BeachMint Sales Helped by Celebrity Social Media
09 Feb / Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) — BeachMint Inc. sells jewelry, clothes, shoes and beauty supplies online with the help of celebrities who interact with customers on social media web sites. Bloomberg’s Cory Johnson and Emily Chang report. (Source: Bloomberg)
AT&T, Cloudscaling Open New Cloud Strategy
09 Feb / Cloudscaling , a consultancy which has been helping service providers and enterprises launch their own cloud services, is now launching a cloud service of its own, a scalable open cloud infrastructure designed to compete with the likes of Amazon Web … Continue reading →
BeachMint Raises Another Big Round: $35 Million For Celebrity-Backed Shopping Experiences
26 Jan / BeachMint — an ecommerce startup that lets customers subscribe to receive products hand-picked by celebrities each month — has quickly become one of the hottest companies in Los Angeles
Skyfire Gets ‘Fuel’ From Verizon and Three Existing Investors to Expand Its Rocket Platform With $8M in Series C Financing
25 Jan / Skyfire Labs, a leader in mobile video optimization and cloud solutions for mobility, today announced it has raised $8 million in its Series C financing. Verizon Investments LLC, a subsidiary of Verizon Communications Inc. participated in the round, alongside current … Continue reading →
Skyfire gets $8M to stream mobile videos without any wait
25 Jan / Mobile browsing and video optimization company Skyfire announced today it has raised $8 million in its third round of funding. The round was facilitated by Verizon Investments, Matrix Partners, Trinity Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Trion Worlds announces new sales milestone for fantasy MMORPG, secures additional $85 million in funding.
20 Jan / Before Trion Worlds’ massively multiplayer online role-playing game Rift had even shipped last March, it amassed 1 million users. Today, the company shared financial information concerning the game’s first year, saying the MMORPG recorded revenues of $100 million in 2011.
“Rift” maker Trion raises $85 million in new funding
20 Jan / Trion, which makes the Internet fantasy game “Rift,” has now raised more than $185 million since it was founded five years ago. The company is eyeing the public markets, and could join the recent wave of gaming IPOs such as … Continue reading →
Perfect Market CEO Julie Schoenfeld to be honored with the Innovator of the Year Award by NAWBOLA!
16 Jan / The Los Angeles chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO-LA), and the NAWBO-LA Foundation, announces that 2012’s highly anticipated 26th Annual NAWBO-LA Leadership and Legacy Awards Luncheon will take place from 11:00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m Friday, … Continue reading →
Science Sets Up Shop! Trinity EIR and friend Peter Pham opens studio for LA based tech talent.
16 Jan / The LA-based Science moved into its cozy permanent space above a yoga studio in Santa Monica this week, finally giving its variety of LA-based tech talents a place to call office. Past the smell of Patchouli and the sign designating … Continue reading →
Cloudability raises $1M, helps keep your cloud spending in check
22 Dec / Cloudability, a company that helps people manage cloud services spending, has secured $1 million in its latest investment round. This seed investment round was led by Trinity Ventures…