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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Los Angeles-based mobile marketing firm Mogreet , which is headed by James Citron, announced this morning that it has inked a deal with Steve Madden , where it will provide rich media mobile marketing as part of Steve Madden's marketing efforts. Tags: ecommerce fashion mobile marketing madden steve mogreet. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 1, 2010

San Diego-based Verve Wireless , the developer of the Associate Press's mobile phone applications, may benefit from the AP's announcement last week of a new business unit specifically targeted at taking advantage of the Apple iPad. Tags: verve wireless mobile phone ipad apple. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

After that, we’re going to meet the demands of Canada,” INKSmith CEO Jeremy Hedges told the Canadian news outlet Global News. “Resonance is currently working to share this downloadable platform and simple instructions to their website, so anyone in the world can contribute to their own local communities.”

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DECEMBER 26, 2012

What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? The biggest trend in the last twelve months is the rapid consolidation of major technology platforms across the board (social, cloud, mobile, video, communications, e-book, etc.) toward one or two major dominate players.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

We spoke with CEO Kai Stubble to hear about how SupperKing is looking to create a service--inspired by collaborative consumption sites like Airbnb--which will let people host meals in their homes for strangers, to get to meet new people, show off your cooking skills, and hopefully make new friends. First, what is SupperKing all about?

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

We spoke with CEO Kai Stubbe to hear about how SupperKing is looking to create a service--inspired by collaborative consumption sites like Airbnb--which will let people host meals in their homes for strangers, to get to meet new people, show off your cooking skills, and hopefully make new friends. We turned that into a social platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) We would argue that our movies are world-class movies, just designed entirely for mobile.”

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JULY 23, 2013

What''s one of the hottest, fastest growing mobile apps out there out of a Southern California startup? No, not Snapchat--it''s Tinder --a mobile app and service which lets users rate people nearby them, and if the feeling is mutual, connect them. If the feeling is mutual, we tell you the good news, and introduce you.

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AUGUST 2, 2013

How do you keep up with everything that''s happening with your favorite interests, brands, and personalities on your mobile phone? Yapert raised a funding round a few weeks ago from the Tech Coast Angels, Desert Angeles, and Pasadena Angels for its mobile apps, which consolidates news and information about your favorite interests.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

What was the biggest news for you this year? We've also invented and patented a new technology called "MasterKey" that allows people to play our games natively on all relevant social and mobile platforms. At io/LA we launched a new 8000 sq/ft co-work and incubator space in Hollywood. Don't bet on any one platform.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

One of the major growth areas along Silicon Beach has been in the whole area of creating content for digital platforms. So we've partnered and worked with technology partners, and built a technology company to develop applications for ourselves and third party platforms.

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MARCH 13, 2013

The firm said the latest version of its platform is aimed at brands, retailers, media companies, and trade associations, to help them scale their content efforts across digital channels. PublishThis , the Los Angeles startup headed by Matt Kumin, has enhanced the firm's online, content marketing and curation management tool.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

If you start with a POV rather than product features / functions or your own internal news story you’re already a long way down the track of answering the above questions. And journalists eat that s**t up because it has all that they’re looking for: facts, charts, an angle, news, something that their readers care about, etc.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2014

According to the author, 60% of Facebook’s revenue comes from mobile ads, double that of the prior year. As Facebook''s mobile ad revenue attests, marketers are stepping up their "phone based" spending. There’s a fundamental difference between the behavior of someone utilizing a mobile device and someone sitting at a desktop computer.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Los Angeles-based CitySourced , the developer of a mobile tool for helping involve citizens in local government headed by Jason Kiesel and Kurt Daradics, has linked up with Microsoft and its Windows Azure platform, the firms said Tuesday. The firm is using Microsoft Windows Azure for its application infrastructure.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I called this trend “ Torso TV ” because the “head” of consumption (largest number of views) was dominated by platforms that had massive distribution (think TV stations, radio or retail outlets that sell CDs and DVDs. It made national news. Maker was contacted by every major news outlet. think Apple.

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JULY 28, 2014

Slacker said last week that it has released a new version of its music app, specifically aimed to take advantage of Amazon''s new smartphone platform. The new app is free. Slacker offers us a large number of radio-style channels and songs, including news stations, sports and talk shows, plus curated music channels.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

According to Mogreet, its new Mocast Broadcast Platform is specifically aimed at helping move radio stations into the mobile space, providing a platform for those stations to automate delivery of breaking news and multimedia, run contests and sweepstakes, provide daily deals and coupons, and more via mobile phone.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd talk with Los Angeles-based Sidebar (www.sidebar.com), a venture backed startup in the mobile space, to learn more about what they are up to. Patrick Kennedy: Sidebar is a company that was founded to bring consumers personalized content, focused on mobile delivery of that content.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

Tech News, powered by Make It Work on CBS’s KNX1070 was our first show. After Tech News, we run Jeremy’s Desktop. Jeremy demos various new programs and websites and shows all kinds of tips and tricks, DIY and other cool stuff. OSN 101 – Online Social Networking news and tips.

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MAY 9, 2019

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Alonso Vargas , the CTO and co-founder of Runtriz (www.runtriz.com), a Los Angeles company which has been powering the mobile apps and experiences for Radisson, Best Western, a lot of boutique brands. We took that platform, and converted it to a web experience. What does Runtriz do?

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Mobile Startup Platform Web 113

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. In most instances news is now breaking on Twitter and then being picked up by news organizations. Social Networking is Becoming Mobile.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2012

If you're a web publisher, or even a brand developing your own outreach to customers through a newsletter or microsite, how do you efficiently gather and curate all of the news and information out there? Matt Kumin: We're getting ready to launch an all-new version of our platform. Finally, what's the next big thing for you?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. They looked unstoppable.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

We looking our studio system and listening platform, and figured out many thousand travel articles we could write for them, worked on the format, and found writers, who had been reviewed and rated, with at least five years of travel writing experience to help. You mention mobile is a thing you're thinking about a lot now?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Zong – mobile payments has been a very hot area over the past couple of years with the success and growth of both Boku and Zong. Boku and Zong focus mostly on mobile payments for virtual goods. It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. VC Financings: 1.

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JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. We spoke with Jennifer about what HitFix is looking to do, her own background, and how HitFix is different from the many celebrity gossip and news sites out there.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Rachel Payne: FEM is a video discovery platform that provides quality, relevant video recommendations for any website, app, or content network that is seeking to drive more engagement around video. One was a lead engineer at Google for eight years, working on Google Search, Google News, and google Plus. What is FEM? READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Senior IOS/Mobile Engineer , DogVacay. The Company has been covered by ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, USA Today, New York Times and practically every major news outlets across the country. In a little over a year, DogVacay has grown from 5 employees and 3 crowded desks to 35+ employees in a dog- friendly office in Santa Monica, CA.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

We build web and mobile applications, and we've been doing so for a little over fifteen years. Platforms eschew threading and then re-invent threading anew. Or do we want to play with this new toy simply because playing with new stuff is fun? but getting work done requires shutting down the news feed and writing code.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I believe it is the new form of RSS – the place people go to find out what is happening in the latest news. We have an analytics platform that helps advertisers discover information about the demographics of the follower base and the effectiveness of their campaigns. I covered that topic in my Twitter is RSS post.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

“The rise of couponing in late 2008 coincided with the recession of the late 2000s;” this factor combined with an increased consumer interest in mobile technology and devices led to an unprecedented decline in print media. Due to the combination of these factors, marketers began to more heavily fund digital platforms.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Now the company is launching a true crime podcast, to tap into another potentially high-growth market, on the iHeartMedia and Apple platforms. Solve began as a series developed within the mobile-focused entertainment studio, Vertical Networks. But it was far from the only studio to see money in mobile-first entertainment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2019, from 280 out of 100,000 to 310 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Over 600,000 new businesses were created in the last year, or over one per minute of every day. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding.

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DECEMBER 26, 2017

Michael has been behind such companies as HelloSociety (acquired by New York Times), FameBit (acquired by Google) and Dollar Shave Club (acquired by Unilever). What was the big news for your company this year? Our team has an eye for identifying legacy industries and nascent trends, and creating platforms for innovation.

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APRIL 6, 2015

How do you combine the world of online and mobile apps with the world of community and political decisions and discourse? Editors use Buzzfeed and read the news, to find proposals and decisions, and use the news as a source. Geoff Campbell: That''s a great question. We''d like to change that. more) READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 27, 2020

Ficto , a streaming service without a paywall offering interactive dramas, film adaptations, comedies, documentaries, talk shows, game shows, and news, is now live on iOS and Android. Consumers now have their first chance to sample the wares of a short-form streaming service — and it’s not Quibi.

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