socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Beverly Hills-based > Myspace is claiming growth in its users, saying that it has added over 1 million new signups to the service, after it launched a new Myspace Music Player.

Beverly Hills 191

Beverly Hills Entertainment News Media 191

socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Beverly Hills-based MySpace , the online social networking site, is set to debut a new new site design and logo, the firm said late last night. As part of the redesign, MySpace has changed over its logo, and will center its web site on "bubbling up" fresh content of interest to users. READ MORE>>.

Sites 124

Sites Beverly Hills Social Network Entertainment 124

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

BeautyMint is focused on personalized skincare, and is being run in conjunction with Jessica Simpson and Beverly Hills skincare expert Nerida Joy. All of those sites feature monthly, personalized shopping and product subscriptions. BeachMint said that it will launch BeautyMint in October. Berman is an ex-MySpace executive.

Beverly Hills 195

Beverly Hills Commerce Santa Monica Sites 195

socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Geocities , the original Southern California internet startup--which was founded all the way back in 1994 in Los Angeles--will finally disappear completely from the Internet, as Yahoo said today that it will shut down its Japanese Geocities site. Geocities was one of the first Internet IPOs out of Los Angeles, and sold to Yahoo for $4.5

Beverly Hills 133

Beverly Hills Sites Yahoo Southern California 133

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

Beverly Hills-based talent agency and entertainment giant William Morris Endeavor looks to be busy with investments this week. The investment is the second major investment in a company by WME so far this week; the firm was one of the investors announced yesterday for online, live education video entertainment site creativeLive.

Beverly Hills 185

Beverly Hills Mobile Invest Develop 185

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2010

Beverly Hills-based online dating firm Spark.com is looking to take advantage of the flap over controversial dating site BeautifulPeople.com, which this week said it is kicking "fatties" off the site. Spark.com said it will offer one month subscriptions to anyone who can produce a rejection notice from the other site.

Beverly Hills 167

Beverly Hills Sites 167

socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Beverly Hills-based Myspace , the online entertainment site now owned by Specific Media, said this morning that it has released a new music player. The site said its new Myspace Music Player will provide free, unlimited on-demand listening, personalized radio, search, as well as sharing features on both Myspace and Facebook.

Beverly Hills 160

Beverly Hills Sites Acquisition Entertainment 160

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2010

Beverly Hills-based Spark Networks , which runs the JDate.com, Spark.com, BlackSingles.com, and ChristianMingle.com dating sites, said Tuesday afternoon that the firm is considering a buyout offer from Great Hills Partners II, LP, one of the firm's major investors. per share.

Beverly Hills 157

Beverly Hills Networking Pricing Sites 157

socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Beverly Hills-based Total Beauty Media , an online site providing beauty advice, product reviews, and other information, has raised $800,000 more in funding, according to last week's PricewaterhouseCoopers/NVCA MoneyTree report. The firm had not disclosed the funding publicly.

Beverly Hills 145

Beverly Hills Venture Capital Media Content 145

socalTECH

MARCH 7, 2013

Beverly Hills-based Visualnet.com , which operates an online marketplace for production services for the film, TV, and video production industry, said Thursday that it has raised $1M in a funding round. The company said the funding came from Kibo Ventures , which is backed by Telefonica. The startup is led by Enrique Irazoqui.

Beverly Hills 145

Beverly Hills Product Services Sites 145

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

Beverly Hills-based Baroda Ventures , the venture capital firm of GeoCities founder David Bohnett , has invested in gay social networking site Fabulis. Baroda Ventures Partner Peter Lee confirmed the investment in the New York company, which was worth $250,000. The deal was first reported by VentureBeat.

Beverly Hills 150

Beverly Hills Funding Yahoo Social Network 150

socalTECH

JUNE 7, 2010

Shapiro will be based in Beverly Hills, and report to MySpace Music President Courtney Holt. Shapiro had raised over $70M in funding for Veoh, until legal battles and the economy sunk the online video sharing site. Shapiro was founder and CEo of Veoh Networks until its bankruptcy filing in February.

Veoh 145

Veoh CTO Hire Beverly Hills Chief Technology Officer 145

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Beverly Hills-based real estate crowdfunding site Realty Mogul disclosed this morning that it has inked a $73M funding commitment with company Direct Lending Investments. Realty Mogul operates an online crowdfunding site, which lets people invest in real estate projects aroudn the U.S.

Beverly Hills 138

Beverly Hills Invest Sites Platform 138

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Beverly Hills-based Voomerang , a new daily local deals site, has entered into the crowded group and local deals market today, saying it has officially launched its daily deals service. Like the many other daily deals sites cropping up around the country, Voomerang offers up both website and email deals. READ MORE>>.

Beverly Hills 140

Beverly Hills Hollywood Content Sites 140

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

One Kings Lane , the online, home furnishings flash sales site which splits its operations between San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, said today that it has snagged former Zappos.com CTO Arun Rajan as its new Chief Technology Officer. Rajan will be at the company''s San Francisco offices. The firm just announced $112M in funding.

Chief Technology Officer 147

Chief Technology Officer Beverly Hills Technology Venture Capital 147

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Beverly Hills-based Myspace , the online social entertainment site now owned by Specific Media, said this morning that it has named Roger Mincheff as President of Myspace Entertainment. READ MORE>>.

Entertainment 133

Entertainment Reseda Beverly Hills Media 133

Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 18, 2010

Social networking at it’s finest… I’m sitting at a local brewery watching football with my wife and friends a month back and I get an email from someone who had just visited my Meetup.com site. I created the site to make new friends and to learn things. I never imagined the Food Network would find me there.

Beverly Hills 156

Beverly Hills Networking Social Network Santa Barbara 156

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

VIZIO is tapping Beverly Hills-based RealD for its 3D technology. VIZIO said that the new units are available at Amazon.com, SamsClub.com, Target.com, and its own web site, with retail availability expected later this month and wider availability in December.

Beverly Hills 157

Beverly Hills Screening Web Sites 157

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The firm was originally known as CarsDirect, the automotive buying site of Idealab, and was headed by Scott Painter--who is now head of both Zag Automotive and TrueCar. The firm changed its name to Internet Brands in June of 2005, and hit the markets with its IPO in November of 2007.

Internet Brands 190

Internet Brands Westlake Village Woodland Hills Beverly Hills 190

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2010

According to Bing, it has released a new version of its site which focuses on music, gaming, movies, and TV. Microsoft's search engine, Bing , is enhancing its searches for an area of interest to lots of Southern California firms--entertainment and media content.

Entertainment 154

Entertainment Beverly Hills Southern California Guide 154

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2016

Spencer Rascoff , the CEO of real estate site Zillow , is heading to Los Angeles, after buying a $20M mansion in Brentwood. Rascoff has talked about growing up in Beverly Hills. According to a note sent to employees in May, Rascoff will split his time between Seattle and Los Angeles. hours in traffic for Rascoff via car.

Beverly Hills 100

Beverly Hills Brentwood Malibu Oracle 100

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2010

Beverly Hills-based RealD , the developer of 3D movie technology, and eyewear maker Marchon Eyewear announced this morning that the two are in a licensing agreement. Marchon3D will distribute RealD-compatible 3D glasses to movie theaters, retail locations, e-commerce sites, and through consumer electronics manufacturers.

Beverly Hills 133

Beverly Hills Commerce Pricing Content 133

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 21, 2011

Thursday, January 27, 2011 -- Beverly Hills Bar Assoc. Lunch - 3rd Annual State of Evolving Media Address. Leading IP and new media lawyer James D. See [link] (more)

Beverly Hills 113

Beverly Hills Media IP Social Network 113

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2008

Beverly Hills-based online entertainment site Break.com has reportedly laid off 11 staffers, according to a report by CNET.

Break.com 100

Break.com Beverly Hills Report Entertainment 100

socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2010

Beverly Hills-based online dating operator Spark Networks said Friday afternoon that it has hired Piper Jaffray & Co., as its independent financial advisor, to help the firm consider a buyout proposal from Great Hill Partners III, LP. Great Hill offered to buy Spark on March 2nd, saying it is looking to pay $3.10

Beverly Hills 124

Beverly Hills Networking Class Acquisition 124

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Beverly Hills-based OVGuide.com , an online site focused on video discovery and search, disclosed today that the firm has received $5M in funding from Baroda Ventures LLC, the investment firm of former GeoCities founder David Bohnett. According to OVGuide, the new funding will go towards further developing its search engine.

Beverly Hills 100

Beverly Hills Incubator Venture Capital Sites 100

socalTECH

MAY 28, 2009

Beverly Hills-based Hydra , which operates a cost-per-action advertising network, reported Thursday that it has named Rachel Corcoran as the firm's Director of Compliance. Hydra runs performance-based advertising on Internet sites. READ MORE>>.

Beverly Hills 100

Beverly Hills Advertising Report Sites 100

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

At launch, there will be nearly fifty retailers on the site including shops like Buck Mason, Le Labo, Parachute Home, the Venice Beach boutique, Coutula 12th Tribe, Timbuk2, Zadig & Voltaire, Supervinyl and Urbanic. . We have reasonable coverage throughout broader urban LA.” Image Credit: Postmates.

Sales 249

Sales Los Angeles Beverly Hills Demand 249

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2016

According to GIBLIB, it will broadcast a 360 degree virtual reality view of a surgery being conducted in Beverly Hills in 4K video.

Beverly Hills 100

Beverly Hills Startup Education Los Angeles 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

The company--which launched a pilot program in Santa Monica in August--said it now is offering up its service in Beverly Hills, Beverlywood, Brentwood, Century City, Culver City, Mar Vista, Marina del Rey, Pacific Palisades, Palms, Playa Vista, Playa del Rey, Santa Monica, Venice, West LA, Westchester and Westwood. READ MORE>>.

Marina Del Rey 100

Marina Del Rey Playa Del Rey Pacific Palisades Beverly Hills 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

If you type in flowers in Beverly Hills, you won''t see any organic results for the big businesses. Florists receive their orders through these other sites, but the problem is, there''s no profit. It''s everything they need to thrive in the e-commerce world, and we hand it to them with a simple, 30-second signup on BloomNation.

Beverly Hills 157

Beverly Hills Technical Review Design Startup 157

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Last month, Beverly Hills-based Nash Information Services , the firm behind The Numbers --one of the most extensive database of financial information about movies--announced a new service which allows third party software applications and websites to pull information from the firm's database, via OpusData (www.opusdata.com).

Beverly Hills 164

Beverly Hills Research Hollywood Sites 164

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

We're also enabling live booking, which will allow you to book and pay on the site for venues. They were a group of really great young guys out of Beverly Hills, who understand how to build a brand, and figured out how to do it very quickly, and manufacture for a very low price. Is this the startup you're doing with Tony Adam?

Beverly Hills 203

Beverly Hills Incubator Commerce Los Angeles 203

socalTECH

MAY 4, 2016

They go on to the site, list their property, including such details as address, parking, noise level, and square footage, pretty much the same as listing their house on a real estate site. There's a non-intrusive, banner ad on the site. Why would someone with a home or business want to list on the site?

Beverly Hills 100

Beverly Hills Startup Sites Los Angeles 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

We put a code into th epages on a site, which allows us to measure the results, and we build a database to track it real time, and connect the two. It really doesn't suit a publisher well to have exclusive representation, except in some instances--for example, if a site has an outsourced sales agency.

Advertising 100

Advertising Beverly Hills Networking Customer 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

We put a code into th epages on a site, which allows us to measure the results, and we build a database to track it real time, and connect the two. It really doesn't suit a publisher well to have exclusive representation, except in some instances--for example, if a site has an outsourced sales agency.

Advertising 100

Advertising Beverly Hills Networking Customer 100

socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

Stacy Stubblefield: We do two factor authentication, which basically means we send text messages with the codes you get when you log into a web site or even when you're just registering for a website. Stacy Stubblefield: We actually started out of an incubator, based out of Beverly Hills. How did the company start?

Marina Del Rey 113

Marina Del Rey Software Review Startup Incubator 113