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JUNE 3, 2010

Paul Graham and the folks over at YCombinator have done much to reenergize early-stage entrepreneurship and encourage the creation of many new and innovative startups including DropBox, Posterous, Loopt, Justin.TV, Scribd and many others. They also gave us Hacker News , which for me was a welcome addition for discovering tech stories.

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JULY 5, 2011

San Diego-based StockTwits , the stock-oriented, social messaging site run by Howard Lindzon, said this morning that it has launched a new, social news ranking feature on the service. The new feature is available on news stories listed by ticker symbol.

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DECEMBER 6, 2010

Los Angeles-based GameTrailers.com , the online gaming entertainment and news site owned by MTVN, said Monday that it has launched a new site, GT Motion, focused on motion-based gaming on the Nintendo Wii, PlayStation Move and Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360. GameTrailers is a unit of Viacom Inc.'

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JUNE 16, 2010

Display ad numbers released today from Internet analysis firm comScore shows that CPMs for Internet publishers were highest for newspapers, and lowest for social networking sites. for newspaper sites, and $6.29 for sports sites. Among the lowest CPMs are social networking sites, which garnered only an $0.56

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DECEMBER 9, 2011

Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest , the online product comparison site headed by former DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Connor, said Thursday that it has partnered with an online consumer electronics products review and technology news site, eCoustics. Financial details of the partnership were not disclosed.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Beverly Hills-based Myspace said today that it has launched a new mobile website and iPhone application. 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". READ MORE>>.

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JULY 17, 2013

Los Angeles-based online entertainment site HitFix , which is headed by Jen Sargent, is in a new deal today which will bring the company''s entertainment news to theaters. movie theaters, said they are in a strategic relationship to bring entertainment news to theater screens. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Hollywood-based BUZZMEDIA , the online publisher of entertainment focused blogs and web sites, said today that it has linked with photo sharing site Plixi , which until recently was known as TweetPhoto. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2016

West Hollywood-based Attn: , a company which publishes an online news site focused on social topics like economic mobility, civil rights, education, criminal justice, and the environment, has raised $18.5M in a funding round, the company disclosed on Friday.

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TechEmpower

APRIL 22, 2013

With that breadth we decided to move the project''s results to a stand-alone site separate from this blog. A reader has posted this blog entry to Hacker News, and we invite you to comment there. Thanks also to everyone who has e-mailed us and participated in the Hacker News conversations.' View Round 3 results now.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 26, 2019

Some Seriously Great News. Andrew and Petri had left game developer Rovio (of Angry Birds fame) and were creating a new games company called Seriously that would combine compelling intellectual property (characters), great narratives, and fun game play in a mobile-first application. Some Seriously Great News. Congrats, Kevin.

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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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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

Earlier this year, personalized news aggregation app Flipboard expanded into local news. The feature brought local news, sports, real estate, weather, transportation news and more to 23 cities across the U.S. Today, Flipboard is bringing local news to 12 more U.S. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

Los Angeles-based Final Round said on Wednesday that it is looking to provide news coverage for Esports fans, with its brand new platform, which it has just launched into beta. The site's co-founders include Doug Millett and Drew Bolles.

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APRIL 15, 2014

In an unusual method of launching a new, online publication, the USC Marshall School of Business and USA TODAY said this morning that the two have linked up to create a new, online publication covering the business of sports, called Fields of Green.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Encino-based SodaHead , the social news and question and answer site headed by Jason Feffer, told its users today that it is launching a major redesign this week. According to the site, it is improving the look and feel of its site, adding polls with an interactive map feature, and improving the layout of pages.

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MARCH 28, 2014

Los Angeles-based Fullscreen , the video content network operator, said Friday that it has acuqired video game media site ScrewAttack. According to Fullscreen, the acquisition will significantly increase its presence in the game industry news and entertainment space. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 24, 2020

To accomplish those, and other launches like them, the company is also setting up a new launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. “It’s obviously pretty huge news for us,” Relativity co-founder and CEO Tim Ellis told TechCrunch.

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MARCH 3, 2010

Los Angeles-based GotCast.com , the online casting site run by Alec Shankman, said today that it has launched two talent searches for on-camera roles, for The Streamy Award, and HollyScoop, a syndicated TV show and site focused on celebrites, music, and fashion news. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 1, 2011

Visitors to Los Angeles-based video streaming service Hulu Friday were greeted with a surprise "redesign" of the web site, as part of a Hulu April Fool's gag.

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DECEMBER 20, 2012

The site and bus is the brainchild of Robert Lambert and Jeremy Gocke. One of the key pieces of Silicon Beach LA is a link with Fliptu--Gocke's other business--to higlight social media from various local companies into a single display on the Silicon beach LA site. socalTECH is a news partner of Silicon Beach LA).

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JULY 2, 2013

The results web site has been improved with test-type and hardware-type navigation, allowing you to share links to a specific results chart, such as Round 6, Fortunes on EC2. The results web site now includes a "framework overhead" chart inspired by comments from Hacker News user goodwink.

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JULY 24, 2015

Los Angeles-based online trending news site Opposing Views said Thursday that it is now seeing an average of more than 23 million unique visitors per month, up from around 14.4 The website features trending, viral news stories and photos and video news. million unique monthly visitors last year, and 2.8 million in 2013.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2012

That big acquisition of Los Angeles family tree site Geni had an unwanted side effect: it took down the site for nearly five hours, Geni reports. Geni said it suffered unexpected downtime, starting at 7 a.m. Thursday morning, running until 10:40 a.m.,

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Stockr, which was co-founded by Vinny Jindal, Tim Symington, and Brendon Crawford, helps investors by connecting them with news, information, discussion, and more about stocks. The company said the round came from Personal Capital, The Doyle Investment Group, and Adam Townsend.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Selz currently offers three monthly pricing plans which allow you to create your own store using its platform, or attach Selz' smarts to an existing site. It also offers a $599 per month “Do It For Me” option which will see Selz' own team of developers build a bespoke site to your specifications. App required. ?.

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JUNE 6, 2011

Breitbart.com runs the site Big Government , which broke the story of U.S. Breitbart also runs BigHollywood.com, BigJournalism.com, and BigPeace.com, among other sites.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2013

paidContent , the online news site started in Los Angeles by Rafat Ali, is officially disappearing, according to current owner and publisher GigaOm. Rafat Ali--who is now running a New York travel news startup, Skift --had built an empire of news sites on the brand new concept--at the time--of blogging articles and news digitally.

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JUNE 28, 2011

Multiple reports today say that once lofty social networking site MySpace is now being set to be sold by News Corp. for as little as $20M to $30M. Irvine-based Internet advertising network Specific Media and Golden Gate Capital are among the rumored bidders for MySpace. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 27, 2012

Los Angeles-based BUZZMEDIA , the growing online music publisher, reported this morning that it has acquired four punk rock sites, which it will use to create a new punk music group called AbsoluteVoices. includes content such as videos, albums, news, and interviews. Financial terms of the buys were not announced.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace , which is a unit of News Corporation, said late Monday that it is integrating the Fox Audience Network (FAN) directly with MySpace. Fox Audience Network is News Corp's ad serving unit. The move comes as FAN President, Adam Bain, is leaving the firm.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Among other news this week, Los Angeles-based Cocodot , the online invitations site started by former MySpace exec Shawn Gold, opened up a free tier to its invitations service, allowing users to now send out up to 1,000 online cards and invitations to others.

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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. MindJolt offers up a broad catalog of casual and social games from its site.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

News of the layoffs first hit began circulating right before noon. BeachMint operates a number of celebrity driven e-commerce sites, which combine selling products--often on subscription--with celebrity endorsement. BeachMint has not commented on the moves, which is believed to have hit around a dozen employees.

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APRIL 29, 2010

In the newest bid for revenue at the Los Angeles Times, the paper said this week that it will begin adding green, affiliate revenue links within its news stories. The links also will show up in a number of the paper's blogs, although so far the paper is steering clear of links within its mainline news reporting.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Los Angeles-based SodaHead , the developer of online polling services and software, has just launched a major upgrade to the company''s polling software for WordPress.

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MAY 10, 2013

Los Angeles-based entertainment news provider HitFix said Thursday that it has launched a new comedy channel on the site. HitFix was co-founded by Jennifer Sargenta nd Gregory Ellwood, and offers up entertainment news and video around the movie, music, TV, and other areas. READ MORE>>.

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