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MARCH 2, 2011

Santa Monica-based Mahalo , the online human-curated news and search site headed by Jason Calacanis, has cut 10 percent of its staff, according to reports. According to a report by CenterNetworks, the changes were a reaction to the search algorithm and quality changes made by Google last week.

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JULY 11, 2012

The new round apparently was led by Google Ventures, and also included former investors First Round Capital, Baroda Ventures, and angels, including Los Angeles investors Mike Jones of Science Inc. Pocket Change was initially known as Lunch Money, with an address in Santa Monica, but its site now shows it is headquartered in San Francisco.

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AUGUST 28, 2013

Santa Monica-based Edmunds.com , the provider of car shopping and auto information, reported Wednesday that it has settled a lawsuit against Humankind Design Ltd. which Edmunds.com said had created nearly 2,200 fake member accounts on the site to try to change dealer ratings and reviews. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

Santa MOnica-based Demand Media is one of the new partners for YouTube , in the big original content programming push by Google's video site, the firm said today.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The company showcases three apps created with its platform on its website--an "AR scavenger hunt" inn San Diego run on October 1st, an "Augmented Halloween" quest which awarded real cash prizes last night; and an "alien crash" scavenger hunt in Santa Monica which awarded $1000 to the winner. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 1, 2013

From the annual search statistics from Google and Bing , it''s clearly information about celebrities. A Santa Monica startup, Famous Birthdays , looks to have carved out quite a niche in the area, with its online list of (you guessed it), famous birthdays. What are the most searched for things on the Internet?

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MAY 14, 2013

We caught up with founder Evan Britton about how his company has created the top site in the Internet niche of celebrity birthdays, and how that intense focus on a single niche--and user experience- has paid off for the company in terms of user engagement and growth. That was the genesis of the site. It was discouraging.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Santa Monica-based eHow , the question and answer site owned by Demand Media, said this week that it has rolled out a new, mobile application for the Android operating system. According to eHow, the application lets users search for, retrieve, and play videos from the firm's question and answer site. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 18, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing firm headed by Richard Rosenblatt, said Sunday that it is reaffirming its financial outlook for fiscal year 2011. Demand Media said that that report "significantly overstated" the negative impact of those Google changes. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 28, 2009

Jason Calacanis, the high profile founder of Santa Monica-based search engine Mahalo , claims that it now has a number of writers who are making over $20,000 a year writing freelance articles for the site. Mahalo now has about 3,000 how to articles on the site. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 30, 2012

Santa Monica-based Goodreads , the online community for book readers headed by Otis Chandler, said today that it has separated itself from its former reliance on Amazon.com's book information, and is now gathering its data from Ingram, the largest wholesaler of books in the U.S. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 15, 2011

Santa Monica-based Yowie , the online live chat service which has been providing live online chats with celebrities, is announcing this morning that it has expanded its platform to host group video chats for consumers. The site said it will allow friends, family, co-workers, and others to connect in video chats.

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MAY 5, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publisher which runs such sites as eHow.com, typeF.com, and LIVESTRONG.COM, said Thursday afternoon that it is launching a new effort focused on long-form web content. The firm said it is looking to engage feature writers to write long articles--"north of 850 words"--for its sites.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Santa Monica-based Factual , the open data startup headed by Gil Elbaz, the inventor of Google's AdSense technology, said today that it has launched a new open set of data that the firm says provides geo-coded data for 14 million local U.S. businesses. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 9, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing business run by Richard Rosenblatt, announced its first quarter 2012 results yesterday, and also raised its fiscal 2012 financial guidance. The firm said it had total revenues of $86.2M, an increase of 8 percent from the similar quarter last year. to $367.0M.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

Santa Monica-based Edmunds.com , the provider of automotive information, announced Thursday that it has officially relaunched its web site and home page, after a webpage optimization and testing experiment. The revamp had been described as "a long time coming" by CEO Jeremy Anwyl in a blog post in September. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 28, 2010

Santa Monica-based Factual , the data startup run by Applied Semantics founder Gil Elbaz, said Friday afternoon that it has launched a new set of tools which allows publishers and developers to visualization its data sets. Among visualizations available from the site, are data on U.S. restaurants, hiking trails, and video games.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

Santa Monica-based Zag , the online auto buying site headed by Scott Painter, has hired on a Director of New Products, according to recruiting firm NeoHire. Rosten has also served at Google, Edmunds, and CarsDirect.com READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 24, 2010

Gil Elbaz , one of the founders of Applied Semantics , the often unheralded Santa Monica-based creator of what is now Google's AdSense product, is one of the angel investors in San Francisco-based Triggit , a developer of a real time ad bidding platform, it was revealed today.

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JUNE 20, 2012

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the developer of cloud-based, customer contact management software headed by former Goldmine founder Jon Ferrara, said this week that it has been doubling its month over month revenue since launching its paid platform, and now has over 40,000 registered users. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 8, 2014

We''re making investments, and are based in Santa Monica, and although we have a small team, we''re looking forward to becoming part of the local scene here in Silicon Beach. It seems like that background matches well to the popularity of crowdsourced hardware on Kickstarter and other sites, do you play there? READ MORE>>.

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MAY 13, 2009

Santa Monica-based Docstoc , the document sharing site run by Jason Nazar, said this afternoon that it has officially come out of its public beta.

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JUNE 24, 2010

Pasadena-based eSolar , the solar thermal technology firm backed by Idealab, Google, and others, is being eyed as the next possible solar IPO in the pipe, according to GigaOm. research report released yesterday on Santa Monica-based SharesPost , the report says that eSolar has an estimated valuation of close to $700M.

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MAY 7, 2012

more--or you can go online and use Fine Art America (www.fineartamerica.com), a Santa Monica company which is doing. The company's founder and CEO is Sean Broihier , who told us all about the site--and also how. photographer and live here in Santa Monica, you can take an image of the Santa Monica Pier.

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MARCH 1, 2010

Repost of SMCLA's Going Goo Goo Over Google Analytics. The Google Analytics panel was a big success with a great turnout of over 150 people at the Mahalo office in Santa Monica. It takes 5 minutes: Google Analytics is about as easy to setup as setting your alarm clock. Below is a highlight video of the evening.

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AUGUST 12, 2009

Santa Monica-based DocStoc , the online document sharing site run by Jason Nazar, is announcing this afternoon that the firm has launched a new, online store which will allow people to both buy and sell professional documents. DocStoc said it is now getting over 8 million unique visitors a month to the site. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 19, 2009

Santa Monica-based Business.com , which provides online directories for B2B purchasing, announced today that the firm has launched a new tool to help advertisers access pay-per-click metrics on the site. Business.com is now owned by R.H. Donnelley; the firm was purchased by R.H. Donnelley back in 2007. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 5, 2009

Further details on the deal between Yahoo and Microsoft have come out in a filing by Yahoo with the SEC, with Yahoo saying that Microsoft will hire at least 400 Yahoo employees, and potentially another 150 employees to help with the transition, as Microsoft takes over the search engine features of Yahoo's sites.

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JUNE 18, 2010

I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google). I sure hope that Apple is working with Google to make this work. Thus we see lots of movement from Google, Verizon, HTC, Dell, HP and others.

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JANUARY 20, 2009

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. One of the more interesting new features is that the site now takes into account social signals. I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community.

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JANUARY 27, 2011

Last week, Adconion (www.adconion.com) announced that it had spun out Joost (www.joost.com), its online video service, into a separate company, which is going to be based out of Santa Monica. Are all those visitors going to your Joost site, or is that also spread out elsewhere? READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 21, 2011

He's again set his sights on contact management with a new company, based in Santa Monica, called Nimble (www.nimble.com). Instead, they are using Outlook's address book, and Google contacts to communicate. The thing is, today, if you use Google, you have contacts, calendar, and email. Everything is in one place.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

Gil is one of the founders of Applied Semantics, the firm acquired by Google for its AdSense technology. That data can be on any subject--we're a horizontal platform--and a few of the examples you see on our site are a list of restaurants, things in the health space, and other partnerships.

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APRIL 5, 2012

Actually, no thanks to Santa Monica-based Mobile Roadie. Michael Schneider: I was running a design agency, Fluid Design, in Santa Monica, which I started in high school. Taylor actually came in through the front door, and just signed up on our web site. How did this all come about? I ran it for almost a decade.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

At the end of the 90's, I had the opportunity to launch Bugleboy.com, an e-commerce enabled site, which we launched a week fore Gap.com. We sold that to ValueClick in2 003, and I stayed on at ValueClick for three years before going to Revver.com, a video sharing site. Brian McCarthy: You definitely know the right questions.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk. Image courtesy of Bernhardt Haussner. So did the media.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. We bought sites, built a studio system, and now we're figuring out what different formats to approach.

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