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Fandango Rolling Out Movie Ticketing Bot For Facebook

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Los Angeles-based movie ticketing site Fandango has jumped on the Facebook bot bandwagon, saying Tuesday at Facebook's F8 conference that it will be launching its own, Fandango bot, which will book movie tickets via Facebook Messenger. The new bot will roll out sometime in May. READ MORE>>.

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Fandango: Mobile Drives Best Summer, Ever

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Mobile consumers drove what Los Angeles-based movie ticketing and information site Fandango says is its best summer in its history today, as mobile purchases drove a 26 percent year-to-year increase in ticket sales on the service. The company reports that it saw more than 26 million downloads of its various mobile apps.

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YP Links With Groupon

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Los Angeles-based local search site YP said Thursday that it has linked up with Groupon , to integrate Groupon's local deals into its discovery site and mobile apps. The integration effort is being led by SoCal startup vet Stu MacFarlane, who is Executive Vice President, Consumer Platforms at YP. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Tobi Bauckhage, Moviepilot

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How do a bunch of German moviemakers end up in Los Angeles, running a site helping studios to market and promote their films via their venture backed startup? MOviepilot is starting to bring its movie recommendations and discovery site to the U.S., Tobi Bauckhage: We are a movie recommendation and discovery platform.

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A Conversation with Ben Satterfield, Burstly

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Prior to that, I had an app in the App Store, when iOS first came out, which was basically like a Fandango for live music. No one knew what was going on then, this was before iOS 3, and he contracted me to make the site and help create the brand. TestFlight was spun out of my company when I was doing consulting work.

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Digiday Mobile: The Future Of Mobile Media Live

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Discover the what the future holds for you and this game changing media platform. When will we reach a tipping point in the consumer psyche in regards to making purchases through a mobile Internet site or an App? TechZulu will be streaming Digiday : Mobile live from 8:00am - 5:00pm PST Monday 3/8. Who are the agents for the change?

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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First, how did I handle things like unexpected surges in traffic to my site (let’s say after a major press release) and then the subsequent flattening of traffic as the crowd subsided? It’s needed for Fandango, RottenTomatoes, Movies.com, Lunch.com and scores of other companies. Cloud Data Platform. Business Logic.

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