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APRIL 15, 2020

Los Angeles-based mobile streaming video startup Quibi will not be launching a series about Venice, Californi-based Snapchat , according to a report from Variety. Quibi raised a huge, $350M funding round back in January for the streaming service. Variety did not say why Quibi decided to drop its plans for the series.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

Los Angeles-based Burstly , the mobile advertising tools firm run by Evan Rifkin, said this week that it has opened up a new way for mobile application developers to sell their own advertising space. Tags: burstly mobile advertising rifkin. Newtoy recently revealed it has had over 10 million downloads of its game. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 7, 2013

Venice-based photo messaging service Snapchat is reportedly raising $100M in funding, at a valuation of half a billion dollars, according to a report Friday. Snapchat--which operates a mobile photo messaging service which is very popular with the teenage set--is backed by Benchmark Capital, and had previously raised $12.5M

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JANUARY 28, 2012

The titles were: Mobile First, Web Second. Mobile First, Web Second (continued). I know that they really impacted an entire cohort of startups because every company that was coming to pitch me businesses was (is) saying, “I’m a ‘mobile first’ company.” The power of large screen real estate.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Online dating site eHarmony is reporting that it's seeing an increasing number of users using its mobile apps to access its dating service, and also said that conversions of those users is up nearly 40 percent year to year. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Santa Monica-based ParkMe , the startup which is developing parking information services and apps, reported today that it has entered into a partnership with ABM Parking Services, and will launch and power ABM's mobile app. Financial impact of the win were not disclosed. with over $4 billion in revenues.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

Time might be running out for Los Angeles-based mobile video streaming service Quibi , according to a report , which says that Quibi founder Jeffrey Katzenberg is considering shutting down the company.

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MARCH 19, 2013

Los Angeles-based mobile messaging and marketing firm Mogreet is targeting the small business market with a new, self-serve offering it is calling Mogreet Express, the company announced this morning. The new service lets users create their own database of customers, and send SMS and MMS messages and run marketing campaigns.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Is Uber manipulating the market for its UberX car service? According to a report Wednesday from TheVerge, Uber has been keeping drivers off the road in San Diego--to force "surge" pricing on the ride service. uber smartphone service mobile ride diego pricing manipulation controversey' READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

A new report, from Los Angeles startup investor Amplify LA , says that Los Angeles seed investment deals in Q3 were for the most part steady, with a total of $59.4M Amplify LA said it found that software-as-a-service (SaaS) was the most funded sector, with a decline in investments in such areas as e-commerce and mobile technology.

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JULY 18, 2011

Agoura Hills-based TouchCommerce , a provider of online chat and sales conversion services for e-commerce retailers, reports today that Virgin Mobile France has implemented the firm's live assistance solution. Virgin Mobile France is the fourth-largest mobile operator in the region, according to the two firms.

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JULY 23, 2019

The service, which launched earlier this month, is one of the slew of new ideas coming from businesses that are angling to help build up credit scores for folks who can’t (or won’t) get a credit card, or who are rebuilding their credit. Grow Credit offers 0% APR financing for its service but has two tiers.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Los Angeles-based mobile dating app developer Tinder is rapidly approaching 50 million active users, who are spending an average of 90 minutes a day on the service, according to a report. The NYTimes report cited a "person with knowledge of the situation" in the numbers. minutes per session, and men spending 7.2

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L.A. Business Journal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Legendary Digital launching paid streaming service, Adam Carolla launches car maintenance management app, and Warner Bros. launches slots mobile game with Mario Lopez.

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AUGUST 27, 2012

Mobile consumers drove what Los Angeles-based movie ticketing and information site Fandango says is its best summer in its history today, as mobile purchases drove a 26 percent year-to-year increase in ticket sales on the service. The company reports that it saw more than 26 million downloads of its various mobile apps.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Beverly Hills-based Mobile Roadie , the developer of branded, mobile apps for celebrities and brands, reported today that it is powering the mobile app for soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo. Financial details of the win were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 27, 2011

Woodland Hills-based Music Reports , a provider of music royalty tracking and reporting services, said today that it has linked with cloud music provider Omnifone. The comapny said it will manage mechanical licensing and royalty reporting for Omnifone's MusicStation Platform in the United States. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 3, 2018

A report today from TechCrunch said the new dating features announced this week by Facebook are being developed in Los Angeles, by former eHarmony Chief Scientist Steve Carter. According to the report, Carter helped design the psychometric and relationship models that became the basis of eHarmony. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 10, 2014

Agoura Hills-based TouchCommerce , which provides Internet and mobile chat technology and services which helps to engage customers browsing e-commerce sites, reported today that it has signed up Total Gym Fitness as a customer for its new mobile products. ecommerce browsing chat mobile total touchcommerce'

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

Hopscotch, led by Laurence Sotsky , has built software which enables sports teams, venues, and others to rapidly create mobile apps for their fans. We caught up with Lauren to hear about Hopscotch, and why teams and schools are turning to the company to power their mobile apps. What is Hopscotch? What do your apps do?

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

The Associated Press has reported traffic information for the firm's mobile service, the AP Mobile News Network, saying that it received more than 16 million page view for the month of August, with 948 news organizations providing content to the mobile offering.

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JUNE 2, 2017

The world of mobile apps has added serious challenges for software developers, who don't just have to deal with crashes�they have to deal with slow performance, strange hangs, multiple carrier networks, and more. Software is a different beast in the mobile environment. Mobile, in a lot of respects, is still in the super early innings.

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JANUARY 31, 2019

Los Angeles-based on-demand moving and storage company Clutter is reported to be raising somewhere between $200M to $250M in a new funding round, according to a report today, saying that the yet-to-be-completed round is being led by Softbank.

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JUNE 23, 2015

Chatsworth-based MRV Communications , which develops packet and optical products for the telecom market, reported a deployment in the Czech Republic today, with T-Mobile Zech Republic. Package delivery service provider DHL is the only global, large package delivery company based in Prague. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 21, 2010

Los Angeles-based Mobilecause , a provider of mobile donation services for nonprofits, reported Wednesday that the firm is powering a number of mobile campaigns to raise money for victims of the Haiti earthquake. The text messaging donations are are applied to mobile phone users' cell phone bills. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 8, 2010

San Diego-based ProfitLine , a developer of mobile and communications spending management services, reported today that it has partnered with BoxTone , a provider of mobile service management software for smart phones. Tags: phone mobile boxtone telecom software management spend profitline. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 21, 2011

My background was 8 years of telecoms & mobile and 8 years of cloud computing & SaaS – so these two themes were a given. Two big themes have emerged in my head in the past 3 years: offline / online integration and mobile computing. The Impact of Mobile Phones on Advertising.

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

Forestry Service, the firm reported. According to the USFS contract details, Vangard is providing the firm with software and services to enable a mobile application for timber management. Tags: vangard voice systems usfs mobile application. The deal is worth less than $100,000. Vangard is headed by Bob Bova.

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JANUARY 4, 2021

Failed mobile video streaming service Quibi, which is based in Los Angeles, is in talks to sell its content to Roku, according to a report from the WSJ. The WSJ said that Quibi is in "advanced talks" to sell its content catalog to Roku, citing "people familiar with the matter". The company raised an astounding $1.75

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MARCH 15, 2013

Forsblom is now in Los Angeles and San Diego, and reinventing himself with a mobile application company called TenFarms (www.tenfarms.com). Nils Forsblom: TenFarms is a mobile app developer. We build mobile products, not just mobile applications, but products around them. What are TenFarms and PhotoPoll?

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

San Diego-based Qualcomm is shutting its FLO TV video streaming service, according to report today. According to paidContent, Qualcomm's mobile TV service is shut down by the end of the year, after failing to find a buyer for the business. Tags: qualcomm flotv television content streaming mobile phone. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Los Angeles-based mobile identity and authentication provider TeleSign reported on Tuesday that it has inked a partnership in France, with Bouygues Telecom. TeleSign said the expansion of its services will help protect against such seurity issues as account takeover (ATO) through SIM swaps and synthetic identity fraud.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Los Angeles-based FreedomPop is in talks to be acquired by Sprint, according to reports this morning, in a deal which values FreedomPop between $250M to $450M. According to the report--from USA Today--Sprint is considering the acquisition to boost its revenue growth and lower cost of acquisition of customers. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Los Angeles-based wireless software publisher Mobile-XL reported Thursday that it is partnering with Venice-based mobile video messaging firm Mogreet. According to Mobile-XL, both companies have committed resources toward developing a mobile messaging platform. Founded in 2006, Mogreet is a privately held company.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Santa Monica-based drone software developer AirMap reports that it has won a contract from the US Air Force. According to AirMap, it has been awarded a contract to provide unmanned aircraft system (UAS) traffic management (UTM) services to the United States Air Force (USAF)'s Agility Prime program. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 12, 2014

Los Angeles-based mobile dating app developer Tinder is looking to clamp down on users creating fake celebrity accounts on the service, by launched a new verification program. tinder celebrity verification verify twitter checkmarks celeb star dating mobile' READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 31, 2019

San Diego-based Inseego says it has donated a number of its 4G LTE Mi-Fi mobile hotspots to aid disaster relief, to the Northern California VOAD network, in order to provide communications during the power outages and wildfires across the state. According to Inseego, it also is offering up those hotspots to agencies in need, upon request.

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