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Realtime Raises $100M, Opens Office In Santa Monica

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Realtime , a startup developing technology to help power real-time web applications, said today that it has raised $100M, launched in the U.S., and opened up a new office in Santa Monica. The new funding came from BRTech Holding, a Sao Paulo-based technology investment firm. READ MORE>>.

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Docstoc Adds Preview Feature

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Santa Monica-based Docstoc rolled out a new feature for the firm's web-based document sharing service Thursday, which allows users to embed preview links into their web pages of documents on the site.

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A Night Of #Hackfest With BetterWorks

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In case you were out of town for the weekend, BetterWorks and Coloft of Santa Monica put together an amazing and area stimulating HackFest ( #hackfest ) on August 14th. Quick Web App Builder (QWAB) – parts prebuilt before competition. Senior and junior Rails and mobile (javascript) developers familiar with b2b software.

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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

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Think about how many images are on the web. Early on GumGum began to experiment with overlaying rich media ads through Flash with photos until technology progressed and they moved over to Javascript. Millions, billions, trillions? “Image recognition at scale is one of the hardest computer science problems to solve,” said Tanz.

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CHNL – Social Network For All | Interview With John Wander, Co-founder & CEO

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It’s a web app that pulls all the content from across your social networks and puts it in one place – your channel. Silicon Beach (Santa Monica). In addition, Web 2.0 was a proliferation of user generated content which created the need for Web 3.0, We love Web 3.0. What is CHNL? How cool is that?

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Presenting Companies at UCLA

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GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

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GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

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