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JUNE 8, 2010

Pasadena-based TweetUp , the Twitter advertising play of Idealab's Bill Gross, said today that it has added news site Topix to its network. TweetUp allows Twitter users to bid on keywords to bring their tweets to the top when users search for information on different web sites. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

” In our performance consulting work, we often hear variations of the following: “Our web application was running fine with a few hundred users. Now when we run a promotion with our new partner and get a thousand users coming in at one time, it grinds to a halt.”. Web application performance is a broad discipline.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project said this morning that it has raised $18M in additional funding, and acquired the Fox Audience Network (FAN) from New Corporation. The new funding brings Rubicon's total funding to $60M. As part of the announcement, Rubicon said it will have over $100M in revenues in 2010. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2008

Los Angeles-based Big Stage Entertainment has inked its third partnership of the week, saying yesterday that it has tied into Splash News, a provider of celebrity news and photos. READ MORE>>

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Who are you on the web? Think about your local news anchor saying, “if you want to get in touch email me at xxxx.” So again your local news anchor doesn’t exactly want to follow back all of her viewers. It’s almost like the web equivalent of Facebook Connect. That’s one form of identity.

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TechEmpower

APRIL 30, 2013

You are viewing the first round of web application framework benchmarks. Check out the new stand-alone framework benchmarks site if you are interested in the latest and most accurate data. Among the many factors to consider when choosing a web development framework, raw performance is easy to objectively measure. Web servers.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I’ve been engaged with social networking for some time now, starting with Myspace and Facebook and just recently (within the last 30 days), Twitter. I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. I’ve jumped on the bandwagon, big time! I love Namechk.com for this. If I missed you, tweet me.

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socalTECH

JUNE 12, 2012

Los Angeles-based content delivery network provider NetDNA reports this morning that it has scored a customer win with news website The Next Web. NetDNA said that TheNextWeb has selected its MaxCDN subsidiary to provide content deliver network (CDN) services to handle its more than six million monthly visitors.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

Among the many factors to consider when choosing a web development framework, raw performance is easy to objectively measure. Although we expect that the external service is itself caching the small number of rows our test consumes, the framework is not allowed to avoid the network transmission and data mapping portion of the work.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The firm--which is currently being revamped by CEO Michael Jones into a new, entertainment focused portal--said the updated site creates the "best experience for Myspace mobile web users". The new mobile site works with iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, Palm, and certain Nokia and BlackBerry devices. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

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?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project , the online ad network optimization firm, told its customers today that it has just optimized its one trillionth display ad. Rubicon Project's services are used by web publishers to pick the best ad networks to run on a specific page of their site, based on the return predicted from that ad network.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google). We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. But it’s a real phenomenon.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. We got lots of traction on the web, and the story was picked up in many places. It ran in April of 2008.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

From research and working with IAC, was saw that more than fifty percent of the videos online are web humor and comedy. We saw that one third of Americans under 40 have started using satirical news sources as replacements for news from someone like Fox News or CNN.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

What I mean by this is we do radio better by building it around the web, social media and traditional marketing strategies alongside, behind and wrapped around our radio shows. Tech News, powered by Make It Work on CBS’s KNX1070 was our first show. After Tech News, we run Jeremy’s Desktop.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Twitter is pretty unstoppable as it related to news and global reach, but StockTwits is that extra layer that deciphers the news for people who love stocks.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

In what can only be good news for many a high tech professional, coffee chain Starbucks said today that it will turn on free Wi-Fi in its stores July 1st, at all of its U.S. Starbucks said that it will give Wi-Fi enabled laptops, tablets, and mobile phones with unlimited access to the Web. and Canadian company-owned stores.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 18, 2019

After we typed the first two letters from our computer room at UCLA, namely, “Lo” for “Login,” the network crashed. This enabled many aspects of the dark side to emerge (fraud, invasion of privacy, fake news, denial of service, etc.). We are currently still suffering from those shifts.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Los Angeles-based MySpace has been among the most visible of Southern California's Internet era success stories, although the site--now owned by News Corporation--has had its own share of ups-and-downs, as well as questions about its future. Venture backers : Mohr Davidow Ventures, Mission Ventures, Tech Coast Angels, Ron Conway.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

The bad news is that Finding Developers is Tough Here in Los Angeles and even people willing to pay have a hard time finding Web Development in Los Angeles. The bad news is that they can get a good paying job anytime. The good news is that likely is not what they want. Ask your friends to do the same. Go to user groups.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? I left a great firm, Redpoint Ventures (after 11 years), to start a new firm, Archer Venture Capital. At Archer we are focused on working with southern California's best entrepreneurs at the earliest stages to build disruptive new businesses. Great things will emerge there.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. Less known--a healthy domain name registration business.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Guardian News & Media , the firm behind web publisher ContentNext , is in discussions with potential buyers about a possible sale, according to a report from the firm's own site, paidContent. million pageviews; the network has 808,000 uniques, and 1.67 Names of potential buyers were not discussed. million pageviews.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2010

What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? The biggest news was a complete, new launch of a new product, strategy and brand. For us, it was a big departure from social networking and a new commitment to social entertainment. Yesterday, we heard from Bruce Hallett of Miramar Venture Partners.

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APRIL 27, 2010

Los Angeles-based Mail.com Media Corporation (MMC), which operates the Mail.com email service and portal, as well as its own network of content-focused web sites, said today that it has acquired BGR.com , a mobile/gadget review and news site. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 6, 2022

A new, free-streaming service, SPORTS.TV, has been launched by Allen Media Group, which said today its new app-based consumer video streaming service is free, and aggregates sports, news, movies, documentaries, and entertainment networks, as well as local broadcast television stations.

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socalTECH

APRIL 23, 2013

One of the folks in media who has been helping to define that shift is Cenk Uygur , the head of Culver City-based The Young Turks (www.tytnetwork.com), and online news and politics show. Cenk Uygur: We do news coverage, and dominate the field online. We operate the largest online news network overall, with about 1.25

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 19, 2009

But the web site visitors are accurate. The bad news is that my blog gets about that many new visitors each day. I keep my blogs separate from by company web site. And make sure you spend time visible networking. Put yourself in the middle of a blog network. Get to know them. I never sell at a presentation.

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socalTECH

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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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and highlight several videos, podcasts, or eBooks of you and your technology. Highlight interviews and reviews from recognized industry sources, and news sources. They will exit quickly. Show evidence of your expertise. Highlight personal presence and testimonials.

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socalTECH

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. Yet a tiny 13 person company called Instagram, leveraged the massive growth of mobile to create a new social network.

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2012

Rubicon develops software which automatically optimizes the ads displayed on web publisher's web sites to increase revenues for those sites.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I believe that many social networks confused this idea. I believe it is the new form of RSS – the place people go to find out what is happening in the latest news. Search will remain big but stream is an increasing method of discovering information and therefore driving web traffic. Early evidence is good.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 1, 2009

I am excited to be participating in and announcing the of: Southern California Tech Central This is a community of people in Southern California who have come together to help find and organize the best content from blogs, news sources and other web sites all around technology in So Cal. And perhaps to stimulate new connections.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2010

And it’s not just me, Ben Kuo just posted - Good news for developers (and jobs) We’ve been talking with a lot (and I mean a LOT) of people who are looking for developers in Southern California (Los Angeles and beyond). See Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California. One recruiter tells me it’s “like 1999?

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Xconomy

AUGUST 3, 2017

Under their agreement, this fall ScoreStream will begin distributing and publishing high school football scores across 42 states through the AP and other media networks (including ScoreStream’s own website). ScoreStream said it also will report high school basketball scores for both boys and girls in 33 states.

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