TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Kranz, who initially came on board as the company’s chief technology officer, took over the day-to-day operations of Canoo after Stefan Krause, Canoo’s co-founder and chief executive, stepped away from the company in August for personal reasons, as The Verge previously reported. . “After the launch in the U.S.

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Chief Technology Officer Los Angeles Design Outsource Development 237

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2018

The account “hack” was architected by brud as part of an ongoing virtual reality drama playing out on Instagram and other social media platforms between avatars it had developed, all designed to attract media attention, according to people with knowledge of brud and its plans. It worked. . “[Manufacturing] social influence.”

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Social Media Los Angeles Media Geni 254

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2016

Unless you work at Snapchat or are on the board – nobody really knows how many users they have but I think it’s well reported to be a s**t-ton. There is also a reported 8 billion videos viewed per day. And unlikely some media platforms it is reported that > 50 of users actually produce content vs. just consume.

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Snapchat Advertising Media Platform 150

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 23, 2020

It has inked a licensing deal with Merlin , the global agency that represents tens of thousands of independent music labels and hundreds of thousands of artists, for music from those labels to be used legally on the TikTok platform anywhere that the app is available.

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Services Los Angeles Media Marketing 182

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Appetize is backed by the Guggenheim, the 49ers Family Office, WME SVP of Music Marc Geiger, Roar Entertainment and others; the company recently announced deals with Live Nation and the Sacramento Kings, and is part of the Dodgers Accelerator. For hotels, for cruise ships, for sports and entertainment, and for restaurants.

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Entertainment Sales Mobile Startup 100

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. What's the story behind HitFix and where do you fit in the entertainment news landscape? Jennifer Sargent: HitFix started two and a half years ago.

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News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Enter Vidzey , the in-video shopping platform that seamlessly combines media, entertainment and e-commerce. We discuss advertising, Vidzey’s story, technology, business, interns, and entertainment. Valuable personality traits in his previous life working in entertainment, no doubt. Think minority report.”

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Entertainment Advertising Startup Media 98

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2012

Tech Reporters: These individuals will write and edit informative and practical articles on a range of topics including Startups/Entrepreneurs, Gadgets, Mobile Tech, Tech in Entertainment, Gaming, Apps & Software, productivity, and cover breaking tech news. Will also report on local tech events in their respected area.

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Technical Review Software Review Writing News 71

socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2011

What we're giving companies, is a platform to create, manage, and measure perks for all of their employees. I have a number of investments tackling the SMB space, including InDinero and Postling, all creating platforms to help small and medium sized businesses in some distinct way. There's a fairly complex platform we've patented.

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Startup Technical Review Software Review Platform 216

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Matt Weghorst: Cojoin is a data integration platform. We find that there’s all this really specialized software, software as a service, certain platforms, and different places you can do marketing; all of those have their own sets of data. Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version?

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

In a report by the National Student Clearinghouse only 18 percent of women graduated with a science degree in 2014. Their Siggy Robot is a self-balancing robot that rolls on a pink segway and can be coded to dance, go through obstacle courses, and engineered for entertainment.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Product Cloud Computing 70

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2011

Webdoc is a web platform that allows you to easily create interactive posts mixing different web contents through a simple and intuitive drag & drop interface. Think Minority Report meets the web. What is the market opportunity? In terms of products, we are constantly releasing cool new product features for our web platform.

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Startup Web Content Media 97

socalTECH

JULY 6, 2009

Sean was the first guy to do it, and brough tit to market by publishing that information to paying users via phone systems. Before that, what had existed before as weather information was primarily for the government, deep water ship routing, and was used for the fairly well-developed market for what happens in the middle of the ocean.

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Web Content Mobile Sites 140

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Photos that are prime real estate and have never been monetized before, until one very ambitious Silicon Beach startup, GumGum , recognized the opportunity and created the first and largest in-image advertising platform, and an entirely new market. Photos…the final frontier. from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

These same companies who are making huge bets on taking tv/online properties are also looking for new ways to increase their marketing budgets. In fact, Daniel reports, they just did an install at another Dave and Buster’s location in the Irvine area. Daniel claims their priority is on fun, not with market research.

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Mobile Platform Technology Screening 93

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 12, 2014

Robert Poor, VP Marketing & Chief Science Officer at weMonitor. Once inside, Belkin’s Wemo systems control everything from lighting to entertainment, and weMonitor watches over everything’s power consumption. Our panelists’ companies included the A-Z gamut of services available for a connected home.

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Belkin Startup Acquisition Entertainment 87

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 13, 2015

Alibaba reported $9.3 Amazon has already had tremendous success on one front, generating a massive amount of free publicity for Amazon and Amazon Prime across a wide range of platforms, outlets, and audiences across the country. billion in 2014 Singles’ Day sales, spurred by more than $2 billion in the first hour.)

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Sales Social Media Competition Entertainment 40

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Its an event that provides a platform for the worldwide twitter community to: listen, connect, share and engage with each other, while collectively exploring the effects of the emerging real-time internet on business. Abdul Khan (@ImHungryinLA) - Co-founder, Verso Entertainment. For those wondering what is the 140conf?

Social Media 40

Social Media Journal Media Education 40

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Everyone reports updates and obstacles. The challenge is in getting clear numbers, but not often as cleanly as a basic web analytics report. With experience in engineering, marketing and product management, she specializes in shipping product at early stage startups. You always want perfect data on what customers are doing.

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Product Fandango Design Startup 87