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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

For today's Insights and Opinions article, we have a piece from Tracy Olmstead Williams, of Olmstead Williams Communications, talking about the bold new world of social media: Social Media, like Global Warming, has now left doubters behind. Brands lagging in new media shrank by 6 percent. 06 percent.

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

Los Angeles-based Famous Birthdays , which operates a network of sites which provide information about celebrities, social media stars, TV shows, movies, and more, has expanded its service to serve Portuguese speaking countries. According to the company on Friday, its new site is at Famous Birthdays Portugus. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 27, 2015

Snapchat launched its new tool on Tuesday, saying that its new feature is a collaboration with "world-class leaders in media" to put the "narrative first"--tapping into the knowledge of professional editors and artists. snapchat news information social media socialmedia discovery publisher publishing' READ MORE>>.

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JULY 9, 2019

Santa Monica-based MomentFeed , which develops software that helps national brands keep information on their stores up to date across mapping and mobile services, has named Nick Hedges as CEO of the company, MomentFeed said this morning. Hedges also previously has served at Bain & Company, Accenture.com, and Ogilvy & Mather.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

For today's interview, we spoke to Bill Curtis , the founder of Malibu-based CurtCo Media (www.curtco.com). We spoke to Bill about CurtCo's move into the podcasting area, and why he thinks podcasting is the next frontier in media. Talk about what CurtCo is working on? It ends up being good for both. That is amazing.

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JANUARY 27, 2015

Snapchat launched its new tool on Tuesday, saying that its new feature is a collaboration with "world-class leaders in media" to put the "narrative first"--tapping into the knowledge of professional editors and artists. publishing publisher discovery socialmedia media social information news snapchat' READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

StockTwits said that Dell, Verizon, FedEx, and many others are using its service to distribute financial information--in a compliant way--to social media users. The firm's service is a micro-messaging service similar to Twitter, with a focus and extra features around discussing publicly traded stocks.

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MARCH 18, 2014

Irvine-based Bitvore , a startup developing big data and intelligence-gathering software which pulls information from both public and private data sources for businesses, said this morning that it has closed a $4.5M, Series A funding round. The funding was led by serial entreprenur Yuri Pikover, as well as $1M from crowdfunding.

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AUGUST 10, 2017

The company, led by founder Evan Britton, publishes information on celebrities, including actors, singers, and social media stars. The company says it is now seeing over 900,000 visits a day on its site, and has 24 full time employees in its Santa Monica offices. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 20, 2014

Santa Barbara-based Social Intelligence , a developer of software tools which use social media information to uncover compensation and insurance fraud, reported a win with the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB). social intelligence crime bureau insurance insurer fraud software identification media socialmedia'

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

An analysis of the most social-media savvy cities, released this week, ranked the City of Ventura as number 4 in its list of cities with the most social companies, based on the social media usage of business people.

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APRIL 27, 2011

San Diego-based StockTwits , the online social media service focused on trading stock tips and information, has named Francisc Costello as Chief Operating Officer. StockTwits is headed by Howard Lindzon, and allows users to share real-time information about stocks and finances.

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MARCH 8, 2013

According to Fandango, the new tool takes into account online and mobile traffic around upcoming movies; social media engagement and interactions; and advance ticket sales--all gathered from Fandango's online movie information and ticketing service. Fandango said it will release its list of movies weekly on its site.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

Venice, California-based Snap , the parent company of Snapchat , has opened up an office in China, according to job posts and information surfaced via Chinese social media this week. The new office, in Shenzhen, will work on R&D for the company's new Spectacles product, its camera-enabled sunglasses product.

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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. What is Fliptu?

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MARCH 22, 2012

Los Angeles-based SodaHead , the online social discussion and voting site, is one of the launch partners for the new Google Analytics Social Media features, Google said this week. SodaHead, which was co-founded by former MySpace exec Jason Feffer, was one of nearly two dozen social sites who partnered with Google on the feature.

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APRIL 3, 2013

Redland-based geographical information systems and mapping software developer Esri has tied with social media and location analytics firm Geofeedia , the two announced today. According to the two, the deal will help public safety professionals monitor, analyze, and visualize live emergency data in real time. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

Funraise provides a customer relationship management software platform which helps automate outreach to nonprofit donors, and ties in information like wealth and social media profiles. According to Funraise, which is led by founder and CEo Justin Wheeler, it will use the funding to accelerate its product roadmap. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Aggregage''s software helps automatically create topic-specific websites drawn from the content of bloggers and others, using social media activity and other information to shape the aggregated content. Aggregage, which is led by Robert Flynn, said the new site aggregates content from over 60 industry through leaders.

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JULY 21, 2011

Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0. Now, what we've entered is actually Social Media 2.0, Now, what we've entered is actually Social Media 2.0, That was in addition to the social media work I'd done.

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

According to Wpromote, it will offer up a select group of nonprofits and charities with a day long event next week, Wprobono: Digital Day in LA, to help them learn about paid and earned social media, content marketing, email marketing, SEO, paid search, and more. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 8, 2020

We try to make it very easy for the average consumer to get more financial information, content, and ultimately, product, in the financial industry. We wanted to make the topics, information, and content relevant to people as they came into the ecosystem. Stackin recentlyraised $12.6M What is Stackin'? How did the company start?

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Los Angeles-based SocialVibe , which develops charity-focused, brand web sites and social media applications, said this morning that it has launched a new effort to help charities raise money on Halloween. Tags: socialvibe facebook brand charity twitter myspace social media. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

KidGuard.com said its new software allows parents to monitor sent, received, and deleted text messages on their children's cell phones; track where a child is at any moment in time; access call logs and call information; browse photos sent and received by your child, and even track all social media accesses by kids.

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JUNE 14, 2013

It''s almost always difficult to get people to share information about your startup to the world. kennel boarding media social dogvacay photos cute' READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Los Angeles-based Lunch.com , the online social media and networking site headed by J.R. According to Johnson, the site has just launched a new Questions feature, which allows users to ask others about information; moved up the prominence of its Discussions feature; and also improved its photo embedding tool. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 30, 2013

The new app, which is available in the iTunes App Store, allows users to access contact information, search for contacts, view details and leads, add tasks and notes, and more. The firm is headed by Jon Ferrara, who helped create the entire category of contact management software before the Internet age, with Goldmine.

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JULY 9, 2012

Sherman Oaks-based RingDNA , a provider of mobile tools to provide real-time CRM data, social media streams and behavioral marketing information to salespeople, has raised $650,000 in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. No details of the funding have yet been announced by the company.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Sanguine says that it uses social media and non-profit advocacy to collect blood, which is processed into DNA, RNA, cells, plasma, and serum, to be used in biomedical research. The funding was led by INVENT Ventures and Heliant Ventures.

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JULY 21, 2020

The investigations are allegedly over "whitewashing" within Snap, and disparagement of Block representation in media, according to the report. Snap has not yet announced any information on the alleged investigation. Venice, California-based Snap Inc. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 1, 2012

Coloft , the co-working space in Santa Monica, said Wednesday that it has launched its own series of seminars aimed at startups, ranging from help on social media, to business development, to pitching investors. Looking for more help to get your startup off the ground? READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 13, 2011

The firm has been in beta since December on the service, which is being used by such customers as Gawker Media. EdgeCast says the service is targeted at customized information portals, e-commerce applications, social media services who aren't able to cache their content at the edge. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Santa Monica-based OpenHouse has launched a new site which helps home buyers get personalized, real estate recommendations and information on neighborhoods, the company said today.

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OCTOBER 26, 2010

The Trade Desk is developing an Internet advertising platform which uses detailed data analytics and information to better target and price Internet advertising; the firm is using both Internet and wider demographic information to help marketers with their display, search, and social media efforts.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

It's the age of smartphones and mobile data, where there are now apps gathering an immense amount of information about where we are, what stores we visit, and what we are doing. How do you gather all of that mobile behavior information? When you look at advertising, some apps are sharing location information and what apps you are in.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Los Angeles-based Armorway , a tartup that uses "game theory" and big data information to plan out security scheduling, says its software is being used by the Federal Air Marshal Service and U.S. Coast Guard, the University of Southern California, and an un-named event production house.

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APRIL 24, 2015

In the world of sports, getting high school sports scores have always been an issue for local media, such as newspapers and television stations. The next thing was our exit partners on my prior firms had all been media companies, and I had worked with those media companies for many years, and know how they work.

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