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FEBRUARY 4, 2009

This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc. Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. You can go to the Hot List post to see what was hot then.

Layoffs 159

Layoffs Woodland Hills Southern California Orange County 159

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JANUARY 8, 2020

Luxury Presence says it also offers up services for lead generation, managed SEO, managed Instagram, copy writing, and video production. The funding was led by Switch Ventures, and also included Bessemer Venture Partners, Toba Capital, plus Gerald Risk, Peter Kelly, Jonathan Erlich, and Blaine Vess. The company is led by CEO Malte Kramer.

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Services Marketing SEO Writing 100

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JANUARY 7, 2020

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital said this morning that one of its portfolio companies, Provation Medical , has acquired MD-Reports , a provider of electronic medical record (EMR), practice management (PM), and report writing software. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

Report 100

Report Capital Santa Monica Writing 100

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

Western Digital said the HGST Ultrastar Hs14 features shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology, offers up 40 percent more capacity, and more than twice the sequential write performance of the drive's predecessor. WD said the drive has an MTBF of 2.5M hours, and is currently sampling to "select" OEMs. READ MORE>>.

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Sample Class Writing Pricing 133

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MAY 6, 2019

Pharmapace provided biometrics services for all phases of clinical trials, regulatory submissions, and post marketing support, including clinical and statistical programming, data management, biostatistics, clinical data integration, and medical writing. The company was founded in 2013 in San Diego. READ MORE>>.

San Diego 113

San Diego Statistics Writing Research 113

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JANUARY 14, 2019

Bird told the BBC it has apologized to Doctorow, who writes for BoingBoing , and had described how people were selling $30 kits on eBay that enabled them to take over Bird's scooters with a hardware hack--but which had not described the hack itself.

Santa Monica 133

Santa Monica Demand Writing Media 133

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APRIL 7, 2014

Carpinteria-based online video education site Lynda.com said today that it has acquired Compilr , a developer of a software coding and development environment which lets people learn how to write, compile, and test code from their web browser. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

Education 223

Education Acquisition Writing Web 223

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MAY 5, 2011

The firm said it is looking to engage feature writers to write long articles--"north of 850 words"--for its sites. Demand Media said it is looking specifically for feature writers who have 5 to 10 years of experience, writing or reporting for a major daily newspaper or as a regular contributor to a major magazine.

Demand 168

Demand Media Writing Santa Monica 168

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

The WD Blue offers capacities of 250GB, 500GB, and 1TB, and are performance driven, with 545MB/s and 525MB/s sequential read and write speeds. The drives start at $79.00.

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Writing Startup Demand Pricing 100

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JUNE 5, 2013

scripted paige craig venture capital freelance writing content marketplace' It''s unclear if Scripted.com''s other, Southern California angels participated in this funding; the firm has previously announced funding from Jody Mulkey (Shopzilla), and Keith Richman (Break Media). Scripted.com originally started life as Scripped in Los Angeles.

Southern California 159

Southern California Redpoint Writing Venture Capital 159

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

The company said the software now supports automated check writing and electronic vendor or owner payments in the software, including full service check procesisng where it prints and mails checks for businesses. Pricing on the new features were not announced by the company.

Santa Barbara 138

Santa Barbara Writing Platform Pricing 138

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MAY 16, 2019

Diamandis which seeks to spur innovative solutions to the world's problems, has awarded $15M in the Global Learning XPRIZE , the prize which challenged innovators to create a way to enable children to teach themselves basic reading, writing and arithmetic within 15 months.

Marina Del Rey 113

Marina Del Rey Competition Education Writing 113

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DECEMBER 1, 2014

scripted scripped writing marketplace content writers venture capital funding ucla' The company now offers up a marketplace to find content--blog posts, white papers, tweets, Facebook posts, and more--from freelance writers. READ MORE>>.

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UCLA Claremont Redpoint USC 124

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AUGUST 28, 2009

Jason Calacanis, the high profile founder of Santa Monica-based search engine Mahalo , claims that it now has a number of writers who are making over $20,000 a year writing freelance articles for the site. Tags: mahalo calacanis jason search engine online writers freelance writing google adsense. READ MORE>>.

Mahalo 153

Mahalo Writing Santa Monica Google 153

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

The new service includes home search tools, ability to book and schedule tours, ways to connect users to a local agent, and online tools to write offers on homes. The company, which acts as a licensed real estate brokerage, says it has created a service which streamlines home buying and selling.

Santa Monica 113

Santa Monica Writing Tool Los Angeles 113

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MAY 22, 2017

According to NantKwest, Lee will oversee regulatory strategy for clinical trials, medical writing and translation of pre-clinical science into the development of new trials. Lee is Co-Director of the Chan Soon-Shiong Institute of Medicine, and has been a surgical oncologist with Sanford Health since 2008.

Culver City 113

Culver City Writing Develop Development 113

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

According to IMAX, it has decided to close all of its remaining VR locations, and write of certain VR content investments, taking a one-time impairment charge of $6.9 million in its fourth quarter of 2018.

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Screening Writing Los Angeles Content 113

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JANUARY 7, 2015

According to Kingston Digital, its newest product provides UHS-I Speed Class 3, 90MB/sec read, and 80M/sec write, which is specifically aimed at enabling the capture of 4K2K video. The new memory cards are significantly faster than the SD Association''s minimum performance requirements for Speed Class 3 cards, which is 30MB/s read/write.

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Class Writing Marketing Product 100

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MARCH 17, 2017

Students are asked to write a 500-word minimum blog post answering the question "If you were going to run a digital marketing campaign for your school, what would it look like?". According to Wpromote, it is accepting applications from U.S. The deadline for applications is April 28th, 2017. READ MORE>>.

Writing 113

Writing Blogging Los Angeles Marketing 113

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MARCH 4, 2011

Los Angeles-based Border Stylo , the developer of Write On Glass , software which allows you to share comments on any web page, chat with friends, and others all through Firefox and Chrome browsers, has scored $3.5M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week.

Writing 153

Writing Web Los Angeles Software 153

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NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Los Angeles-based freelance writing marketplace Ebyline said this week that it has launched a brand new product, which helps WordPress publishers pay contributors to their WordPress blog.

Blogging 186

Blogging Writing Los Angeles Software 186

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MARCH 14, 2019

According to Western Digital, its new WD Blue NVMe SSD have sequential read speeds of up to 1,700 MB/s, and write speeds of 1,450 MB/s. The standard was developed by a group of vendors that include Intel, Samsung, Sandisk, Dell, and others to accelerate data storage and remove some of the bottlenecks in existing interfaces. READ MORE>>.

Writing 113

Writing Product Develop Development 113

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APRIL 25, 2018

San Diego-based "code school" Origin Code Academy said this morning that it has rolled out a new, online-only, free course on programming and the basics of writing code.

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Course HTML JavaScript San Diego 100

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DECEMBER 19, 2012

Do you have a hard time concentrating and keeping on task, particularly for concentration intensive tasks like writing, coding, and reading? A new Los Angeles Startup, focus@will , said this morning that it has launched a private beta of a service to do just that, by using music.

Help 203

Help Writing Research Web 203

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DECEMBER 22, 2014

Microsoft and Snapchat did not announce any details on the move, which helps patch a sore point over at Snapchat--the unauthorized use of its internal APIs to write third party, Snapchat apps. The use of those third party apps were the cause of the massive image leak of compromising photos at Snapchat back in October. READ MORE>>.

Snapchat 138

Snapchat Venice Writing Help 138

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

GameSalad's tools allow users to create mobile applications and games without having to write code. The startup--which has been supporting Windows development since May--said its latest version, 0.10.0 supports Windows 8 and a number of the features of the Windows 8 environment. READ MORE>>.

Steamboat Ventures 187

Steamboat Ventures Writing Mobile Web 187

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MARCH 1, 2016

Write said it selected San Diego over several other cities, including Austin, Raleigh, and Phoenix, citing the city's "rich talent pool" and startup environment. Wrike said the new jobs in the location will be in sales and customer service.

San Diego 100

San Diego Writing Software Sales 100

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MARCH 13, 2013

The firm said Beddingfield will lead all clinical research and development, including strategy, operations, statistics, data management, medical writing, regulatory and quality for the company. Beddingfield is a dermatologist, who was most recently at Allergan, working on that firm's Botox, Juvederm, and Latisse products. READ MORE>>.

Statistics 138

Statistics Writing Research Los Angeles 138

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APRIL 25, 2013

The company said its data can be used by startups and small tech companies looking for R&D grants, to write more targeted proposals and to understand the competition and needs of Federal agencies. READ MORE>>. sbir source grantiq database small business innovation research grant funding'

Research 166

Research Tool Writing Competition 166

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AUGUST 30, 2016

The TCA said, if a TCA member had participated in all of its 305 investments, with a $25,000 investment in each of the companies in those investments (a total investment of $7.7M), that member would have received $12M in cash liquidity, have taken $2M in tax deductible write-downs, and still have $4.1M in active investments.

Tech Coast Angels 133

Tech Coast Angels Angel Truecar Southern California 133

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JANUARY 18, 2011

What that did, is it helped us to expand the service to help publishers do the following: identify what content to write, how to distribute that content to various mediums, and how to monetize that content. Journalists are notorious for not wanting to write based on revenues or commercial intersts, or having anyone tell them what to write.

Marketing 232

Marketing Funding Content Writing 232

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AUGUST 23, 2013

Mark writes about The Perils of Shiny New Objects. For this afternoon''s Insights and Opinions section, we''re sharing a recent blog post from Mark Suster of Upfront Ventures. I have a saying that I employ as a powerful metaphor at every startup with whom I work - "beware of shiny new objects.".

Social Media 187

Social Media Mentor Writing Blogging 187

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Wpromote said that entrants will be asked to write a blog post on any topic of their choice about the field of digital marketing, which will determine the winners of those three scholarships; the winners will be featured on Wpromote's digital marketing blog.

Marketing 100

Marketing Blogging Writing Los Angeles 100

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AUGUST 29, 2012

Lavigne said that her fans and others can join the Rockstar Room to help raise money for children with serious illnesses and disabilities, including funding efforts by those kids to write, perform, and record their own unique song, and to help provide them with guitar picks and toys.

Writing 180

Writing Web Los Angeles Organization 180

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FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The service--headed by Will Heshall--said its public beta will let a wider set of users test and evaluate its tool, which helps select and play music that enables users to better work, study, write, and read. Focus@will explained that the public beta comes after the signup of over 9,000 private beta users.

Services 178

Services Study Writing Los Angeles 178

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OCTOBER 3, 2012

The two said the support will allow developers with little mobile experience to write and execute Java applications directly on the Qualcomm chips, which are used for 3G connectivity in embedded devices. The two said they are working to bring Oracle Java ME Embedded 3.2 to ATI's QSC6270-Turbo chipset. READ MORE>>.

Java 133

Java Oracle Technology San Diego 133

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Tags: ebyline startup marketplace freelance publishing writing writers freelancer venture capital scripps newspaper.

Ventura 133

Ventura Writing Venture Capital Los Angeles 133