Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. Opening Party hosted by Demand Media with KCRW at the Viceroy.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

government is offering to help solve the nation's "most pressing" challenges. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy said today that it has unveiled a new, online web site which highlights prizes the U.S. According to U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra and U.S.

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OCTOBER 1, 2008

Hollywood-based Buzznet, an online social media and networking site focused on music, said Wednesday that it has hired two editors to bolster its music editorial team.

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MAY 24, 2011

We have done lots of social media campaigns, and we have really collected with the music ecosystem, such as labels, bands, venues, press, management, and street teams. One thing I do see is that many artists are obsessed with social media numbers, figuring out how many fans they have, how many likes, how many comments.

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JULY 8, 2013

If there were such a thing as a "Dream Team" for mobile advertising, you would be hard pressed not to pick the founding team of Los Angeles-based Gradient X (www.gradientx.com), whose founders include Michael Lum (formerly of OpenX), Brian Baumgart (formerly at Adconion), and Julie Mattern (formerly of Rubicon Project).

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OCTOBER 5, 2018

An internal, 15-page memo issued by Evan Spiegel , the CEO and founder of Venice-based Snap , the parent firm of Snapchat , has been leaked to the press , bringing light to a significant number of Snap's plans to attempt to reach profitability in 2019. The memo--which was leaked to online site Cheddar-came as Snap's stock has set a new low.

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

Kevin Winston , is the organizer of Digital LA , the popular and widely attended networking organization for the Los Angeles startup, web, movie, music, marketing, and social media community. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? So we did a one-day fall Silicon Beach Fest at io/LA in Hollywood.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

You can press a button, and it scans the social media chatter and organizes highlights aroundyou, of relevant conversations around a particular location and particular time. If you''re familiar with Shszam, the mobile app which scans and tells you who an artist is, we''ve created something like Shazam for the real world.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. The other reason for building it, is LA is crapped on all the time from a press perspective and entrepreneur perspective. Later on, we can add upsells for community managers and social media marketers. We scaled that to almost $1.4

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JULY 7, 2011

In other words, you can log into your social media sites like Twitter, log into Instant Messenger and other accounts, and it will pull your contacts and give you a seamless way to organize those contacts. It takes all of the different contacts you have into one place, and allows you to contact them for free or at a low cost.

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JUNE 9, 2010

But, we've seen so much interest in the flash sales space, we saw an opportunity to raise more capital, and use that to press on the accelerator. We've been accelerating our marketing, and we also have a fantastic test going in the social media world.

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JULY 13, 2016

In my case, I had a mentor at the time who helped me understand how there was a parallel between the printing press and the Renaissance, and the Internet as the next step in information and communications. From NetZero, I went to Demand Media, where I was EVP of IT.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Streaming media. Social media. Social networking. Social games. It covers a range of technology trends, from social media to mobile, clean technology, games and chips. But its also home to the best articles from gamers, developers, and other folks outside of the traditional press. Hybrid cars.

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MAY 15, 2010

The following was available: “I kept hearing about startups that raised VC funding, but which hadn’t filed Form Ds (nor issued a press release). SocialVibe – Social media monetization platform that benefits non-profit organizations and social causes. I’d link to it but it’s behind a paywall. OTHER DEALS.

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