Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

I have been on every end of the business in terms of journalism and publishing. For all those who want to talk about the fragmentation of media and the models for journalism is in trouble; it’s actually not. Journalism is stronger than ever, but the outlets are fragmented. But there is more journalism than ever.

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MAY 17, 2012

Rakuten , the Japanese e-commmerce giant which owns Aliso Viejo-based e-commerce site Buy.com , has just grabbed a stake in up-and-coming Internet sharing site Pinterest , according to reports today. The Wall Street Journal reports the round values the startup at $1.5 READ MORE>>.

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Commerce Journal Sites Report 196

L.A. Business Journal

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Fandom site Movie Pilot acquired by France’s Webedia Digital Media Group, LAPD warns drivers navigation apps may steer towards fires and Boeing CEO Says ‘We will beat SpaceX to Mars.’

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JUNE 1, 2012

Los Angeles-based video streaming and entertainment site Hulu has just inked a deal with the New York Times , to feature videos produced for the paper , according to a report today. The report , from the Nieman Journalism Lab, says that videos produced for NYTimes.com will be available alongside the rest of Hulu's content.

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L.A. Business Journal

MAY 7, 2018

Snap taps Amazon exec as CFO; UCLA among 400 sites caught in cryptocurrency hack; Sirius XM opening in Hollywood

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

It has now added to the list of partners local news service Patch and ProPublica, including its Local Reporting Network partners and its collaborative journalism project Electionland. Louis Post-Dispatch. Patch alone is putting out more than 200 local coronavirus stories per day.

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

Santa Monica-based eHow , the question and answer site of Demand Media, is announcing today that it has launched a new women-focused channel called Shift. eHow said that the move will include such content as the "eHow 100" list of women who are making changes to their lives, selected by the site's editorial team and advisory board.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

Los Angeles-based online personal training site FitOrbit said this morning that it has partnered with fitness monitoring device provider BodyMedia. The two said the move will automatically update a FitOrbit subscriber's activity journal, reducing need to manually log their activities.

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JUNE 21, 2011

A number of reports Tuesday afternoon says that Santa Monica-based streaming video site Hulu is up for sale. According to the Wall Street Journal, the firm was approached by an unsolicited offer to be acquired. Details on potential buyers has not be disclosed or uncovered. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 21, 2012

Online video streaming site Hulu is asking its owners, Walt Disney Co., for about $200M to help fund program purchases, according to a report this morning from the Wall Street Journal. Comcast Corp., and News Corp.,

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OCTOBER 3, 2012

Online video streaming site Hulu said this afternoon that it will be covering live coverage of tonight's presidential debate, from ABC, Fox and The Wall Street Journal, including both pre- and post-debate content.

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JUNE 4, 2013

eHarmony said that it ranks number one in terms of the number of marriage created by an online dating site, based on a scientific study published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). eHarmony led the number of marriages for dating sites, but was closely followed by Match.com (24.34% of marriages).

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NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Calabasas-based online travel site CheapAir.com is taking issue with a study and article published by the Wall Street Journal yesterday, looking to pinpoint the best days to purchase an airline ticket.

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JUNE 30, 2010

There are lots of video sharing and editing sites and services--what's the key difference here, and what have people found is the most interesting thing here? We saw that we had traction in the journalism and news organization marketplace, so we concentrated on that area. I was a development executive and independent producer.

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MAY 7, 2010

For people who haven't visited SciVee, what's the site about? However, it's a very large market--we peg it at around $11 billion a year, and some estimate it to be as big as $20 billion a year, including scientific journals, academic journals, scientific societies, and conferences. That's what SciVee is best known for.

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Journal Technical Review UCSD Web 124

L.A. Business Journal

MARCH 10, 2017

Word broke last week that Los Angeles billionaire and former telecommunications mogul Gary Winnick was back in the game, taking a majority stake in startup streaming service Qello.

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Sites Los Angeles Services Startup 100

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DECEMBER 29, 2010

The Securities and Exchange Commission is in the midst of a probe of companies which allow the buying and selling of private company shares, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

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AUGUST 6, 2010

Hearst is using Demand's new offering for two sites, Chron.com and SFGate.com, with the Houston Chronicle's Chron.com providing additional business news coverage, articles, and videos. Tags: internet journalism channels content media demand. The San Francisco Chronicle's SFGate.com is providing information in its "Home Guides" section.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 27, 2013

If you’re an app for “normals” targeting middle America it might be good to target the USA Today or if you’re a B2B site you might target industrial rags. And they have their own set of journals they read like Dan Primack’s column at Fortunate or PE Hub so I’d be a fool not to focus on both.

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JANUARY 9, 2009

Los Angeles-based social networking web site said late Thursday that it has kicked off a competition to send a MySpace user to the Davos World Economic Forum. The competition is an interesting one for MySpace, which has been better known for its promotions with entertainment and music firms than publications such as the Wall Street Journal.

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DECEMBER 18, 2009

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace , The Wall Street Journal, and the World Economic Forum today said that the firms are in a contest to send a "citizen journalist" to the Davos World Economic Forum.

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APRIL 18, 2011

SharesPost , the secondary marketplace for venture backed, privately owned shares of such companies as Twitter and Facebook, is taking on the Wall Street Journal for an article published last week. SharesPost said the article left readers "largely misinformed and our company unfairly maligned."

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

The company said that its platform is "for professional journalists only", and that it requires that freelancers have a track record in order to gain access to the site. Tags: publish market journalism content publishing marketplace capital venture ebyline. Amount of the funding was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

It is no secret that Pinterest and other social commerce sites have begun to dial in the commerce equation. These sites (so far) have managed to balance facilitating product discovery and purchase capabilities with users'' desires to entertain and educate themselves without feeling like they are in a marketplace.

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JANUARY 26, 2009

Hollywood-based TheWrap.com , a new online news site focused on entertainment and media, said it launched today, backed by venture capital firm Maveron. Tags: thewrap hollywood journalism content venture entertainment capital news maveron media. Amount of the financing from Maveron was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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L.A. Business Journal

APRIL 21, 2020

a downtown water treatment technology business, has moved its corporate headquarters to the company's manufacturing site in McKinney, Texas. OriginClear Inc.,

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 7, 2013

million in Series A funding led by Oak Investment Partners , SoftBank, Sterling Investment Partners and Michael Lazerow in a move that will help the firm power clients sites to better engage their audiences and nab in more clients. Social media aggregator RebelMouse recently raised $10.25 Based in New York, RebelMouse is set to use the $10.25

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2014

A version of this article previously appeared in The Wall Street Journal. As I noted in this recent Wall Street Journal article , one of the classic mistakes rookie entrepreneurs make is protecting their IP too early. The money you pay your intellectual property (IP) lawyer should be judiciously spent.

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LATechDigest

MAY 9, 2016

— Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) May 3, 2016. Winter is Coming — SF PING PONG TABLE Sales Fall to 2-Year Low. Falling ping pong table sales give a peek into the economics of Silicon Valley https://t.co/xccnL8lY9Y xccnL8lY9Y pic.twitter.com/BIwETKxDm3. DTLA Celebrated the Life of Prince.

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L.A. Business Journal

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Downtown LA-based DreamHost, a provider of web hosting and site management, announced Oct. 30 it completed an $18 million debt financing credit facility with J.P. Morgan Chase and Co.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Each of the top 25 newspapers in the United States declined in circulation in the first quarter of 2009, except for The Wall Street Journal, which had a gain of.06 06 percent. As a result, new media, and public relations in specific, is more alive with potential than ever in its history.

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JUNE 6, 2011

Breitbart.com runs the site Big Government , which broke the story of U.S. Breitbart also runs BigHollywood.com, BigJournalism.com, and BigPeace.com, among other sites.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy is knowledgeable enough to talk tech and swap design & product stories with other founders, but she realized early that networking amongst this group and reading and writing in their journals would not bring her more customers. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?)

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 13, 2018

While other sites have confirmed that she was at Musk’s house, the notorious s**t-stirrer is… well… a notorious stirrer of s**t. The financial regulator remains highly interested in Musk’s confirmation fo funding and whether or not it is more than just a pipe dream more befitting a confabulation from Timothy Leary.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Worth a read on how to maximize the traffic that comes to you site since much of it will be fleeting. We then had a piece in Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Europe, we ran front cover of Tornado Insider (the top VC magazine in Europe at the time). Write a blog post or a journal about how you feel while you’re there.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 9, 2012

The Boston based startup says on its site, its making the world’s open educational content more useful for students by connecting them with the wealth of high quality, openly licensed, and free educational content created by leading education experts with more than 20 years in the field.

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MAY 5, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publisher which runs such sites as eHow.com, typeF.com, and LIVESTRONG.COM, said Thursday afternoon that it is launching a new effort focused on long-form web content. The firm said it is looking to engage feature writers to write long articles--"north of 850 words"--for its sites.

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