this morning, which lets pet owners get remote, consultations from veterinarians.
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Heal Finds $26.9M More In Funding To Expand Access To On-Demand Doctors
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OCTOBER 18, 2016
Santa Monica-based Heal , the on-demand doctor's house call startup, said this morningg that it has raised $26.9M Heal lets users request in-home, on demand visits from doctors, who the startup says can do anything a patient might require in a traditional doctor's visit. in a Series A funding.
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Exploring A Brave New World Of Domain Names, With Rightside
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MAY 2, 2014
To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media. Steve Banfield: What will become Rightside has been part of Demand Media.
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231 Bird Integrates With Google Maps
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AUGUST 17, 2021
Santa Monica-based on-demand scooter and bicycle company Bird has integrated its rentals with Google Maps, the company announced this morning>. The integration deal is one of several that Google Maps has just inked with on-demand, micro-mobility scooter providers, including one announced yesterday with Spin.
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113 Factual Pulls In $25M
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DECEMBER 8, 2010
Santa Monica-based Factual , the open dataset and API provider started by Gil Elbaz, announced this evening that it has raised $25M in a first round of funding. Elbaz said, in particular, that the firm's local data information is in high demand from developers of mobile and web applications.
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162 Bird Plans To Invest $150M In Europe
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MARCH 16, 2021
Santa Monica-based on-demand electric scooter provider Bird says it is planning a major investment in Europe, saying it will invest $150M in the continent in 2021. Bird offers up on-demand, electric scooters being used for micro-mobility, particularly in dense urban neighborhoods.
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WhipClip, Founded By Richard Rosenblatt, Debuts App
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MARCH 26, 2015
Santa Monica-based WhipClip , the content discovery startup which was co-founded by former Demand Media founder Richard Rosenblatt, debuted its mobile app today , looking to help users create, share, and find music and television video clips. READ MORE>>.
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Sweep Eyes Nationalwide Electric Scooter Maintenance, Logistics
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JANUARY 31, 2019
Santa Monica-based Sweep , a startup which is focused on cleanup and maintenance of the many scooters from Bird, Lime, Spin, and others, said this week it's looking to create a nationwide network of e-scooter logistics hubs.
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133 This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar
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JULY 1, 2010
Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc). Includes content mobile guides, ie. Includes 70,000 apps for all major mobile OS platforms, including Apple’s.
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248 Bird Rolls Out Warm Up Mode
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APRIL 22, 2020
Santa Monica-based on-demand scooter service Bird announced on Wednesday that it has launched a new "Warm Up Mode", which will help its riders as they get back on the company's scooters, which will offer "gentle acceleration" so that riders who are "out of practice" or new scooter riders "sensitive to social distancing guidelines" avoid sudden acceleration. (..)
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Heal Raises $14.8M, Names Richard Gephardt To Board
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DECEMBER 6, 2016
Santa Monica-based Heal , the startup which provides on-demand, doctor house calls to patients, has raised $14.8M Heal lets users schedule an on-demand, house call visit, where most of a typical visit to the doctor's office can be accomplished. Presidential Candidate, Richard Gephardt, to its board of directors.
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Bird's Scoot Launches Bird Two In San Francisco
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JANUARY 30, 2020
Scoot , the on-demand scooter service which is owned by Santa Monica-based Bird , announced this morning that it has rolled out the Bird Two , Bird's next generation scooter, in San Francisco. Bird said that San Francisco will be the first city to have a fleet of up to 1,000 of the new e-scooters.
Bird Rolls Out New, Foldable Scooter For Purchase
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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
Santa Monica-based on-demand scooter rental provider Bird has rolled out a new, more affordable foldable scooter for those who would prefer to purchase, rather than rent, its scooters. The new scooter, called the Bird Air is now available at Target, and costs only $599.99.
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Bird Loses Paris
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JULY 23, 2020
Santa Monica-based on-demand scooter company Bird has failed to obtain a contract to deploy its scooters in Paris , in what is a high profile loss for Bird. According to Paris, it selected Lime, Tier, and Dott as the scooter companies for the city, which will result in deployment of 15,000 scooters in total through the city.
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113 This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak
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JUNE 18, 2010
Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. -DST invested $180mm last fall.
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The Station: Via hits $2.25B valuation, letters from readers, layoffs in a time of COVID-19
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APRIL 6, 2020
metro area, San Diego and Santa Monica. The on-demand shuttle startup raised $400 million, TechCrunch learned. There has been a real interest in emergency services,” Ramot told me, adding he expects to see more demand for the software platform and the flexibility it provides as the pandemic unfolds.
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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast
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DECEMBER 18, 2013
28 from 7pm-10pm in Santa Monica. Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. On Demand).
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