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JANUARY 31, 2017

Horowitz previously served at Ticketmaster / Live Nation, managed producta at Google, and also advised such startups as Applied Semantics, Fetch Technologies, and Abot Labs. Los Angeles-based Bridg said Tuesday that it has named Mike Horowitz as the company's Chief Product Officer.

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JULY 25, 2017

Monday, July 31, 2017 -- TEDxUCLA Salon: From Struggle to Success TEDxUCLA Salon How do you turn struggles into success in the field of technology? How can government catch up with the rapid growth in technology? How do you succeed as a female in a male-driven industry?

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Chief Technology Officer Ticketmaster CIO UCLA 100

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OCTOBER 30, 2008

Los Angeles-based Ciena Solutions LLC, a provider of SAP integration management services, has been acquired by NetSol Technologies. According to NetSol Technologies, the buy was a combination of cash and restricted stock. NetSol Technologies is based in Emeryville, California.

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Technology Ticketmaster Outsource Development Southern California 113

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MAY 22, 2015

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has had another shuffle in its executive ranks, saying late Thursday that it has named Brian Pike, currently its Chief Technology Officer, to the role of Chief Operating Officer. Pike had served with Moriarty back at Ticketmaster, where he also had served as CTO. READ MORE>>.

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Demand Media Ticketmaster Chief Technology Officer 100

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JULY 23, 2014

Los Angeles-based financial software developer BlackLine Systems said today that it has hired a new, Chief Technology Officer. He also has served at such companies at Stamps.com, Citysearch/Ticketmaster, and TCI/AND Interactive and Packard Bell. According to the enterprise software company, it has named Alain Avakian as its CTO.

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CTO Hire Chief Technology Officer CitySearch Ticketmaster 138

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

AEG , Cirque du Soleil , and Outbox Technology said this morning that they have launched a new, electronic ticketing joint venture, Outbox Enterprises. The firm said it will be jointly run by Jean-Francoys Brousseau, owner of Outbox Technology, and former Ticketmaster CEO Frederic D.

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Ticketmaster Entertainment Los Angeles Technology 168

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MAY 14, 2013

Encino-based market research and sampling firm uSamp said today that it has named Carl Trudel as its new Chief Technology Officer. Trudel was most recently CTO of BeachMint, and also served at Ticketmaster as SVP of Software Engineering, in addition to serving at Taleo.

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Encino Chief Technology Officer Ticketmaster Sample 147

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MAY 17, 2013

Among executives at the firm are Kenn Stearns (eRealty), who joins as Chief Product Officer; Saro Vasudevan (Capital One), Chief Customer and Credit Officer; David Subar (BreakMedia, Interthinx), as Interim Chief Technology Officer; and Michael Barton (Startup Exchange, TicketMaster-CitySearch), who joins the firm as Chief Operating Officer.

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Chief Technology Officer CitySearch Ticketmaster Santa Monica 215

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JULY 25, 2013

According to ScoreBig, it has named David Marcus as Senior Vice President, Partnerships, and Eric Wilson as Vice President, Technology and Product. Marcus was previously SVP, Worldwide Artist Services at Warner Music Group, and also served at Ticketmaster.

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CitySearch Ticketmaster Entertainment Los Angeles 183

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The exit is also a huge win for technology insider Sean Moriarty, who was Chairman of the company; Metacloud was started by Sean Lynch, former Sr. Vice President of Technology Operations at Ticketmaster Entertainment and Steve Curry, the former head of Yahoo''s global storage operations. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

OpenStack is the set of open source components, software, and hardware which allows companies and service providers to deploy their own, interoperably cloud services, and is considered a competitive technology to Amazon''s cloud services suite. Pricing on the new Private Cloud offering from Metacloud was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Triton said the new Xbox service will use its measurement, ad sales network, and ad insertion technologies as part of its free streaming services. Triton Digital is backed by Oaktree Capital Management, and is headed by Neal Schore; the firm's board includes such former Ticketmaster head Sean Moriarty.

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Services Ticketmaster Advertising Los Angeles 159

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OCTOBER 15, 2012

Vice President of Technology Operations at Ticketmaster Entertainment. MetaCloud is headed by Steve Curry, the former head of Yahoo's global storage operations. MetaCloud's co-founders also include Sean Lynch, former Sr. MetaCloud's fully managed services helps companies deploy their own, OpenStack cloud computing systems.

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Cloud Computing Services Ticketmaster Yahoo 174

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology provider OpenX announced this morning that it has appointed Douglas McPherson, the former General Counsel of Idealab, as its new Chief Legal Officer. OpenX said that McPherson has joined the board of directors of Idealab as part of the move.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

According to the site--which offers up online, video-based training courses on a wide range of software and other subjects--it has hired Alex Zivoder as VP and Managing Director, EMA, Shveta Mujumdar as VP of Corporate Development, Ken Sandy as VP of Product, and Michael Lydon as VP of Technology Operations.

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Ticketmaster Education Training Course 113

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JUNE 26, 2013

Lynch and Curry are technology veterans, having managed cloud deployments for Yahoo and Ticketmaster. The companies said the funding will go towards growth and global expansion of its services.

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Services Cloud Computing Ticketmaster Southern California 187

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JULY 31, 2012

Encino-based uSamp , which provides technology and services for market research and surveying, said this morning that it has added Alan Gould and Sean Moriarty to its board of directors. Gould is a Venture Partner with Greycroft Partners, and Moriarty is the former President and CEO of Ticketmaster.

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Encino Ticketmaster Research Marketing 133

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JANUARY 13, 2012

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , the online advertising optimization technology provider headed by Frank Addante, said this morning that it has named Brian Barnum as its Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, as well as appointed Mark Torres as Senior Vice President of People and Culture.

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Ticketmaster Clearstone Advertising News 164

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OCTOBER 16, 2012

Among the area companies showing their interest in the cloud are Dreamhost , the ISP and cloud services firm, which announced its DreamCompute service Monday; Media Temple , the ISP and hosting services company headed by Demian Sellfors, with its own cloud service; Morphlabs , the cloud deployment software firm run by open source startup master Winston (..)

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Southern California SoCal Ticketmaster Software 189

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Westlake Village-based Move announced today that it has appointed David Story as the firm's new Chief Technology Officer, and Scott Boecker as its Chief Product Officer. Boecker was most recently at Ticketmaster, and also has served at KPE Digital Services and eToys. Story was most recently at Adobe Systems, and also served at Intuit.

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Westlake Village Chief Technology Officer Ticketmaster Sites 140

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APRIL 30, 2010

Last week, San Diego-based Confident Technologies (www.confidenttechnologies.com) announced that it had acquired the assets of Vidoop, and created a company focused on security and authentication of users. What does Confident Technologies do? The Confident authentication suite of software, which also includes out of band technology.

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Technology Web Sites Orange County 124

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Westlake Village-based Move announced today that it has appointed David Story as the firm's new Chief Technology Officer, and Scott Boecker as its Chief Product Officer. Boecker was most recently at Ticketmaster, and also has served at KPE Digital Services and eToys. Story was most recently at Adobe Systems, and also served at Intuit.

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Westlake Village Chief Technology Officer Ticketmaster Sites 100

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

NastyGal is just one of a number of fashion-meets-technology startups to emerge in Los Angeles, which. has long been home to both technology and fashion--but, based on its trajectory, looks to be one of the fastest growing. across its many businesses, and has a surprising number of technology related jobs. Rubicon Project.

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Technical Review Company Companies Southern California 279

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MARCH 14, 2011

For anyone that small, Ticketmaster doesn't make sense. Their fees are too high to put on a $15 ticket, and you don't need to pay for the technology to handle 30,000 people simultaneously trying to get assigned seats. Because of that, we saw problems in the industry, because the technology was not there to succeed.

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Ticketmaster CTO Hire Tech Coast Angels Social Media 140

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MAY 2, 2011

On the primary side, when you're talking about Ticketmaster or Tickets.com, or the box office, they usually price seats by bundling them into price groups. If you understand the primary side, it's not necessarily Ticketmaster that is setting prices, or bearing the risk on the sale. Wed Brodsky: It's not a matter of not knowing.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. Commission Junction, MySpace, TicketMaster and many more. Thursday night was the unveiling of the newest batch of Launchpad LA companies.

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

Los Angeles-based BiasSync (www.biassync.com) was founded by three, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Michele Ruiz (broadcast journalism), Robin Richards (CareerArc, Internships.com, NTI Group, MP3), and Dan Gould (former VP of Technology for Tinder). It's clear that Hollywood people speak a different language from technology people.

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Content Training Education Outsource Development 150

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

Yet, the ways that enterprises and businesses are monetizing that user interaction is sort of archaic, compared to the evolution of the technology. So when I say stay at the Marriott Del Mar, our technology turns that into a link that points to one of those travel partners, based on some proprietary algorithms.

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San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

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JUNE 1, 2015

Wi-Fi is now a lot more like cellular network technology, rather than a separate network. technology could really do what we thought it could do. It was really both a big technology and business opportunity. It's seamless to the customer, and the customer doesn't have to do anything to connect.

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Startup Networking CitySearch Ticketmaster 100

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

We also do lots of things in-venue, including mobile ticketing, integrating with Ticketmaster, Comcast, and many other ticketing providers. We've built an open architecture, so we can pull in the latest and greatest technology. We let you listen to the feed from your favorite announcer from your school's own point of view.

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Mobile Platform El Segundo UCLA 162

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JUNE 14, 2016

We spoke with co-founder Ryan Costello about Santa Monica-based Event Farm (www.eventfarm.com), on how its software technology is being used to power high end, VIP events for large companies. That uses things like RFID technology, such as you might have seen at Coachella. How do you make those events happen? READ MORE>>.

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Sales Santa Monica Startup Orange County 100

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APRIL 13, 2015

Gregg Parise What we are doing, is we are going into the event management software space, and doing it through a platform technology. Ticketing and registration are starting to collide, and all those monopolistic playersthe Ticketmasters, Cvents, and Eventbriteswere all created 20 years ago. What is Events.com all about?

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Software Activity Startup San Diego 100

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MAY 20, 2016

Enter Santa Monica's Digitzs (www.digitzs.com), , which has an all star set of advisors and investors, including Kevin Harrington (the original "Shark" on Shark Tank), and which is developing technology to help those platforms take payments. We spoke with CEO Laura Wagner about the startup. What is Digitzs?

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JULY 12, 2013

We have the best engineers in the world here at MetaCloud, the former cloud engineering team at Ticketmaster, which operates your cloud every day, deploys software updates, and gives you the economic performance of the cloud, but where you data is always under control and on your premises.

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CIO Southern California Technical Review Software Review 207

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AUGUST 12, 2009

I came out of Boston Consulting, doing technology and new media consulting, then I went to Citysearch, where I was one of the early executives running bizdev and international. We merged with Ticketmaster, took it public before selling it to IAC. Mike and John found me through Idealab.

Venture Capital 165

Venture Capital Startup Idealab Technical Review 165

LATechDigest

MAY 13, 2016

SMASHD’s first Cohort brought four early-stage + one mature company into the fold: Sidestep : Mobile platform for live events that allows fans to order merchandise before, during and after an event for VIP pickup and delivery, who has relationships in place with Ticketmaster, and is a merch partner on Beyonce’s latest tour.

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Mentor Venture Capital Draper USC 75

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

It's like email, no doubt about it--this is not a lot of technology, rocket science, or atom splitting. People hate fees when you do that, they hate it when they are charged for taking money from an ATM, for Ticketmaster when it charges a fee. It's got a very simple function--helping you organize party invitations and RSVPs online.

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