socalTECH

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

West Hollywood-based Citysearch has launched two new products today, including both a visual city guide, and a new iPhone app. However, unlike social sites like Pinterest, those guides appear to all developed by staffers or experts provided by Citysearch.

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2011

West Hollywood-based Namesake , the real-time, conversation and community site founded by Brian Norgard and Daniel Gould, has started expanding its team, saying today that it has hired Jeff Potter to head up development and operations at the startup.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

West Hollywood-based Geni , the online family tree and history site, said Wednesday afternoon that it has rolled out a new, application programming interface for the site. According to Geni, the new API is aimed at allowing users to develop third-party tools and application. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2011

West Hollywood-based CityGrid Media , the unit of IAC formerly known as CitySearch, said today that it has acquired BuzzLabs , a social media monitoring and sentiment analysis software developer. CityGrid Media operates the Citysearch, Insider Pages and Urbanspoon web sites. Financial terms of the deal were not announced.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

To help it along, we developed some software which makes it easy to create a mobile experience, which corresponds to a QR code you can place on any, real world object. Matthias Galica: My last role was as a product manager for another local startup, Woome.com, an online dating site. However, one way the U.S. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The site itself was originally meant for women, but we began noticing a large portion of our readership was male. A few months later we did a party on The London’s rooftop (in West Hollywood) for over 500 people. For those PHP or Ruby developers out there, Three Day Rules is looking to hire. So it grew really fast.

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