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GumGum Ranks NBA Teams On Social Media

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Which NBA team is winning, on social media? Los Angeles-based GumGum , the image recognition, computer vision, and advertising technology developer, has rolled out a new service called GumGum Sports Scoreboard , a new tool which helps benchmark and analyze media value generated from NBA team-owned social media accounts.

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Infographic: Social Media Spurring E-Commerce Activity

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A new study of social media activity and e-commerce, compiled from Los Angeles social tools developer Social Annex , shows that social media is--not surprisingly--playing a far bigger role in online shopping this year. READ MORE>>.

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Los Angeles-based childcare and co-working startup Bümo adds more virtual classes for kids at home

TechCrunch LA

The two met in their early twenties when Nguyen was trying to launch a fashion business and Lim was solidifying her career as a social media celebrity and designer. . Based in Los Angeles, Bümo had already managed to lock in a $2.4 million seed round which the two founders began raising in November and closed in May.

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Los Angeles Startup Events

SoCal CTO

I recently posted about the Increase in Early-Stage Startup Activity in Los Angeles. I realized that it has been a little while since I posted about the Los Angeles Startup Community and so needed to update my list of startup events that will be out of date almost before I finish publishing it.

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Jam City Highlights Social Media Stars in Cookie Day Promo

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Los Angeles-based mobile game developer Jam City is turning to two social media stars--sisters Justine (aka iJustine) and Jenna Ezarik--in an online social media promotion around National Cookie Day, which is December 4th.

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Blurr Moves From Boston, Sets Up Shop In LA To Tap Into Social Media Scene

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Blurr , a social media app developer focused on communal photo sharing with users around you, has relocated to Los Angeles from Boston. The company said called LA the "epicentre for Social-Media startups", and also cited the city as likely to have "the best talent" for a social products startup.

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In Los Angeles, the Women’s March embraces technology to organize and inspire

TechCrunch LA

The roughly 300,000 marchers that filled the streets of downtown Los Angeles for the third annual Women’s March received more than just an opportunity to hear from some of the state’s high powered politicians, they were also part of a new experiment from local March organizers in bringing technology into the movement.