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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

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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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Los Angeles-based mobile messaging firm Mogreet is expanding into the telephony API market, telling its users that it has just opened up a new suite of APIs which allow users to send SMS and MMS messages, look up user information, and trancode media. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 1, 2017

Los Angeles-based automotive, digital media publisher Donut Media said today that it has launched its own, internal content agency, called Donut Brand Studio. The company said Donut Brand Studio will focus on developing millennial-driven, automotive-themed content. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The Los Angeles-based commerce and content platform StackCommerce has been acquired by the Integrated Media Company, a holding company set up by the massive private equity fund, TPG, to acquire new media businesses. As a part of Integrated Media, StackCommerce will join properties like Fandom and Goal.com.

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JULY 11, 2013

Burbank-based Beachfront Media , the developer of video software tools headed by Frank Sinton, is further extending its outreach to app developers today, with a new set of SDKs. The company added its mobile video ad services in May. beachfront media mefeedia video publishing software mobile iphone android developer'

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OCTOBER 16, 2012

Los Angeles-based web hosting firm Media Temple , which is led by Demian Sellfors, has launched a new cloud service around the OpenStack cloud standard, the firm said this morning. Media Temple said its new Helix private cloud service--powered by Morphlabs and Dell--lets businesses run their own private clouds.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

Santa Monica-based entertainment studio Lionsgate said on Thursday that it has named Julie Uhrman to the position of Executive Vice President & General Manager of Lionsgate Over-The-Top (OTT) Ventures, the company's streaming media service. Uhrman also has served at IGN Entertainment and Vivendi Universal.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 11, 2020

These days, most of the games developed need to be social, multi-platform and extensible, but there are only a few developers with the expertise to bring those toolsets to the profusion of new games that crop up every year. In the game industry, a game can stay in beta for years as developers work out the kinks.

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JANUARY 21, 2014

Beats Music , the streaming music service which is being developed by Santa Monica-based Beats Electronics, officially launched this morning on the web and via an iPhone application. The service, which costs $9.99 Beats Electronics is being run by Ian Rogers , the former head of Topspin Media and GM of Yahoo! READ MORE>>.

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JULY 22, 2014

El Segundo-based Pk4 Media , which develops adveriting technology, said this morning that it has acquired Santa Monica-based Prosperio , a developer of a programmatic direct platform for the display and video ad market. Financial terms of the merger were not disclosed. Prosperio was part of LaunchpadLA. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Los Angeles-based cloud and web hosting operator Media Temple said this morning that it has named Lou Kikos as the company's new Vice President of Marketing. Kikos was most recently at iRise, and also had served at CC Information Services, and co-founded The Magis Group.

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OCTOBER 14, 2013

Los Angeles-based Fliptu , the social media software developer headed by Jeremy Gocke, is targeting the music industry with its social service, and is launching a new platform that lets the music industry share the pictures, video clips, and other social items that fans are sharing before, during, and after concerts.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Los Angeles-based DroneBase , a provider of professional drone pilots, as well as a developer of enterprise software used to collect and process data from drones, has raised $12M in a Series B funding. The company has now raised more than $17M in total. DroneBase is led by co-founder and CEO Dan Burton. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Edison Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

By leveraging managed network services , startups can offload time-consuming maintenance tasks and strengthen their IT infrastructure to increase their competitiveness. . Managed IT infrastructure services can save businesses over $145,000 per 100 users annually and optimize IT staff resources by 42%. Vulnerable Network Infrastructure.

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APRIL 16, 2010

Los Angeles-based Break Media , the online operator of a network of sites focused on men, announced Friday morning that it has launched a new division focused on CPA, performance marketing. Break Media said that Apogee Media Network will focus on customer acquisition, email marketing, and social media for advertisers, on a CPA-basis.

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AUGUST 12, 2013

Santa Monica-based Entangled Media Corp. which is behind the younity personal cloud service, announced this morning that it has raised $3.545M in a seed funding round. younity entangled media venture capital personal data storage muckerlab cloud' READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 6, 2018

Los Angeles-based BlackLine , which develops cloud-based, accounting automation software, said it has added a number of companies as new customers in Q2. Financial impact of all of the new customer additions was not announced. BlackLine's software is used to automate the process of a financial close.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 20 million registered developers in 2018. Here are some ways we both recommend to beat the odds and thrive in today’s app ecosystem: Sell a digital service through your app.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Santa Monica-based MomentFeed , the startup which is developing software to provide analytics on such things as check-ins and customer interaction at retail locations, said this week that it has partnered with digital marketing firm Location3 Media.

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JANUARY 31, 2012

San Diego-based StockTwits , the online, finance-focused messaging service, said today that it has partnered with Q4 Web Systems , a developer of corporate websites and social media products for public companies. The two said that Q4 will integrate StockTwits products and services as part of its offering for public companies.

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DECEMBER 11, 2013

Los Angeles-based Plug.dj , an online music and video sharing service, has raised $1.25M in a funding round, to bolster the company''s product. The firm, which is led by Alex Reinlieb, said it will use the new funds to expand its team, develop its product, launch new services, and improve community support. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

If you wanted to find someone who truly understands the convergence of the media and technology, you need to go no further than Peter Csathy , the CEO of newly launched CREATV Media (www.creatv.media). Peter Csathy: CREATV Media is a very different kind of firm. I came to Manatt to build digital media companies.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Irvine-based Specific Media , a provider of contextual, online advertising services, announced today that it has promoted Jon Schluz to Executive Vice President. Schulz was most recently SVP Global Category development for the firm, and had previously served at Ford Motor Company. Schulz had joined the firm in 2008. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 29, 2013

Burbank-based Beachfront Media , which develops video publishing and syndication tools, and also runs the MeFeedia video discovery site, has extended its platform to support publishing video to connected TVs. Beachfront Media is headed by Frank Sinton. Beachfront Media is headed by Frank Sinton.

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JUNE 26, 2012

Aliso Viejo-based CitizenHawk , the venture backed developer of online brand protection services, said today that it has launched a social media monitoring tool. Cost of the new tool was not announced.

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JUNE 26, 2013

Metacloud , a provider of managed, Openstack-based private cloud services, announced this morning that it has raised $10M in a Series A funding round. The companies said the funding will go towards growth and global expansion of its services. The round was led by Canaan Partners, and also included Storm Ventures and AME Cloud.

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AUGUST 27, 2015

Santa Monica-based GumGum , the developer of digital advertising and marketing tools which tie advertising into online photographs and visual content, has rolled out a new social media analysis tool.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Mining that same well of a demand for whodunnits, a roughly one-year-old Los Angeles-based startup called Solve has raised $20 million in financing to update the genre for a new generation of media consumers. Solve began as a series developed within the mobile-focused entertainment studio, Vertical Networks.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 17, 2019

Even as Quibi , the short form video platform from Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo , reportedly looks to raise another $1 billion , rival service Fiction Riot continues to steadily build out its pipeline of short form serials. The company is reportedly spending $5 million per hour of storytelling for some of its titles.

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OCTOBER 6, 2011

Irvine-based Western Digital , the developer of disk drives and other electronics products, said today that it has launched a new version of its streaming media player which connects with the Spotify music service. The WD streaming media player uses wireless 802.11n to connect to the Internet. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 15, 2015

Los Angeles-based web and cloud hosting service provider Media Temple said Thursday that it has launched a new, shared hosting solution, which is based on its existing shared hosting platform, Grid. The company said the new offering specifically is targeted at freelance web designers, developers, and small and medium agencies.

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APRIL 11, 2011

San Diego-based Sorenson Media , the developer of video encoding and decoding software, announced this morning that it has opened up a new office in Los Angeles. Sorenson said the new office will service its clients in the media and entertainment industry. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. Still, if you've not heard these questions from a developer, they are not helping you as much as they should. Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? It needs to be a conversation. Wireframes?

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MAY 7, 2015

Santa Monica-based MamaBear >, the developer of a mobile app which helps mothers keep track of and manage their families, said it will offer up a free premium services to users who sign up for the service during May. All of those firms are offering similar, premium memberships to new users with varying terms. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. Still, if you've not heard these questions from a developer, they are not helping you as much as they should. Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? It needs to be a conversation. Wireframes?

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MARCH 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based Maple Media (maplemedia.io) recently announced a big, $30M funding from Shamrock Capital, to assemble a collection of mobile applications in the utility, productivity, games and entertainment verticals. What's the idea behind Maple Media? What's the idea behind Maple Media?

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AUGUST 12, 2013

Santa Monica-based Entangled Media Corp. which is behind the younity personal cloud service, announced this morning that it has raised $3.545M in a seed funding round. younity entangled media venture capital personal data storage muckerlab cloud' READ MORE>>.

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