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MARCH 20, 2012

Los Angeles-based Mogreet , the provider of a mobile video marketing product which is headed by James Citron, said yesterday that it has been targeting the Hispanic market with its services, and now counts a number of large customers in that category.

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JULY 17, 2012

Los Angeles-based Mogreet , the mobile marketing and mobile video technology firm headed by James Citron, has launched a new product today, aimed at providing monetization of MMS messages. Mogreet is venture backed by Ascend Venture Group, Black Diamond Ventures, Bryant Park Ventures and DFJ Frontier.

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JUNE 8, 2010

Los Angeles-based Mogreet , the mobile marketing and greeting card firm headed by James Citron, said today that the firm was behind a mobile video messaging campaign with ABC Family, for its Pretty Little Liars premier this evening. Details of the win were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 13, 2011

Los Angeles-based Mogreet , the mobile video advertising firm headed by James Citron, announced today that it has launched a new, Facebook marketing service via Facebook Connect. The firm said it has added a new feature allowing consumers to share videos from Mogreet advertisers on their Facebook news feed, via a single click.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Los Angeles-based Mogreet , the video mobile marketing firm led by James Citron, said today that it has named Tara Zanecki as Vice President of Marketing and Client Services. Mogreet said Zanecki has more than 15 years of sales and marketing experience in technology.

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JANUARY 17, 2011

Los Angeles-based Mogreet , the video marketing and mobile messaging startup headed by James Citron, said today that it has launched a new mobile video service for WGCL-TV, CBS-Atlanta. According to Mogreet, the new service will deliver video news and weather alerts to viewers' mobile devices.

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JULY 19, 2010

Los Angeles-based Mogreet , the mobile marketing firm headed by James Citron, said today along with Oddcast that the firms have partnered. The two said that the two will combine Oddcast's talking avatars with Mogreet's MMS marketing and messaging platform, launching with a mobile effort with E*TRADE Financial.

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APRIL 19, 2012

Los Angeles-based Mogreet , coming off a new round of venture funding, is in expansion mode, saying that it has opened up a new Midwest sales office for the company. Mogreet said it has opened up a new office headed by Joshua Pyne, who the firm snagged from ChaCha, the mobile questions and answers service. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Los Angeles-based mobile marketing firm Mogreet , which is headed by James Citron, announced this morning that it has inked a deal with Steve Madden , where it will provide rich media mobile marketing as part of Steve Madden's marketing efforts. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Mogreet , the mobile marketing and video firm headed by James Citron, released mobile video stats gathered by the firm during Q1 today, saying that Verizon leads the market in terms of mobile video messaging views. T-Mobile represented 5.8 percent, then Spring at 9.7 percent of video views.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Los Angeles-based Mogreet , the provider of mobile video marketing services, has raised $2.8M Mogreet has previously raised funding from Ascend Venture Group, Black Diamond Ventures, DFJ Frontier, and Spyglass Ventures. more in a new funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm this week.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

Los Angeles-based Mogreet , the video-based, mobile marketing firm headed by James Citron, reported today that it has named Jesse Silver as Senior Sales Director. Mogreet said it is expanding the sales team to drive new business for the company. SIlver was previously at OpenMarket, and also served at MX Telecom.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Los Angeles-based Mogreet announced this morning that it is releasing a new product, aimed at the radio broadcasting industry. Mogreet said it developed the new product with help of its broadcast partners, including Cox/CMG Digital, EntraVision, Emmis, Meredith, and South Central Media.

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JULY 12, 2010

Los Angeles-based mobile video marketing firm Mogreet announced today that it has hired Scott Rogers as Vice President of Sales and Brand Solutions, and promoted John Allen to Vice President of Entertainment Sales. Allen was most recently Director of Sales at Mogreet. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

Los Angeles-based mobile marketing firm Mogreet , which is headed by James Citron, said today that it has signed on ChaCha, the online question and answer service, as a customer, as part of a new mobile ad serving service. Financial details of the deal were not disclose.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Los Angeles-based Mogreet , the mobile marketing and greeting card firm run by James Citron , said today that it has inked a partnership with greeting cards firm American Greetings , via the card firm's online division, AG Interactive. Tags: mogreet american greetings greeting card marketing mobile. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Los Angeles-based Payvia , which is backed by Silver Lake Sumeru, said today that it has rebranded the company and refocused the company on SMS and MMS marketing. The company also said it has launched a new product, aimed at video transcoding for clients on a wide range of mobile devices. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Los Angeles-based wireless software publisher Mobile-XL reported Thursday that it is partnering with Venice-based mobile video messaging firm Mogreet. According to Mobile-XL, both companies have committed resources toward developing a mobile messaging platform.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

This morning, Los Angeles-based Mogreet (www.mogreet.com) announced it had raised a Series B funding round for the firm's mobile greeting services. We caught up with James to hear more about the company, how he managed to get funding even in this economy, and his view on the mobile market. But, there are two things.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2015

WellCaster , a developer of enterprise wellness apps, has set up its operations in Los Angeles, and hired LA technology veteran Jay Goss as President of the company. The company--which originally started in New York--develops mobile apps specifically aimed at enterprise customers ofering up wellness apps to their employees.

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JUNE 13, 2016

A new, mobile app startup, Exactly --which is about to launch a mobile messaging and networking app aimed at Millenials--said it has set up shop in Silicon Beach, backed by $4.6M The company is backed by angels, and also has operations in Silicon Valley. in funding.

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AUGUST 5, 2015

Los Angeles-based Pledgeling , which operates an online service to help users make micro- and impulse donations to charities, has named local startup veteran James Citron as CEO. Citron was previously CEO of mobile messaging and marketing firm Outspoken, and prior to that, was CEO and founder of Mogreet, which was acquired in 2013.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

In more proof that local techies can get enough of hanging out with the multitude of startups cropping up on "Silicon Beach" -- mostly Santa Monica and the westside of Los Angeles -- local event organizer TechZulu said today that it is launching a second edition of its Tech Crawl event on August 30th.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

Los Angeles-based Exactly.me , a new, photo-driven messaging startup, has launched an app which looks to connect people who meet people who are "exactly like you"--or at least, who are very like-minded. Goss has previously been involved with such companies as Kumba Health, Wellcaster, RxVantage, Mogreet, and Numedeon, among other firms.

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