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JUNE 29, 2010

Westlake Village-based FavRav is hoping to leverage the popularity of social networking site Facebook to help local businesses find new customers. According to FavRav, it has launched a new social media tool targeted at small businesses, to help those businesses generate referrals from existing customers.

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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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AUGUST 6, 2012

Atomkeep , an online service to help users synchronize their social media profiles across a number of social networking sites, has been acquired by Jobscience , a developer of social relationship management software tools. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 15, 2014

Los Angeles-based streaming television site Hulu has rolled out a fun new tool to help you channel your holiday spirit (or lack of holiday spirit) into an animated GIF, with a new service called the Hulu Perfect GIF Generator. The tool lets users share those animated GIFs via email and social networks. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based EQAL , said this morning at Twiistup that the firm is launching a new, social publishing tool it is calling Umbrella, focused on independent producers, celebrity talent, and online personalities. Tags: eqal lonelygirl15 content video hollywood studio social networking software publishing. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 27, 2020

Los Angeles was always more than a one-industry town, even when it comes to technology startups, as media and entertainment (and social networking) were always the big draws in Tinseltown. We’re thrilled to help lead the way for the broader tech community in Los Angeles.”

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

The volume of Tweets is enormous and growing at a rapid pace so tools are emerging to help brands manage this information. On Facebook (and nearly all social networks that preceded it) the relationship was always reciprocal – if I accept your invitation to follow me then I have to follow you.

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MAY 9, 2012

Santa Monica-based MomentFeed , the developer of location analytics software for companies, said today that it has integrated with the popular photo sharing and social networking app Instagram.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2011

Social networking can help, but a large list of online friends and followers is no substitute for a smaller list of personal and ongoing business relationships. Many of my younger friends use various social networks on a daily basis and think that they will thereby avoid this problem.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2012

Los Angeles-based PromoJam , a developer of enterprise, social marketing tools, has raised $1.2M According to the company, the new round will go towards growing its social marketing software, plus expansion of sales and marketing. in a Series A investment, the firm said today.

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socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2021

Los Angeles-based venture investor Trousdale Ventures announced this morning that it has made an investment in Preamble, a startup offering up "ethical artificial intelligence" moderation to social networks. The company said that Preamble's software is used to help prevent amplification of harmful content.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2012

The firm said its new app provides access to the firm's services, including tools to help users better connect and share across multiple social networks. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 11, 2012

What does social networking have to do with the stock market? Vinny talked with us about his start, which allows users to discuss and collaborate on their stocks and finances in a social way. Vinny Jindal: Stockr's mission is to help people invest better. Vinny Jindal: Stockr's mission is to help people invest better.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

companies need a “multi-channel&# customer support tool to become the Zappos of their industries. And of course the big question is whether Salesforce.com can out innovate these startups (especially after their acquisition of InStranet ). Increasing this is also migrating to social network messaging but email is still king.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

This morning, Pasadena-based Perfect Market (www.perfectmarket.com) announced a new, $9M round of funding for the firm's technology, which is used to help publishers monetize their content. Julie Schoenfeld: When we talked last, we were focusing primarily on helping publisher monetize their archived content.

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MAY 1, 2009

West Hollywood-based family tree site Geni has rolled out a slew of updates for the service, saying today that it has added features to help users collaborate with others, map out locations, and see recent photos. Tags: geni genealogy family tree social networking web2. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 13, 2013

Instead, one of his angel investments, Lucky Sort , has become part of Twitter in what looks to be an "acq-hire"--an acquisition to gain talent for the social networking service. lucky sort luckysort twitter merger acquisition data visualization tools software howard lindzon' Lucky Sort was based in Portland, Oregon.

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AUGUST 25, 2010

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace reports today that it has rolled out a new profile and theme gallery, to help with "cleaning things up a bit" on the site.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2011

The firm--which sells online ads based on engagement metrics, rather than the usual clicks and views--said it is applying its model to the political landscape, looking to help campaigns get their word out on social networking sites like Facebook.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

Unfortunately, despite the wealth of Internet based tools for email management, web-based sales management tools, and more, contact tracking has been mostly an afterthought in the Internet age. Most business people aren't doing this in their current CRM tools. That is relationship nirvana, my vision of social business.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2011

With the proliferation of social networks, communications clients and VoIP phone services, users often find they need to use multiple ways--Twitter, Facebook, phone, FAX, and more--to communicate with their contacts. The idea was to create a universal communicator, and help to solve the problem of communications overload.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Today I lead a small consultancy that helps advertising supported develop and scale the revenue producing sides of their businesses. Vince: On the consulting side we are working with a unique social network, a new television network and some original video content businesses. I help internet companies make money.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

” The idea Koch say began when he was working on his dissertation and needed a tool to organize his research to share with his colleagues has grown to be of help to thousands of researchers acrss the world. Scholarz.net helps users accumulate and organise knowledge and use it more efficiently – on their own or with others.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Our publisher distribution network reaches in the tens of millions of unique users and is comprised of “head end&# stars as well as many “mid tier&# and “long tail&# publishers. Social networks continue to drive conversion of marketers.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2012

GraphEffect today unveiled the latest version of its social network for marketers with an open API for developers. GraphEffect is a collaboration platform for social marketers which had only been available to large marketing partners including American Express, Toyota, Estee Lauder, Clorox, and Samsung. Venture Funding.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Action Method: (Todo List): Simple tool that organizes todo lists. HootSuite (Social Networking): Application to consolidate all of your social networking into one place (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Yammer, etc.). The iSleep meditation app helps you fall asleep and stay asleep.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. Our fitness events and mapping tool is a key differentiator. Really great feedback that’s going to help us build an awesome product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2014

What we all need is a digital tool that can extract data from business cards, as well as sync it with your cell phone, your email, and the social networks you use. That doesn’t address social networks and other lists you may have. Social networks have added additional layer of complexity to this challenge.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2011

For today's interview, we caught up with Clark Landry , the chairman of GraphEffect (www.grapheffect.com), a Santa Monica company which is helping other companies to hone their advertising on Facebook. Clark Landry: GraphEffect is a company that helps other companies advertise effectively on Facebook. Thanks for the time today!

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JULY 16, 2012

With the proliferation of social media, how do you--as a brand--manage all of those various websites, content, and media? Los Angeles-based Fliptu (www.fliptu.com), headed by Jeremy Gocke , thinks it has this figured out, by providing a central place to access a brand's content, across social networks.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Threatcare says it provides breach and attack simulation, antivirus assessment, credit card exfiltration, and many other simulations to help organizations evaluate cybersecurity software--to see how effective those tools are, before an actual breach. Moonshots led the $1.4M seed funding in that firm. presidential elections in 2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2020

The pervasiveness of social networking and the Internet has caused a new focus and value on “openness,” which leads to a new element of leadership, called “open leadership.” New publishing tools, like blogs, collaboration platforms, and even Twitter provide updates that are easily available.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

The combination of Search and Social is redefining the way marketers are allocating their ad budgets. According to Jared Belsky, President, 360i , “We see Search and Social as a 24 hour real-time consumer focus group that helps us stay on top of what consumers care about for our brands.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

They've acquired CAPTCHA security tools originally developed by Vidoop, and looking to market that technology to e-commerce web sites, social networking sites, and others looking to reduce spam and fraud. com, and was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA. His latest startup, Factual, is aimed at the data mashup and open data market.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 9, 2012

ResearchGate is a place to get answers a midst all the obstacles and enables researchers to discuss their work and methodology, help others and find solutions together. The network boasts of millions of free and ready to use online publications from the right sources for all the members of one’s own work community according to ResearchGate.

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JULY 17, 2019

According to Techstars, the companies in the Los Angeles class this year include AlgoPay , a peer-to-peer financial network for the unbanked in the Middle East; DASH Systems , focused on aerial logistics and cargo; Fabrica , real estate buying and selling tools; findSisterhood , an anonymous social network for women; Finli , a service which helps family (..)

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 2, 2011

There are some things the site could improve in my opinion, one of its communication tools. A static way to read what people were saying would be even more helpful ie a comment box. The aim of the follow box is understood, there is a running stream of comments from Twitter with any mentions about the startup. Startupli.st

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