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AUGUST 27, 2012

Mobile consumers drove what Los Angeles-based movie ticketing and information site Fandango says is its best summer in its history today, as mobile purchases drove a 26 percent year-to-year increase in ticket sales on the service. The company reports that it saw more than 26 million downloads of its various mobile apps.

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MARCH 19, 2012

Los Angeles-based Fandango announced htis morning that it has scored an exclusive deal with Yahoo , where it will be the exclusive ticket seller for Yahoo! Fandango said the move will give Internet users access to nearly 20,000 screens across the country. Fandango won the deal over rival MovieTickets.com.

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APRIL 26, 2012

Los Angeles-based movie site Fandango is expanding its rollout of mobile ticketing, saying this morning that it has added more than 1,400 additional screens across the country to its paperless mobile ticket program. Fandango said that it has added 1,300 Cinemark screens and 100 Regency Theatre screens to its network. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 3, 2012

Los Angeles-based Fandango said this morning that it has seen its best quarter in its company's history, with a 28 percent, year-over-year growth in its second quarter ticket sales. Fandango has been reporting growing ticket sales in the last few months, and most recently said its May sales broke its sales records.

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MARCH 8, 2013

Los Angeles-based movie ticketing site Fandango is debuting a new tool to predict interest in upcoming weekend movies, which it calls "Fanticipation". Fandango said it will release its list of movies weekly on its site. Fandango is launching the new movie buzz product at SXSW this weekend.

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DECEMBER 21, 2011

Los Angeles-based Fandango said Wednesday that it has added support for PayPal on its iPhone and Android apps. Fandango's apps provide movie showtimes, information, and ability to purchase tickets from a mobile phone. Fandango said that currently, more than 20 percent of its ticket sales are coming form mobile devices.

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MAY 8, 2012

Los Angeles-based movie site Fandango reports that it hit another ticketing record this weekend, after the debut of The Avengers. Fandango said it set a new record for the most tickets sold for any opening weekend in the company's 12-year history, surpassing its recent record breaking opening of The Hunger Games. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Venice, California-based anonymous messaging app developer Whisper said Tuesday that it has named Shelby Huston Haro as the company's Vice President of Sales. Haro is from the entertainment industry, and has served at Maverik Digital, GetGlu, Penske Media Corp, along with Flixster, Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango.

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JULY 19, 2019

The sale is not the first for ZEFR, which got its start posting licensed movie clips to YouTube. It sold that business, Movieclips.com, in 2014, to Fandango. ZEFR is backed by IVP, U.S. Venture Partners, MK Capital, Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital and Richmond Park Partners. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

LaughStub joins local companies such as Fandango (LA - movie tickets), RazorGator (LA - sports tickets), Paciolan (Irvine - ticketing systems), not to mention ticket giant Ticketmaster (West Hollywood) in the high tech-meets-ticketing area.

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MARCH 2, 2009

Comcast Interactive Media announced Monday that it has appointed Scott Schiller as the new Senior Vice President of Advertising Sales, heading up sales for the firm's Fandango, Fancast, Movies.com and Plaxo units. Fandango, Movies.com, and Fancast are all based in Los Angeles.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

Toyota, Pizza Hut, NBA, Fandango, and More Share Their Success Stories with Mobile and Social Apps. Tell a friend, and purchase your ticket at www.digitalfamilyinc.com. Use discount code: DFR30 to receive $30 price. Win a ticket to digiday:APPS. digiday:APPS * December 10th * The Renaissance Hollywood Hotel.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Steve Belin , Product Manager , Fandango. ” So what did Steve Belin of Fandango mean when he answered “Move the needle: data”? At Fandango, they examine ticket sales and trends over time. These factors can vary greatly week to week, and movie launches often influence what sales look like.

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MARCH 26, 2012

Los Angeles-based Fandango said today that this weekend's release of The Hunger Games, the movie based on the book of the same name by Suzanne Collins, broke its sales records, with 22 percent of domestic opening weekend ticket sales being made through its system.

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MAY 23, 2012

So, the first thing we're recruiting for is a strong sales team, that has a trusted relationship with the studios in LA. So it's going to be a sales team, a business development team, and helping our relationships with YouTube and Facebook. Do you see a lot of competition from current US services?

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JUNE 27, 2011

He was the startup-to-profitability CFO at Fandango, and really is one of the most incredible, operational executives in all of So-Cal. You need great functionality engineres, need a great UI person, and great sales and marketing, plus you need the great investor relationships and ability to raise money. That's part of the premise.

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MARCH 7, 2010

Moderator: Vince Thompson, Managing Partner, Middleshift LLC Speakers: Carrie Coffee, Mobile Sales Specialist, Mobile Advertising, Microsoft Evan Neufeld, VP Marketing, GROUNDTRUTH. The new app has translated into enhanced relationships with consumers and increased sales, but also bolstered the effectiveness of the overall marketing mix.

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JUNE 19, 2013

Prior to that, I had an app in the App Store, when iOS first came out, which was basically like a Fandango for live music. I told him how we were looking to track people who were looking at Hiphop events in a city, and do direct sales to them and present them to brands to highlight that matched their interests.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

Another big innovator in helping manage cloud implementations is Okta , founded by Todd McKinnon, the former VP of Engineering at Salesforce.com (who knows a thing or two about cloud services) and Freddy Kerrest who was senior in biz dev & sales at Salesforce and was there from 2002-07. We all know about IMDB. Same with university data.

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