socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has launched a brand new, craft-focused channel on its how-to site, eHow , featuring resources and information on all kinds of arts and crafts. READ MORE>>. ehow crafts channel resources video instruction learning creativebug instrucitons tutorials'

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Santa Monica-based Xfire , the online social networking and chat service aimed at gamers, said this morning that it is making it easier for users to capture and share videos of their game play, and post it on a YouTube channel. Xfire said it already has over 5.5 million videos captured using its social app. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 6, 2020

metro area, San Diego and Santa Monica. The on-demand shuttle startup raised $400 million, TechCrunch learned. A city might dedicate its shuttle service to transporting goods or essential personnel. Via isn’t the only company shifting its attention to emergency services. Deal of the week. Other deals: Qcraft.ai

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Layoffs Startup Newsletter Santa Monica 136

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Santa Monica-based gift card auction startup Biddees.com is claiming today that consumers using the site are saving an average of 10 percent on grocery gift cards from retailers Vons/Safeway and Whole Foods. Biddees is run by the former team behind Shoes.com, and combines bidding on gift cards with microdonations to nonprofits.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the car pricing startup headed by Scott Painter, has announced a new product today, focused on used vehicle pricing. The new service shows consumers a price distribution curve, so that consumers can see how a used car might sell for based on actual, marketing listing prices. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

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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socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2017

Santa Monica-based Gigmor (www.gigmor.com) is an online marketplace for musicians, and recently expanded beyond connecting musicians with each other, to connecting musicians with venues, club organizers, and others. David Baird: We really began as a musician matching site, kind of a LinkedIn for musicians. What is Gigmor?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Santa Monica-based Mahalo, the high profile startup headed by Jason Calacanis, has launched a new questions and answers site it is calling Mahalo Answers. The new service is similar to offerings from Yahoo with its Yahoo Answers service, Los Angeles-based Sodahead , and Demand Media's Answerbag Q&A service.

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socalTECH

JULY 2, 2009

Santa Monica-based Userplane , which develops web widgets used by other online community sites, including chat and other collaboration applications, told its users today in an email that the firm's future "remains bright." Userplane was acquired by AOL in 2006. READ MORE>>.

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Userplane Newsletter Santa Monica Email 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Last month, Santa Monica-based ThisNext announced that it was acquiring Stylehive, an online site focused on fashion and beauty. For additional verticals, we'll expand that through additional acquisition or through organic sites launched internally. What verticals are you thinking about?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Search leverages selective filtering via XMPP versus site indexing; only real-time search player to do so. Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.;

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socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2020

The second part of our app is Know It, which is a video on demand platform. They can then make money from that video-on-demand, and people can pay them to watch that content. In between that, I was formerly at the private equity firm Clearlake Capital, out of Santa Monica, which manages 8 billion in private equity investments.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

We were sitting at Huckleberry Cafe in Santa Monica, and I asked him if labor was a big problem for his business. The demand is there. We could have raised more, but apparently, we crashed SeedInvest's entire site on the last day of the campaign. You no longer have to be an investor in a giant venture capital fund.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

Recently, Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com) launched a new marketplace on its site, for anyone interested in selling professional documents. We thought we'd get the background on the new effort directly from Jason Nazar , CEO and founder of Docstoc, to learn more about the new service. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

We had a great launch and have seen great success, which has validated the fact that there is a lot of pent up demand for an organization here. We looked at other sites, such as Cross Campus Santa Monica, and we saw the events they were running, which we went to a lot before they opened a location here.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2009

That data can be on any subject--we're a horizontal platform--and a few of the examples you see on our site are a list of restaurants, things in the health space, and other partnerships. How does this differ from the kind of data Amazon has said it will make available through services like S3? Is this similar? How does that work?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

A location based service which incorporates social and gaming elements. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. A demand side advertising platform which allows advertisers to bid on individual ad impressions in real time, based on the site and who would see it.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

But that’s changing with a new crop of rich media platforms disrupting the ecosystem with new mobile and non-standard rich media ad formats, one of which – Jetpack – is located right here in Santa Monica. That same team founded the popular site Buzznet, which became BuzzMedia and is now known as SpinMedia.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Adam Miller transformed his company into one of the world’s leading software-as-a-service companies, specifically in the HR world. Adam Goldenberg’s JustFab is one of the new heavy-hitting membership fashion sites. Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. magazine and the LA Business Journal. Matt Coffin – LowerMyBills.com.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

The narrow, 3-mile strip of land that runs from Santa Monica through Venice, and is now stretching down to Playa Vista, has been dubbed "Silicon Beach" due to the heavy concentration of Internet companies and executives there. Back to Top « Customer Service. More than 600 tech start-ups have sprung up in L.A. FourSquare.

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