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DECEMBER 11, 2015

Hermosa Beach-based Precipice Labs , a new startup developing mobile apps, has announced a new platform and SDK which helps mobile app developers add photo sharing to any mobile app. The platform handles everything from the photo gallery within the app to all the back-end database and image storage. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Venice, California-based startup Vyng , which develops software which turns calls from friends into cute "video ringtones" that show up on your lock screen when a friend calls, has raised $4M in a funding round, the company said on Thursday. Paul Kats is the CEO and co-founder of Vyng. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Snapchat , the Venice Beach-based startup which has been taking the mobile world by storm with its "self destructing" mobile photos, has just officially launched video into its Android app, just days after announcing a Series A funding round. The new video comes along with new notifications, reliability enhancements, and more.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Venice, California-based ZEFR , the content monetization and protection provider, said this morning that it has named Tom Furukawa as its new Head of Product. ZEFR said that Furukawa had most recently founded his own mobile ad company, and has 15 years of experience in the product management and technology development area.

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OCTOBER 1, 2013

Venice, California-based Recargo , a provider of software and information systems to help electric vehicle (EV) owners find public charging stations, has linked with electric charging systems provider SemaConnect. Financial details of the link were not announced. Recargo is led by Brian Kariger.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

They are no longer remarkable in Santa Monica or Venice or in many cities in America, Europe or South America. Last year at this time Bird was just planning its multi-city rollout having had tremendous success in Santa Monica & Venice. They’re invisible. They’re acceptable. Year two in the life is electric scooters is just that?—?invisble.

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MARCH 9, 2011

Venice, California-based Topspin Media , the venture backed developer of music marketing software and applications, has released its venue ticketing software to the Apple App store. The app allows music venues to scan paper and smart-phone tickets sold through Topspin's software using their iPhone. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Venice, California-based Topspin , the online music marketing software firm headed by Ian Rogers, said today that it is prepping an update to the firm's iPhone application for ticketing. The software is used by Topspin's customers to scan tickets sold through Topspin's software.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

OpenX is profitable, and its ad serving software dominant among online publishers. positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. Edmunds.com has been around forever in Los Angeles, but after a recent redesign and a focus on updating its web site, new mobile. Deploying software in the cloud?

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

We moved from our loft in Venice to a new tech campus in Santa Monica. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? Personally, my work has shifted 80 percent to my mobile device for work communication, text, email and reading.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Can software algorithms help drive more user engagement and video views for publishers? However, I got to set up and run the sales team in Venice Beach, and was running technology for cross platform at the Venice Beach office, because they relocated me back here at my request. even though we''re at the bottom of the page.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

The funding, provided by Santa Barbara, CA-based Rincon Venture Partners and Venice, CA-based CrossCut Ventures, represents the first institutional investment for Zingle. Mobile messaging apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, WeChat, and Viber have exploded in popularity in recent years.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2012

the Viddy crew headed to the Arbor Collective showroom on the Venice boardwalk for an exclusive party. The next generation will be real time mobile streaming from handheld to handheld, kinda like Google Glasses but with more viewers.”. Uber is an easy to use door to door car service knocking out the need for taxi cabs like bumper cars.

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Xconomy

MARCH 2, 2017

The $17 initial offering price valued the company at about $24 billion , a number that has since risen with the Venice, CA, company’s share price shooting above. Snap (NYSE: SNAP ) priced its IPO shares at $17, higher than the $14 to $16 range it estimated in an SEC filing last month. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2012

On Friday, September 28th Team Viddy will pick their favorite API partner, and fly you (or your team of up to 4 people) to Venice Beach for an interview at Viddy. You only have til September to have a finished product and submitted to the Viddy team.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

The mobile app and website that allows people to capture and share images and videos of events through social media. We want to bring the show to life through our mobile app, Facebook app, and on our website. Why did you switch from the mobile ecosystem to the online world? TechZulu: So where did WESAWIT originate from?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2015

Incentive , the Venice-based socially powered mid-market and enterprise collaboration platform has created a secure solution that takes the pain out of collaboration by centralizing all content into one place. This is why collaboration platforms need to look at single-tenant deployments, rather than multi-tenant.”

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JUNE 25, 2015

That's where we're at, and we include software-as-a-service, e-commerce, ad-tech, mobile marketplaces, and gaming as our companies. Brian Garrett: We consider our doors to be open, and we are throwing regular events throughout the tech ecosystem, and at our office in Venice.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Locally, Google is getting into the content game itself creating hundreds of celebrity driven channels and setting up shop all over Venice to produce content in preparation for this new world. With the rapid trajectory of tablet devices purchased in the past few years, media and mobile companies are scrambling to create new apps for them.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

There are big companies being build around the mobile phone. We're working with a company in Venice Beach which is trying to solve that problem. On Demand enterprise, and consumer software-as-a-service is also very interesting to us.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The Spiridellis brothers have been at the right place at the right time several times over in the building of JibJab, now located in Venice blocks away from the ocean. Sometimes in the startup technology world, success is truly dependent on perfect timing. Back when video was a tiny patch on the screen.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The Spiridellis brothers have been at the right place at the right time several times over in the building of JibJab, now located in Venice blocks away from the ocean. Sometimes in the startup technology world, success is truly dependent on perfect timing. Back when video was a tiny patch on the screen.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

Before you think I was a complete nerd, in addition to making money selling software, which I did at 15, 16 years old, I also made money throwing keg parties. And we had these vans and mobile kegs in the back, and we would go to golf courses. And as a result, I got a job in a computer store during high school. ” Right?

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