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Triller Makes Two Acquisitions, Appoints New CEO

L.A. Business Journal

Triller Network, the owner of the Triller social media app and several streaming businesses, announced April 14 that it had acquired live event and pay-per-view platform Fite and had reached an agreement to purchase software developer Truverse Inc., doing business as Amplify.ai.

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Entity Academy, an edtech startup that trains, mentors and places women in tech roles, secures $100M

TechCrunch LA

Women have made great inroads into the tech world in recent years, but there remains a long way to go before we reach a truly equitable state of affairs in workforce numbers, remuneration and product development. Its “content arm” Entity Mag has quite interestingly gone viral on social media and has more than 1.1

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Classy Enables $3.4M In Donations On #GivingTuesday

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San Diego-based, nonprofit fundraising software developer Classy said it pulled in $3.4M in donations on Tuesday, which has been billed #GivingTuesday, a social media effort to prompt peopel to donate to their favorite nonprofits.

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Fliptu Targets Music Industry With Social Service

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Los Angeles-based Fliptu , the social media software developer headed by Jeremy Gocke, is targeting the music industry with its social service, and is launching a new platform that lets the music industry share the pictures, video clips, and other social items that fans are sharing before, during, and after concerts.

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Naritiv's Snapchat Analytics Software Acquired By Hootsuite (Update)

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The Snapchat analytics software developed by Los Angeles-based Naritiv , a startup producing online content for brands, has been acquired by social media management firm Hootsuite. The announcement was made on Tuesday. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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CityGrid Media Buys BuzzLabs

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West Hollywood-based CityGrid Media , the unit of IAC formerly known as CitySearch, said today that it has acquired BuzzLabs , a social media monitoring and sentiment analysis software developer. CityGrid Media operates the Citysearch, Insider Pages and Urbanspoon web sites. BuzzLabs was based in Seattle.

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Demand Media Extends Pluck To Mobile

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Santa Monica-based Demand Media has extended its Pluck social media platform to mobile devices, the company said today.

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