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JULY 23, 2014

Los Angeles-based movie ticketing site and service Fandango said late Tuesday that it has launched a new app, this time on Amazon''s new Fire Phone. Fandango said the app has been customized for Amazon''s Fire Phone, taking advantage of a number of custom features that Amazon.com has been pushing with the device. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Los Angeles-based movie ticketing and information site Fandango has tied with Spanish language broadcaster Telemundo , to launch a new online site aimed at Hispanic movie fans, Fandango Cine , the two announced Monday. tv, and fandango.com.

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MARCH 13, 2012

Los Angeles-based Fandango , the online movie tickets site, said today at SXSW that it has launched a new Facebook Timeline app called "Movies with Friends". Fandango said it is hopping to grow its user base on Facebook via the app.

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MAY 1, 2017

Los Angeles-based online movie site Fandango is hosting former U.S. Fandango said Gore will be joined by actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt for a screening and Q&A about the film, which tackles the changes that have taken place since Gore's documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 1, 2012

Fandango , the online and mobile movie ticketing provider based in Los Angeles, has hired former Disney Online executive Paul Yanover as President, the company said today. Fandango said Yanoger reports to Nick Lehman at NBCUniversal Entertainment Network, which owns Fandango. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 24, 2015

Los Angeles-based movie site Fandango launched a new app for the Apple Watch today, letting users pull up barcoded movie tickets on the new Apple Watch, as well as other feature as directions to a theater, countdown-to-showtime clock, and more. Fandango said the Apple Watch app works in conjunction with Fandango's app on the iPhone.

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

In a move into creating its own video content, Los Angeles-based Fandango , the movie ticketing and movie information site, said this morning that it plans its first ever, original video development slate. The company said its original video series will be made for Fandango, spearheaded by new Fandango Chief Correspondent Dave Karger.

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MAY 23, 2016

Los Angeles-based movie site Fandango is planning a major push of its brand new video on demand service, FandangoNOW , with ads running on TV, online, mobile, outdoor, and in theaters. The move comes six months after Fandango acquired video-on-demand service M-GO from Technicolor and DreamWorks Animation. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Los Angeles-based Fandango is getting a spot in its first SuperBowl ad this weekend, the firm said Friday, as part of a promotion for Universal Pictures' new action movie, Battleship. Fandango said that the SuperBowl advertisment will feature a tag which links viewers to its mobile apps. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 26, 2012

Los Angeles-based movie site Fandango is expanding its rollout of mobile ticketing, saying this morning that it has added more than 1,400 additional screens across the country to its paperless mobile ticket program. Fandango said that it has added 1,300 Cinemark screens and 100 Regency Theatre screens to its network.

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APRIL 12, 2016

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.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Los Angeles-based online movie ticketing and information site Fandango said Friday morning that it has acquired Ingresso , Brazil's largest online ticketing firm. Fandango said it was advised by The Raine Group and G5 Evercore in the deal. Fandango said it was advised by The Raine Group and G5 Evercore in the deal.

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AUGUST 27, 2012

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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NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Los Angeles-based Fandango , the online movie ticket and entertainment site, reported Tuesday that it is seeing a surge in sales of tickets via mobile phone. The firm said it saw a 60 percent, year-over-year increase in Thanksgiving holiday weekend ticket sales on mobile devices through the site. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 25, 2012

Los Angeles-based Fandango has scored a deal with MSN , to power MSN's online and mobile movie tickets, on both MSN Movies and MSN Entertainment, the firm said today. According to Fandango, the deal makes it the official online and mobile movie ticketing provider for both sites. Financial details of the deal were not announced.

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JUNE 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based Fandango , the movie ticketing and information service, said today that it has had the best ever number in May for traffic and ticket sales, for the company's entire 12-year history. Fandango is owned by Comcast, which acquired the movie site back in 2007. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 18, 2011

Los Angeles-based Fandango , the online movie guide and ticket site, said today that it has launched a new app which runs on Samsung Smart TVs and Smart Blu-ray players. Fandango said its Fandango Movies app allows users to watch HD movie trailers and on-demand films directly from the Samsung devices. RCDb) for the app.

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MAY 8, 2012

Los Angeles-based movie site Fandango reports that it hit another ticketing record this weekend, after the debut of The Avengers. Fandango said it set a new record for the most tickets sold for any opening weekend in the company's 12-year history, surpassing its recent record breaking opening of The Hunger Games. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 26, 2012

Los Angeles-based Fandango said today that this weekend's release of The Hunger Games, the movie based on the book of the same name by Suzanne Collins, broke its sales records, with 22 percent of domestic opening weekend ticket sales being made through its system.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

FandangoNOW , the video-on-demand service run by Los Angeles-based movie ticketing and information site Fandango , has launched a new movie and TV store on Oculus Go and Quest , the company said o Wednesday. According to Fandango, the new store provides access to its catalog of over 90,000 movies and TV shows.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

El Segundo-based online rewards site Swagbucks --which is owned by Prodege, the company run by Chuck Davis, the former CEO of Fandango and Shopzilla--said today that it has now paid out more than $200M in cash and gift cards to its members. Prodege also operates such sites as MyPoints.com and ShopAtHome.com. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Los Angeles-based Prodege , the company which runs the Swagbucks rewards site, reported today that the firm passed $50M in revenue in 2013, is profitable, and has expanded its executive team to include a new Executive Chairman, Chuck Davis, the former CEO of Shopzilla and Fandango; a new CFO, Brad Kates; and a new CTO, Shane O''Neill.

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AUGUST 10, 2017

El Segundo-based Prodege , the parent company of Swagbucks and MyPoints , announced Thursday morning that it has acquired cash-back shopping and coupon site ShopAtHome. Prodege is run by CEO Chuck Davis, who previously served as CEO of both Fandango and Shopzilla. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 13, 2014

Los Angeles-based Swagbucks , the web-based rewards and offers site, said this morning that it has raised $60M in funding--the company''s first, external capital round--and also appointed Chuck Davis as CEO of the company. Davis was Chairman and CEO of Fandango, and is also an early investor in Swagbucks.

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JUNE 3, 2016

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. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

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JUNE 7, 2016

Los Angeles-based YP says it has linked up its local search site with travel planning and booking site TripAdvisor , the latest integration and partnership deal for the online directory provider. The deal also adds photos from TripAdvisor to those search results. Financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Venice, California-based Tecca , the online and mobile site providing articles, reviews, how-to articles, and other information about electronics products, said Monday that it is now reaching over one million unique visitors a month. The site says it is now the largest technology website specifically catering to women. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 10, 2010

HP launched the new printers at the beginning of the week, showing a new device which allows users to directly access web information sites from a touch sensitive display on the front of those printers. No other details on the new printer app from DocStoc were detailed by HP.

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MAY 23, 2012

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., and has set up shop here to connect with the local entertainment industry.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

We caught up with Ken Button , the co-founder and CEO of the company, to learn more about why the startup already has signed up such customers as California Pizza Kitchen, Obvious Ventures, Fandango, Greenspire, and others to the service. What is ContractSafe? Ken Button: ContractSafe is a new kind of contract management solution.

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JUNE 28, 2010

Provides publishers innovative site-search tools that enhance user engagement ( icanhazcheeseburger.com and Fred Wilson’s blog avc.com use Lijit as does Feld.com [but he's an investor]). Example of publishers include: moviefone, Fandango, Jingle, SayNow, and voice blogs. I’ve already started the business modeling.

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JUNE 19, 2013

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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MARCH 7, 2010

From Pizza Hut's mobile app which allows consumers to place pizza orders to P&G's microsite which allows customers to purchase products through the Drugstore.com mobile site, branded direct response campaigns seem to be picking up steam fueled by mobile commerce applications.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

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. We all know about IMDB. Healthcare data.

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