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MAY 17, 2019

Even as Quibi , the short form video platform from Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo , reportedly looks to raise another $1 billion , rival service Fiction Riot continues to steadily build out its pipeline of short form serials. The company is reportedly spending $5 million per hour of storytelling for some of its titles.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

Santa Monica-based online healthcare marketplace operator GoodRx has reportedly filed for an IPO, according to a report. GoodRx offers up a variety of healthcare marketplace services, including an online drug prescription marketplace, and a service to connect consumers with healthcare services like physicians and testing services.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 10, 2019

Automakers and startups alike are increasingly offering services that give buyers new opportunities and greater flexibility around owning and using vehicles. Cars-as-a-Service. ” Citing a Bloomberg report, the site explains automakers may have had the worst first half for new-vehicle retail sales since 2013.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Irvine-based technology distributor Ingram Micro is reportedly on the block, with current Chinese owner HNA Group looking to sell Ingram Micro for around $7 billion, according to a report. Private equity investor Platinum Equity in advanced talks with HNA Group, per the report. READ MORE>>.

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L.A. Business Journal

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

the largest engineering and infrastructure services firm in Los Angeles County now that AECOM has departed for Dallas — reported record fiscal 2021 earnings on Nov. Pasadena-based Tetra Tech Inc. —

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AUGUST 24, 2020

A report, from Protocol, said the acquisition came after Spaces announced a shutdown of its services last week. Los Angeles-based Spaces , which had been developing in-person locations to experience virtual reality, has reportedly been acquired by Apple.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2022

The buy now, pay later service Affirm has just landed a new partnership with popular payments company Stripe. Just this month, the payment network deepened a partnership with WooCommerce (and the ecommerce service's 3.7 How the Service Works. Not all BNPL services are sailing to success, however. In early 2022, 55.8%

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AUGUST 21, 2014

Santa Monica-based real estate agent recommendation service Agent Ace , which is led by Mazen Fawaz, has scored a win with the U.S. News & World Report. marketplace matching agent realestate content publishing publisher report world news' Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

Los Angeles-based Quibi is shutting down and has hired a restructuring firm to help it wind down the company, with co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg confirming to investors on Wednesday that the company will shut down, according to a report from the WSJ. Quibi has raised more than $1.75 READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Los Angeles-based J2 Global has named Nate Simmons as the President of one of its major business divisions, its Cloud Services division, reporting to CEO Vivek Shah, the company announced this morning. Simmons was previously SVP and COO of Symantec's consumer division, including both its Norton and Lifelock Brands. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 26, 2019

Over the past year, Songtrust has added another 55,000 artists and songwriters to its rights management service. Much of that growth is now coming from streaming, the IFPI reports, with streaming revenues growing 34% year over year and accounting for 47% of total revenue thanks to paid subscription services. in 2018 to $19.1

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JUNE 27, 2019

According to a report, from Krebs On Security, El Segundo-based IT services provider PCM has seen a major breach , which allowed attackers to access multiple, client accounts hosted through PCM. The report says it believes the information was being used to conduct gift card fraud at various retailers and financial institutions.

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AUGUST 25, 2020

According to Emburse, in its latest Certify SmartSpend Report, the pandemic has resulted in major increases in such perks as employer-provided meals and food deliveries, as well as employee purchases for their home office working environments. for Grubhub, 17.1% for Uber Eats and 11.5% for Postmates.

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L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 7, 2019

In its first quarterly earnings report since terminating the agreement, Stamps.com posted a net income of $14 million, down 69% from $45.5 million this time last year.

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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. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2022

With the power of the Internet, and the impact of the recent pandemic , the world of business services, such as accounting and marketing, have gone more and more remote. Yet the value of real relationships, as with consumer customers, has become critical to your business services growth and success.

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

Caceres was most recently Worldwide Head of Enterprise Marketing for Amazon Web Services (AWS), and also had served as VP of Marketing at Ayla Networks, in addition to serving at such companies as Echelon, Global IP Solutions, Knight Ridder, Personify, Tessera Enterprises and NEC. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 9, 2014

Woodland Hills-based online marketing services and software developer ReachLocal , which offers up its services to local businesses, said today that it has added a number of analytics and reporting tools to its platform. reachlocal reporting software saas marketing local business' READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 21, 2024

We were quite confident that our services would yield great, measurable results. The work continued for about eight weeks between the two of us as we visited the 27 locations and worked with employees in departments across all disciplines within each location and at central offices that performed services for all locations.

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

San Diego-based EDF Renewable Services , which provides third party operations and maintenance services for the renewable energy industry, reports that it has been selected to provide its services to a solar plant in Chile.

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TechCrunch LA

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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MARCH 14, 2019

Santa Monica-based scooter rental service Bird has laid off approximately 5% of its full-time staff, according to a report on Thursday, in what has been attributed to an effort to "contain costs". The report said 40 people were laid off.

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AUGUST 22, 2019

Zeel , the on-demand, massage service which launched in the Los Angeles area back in 2014, is facing accusations that the company has been tolerating sexual misconduct and harassment of its massage therapists. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Los Angeles-based streaming television service Hulu has dropped support for Google's Daydream VR platform, according to a report on Thursday, which makes it impossible for owners of Google's VR headset to access Hulu content. The report--from Variety --said. Hulu quietly dropped the support in the past couple of weeks.

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

A new report, from AngelList, says that angel investors at the see stage would increase their expected return by broadly indexing into every credible deal they see. AngelList's service is aimed at promoting seed investment.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Los Angeles-based car leasing service Fair , and on-demand ride service Uber will no longer work together to connect Uber drivers with Fair's services, according to a report on Thursday. Fair says it will wind down its weekly ridesharing service over the next few months. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 22, 2019

San Diego- and Redwood City-based crowdfunding sight GoFundMe has banned anti-vaccine crowdfunding efforts on its site, according to reports , in a bid to battle the spread of misinformation. GoFundMe reportedly said that campaigns raising money to promote misinformation about vaccines violate its terms of service.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 8, 2016

Woodland Hills-based Music Reports , which provides music rights administration services to the music industry, has inked a big deal with streaming music service Pandora. According to Pandora, it has tapped Music Reports to manage the mechanical licensing and royalty administration for its upcoming interactive streaming service.

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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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DECEMBER 26, 2018

In a scathing report--published over the holiday weekend--the WSJ says that Venice-based Snap , the parent company of Snapchat. is "struggling after the CEO ignored warnings about a redesign that proved unpopular" saying that Spiegel's "imperious style" has caused users to flee from the service. 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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JANUARY 28, 2020

A new report, issued by Next 10, a group which advocates for improving the quality of life in California, claims that the electrification of light-duty vehicles in California would boost the state economy, in particular by avoiding fuel costs. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 27, 2016

Los Angles-based Music Reports , which provides music rights administration software, said it has begun offering up automated, filing of mechanical licenses with the United States Copyright Office. According to Music Reports, the service is aimed at on-demand music providers, who need clearance on music they'd like to stream.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Los Angeles-based Fullscreen Media says it is shutting down its video on demand service , and instead putting its resources into its other efforts, after a two year run. According to reports, about 25 employees are being laid off as a result of the shutdown of the service, which had offered up access to subscription content for $6 a month.

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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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DECEMBER 19, 2019

Ring has been hit by a number of unfavorable reports over the last few weeks due to a concerted effort by hackers to deliberately compromise accounts, almost entirely by using previously compromised user email and passwords from other services. Ring is now owned by Amazon.com. READ MORE>>.

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L.A. Business Journal

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Fox exec to launch harassment reporting app, Arrivo proposes maglev system for the inner city, and Fullscreen shutting down subscription VOD service and will lay off 25 employees.

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