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JULY 14, 2011

Los Angeles-based Namesake , the real time discussion and conversations web site created by serial entrepreneurs Brian Norgard and Dan Gould, has just swizzled its conversation discovery tools on the site. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 8, 2013

In a move to make things easier to find on the site, Santa Monica-based Docstoc launched a major redesign Tuesday, swizzling the navigation of the site to better highlight the company''s move to provide premium business documents and information to small and medium sized businesses. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 18, 2013

FindTheCompany , a new business research site started by DoubleClick co-founder Kevin O''Connor, launched out of beta today, saying that it has created an online resource to let users check on the reputation of a business before buying products and services, and to learn more about companies such as balance sheets, income statements, and more.

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APRIL 8, 2021

Not every new game-related site is a Steam, and surely not every social network is a Facebook. And the tools for most are available, sometimes free, for the educated marketer. The post Six ways to make your site-app-product go viral. It doesn’t happen by accident. And not every texting application is a Twitter.

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MAY 20, 2013

Los Angeles-based Prevoty , a developer of security tools for preventing cross-site scripting (XSS), a security issue for websites, has raised $700,000 in seed funding, the firm disclosed today. prevoty cross site scripting venture capital security software launchpadla launchpad' The firm is part of Launchpad LA. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

If you are a millenial entering the workforce, what would you be most comfortable with -- a tool designed to work and look like a social network, or a tool built around an old fashioned corporate enterprise software UI? PromoJam debuted its brand new, self-service version of its social promotions tool today, PromoJam 2.0,

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MARCH 13, 2013

PublishThis , the Los Angeles startup headed by Matt Kumin, has enhanced the firm's online, content marketing and curation management tool. The firm said the latest version of its platform is aimed at brands, retailers, media companies, and trade associations, to help them scale their content efforts across digital channels.

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JULY 23, 2013

Santa Monica-based automotive information site Edmunds.com has rolled out a new online tool, aimed at auto dealerships, to help visitors gets trade-in values directly from those auto dealer sites. Edmunds.com said that users who use the tool enter their contact information--which is then sent to those car dealers for followup.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

Aliso Viejo-based Evolver , the online avatar software site developed by Darwin Dimensions, said Thursday that it has launched a new web site that allows end users to create avatars for social media sites like Facebook and MySpace.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.COM , the online health site run by Demand Media in conjunction with the Lance Armstrong Foundation, announced this morning that it has launched a new online tool it is calling MyPlate D, for online nutrition tracking. The site is targeted at people with diabetes, to help them control the disease.

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DECEMBER 15, 2015

Los Angeles- and Austin-based GameSalad , a developer of tools which make it easy to create real, world class mobile apps and desktop games, said it is looking to help aspiring hobbyists to become full fledged game developers, with a new effort called GameSalad Academy. The new educational site is free to users. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 8, 2014

the startup studio and incubator run by former MySpace CEO Michael Jones, has acquired longtime social bookmarking site Delicious , the company disclosed this morning. Delicious provides a tool which lets users share and rate websites to their friends and others. Santa Monica-based Science, Inc. ,

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JUNE 13, 2012

Los Angeles-based online publisher Break Media is delving into that question this morning with the launch of a new site, called Acumen , focused on pulling insights and analysis on the behavior and trends driven by men. Break Media also said it will be running an ongoing, R&D panel of several thousand men for its new site.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Los Angeles-based ResumeBucket , the online job search site co-founded by Josh Stomel and Ted Hekman, said this week that it has launched a new set of tools on the site. The site allows users to create their own, personal resume page and URL, and track how often those resumes are viewed by employers.

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JANUARY 24, 2014

Santa Monica-based automotive information provider Edmunds.com said yesterday that it has released a new tool for auto dealers, aimed at helping them to collect and manage customer reviews and ratings. The tool allows dealerships to post those reviews on their own site and also on Edmunds.com''s Dealer Ratings and Reviews page.

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APRIL 21, 2015

Los Angeles-based venture investor Upfront Ventures has lead another round in San Francisco-based online appointment booking site MyTime , as parto f a $9.25M Series B. mytime venture capital online marketplace appointment small business tool software cloud market' READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.com , the health and fitness site run by Demand Media, is launching a redesign of the site today, splitting content into verticals focused on men and women. As a result, Livestrong decided to create separate, gender-specific paths which help provide personalized tools and content for men and women.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Instead, he''s one of the key angel investors in a new, crowdfunding site called Ramen , which launched this week at Calacanis'' Launch Conference, saying that it has raised a seed funding from Calacanis, Naval Ravikant (AngelList), and Matt Cutler, to bring its online crowdfunding service for software projects to market. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 7, 2020

The site--launched on Monday in partnership with New York Governor Cuomo--is available both in English as well as Spanish. Santa Monica-based Headspace is looking to help New Yorkers manage their stress with a new website , offering up a number of exercises to help people reduce their stress levels during the pandemic.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Los Angeles-based Savings.com said Tuesday that it has pinpointed the best days to buy products, based on data from the last four years gathered on its site from 25,000 retailers, and for monitoring more than 1.5 Looking for a deal this year on holiday gifts? million deals during the 2009 to 2013 period. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Irvine-based Local.com , the provider of online local business search sites, said this morning that it is in a big relaunch of the firm's flagship site. According to the firm, it has reorganized its site to divide its site into vertical categories, particularly focused on the "household manager/soccer mom" category.

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MARCH 28, 2010

Santa Monica-based Factual , the data startup run by Applied Semantics founder Gil Elbaz, said Friday afternoon that it has launched a new set of tools which allows publishers and developers to visualization its data sets. The new visualization feature allows users to access templated HTML and CSS code, and cut and paste that onto any site.

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AUGUST 13, 2010

Los Angeles-based GotCast , the online casting call and talent site run by Alec Shankman, said it now has now reached nearly 10,000 job postings to-date on the site. The firm has been looking to open the casting process to people located nationwide, who aren't necessarily working in Hollywood. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 17, 2019

Like the other launch sites at Cape Canaveral, Launch Complex 16, where Relativity expects to be launching its first rockets by 2020, has a storied history in the U.S. From the site, Relativity will be able to launch its first designed rocket, the Terran 1, which is the only fully 3D-printed rocket in the world. .

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JUNE 15, 2018

Redlands-based Esri , the developer of geographical information systems (GIS) software, has applied its tools to the World Cup, with a new "Story Map" of high resolution satellite imagery of the 12 World Cup venues.

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JUNE 29, 2010

Los Angeles-based Demand Media , the online media firm headed by Richard Rosenblatt, announced today that it has inked a partnership with celebrity model Tyra Banks , to create a new site focused on fashion and beauty. Name of the new site was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Los Angeles-based Lunch.com , the online social media and networking site headed by J.R. According to Johnson, the site has just launched a new Questions feature, which allows users to ask others about information; moved up the prominence of its Discussions feature; and also improved its photo embedding tool.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Los Angeles-based software-as-a-service developer CrownPeak has expanded the breadth of its offerings, saying this morning that it has launched a set of content management and marketing tools. CrownPeak is a developer of software-as-a-service for content management, which allows non-technical users to update and maintain their web sites.

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AUGUST 22, 2012

Hulu , the online video site, has made a major update to the site today, rolling out a more vivid, graphical interface which highlights scenes, TV shows, movies, and more on the service. in addition, the site has enhanced its search tools and layout, made it easier to follow series through its video player, and more.

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MAY 5, 2011

Carlsbad-based Zoovy , the e-commerce software firm run by Brian Horakh, said this week that it has launched a new Amazon Repricing Engine, a software tool which helps e-commerce retailers automatically raise or lower their product pricing on Amazon.com, based on their competitor's prices. The new tools is free to current Zoovy users.

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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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JULY 27, 2016

Los Angeles-based online car shopping startup Car Harmony is taking on the area of auto finance today, saying it has launched a new, self service tool aimed at letting car shoppers create their own custom financing options for cars.

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APRIL 28, 2022

Start with a simple tool. There are tools to inform you when your company name or personal name is mentioned. Proactively link outward from your site. You and your staff need to learn about these tools and engage aggressively with your fans in as many ways as possible. Then add more complex listening posts.

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MAY 14, 2010

San Diego-based Confident Technologies , the new startup which is using image authentication technology originally developed by Vidoop, has rolled out its image-based CAPTCHA tools, the firm said this week.

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

El Segundo-based toy maker Mattel has jumped into the online shopping market, saying today that the firm has launched MattelShop.com , an online site offering the firm's products. The site also includes a Twitter account and YouTube videos.

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JULY 14, 2010

Los Angeles-based Catchpoint Systems , the web monitoring startup headed by former DoubleClick exec Mehdi Daoudi, has released a new beta of a real-user monitoring tool. The firm did not release pricing on the new tool. The additional capability comes on top of the firm's existing monitoring of web sites and applications from 26 U.S.

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AUGUST 10, 2009

Pasadena-based MyShape.com , the women's fashion web site, has completely relaunched the firm's web site, the company said this morning. MyShape, which is headed by Louise Wannier, offers a web site which recommends women's fashion clothing depending on a woman's measurements and body type. READ MORE>>.

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