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DECEMBER 21, 2012

Santa Monica-based Playsino , the developer of social casino games, said Friday that it has released the first two games under its Publishing Network effort. Playsino recently announced an effort to bring third party, social casino games into its ecosystem, where it wlil help market and support games not designed by the company.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Santa Monica-based contact relationship management (CRM) software developer Nimble says it is offering up a free year of access to its software to those who have served in the United States military. Nimble's software is used for managing business contacts, professional networks, customers, prospects, and more. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Santa Monica-based auto buying program operator TrueCar announced this morning that it has inked a partnership with Los Angeles-based HyreCar, to power an online auto marketplace for HyreCar. Financial details of the partnership were not announced.

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JANUARY 20, 2021

Santa Monica-based Happy Returns, a startup which helps e-commerce companies manage their returns process, has partnered with omnichannel logistics services company Port Logistics Group, the two announced this morning. The two said that Happy Returns has become part of Port Logistics Group's Whiplash partner integration network.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Santa Monica-based Near Networks , a new startup, said today that it has launched a production studio aimed at the online video channel. The firm, which is headed by Sam Rogoway, said it is looking to help local businesses communicate their brands through online video.

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JANUARY 25, 2018

Santa Monica-based Freenfly , a startup that helps brands tap into a network of content creators and brand advocates on social media, has raised $8.5M The company said its platform helps consumer brands by tapping into a network of endorsers, staff, and consumers across Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Santa Monica-based Forge Platform , which is developing software development kits used for Ethereum, has raised $1M in a seed funding, the company disclosed on Wednesday. CEO Lorenz was previously in Product and Monetization at Snap, and prior to that was SVP of Product at Brand Networks, in addition to serving at a VP at SHIFT.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

We want to help you monetize your knowledge, your skills, and your social media. In between that, I was formerly at the private equity firm Clearlake Capital, out of Santa Monica, which manages 8 billion in private equity investments. Right now, we're helping people every day make money on their favorite social platforms.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project said this morning that it has raised $18M in additional funding, and acquired the Fox Audience Network (FAN) from New Corporation. Tags: rubicon project news audience network merger acquisition venture capital advertising. The new funding brings Rubicon's total funding to $60M.

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JUNE 6, 2019

Network with thought leaders, collaborate with your peers and build your network in a beautiful atmosphere. DigiMarCon West 2019 Digital Marketing Conference and Exhibition will be held from June 12th to 13th, 2019 at the luxurious Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel in Los Angeles, California. See [link].

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JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Santa Monica-based Rowl said this week that it has launched a new, mobile app which helps users find new music, sports, comedy, and other events, in a social way. Tannous, said the app will focus on helping users follow their friends, and favorite artists and celebrities, to see what they are up to. Rowl, led by Fred E.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Santa Monica, Calif. On Thursday, Ford GoBike — a Motivate system that is now owned by Lyft — is introducing more than 500 new pedal-assist electric bikes to its bike-share network in the East Bay of San Francisco. For now, it’s a short list that includes Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Adconion Media Group , the European advertising network firm which as significant operations in Los Angeles, said today that it has acquired smartclip , a European digital video advertising firm. Smartclip adds around 500 new publisher sites to Adconion's network. Smartclip adds around 500 new publisher sites to Adconion's network.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Santa Monica-based content delivery network provider EdgeCast Networks is expanding its services to Taiwan, with a deal with Chunghwa Telecom Co. According to EdgeCast, it has entered into a partnership with Chunghwa Telecom''s Data Communications Business Group (HiNet), to help build a high performance CDN within Taiwan.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Santa Monica-based content delivery network (CDN) provider EdgeCast said this morning that it doubled its revenues in 2012, and now has more than 225 employees. The firm provides edge network services to help deliver content from such customers as Twitter, Pinterest, Sony, and Hulu to end users.

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JULY 12, 2019

Santa Monica-based MomentFeed , which develops software that helps national brands manage their location-based information, such as information about their network of retail stores, has named Jim D'Arcangelo as its new Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and Head of Business Development.

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

Santa Monica-based Happy Returns , which provides a network of in-person return locations for online retailers, is expanding its menu of offerings for those retailers, through a new product called "Full Stack Returns". Pricing on the new offering was not announced by the company, which is venture backed by U.S.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Santa Monica-based develops software which helps retailers better understand the social interaction of consumers with their retail locations, including such things as Facebook Places, Foursquare, and Instagram. Details on the funding have yet to be announced. MomentFeed's prior investor include a who's who list of local angels.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Santa Monica-based on-demand, scooter rental service Bird said on Tuesday it has launched a new program, which will let anyone build and operate their own Bird e-scooter network. Bird will also connect those entrepreneurs with a "marketplace of chargers and mechanics" to help those entrepreneurs manage their fleets.

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JULY 18, 2013

Santa Monica-based content delivery network EdgeCast has just filled up its warchest, announcing Thursday that it has raised $54M in a big funding round. edgecast venture capital content delivery network internet traffic' EdgeCast said the Series D growth investment will go towards developing and launching new services.

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OCTOBER 3, 2013

Santa Monica-based content delivery network provider EdgeCast Networks said today that it has launched what it says is the "world''s fastest" domain name system (DNS) service. EdgeCast said its testing has found the service helps improve performance of websites of 15% to more than 300%.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Santa Monica-based GSN Games , the online games division of Game Show Network, has acquired Bash Gaming , which makes the social bingo game Bingo Bash. The company said the move will strengthen its portfolio of games, and also help it bolster the scale of its titles, reach new players, and improve its user acquisition.

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DECEMBER 6, 2012

A new, Santa Monica-based startup, PaeDae launched today, saying that it has created a white-label, software prize network which helps developers offer up real world prizes for their online and mobile games.

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MAY 14, 2013

Santa Monica-based content delivery network operator EdgeCast Networks and TeliaSonera said today that they are in a partnership, which will offer up site acceleration and CDN products to TeliaSonera''s customer base. edgecast teliasonera content delivery network nordic telecom' READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 29, 2016

Santa Monica-based Three Day Rule , the personal matchmaking startup led by Talia Goldstein, has raised $1.2M The $650,000 of thefunding came from the Dallas Angels Network, with the rest coming from other angels. Three Day Rule uses both human matchmakers, and software, to help match people with potential mates.

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MARCH 29, 2016

Santa Monica-based Three Day Rule , the personal matchmaking startup led by Talia Goldstein, has raised $650,000 more in funding, the company disclosed on Tuesday. The funding came from the Dallas Angels Network, as well as other angels. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 31, 2016

Santa Monica-based startup MindSpark announced on Tuesday that it is expanding its efforts to provide enterprise level, software testing, tapping into a workforce of employees who are specifically on the autism spectrum.

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

Santa Monica-based voice services, voice API and texting services company CallFire announced today that it has named Ronald Burr as the company ''s CEO. CallFire said that the move comes to help CallFire further scale its business and move into its next phase of growth. Ravisnahkar had been serving as the company''s CEO.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Santa Monica-based social analytics software developer MomentFeed announced this week that it has been accepted into the Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) Program, Facebook''s program for linking with companies who develop technologies in the advertising, page management, social integration, and tool areas for the social networking site.

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MAY 23, 2016

Santa Monica-based TrueCar is continuing to bolster its links to automotive dealers, as it looks to improve its relationship with the auto dealer industry, saying this morning that it has named Paul Edmonds as Senior Vice President of Dealer Marketing and Opeartions.

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AUGUST 28, 2018

Santa Monica-based Happy Returns , which is helping e-commerce retailers provide a better level of customer satisfaction, is expanding its network of locations in an extension of a deal with the Paper Source.

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APRIL 9, 2013

Santa Monica-based Fan Appz , the developer of personalized, marketing software headed by Jon Siegal, said today that it has linked into social collaboration network marketplace SHIFT. The firm said it would make its services available as part of SHIFT''s Open Marketing Cloud product. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

StartEngine , the startup accelerator headed by Howard Marks, is launching its newest class of startups today in a private event in Santa Monica. The eight startups are pitching their investors to startups at CrossCampus in Santa Monica this afternoon.

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APRIL 20, 2015

Santa Monica-based Switching Concepts , a provider of turnkey telecom switching platforms, aimed at helping startup and existing telecommunications providers, has been acquired by X5 Solutions. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 9, 2016

Santa Monica-based Tongal , which operates an online, content crowdsourcing site focused on video, has named a Vaughan Emsley as its new Head of Strategy and Client Development. The company has driven campaigns for LEGO, Johnson & Johnson, NASA, Mattel, P&G, General Motors and many others.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Santa Monica-based Boingo Wireless has inked a deal with a telecom organization to help provide its members with Wi-Fi offloading. Boingo operates a nationwide network of Wi-Fi hotspots. The two said that Boingo will white label Wi-Fi solutions to CCA carriers as part of the deal.

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