socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Despite the announcement this week that Google has plans to hire more than 30,000 employees by the beginning of next year, and reports today that it was overwhelmed with over 75,000 job applications this week, those plans do not appear to have yet impacted Google's jobs listings in Southern California. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2020

Venice, California-based Robin Games , a startup that is developing mobile games aimed at women, has raised $7M in a seed funding round, the company said on Thursday. The startup, led by Jill Wilson, says it is developing "lifestyle gaming" titles, which run on such platforms as Apple's iOS and Google Android. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2013

In a sign of the growth of the Silicon Beach technology world, last year, Google moved its headquarters out of a space on Arizona Avenue in Santa Monica, and into a new fancy headquarters space in Venice.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Startup Boost Los Angeles says its program includes six weekly workshop sessions and one demo night hosted by Google, in Venice. Deadlines for the program close on September 20th.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2020

Venice, California-based Robin Games , a startup that is developing mobile lifestyle games aimed at women and others, has raised $7M in a seed funding round, the company said on Thursday. The startup, led by Jill Wilson, says it is developing "lifestyle gaming" titles, which run on such platforms as Apple's iOS and Google Android.

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L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 11, 2017

Snap confirms acquisition of Zeny for $213 million, Google's diversity controversy mocked in street art near its Venice office and Third Point sells all Snap shares.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2017

As more and more revelations of abuse of advertising systems at Google and Facebook by Kremlin-linked advertisers continue to surface--Venice, California-based Snapchat has managed to keep itself free of "fake news" using a secret weapon: humans. elections.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Venice, California-based Snap has snagged two executives, one from Amazon and the other from the HuffingtonPost, as it continues to grow its executive team. Grusd had also served at Spotify, Google, and Oath. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The program includes six weekly workshop sessions and one demo night hosted by Google in Venice. According to Stoddard, it is looking for nine early stage startups to participate in its eight-week program. Applications for the program will close on March 15th.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The article says that office space is getting more expensive in areas like Venice, due to the number of startups moving into the area, and the activity of companies like Google, accelerators like Amplify, startups like StackSocial, and others. Photo of Amplify's building in Venice, courtesy of Amplify. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 11, 2017

According to Soylent, it started offering up its "nutritionally complete, ready-to-drink meals" at 18 of 7-Eleven's stores in the Greater Los Angeles area on Monday, including a number of locations across Los Angeles, plus Santa Monica, Culver City, Venice, and elsewhere. Rosa Foods says Soylent is aimed at the "on-the-go millennial".

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2018

Venice-based Snap is shutting down the Snapcash payment feature of Snapcash , which had offered up peer-to-peer payments on its network. The payment feature proved not to be as popular as alternatives such as Venmo, and multiple companies--including Apple and Google--have also been active in the peer-to-peer payment area.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Mock The Vote , the mobile, political satire application developed by Venice-based Laffster , has just launch on Android, giving political news fans another platform to get the latest, humorous take on politics. The Mock The Vote app for Android is available on Google Play; the firm released an iPhone version earlier this year.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 9, 2011

Venice, California-based MOVIECLIPS , the online provider of licensed movie clips headed by Richard Raddon and Zach James, is announcing today that it has scored $7M in a Series B funding round, and also partnered with Google to feature its clips on YouTube.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Venice, California-based Wevr has raised $25M in a funding round, for the company's virtual reality studio efforts, the company announced Friday. WEVR is led by VR content veteran Neville Spiteri. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Rachel Payne , the CEO and one of the co-founders of FEM, is a veteran of Google, and is taking her experience there and applying it into the video recommendations and engagement area. Rachel Payne: I was working at Google for about eight years, most recently in global strategic alliances. What is FEM? My other cofounder has a Ph.D.

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socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2013

Venice-based starutp Flkidate , a developer of mobile dating applications, said today that it has debuted a new set of features. The startup is headed by Nick Bicanic, and says it is being advised by Don Dodge (Google), Ryan Holmes (Hootsuite), and Vinny Lingham (Gyft). The app runs on both iOS and Android. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Venice, California-based instant messaging app developer Snapchat --in light of the massive breach of compromising photos leaked from the service via an unauthorized, third party service reiterated Tuesday that third party apps are a threat to the community.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2015

Luxe Valet , a new, on-demand valet parking app startup, has expanded into Los Angeles, saying that it will offer up its valet parking service to users in Santa Monica, Downtown LA and Venice. a day for the service.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Stubbs Alderton joins recent Santa Monica addition--and Silicon Valley law firm and rival--Cooley LLP in putting an office in the area, about a block away.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2013

Miso Media is located in Venice, and was founded by Aviv Grill ; the firm's investors include Aria Ventures , Detroit Ventures Partners , Google Ventures , Mind Fund , and Keith Rabois , among others. Earbits is in Venice, and is headed by Joey Flores. Music Mastermind.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2019

With Startup Boost, we had dozens of investors, service providers, successful entrepreneurs, and major industry leaders (including Microsoft, Google, Softbank, REME, and TechStars) coalesce around our initiative to help early stage companies get to the next level.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

They are no longer remarkable in Santa Monica or Venice or in many cities in America, Europe or South America. Last year at this time Bird was just planning its multi-city rollout having had tremendous success in Santa Monica & Venice. They’re invisible. They’re acceptable. Year two in the life is electric scooters is just that?—?invisble.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2014

The real estate impact of this activity can probably be traced to the 2011 arrival of Google in the Frank Gehry-designed “binoculars” building on Main Street in Santa Monica. But it was the low-key, creative beach vibe of Venice and Santa Monica that spurred a spate of start-ups to seek offices and homes. In West L.A.,

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Google might not be a purely Southern California company, but the company now has thousands of employees spread across the region, including a location in the iconic Binoculars building in Venice, designed by Frank Gehry. Why would a company make a list of top companies? companies) on their resume, it will open doors for them."

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

So much so that if you read Ken Auletta’s wonderful book “ Googled ” you’ll see that Larry and Sergey had for years stated they would never do paid search results. The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here. Yes, Google won.

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LATechDigest

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Venice-based SRFR just launched a technology to easily stream video content from your mobile device to smart television, including videos from Facebook, Dropbox, Snapchat, and your camera roll, all without having to purchase a separate dongle or stick to plug into your TV. srfr is available on iOS and Android for your TV and mobile device.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2012

the Viddy crew headed to the Arbor Collective showroom on the Venice boardwalk for an exclusive party. The next generation will be real time mobile streaming from handheld to handheld, kinda like Google Glasses but with more viewers.”. Uber is an easy to use door to door car service knocking out the need for taxi cabs like bumper cars.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). From Warby Parker … To Bonobos … To UNTUCKit … And at Parachute Home we’ve also begun our massive retail rollout with our first two locations in Venice and Portland. from Charter’s subscribers.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is based on occurrences during this time period as compared to other time periods.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The Fireside Chat to kick things off is tomorrow night, Wednesday, in Santa Monica at ROC , which is located in the old Google building. I’ve had the privilege of watching his company go from him and his business partner in a small Venice office to a huge agency with several incredible employees located on the 3rd Street Promenade.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

philosophie has worked with some of the world’s biggest names: Google, Nissan, Nintendo, UCLA, and more. Fun Fact: Walk into their Venice-based office and you’ll find a giant giraffe (dubbed their co-founder’s “spirit animal”) stuffed in their version of a startup treehouse. Social Media: Snapchat.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

We live in Venice, and our back house is sort of our operations center. However, if you try to find something good quality about how to build traffic on Amazon, through internal intra-Amazon SEO, how to position yourself on Google's searches on Amazon, and how to get into product feeds--there is very little information, relatively speaking.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). This is classic “Innovator’s Dilemma” market conditions. ” Dana & I took a chance on the founders early on. But they built the company into what it is today.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Google. The southern migration is taking place as companies like Google. The narrow, 3-mile strip of land that runs from Santa Monica through Venice, and is now stretching down to Playa Vista, has been dubbed "Silicon Beach" due to the heavy concentration of Internet companies and executives there. VENICE RISING.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

It has been reported by Google that 77% of viewers use a companion device while watching TV. Locally, Google is getting into the content game itself creating hundreds of celebrity driven channels and setting up shop all over Venice to produce content in preparation for this new world.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 26, 2015

Folks went to Orlando, Dallas, Denmark, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and someone even got a small studio in Venice Beach with views of the Pacific Ocean (and yes, I admit, that was me). We used BlueJeans and Google Hangouts for video chat. Greathouse: Was it a total free-for-all or did you had some ground rules?

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