socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Venice, California-based Snap , the parent company of Snapchat , has opened up an office in China, according to job posts and information surfaced via Chinese social media this week. The new office, in Shenzhen, will work on R&D for the company's new Spectacles product, its camera-enabled sunglasses product.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Venice, California-based social media app developer Snapchat has made a significant, high visibility hire, saying this week that it has hired Peter Magnusson, a former engineering director from Google, as its new Vice President of Engineering. The high profile hire comes as Snapchat ramps its recruiting efforts.

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2020

Venice, California-based Snap Inc. The investigations are allegedly over "whitewashing" within Snap, and disparagement of Block representation in media, according to the report. has reportedly launched an investigation into accusations of racism and sexism in the company, according to a report from the Business Insider.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2015

Venice, California-based Snapchat --already an indispensable communications tool for the always-on, mobile generation--is looking to become an even more important part of its user''s lives, with a new feature it calls Discover. publishing publisher discovery socialmedia media social information news snapchat' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2016

In a demonstration of the extensive adoption of Venice-based social messaging service Snapchat , the White House said that it has launched its own "Official Story" on Snapchat. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2015

Venice, California-based Snapchat is in discussions with Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, over possible future funding for the company, according to the Prince''s investment firm, Kingdom Holding Company. saudi arabia snapchat venture capital investment funding prince alwaleed talal saudiarabia international finance social media'

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SoCal CTO

MAY 22, 2012

So, if you happen to read this and want to meet me, just reach out directly.

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Xconomy

MARCH 2, 2017

Snap, which rose to unicorn status based on a social media app that creates quickly vanishing photos, attracted solid investor interest in an IPO that raised $3.4 The $17 initial offering price valued the company at about $24 billion , a number that has since risen with the Venice, CA, company’s share price shooting above.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Venice-based Snap announced the third class of its Yellow startup accelerator class on Wednesday, naming ten companies to participate in its annual 14-week program in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2020

Venice, California-based Snapchat is launching its new set of health and wellness tools, well ahead of schedule, due to the growing threat of the COVID-19 virus threat, and will surface educational information on the new virus and health measures, as well as mental health content.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

The mobile app and website that allows people to capture and share images and videos of events through social media. The cool thing is we were not only taught about film and TV, but also about new media. One of our teachers was teaching new media and it was really inspiring. Our most popular product is our Facebook app.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2019

Venice, California-based Snapchat , the social networking service that is part of Snap, Inc., is under fire in the UK, after the company admitted that its age-verification system "doesn't work" to UK lawmakers.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2018

An internal, 15-page memo issued by Evan Spiegel , the CEO and founder of Venice-based Snap , the parent firm of Snapchat , has been leaked to the press , bringing light to a significant number of Snap's plans to attempt to reach profitability in 2019. The memo--which was leaked to online site Cheddar-came as Snap's stock has set a new low.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2017

Venice-based Snap Inc. announced its quarterly results for its second quarter, saying that it had a net loss of $443.0M on revenues of $181.67M for the quarter ended June 30th, 2017. The company's revenues increased from Q2 of 2016, when it had $71.798M in revenues. According to Snap, it now had daily active users (DAUs) of 173 million in Q2.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

They are no longer remarkable in Santa Monica or Venice or in many cities in America, Europe or South America. Last year at this time Bird was just planning its multi-city rollout having had tremendous success in Santa Monica & Venice. They’re invisible. They’re acceptable. Year two in the life is electric scooters is just that?—?invisble.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2017

The highly anticipated IPO filing for Venice, California-based Snap Inc. , the parent company of Snapchat is now expected as early as this week, as reports say the company has selected the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) for its listing. The company's IPO is rumored to value the company at more than $25 billion. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2017

As more and more revelations of abuse of advertising systems at Google and Facebook by Kremlin-linked advertisers continue to surface--Venice, California-based Snapchat has managed to keep itself free of "fake news" using a secret weapon: humans.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Venice, California-based Snap Inc. , the parent company of Snapchat , has set its estimated initial IPO pricing, saying this morning in a filing that it estimates its initial public offering price at betwen $14.00 and $16.00 Snap said it is planning to sell as many as 230,000,000 shares of its stock, which would net it around $3.68

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Venice, California-based Snap --in what will be Southern California's biggest technology IPO, ever--is expected to price its IPO on Wednesday night, and start trading on Thursday morning. The company has set an estimated IPO offering range of between $14.00 and $16.00 per share, and is hoping to sell 200 million shares in its IPO.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Venice, California-based Snap is set to see a punishing day on Wall Street, after reporting poorer than expected third quarter results last night, including poor user growth and sales. SNAP was already down around 12 percent in pre-market trading on Wednesday, falling from a close of $15.12 on Tuesday to around $13.33

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Neville Spiteri is co-founder of Venice-based WEMO Media (www.wemomedia.com), a new, digital studio whose flagship product is TheBlu (www.theblu.com) an online, interactive experience focused on the world's oceans. Our focus is really what we refer to as globally shared media. How did you decide to start all of this?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Kevin Winston , is the organizer of Digital LA , the popular and widely attended networking organization for the Los Angeles startup, web, movie, music, marketing, and social media community. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2012

Chris Mortimer, Interscope Records UMG , Director, CRM & Social. Gretchen Fox, Live Nation , VP of Marketing, Social Media. Lindsay Gabler, The GRAMMYs , Social Media Specialist. Ana Liza Bella, NBC Universal / STYLE , VP, Marketing Solutions. Ian Rogers, TopSpin , CEO & Founder. Friday – June 22.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

What do children's vitamins and social media have to do with one another? Gordon Gould , the co-founder of SmartPants, talks about the company and how it's applying what he learned founding ThisNext and from a long experience in the social media market to the consumer products goods area--what he describes as Brands 2.0.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This is true whether it’s physical products or media products. Think about the tension between media companies and cable operators like last year when Viacom threatened to pull Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, etc. This is an age-old marketplace tension where leverage often determines the value captured.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

On your birthday, something special happens on social media: you receive hundreds of likes and well wishes from friends, family, high school classmates and people you haven’t talked to for years on Facebook. I chose Venice, California as a great breeding ground for this tool to help all the local businesses,” said Hagger.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

For the first three months of this year, I have had the pleasure of breathing the same air as the crew from Amplify , the Venice based accelerator. As a member of NextSpace I have witnessed Amplify in operation and it is a shop that definitely believes in good rewards stemming from hard work.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Greg Cargill will be sharing his story how he co-founded bigMETHOD, a social media marketing agency which was recently acquired by BLITZ Agency. His client list includes elite brands such as Harley Davidson, NIKE and Honda. He is both a friend and mentor.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Fun Fact: Walk into their Venice-based office and you’ll find a giant giraffe (dubbed their co-founder’s “spirit animal”) stuffed in their version of a startup treehouse. Social Media: Snapchat. Marketing: SteelHouse. Digital LA is the startup world’s largest networking organization focused on digital professionals.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 12, 2014

However, TechZulu will be doing an official pre-event on Tuesday June 17th with our #TZTechCrawl in Venice. Its that time of the year again! Silicon Beach Fest will kicks off next week from June 18 – 21. For those who may be wondering with Silicon Beach Fest is (and you should know by know!).

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

What is coming is Internet-enabled televisions, content streaming with built-in social media interactions in real time and multiple screen activities. With the rapid trajectory of tablet devices purchased in the past few years, media and mobile companies are scrambling to create new apps for them. WOW, right? has accomplished.

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Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2017

Taylor started pushing out content through social media and share what was happening in the industry. Within the walls there will also be premium VR and AR technology including a mixed reality capture studio, 3D human scanning booth, VR demo rooms, classrooms, private offices and workspace, a podcast/media studio and more.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

For the first three months of this year, I have had the pleasure of breathing the same air as the crew from Amplify , the Venice based accelerator. As a member of NextSpace I have witnessed Amplify in operation and it is a shop that definitely believes in good rewards stemming from hard work.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2012

the Viddy crew headed to the Arbor Collective showroom on the Venice boardwalk for an exclusive party. Uber is an easy to use door to door car service knocking out the need for taxi cabs like bumper cars. After enjoying the heat wave in the ocean bouncing Waboba balls on the water, yes the balls bounce on water!

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

There is a feeling that techies are the new celebrities," says Eric Kuhn, an agent who heads the social-media department at United Talent Agency. Venices median home price in the first eight months of 2012 broke the $1 million barrier, rising to $1,012,000 from $899,000 in the first eight months of 2011. VENICE RISING.

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