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FEBRUARY 23, 2015

No, they''re not filming a movie for Hollywood , nor are they the LAPD spying on your criminal activites. No, apparently-- according to a report --they are a Singapore startup''s effort to sell your information to marketers. Think you see some suspicious drones overhead in the San Fernando Valley? READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 1, 2013

This month TechZulu is taking Final Fridays to Hollywood! The Deets: Where: WeWork Hollywood 7083 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028. You cal also download the free mobile apps iPhone and Android. The post TechZulu Final Friday At WeWork Hollywood (#TZFF) appeared first on TechZulu. Community + Technology.

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APRIL 5, 2012

Actually, no thanks to Santa Monica-based Mobile Roadie. Mobile Roadie, headed by Michael Schneider , develops tools that make easy for non-programmers to create their own mobile apps. Describe what Mobile Roadie does? There are lots of tools for an app to market itself.

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MAY 1, 2014

The company said it now covers Downtown Los Angeles, Culver City, West Hollywood, Hollywood, Fairfax, Beverly Grove, Sawtelle, West LA, Mid-Wilshire, Santa Monica, Venice and Marina Del Rey. instacart peer marketplace delivery mobile market grocery shopping' The company has been active in Los Angeles since April 3rd.

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

Malibu-based CurtCo a new startup founded by a veteran of the magazine business, is taking on the podcasting market, and has launched what it says is a new "podcast platform". READ MORE>>.

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JULY 16, 2013

Mobile dating app developer Tinder is about to find out today, as it released a brand new, Android version of its mobile dating app this morning. tinder android iphone mobile dating hotornot date relationships' Will Android and iPhone users date each other? Tinder released its iPhone app back in January. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Yet in the business plans I see, the marketing content and budget are smaller than ever.

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JANUARY 31, 2013

Lyft , the developer of a service and mobile app which lets users find, and offer, rides across town, said it is launching today in the Los Angeles area. Lyft said it will be moving east towards Hollywood and beyond in coming weeks. Do you need a ride across town, but don't have a car or want to drive? READ MORE>>.

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JULY 8, 2014

Doty will lead Saban Brands'' digital products and services, including online, mobile, games, apps, e-commerce, and social media efforts. saban brands digital hollywood executive marketing' Los Angeles-based Saban Brands , which manages such brands as Power Rangers, Paul Frank, Macbeth, Julius Jr., READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 24, 2013

Mobile taxi summoning app developer Flywheel is expanding its coverage area in Los Angeles today, saying that it will now provide coverage in Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, and Culver City as well as the Westside and the South Bay. flywheel uber lyft sidecar smartphone taxi ride rideshare mobile launch losangeles angeles'

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Yet in the business plans I see, the marketing content and budget are smaller than ever.

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APRIL 4, 2013

Hermosa Beach-based digital agency HYFN has been sold to public firm LIN TV , which owns a number of television stations as well as mobile products, the firms said Thursday. HYFN was founded in 2000, and was part of Facebook''s Preferred Marketing Developer Program. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Hard to believe another Digital LA Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood is happening this week back-to-back with the new LA Tech Summit produced by Cornerstone. LA Tech Summit takes place the following day and takes a more comprehensive look at the entire tech eco-system in Los Angeles, not just Hollywood. This is the wave of the future.

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JANUARY 7, 2010

Los Angeles-based Fandango , the online movie information and ticketing firm now owned by Comcast Interactive Media, has rolled out two mobile applications this week at CES. Tags: hollywood content blackberry comcast mobile android ticket movie fandango. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) We would argue that our movies are world-class movies, just designed entirely for mobile.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Yet in the business plans I see, the marketing content and budget are smaller than ever.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

GotCast is marketing the package to loved ones interested in getting discovered by Hollywood and on Madison Ave. The site also has a major business in running talent-related promotional campaigns for brands, including Sony, Mercedes-Benz, and Virgin Mobile. The company is headed by Alec Shankman. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 21, 2009

West Hollywood-based Citysearch , the online local business guide operated by IAC, said this morning that it has rolled out a new mobile application fro Google Android. The firm said that its new Mobile by Citysearch app allows Android users to search for local business listings and post business reviews from their mobile device.

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

Now the company is launching a true crime podcast, to tap into another potentially high-growth market, on the iHeartMedia and Apple platforms. Solve began as a series developed within the mobile-focused entertainment studio, Vertical Networks. But it was far from the only studio to see money in mobile-first entertainment.

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JULY 27, 2015

One of the side effects of the war over Flash, has been with advertisers--particularly in Hollywood--who rely on Flash to help display their advertising banners and video to users. Where do you fit into the mobile ad market? We make websites, and we make banners, primarily for the entertainment industry and Hollywood.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

TechZulu is sending 5 lucky gamers to the first mobile 3D gaming tournament being held here in Los Angeles to compete! That’s right folks TechZulu has just struck the most amazing loot for all you gaming enthusiast out there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2011

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Yet in the business plans I see, the marketing content and budget are smaller than ever.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Despite the proximity to Hollywood and the entertainment world, in the world of Southern California startups, actually combining the two world is quite difficult. Sara Bordo: My co-founder, Brad Sexton and I, both come from the Hollywood studio world. We spoke with Sara Bordo , the firm's founder and CEO, about the company.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

West Hollywood-based Hutch has launched a new mobile app, designed to help people with a new space immediately get ideas on how to remake them into the exact style they love--and helps to connect those users to shops to help fill that space with the right furniture for that style.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

Advertising technology is hot with the rise of mobile, evidenced in part by Verizon’s merger with AOL valued at $4.4 billion, and on a much smaller scale, Undertone’s recent acquisition of mobile ad provider Sparkflow. The post Jetpack Gives a Boost to Mobile and Rich Media Advertising appeared first on TechZulu.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Los Angeles-based Geenee , a company developing mobile software that allows physical objects to trigger mobile, augmented reality (AR) experiences, has raised $7M in a seed funding round, the company said on Tuesday morning. The company said the funding was led by IDI Partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

So why is online video such an attractive market to build a startup? These markets represent about $600 billion of total spend between them, leaving tons of opportunities for startups to disrupt and grow large. And ironically many consumer mobile apps are more of hits-driven businesses than video is today.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 31, 2022

What type of market, if any, is the right one? Paris has been an important market for the e-scooter industry at large, but the city has chafed against the vehicles, citing safety incidents , some of which were fatal. Fluctuo, an aggregator of shared mobility data, found the average scooter trip length in Paris was 2.67

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

For Wedge Buster (www.wedgebuster.com), you do it by pulling together a huge collection of sports-related social and mobile games. round from the NFL's Drew Brees, skating's Rob Dyrdek, and a number of local venture and angel investors to create what the company hopes is the dominant provider of social and mobile sports game.

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MARCH 20, 2019

According to the startup, its "social mobile content app" allows creators to share premium content, and also provides new, original streaming content from "emerging talent", which it calls "Fireworks Originals". The company's Chief Revenue Officer is Cory Grenier, who previously was Director of Sales & Marketing at Snapchat.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

TechZulu will be streaming Digiday : Mobile live from 8:00am - 5:00pm PST Monday 3/8. How can marketers interact real-time with the hard-to-reach youth demographic? 9:00am: Keynote Presentation: Mobile Advertising: The Hype, The Hope, and The Financial Reality. Where should marketers and investors place their bets?

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Andrew Connell is the CEO of DinnerDate.com , a startup which has been in beta in San Diego for the last few months, and is just now expanding out to new markets. Andrew Connell: I was previously at Nokia, and ran Nokia's e-commerce business globally in fourteen markets. How did you get from working on mobile to online dating?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

As one of the organizers, Jay Tucker explained, “The Silicon Beach movement is the future of the Los Angeles tech area – tech, mobility, digital content, entrepreneurship, etc. Tucker led the next panel on the topic of mobility in the startup revolution. The conference itself was focused on innovation, technology, and startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2010

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Yet in the business plans I see, the marketing content and budget are smaller than ever.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

billion in funding for its efforts to create a mobile-first video and content streaming service. Quibi--unlike most startups--dove head first into the streaming content market, ramping up massive efforts to buy and create content, well ahead of consumer adoption and interest in the service, which appears to have been lackluster, at best.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

GreenPark Sports says it is a publisher and developer of "fan-forward", digital experiences and mobile games for the new generation of sports and eSports fans. According tot he company, the new funding will go towards hiring, including creative arts professionals, engineering and development, go-to-market, and gaming industry specialists.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Emerging Technology: Mobile Engagement: Reaching the Connected Consumer (Miller PR, Avatar Labs). Badges & Beyond – Gamification and Mobile Apps (Mobile Roadie, Soundcloud). Digital Dailies: Reinventing Hollywood’s Workflow. Social + Location + Mobile = The Perfect Beer (Untapped).

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