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AUGUST 20, 2009

Last Week, Calabasas-based Masher Media announced it had received a round of angel funding from the Tech Coast Angels to fund its development of MyMiniPeeps (www.myminipeeps.com), a virtual world for children. They're looking for deeper social networking, and more of a gaming element on sites.

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MAY 13, 2016

Los Angeles-based DreamJobbing.com , the startup founded by Lisa Hennessy, Alex Boylan and Burton Roberts, which offers up true "dream jobs" to its users, has tied with outdoors product site TheClymb on a set of dream jobs for Instagram photographers. The two said that applications opened on Thursday, and will run until June 22nd.

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JULY 11, 2014

Los Angeles-based deal site Slickdeals (www.slickdeals.com), an online deal site, has nine million, highly loyal users and a daily updated list of great, user-generated, deal listings. Those might be on household items like laundry detergent, or it might be gadgets like tablets or a large screen television. It''s amazing.

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JANUARY 27, 2009

Los Angeles-based Break Media , an online video and entertainment site focused on men, said Tuesday that it has tapped a new team of writers, directors, and producers for a new "Creative Lab", which the firm said will create original content for its branded advertisers. Exact size of the new team was not disclosed by Break.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Los Angeles-based Break Media , which operates a online network of web properties focused on men, announced this morning that it is teaming up with Quantcast to collect demographic information about its sites. The service will collect demographic data about who is viewing the firm's web videos.

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MARCH 1, 2013

One of those is Hollywood-based FilmBreak (www.filmbreak.com), which is applying the world of social networking, media, and the Internet to help film-makers gain access to the analytics and insights they need to better market their films. Lots of them were in online media and entertainment.

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MARCH 2, 2012

We had been working with Fortune 5's, and had done really well in social media, creating micro sites and interactive landing pages, and have a really deep history in marketing. I thought to myself, there must be many people that had their ad delivered on mobile, but whose sites are not mobile ready yet.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

Carriers are certainly a big class of customer, and we also have content aggregators, who are aggregating games, news and information, mobile applications, and web sites. What happened with smart phones, is consumers are buying more and more applications, but a screen can only fit a dozen icons. We're really headed for three screens.

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DECEMBER 17, 2012

Entangled Media , one of the startups out of the current class at MuckerLab , has developed Younity (www.getyounity.com), a service which hopes to do just that--make your files available from anywhere. I use my desktop when I need the screen real estate or processing power. I was looking for a solution to that.

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MAY 16, 2012

It's an election year in the United States, and the screens and airwaves are full of provocative sound bites, pundits, scandals, and the latest political gossip of the day. What's the story behind the site, and when did you come up with it? Taylor Peck: We started this site as a tool to connect voters with presidential candidates.

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MAY 16, 2012

It's an election year in the United States, and the screens and airwaves are full of provocative sound bites, pundits, scandals, and the latest political gossip of the day. What's the story behind the site, and when did you come up with it? Taylor Peck: We started this site as a tool to connect voters with presidential candidates.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Big screen TVs and refrigerators can cost you thousands of dollars over the life of those products. I joined them in New York as Global Chief Operating Officer of Neo @ Ogilvy, doing digital media for IBM, Cisco, Amex, and others. It's funny that no one provides this kind of information. How did you end up in Santa Monica?

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. Our tool is integrated onto their site.

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AUGUST 21, 2015

You can view that screen shot, and also see any optional context--such as how many times they have gone out, if they are or aren't really into you, if you just want to keep it casual--just some general advice and context. We've also been submitting this to app review sites. The rating system accomplishes that.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

As part of that, we launched a web site to allow people to order printing online, and we also saw the ability to use QR codes to augment that printing. Hamilton Chan: I think there will be a national media moment, maybe sometime in the second half of the year--a total guess--which cause a tipping point to occur.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). What we do, is we help companies identify who is accessing their sites, and registering for their services.

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JUNE 25, 2009

We wrote all of the core components of our technology, from the ground up--even our SIP stack, OIP application, session-border, softswitch, and media server--which runs on standards-based, off-the shelf servers. Instead, we do this for about a $1000 for a site, in HD quality, supporting eight to 10 participants on a 48- or 52-inch screen.

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