Google Shuts Urchin, Other Services
socalTECH
JANUARY 20, 2012
Internet giant Google said Friday that it will be shutting down web analytics service Urchin , the onetime San Diego startup which had been acquired by Google in April of 2005.
ValueClick Sells Web Clients Business
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 1, 2010
Westlake Village-based web advertising firm ValueClick said late Monday that it has divested its Web Clients promotional lead generation business. ValueClick said the move is part of a strategy to grow its core online marketing services and technology. ValueClick acquired its Web Clients business in 2005 for approximately $141M.
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Stickam Shuts Down
socalTECH
JANUARY 31, 2013
Stickam , the live video streaming service, announced on its web site Thursday that it would be shutting down its services, effective 11:59PM PST. Stickam had been founded in 2005. Reason for the shutdown was not disclosed. Last August, the company had announced a VIP membership program, which charged users $39.99
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SOA Software Becomes Akana
socalTECH
MARCH 10, 2015
According the company, which is led by Paul Gigg, the name change comes as the company has expanded beyond its roots in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services, and now addresses API management, cloud integration, DevOps, and other enterprise software areas. READ MORE>>.
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FamilyFinds Launches DailyFinds Email
socalTECH
APRIL 30, 2012
Los Angeles-based FamilyFinds , the daily deal service headed by Matt Coffin, the founder of LowerMyBills.com, looks to running another experiment with the service this week, telling subscribers that it is launching a new product called DailyFinds. READ MORE>>.
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TeleSign Gets Patent
socalTECH
JUNE 22, 2011
Los Angeles-based TeleSign , the provider of phone-based authentication and verification services which is headed by former FrontBridge and Vantage Media CEO Steve Jillings, said today that it has scored a U.S. The patent was originally filed in October of 2005. According to the firm, it was awarded U.S. READ MORE>>.
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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2011
We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP.
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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 21, 2012
Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world.
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Phonevite Lands In LA
socalTECH
MARCH 3, 2009
Phonevite , a startup which operates a service that allows groups such as schools and clubs to make mass phone calls to many people at once, has quietly relocated to Los Angeles from Silicon Valley, according to the firm's CEO and co-founder, John Nahm. Both Nahm and Kim were at voice-over-IP firm Dialpad, which was acquired by Yahoo in 2005.
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Google Cleaning Out Their Closets
Tech Zulu Event
JULY 9, 2012
In November 2011, Google’s spring clean saw a number of services shut down like Knol, Friend Connect and Google Wave. This added the number of services closed or combined to thirty and as usual paving way for superior ones. Another service facing the axe is Google Talk Chatback.
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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
I first met Ethan in 2005. He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. I was preparing to move back to the US from London after 11 years abroad. The company was called Red Beacon.
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359 How Frequency Wants To Bring You Internet Video, with Blair Harrison
socalTECH
JANUARY 4, 2013
Just before the holidays, we caught up with Blair Harrison , founder of Frequency (www.frequency.com), a personal video service which lets consumers watch video from the Internet on any of their devices. Blair Harrison: Frequency is an Internet video service. You helped define video on the web with iFilm. What is Frequency?
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Interview with Quinn Curtis, BrightCloud
socalTECH
JULY 16, 2010
Last week, San Diego-based provider of web content classification and security services developer BrightCloud was acquired by Webroot , and we thought it would be a great opportunity to talk to founder Quinn Curtis about how the acquisition of his firm came about. Quinn, thanks for the time. Quinn, thanks for the time. READ MORE>>.
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Why Google Fiber? Moat-widening Endeavor & Future of Computing.
Tech Zulu Event
OCTOBER 7, 2013
To understand that assertion, let’s observe how and when Google encroached on each layer of the technology value chain required to access any web service. Web browser – even a functional computer with an OS isn’t enough to access most Google services. Search is just another web application.
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Equity Compensation: A 6 Point Primer on Creative Service Fees
From the Venture Trenches
APRIL 16, 2013
Any service provider that is willing to bet the business they are working for is going to be worth considerably more in the future than it is today. Other service providers who accept equity as part of their service fee structure include web designers and developers, executive recruiters, business brokers and sometimes even caterers.
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Equity Compensation: A 6 Point Primer on Creative Service Fees
From the Venture Trenches
APRIL 16, 2013
Any service provider that is willing to bet the business they are working for is going to be worth considerably more in the future than it is today. Other service providers who accept equity as part of their service fee structure include web designers and developers, executive recruiters, business brokers and sometimes even caterers.
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40 Interview with Winston Damarillo, Morphlabs
socalTECH
JULY 20, 2010
One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. That runs either in the enterprise, or outside the enterprise at a service provider, basically replicating what Amazon does in a private or private implementation for a service provider.
Protect Your Parents from Avis Budget: Direct Marketing Scumbags
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 20, 2009
Or again here in Consumer Affairs dating back to 2005. I had to put in a bit of web research to uncover an intricate web of ownership that leads to the Avis Budget ownership and worse still up to a well-known private equity group called Apollo. Background. I was home visiting my father in Sacramento. Hiding from something?
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263 Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
These large mobile carriers have audiences, but something they dont have content services to attract and retain subscribers to a mobile network. We build products and services tied to mobile carriers. We have a property called Stadium Sports, where we are working with several new leagues to launch services. I have a Ph.D.
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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 5, 2010
In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! Felipe grew up in Brazil. Irony, hey?).
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Google For Icons | IconFinder Providing The Best for Developers and Designers
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 21, 2011
Before Iconfinder I was working as a web designer and front-end developer, next to studying computer science and business administration. Back in 2004-2005 I was working as a full-time web designer, where we used KDE (Linux). Back in 2004-2005 I was working as a full-time web designer, where we used KDE (Linux).
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Seth Sternberg – Meebo
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. Positive feedback feeds the idea.
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Interview with Kevin O'Connor, FindTheBest.com
socalTECH
OCTOBER 25, 2010
billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 Kevin O'Connor: We're an objective comparison engine for the more complex products and services. What do people find the most useful about your service? What's FindTheBest all about? It's really all the things you need that are considered purchases.
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210 How Kazuhm Is Reconnecting The Enterprise Cloud, With Tim O'Neal
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
They sign up through a web portal, online, and they create a resource pool. I am a big fan of not getting locked in, looking at what services and vendors are there, and going multi-cloud when you can. For enterprises, some of who are spending millions in cloud spend, it's pretty compelling to look at this.
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5 Reasons Why Businesses Still Love Microsoft
Tech Zulu Event
FEBRUARY 22, 2012
We’ve all become so used to having Microsoft in our lives that we’ve started to take their products and services for granted. Sure, a great operating system is one of the things Microsoft is most known for, but there are dozens of other Microsoft products and services that help businesses grow. 3. It’s not just about Windows.
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88 Interview with Jonno Wells, Surfline
socalTECH
JULY 6, 2009
We recently caught up with CEO Jonno Wells to talk about the firm and its expanding network of web sites. Our products are also syndicated into newspapers and web sites around the country. That recurrent usage created an audience, and is the core to our paid services. First off, tell us about your network of sites?
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140 Interview with Jamie Siminoff, Unsubscribe.com
socalTECH
JANUARY 3, 2011
To start off the year, we are publishing our first interview for the season with Jamie Siminoff , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Unsubscribe.com , an online service which helps you unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters and email lists. What is the value proposition behind the service? It's to build a better product.
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216 Interview with Ilya Pozin, Cofounder of Pluto TV
socalTECH
JUNE 13, 2019
I started a web design company, and ended up going to college in Florida, but kept on running the company on the side. When I got to LA after I graduated from college in 2005, I pursued it full time, and we quickly grew that company to over $5M in revenues a year, without any kind of funding. Ilya Pozin: Timing is everything.
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124 Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies
socalTECH
APRIL 30, 2010
What we've done, is for authentication, we have created a way to have a unique password to give you access to a web site very time. We bought the assets from Vidoop, which was an LLC that was first established in late 2005 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. For people, alphanumeric strings are not a natural thing to remember, but images are.
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Interview with Elizabeth Amini, Anti-Aging Games
socalTECH
MAY 11, 2011
Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Anti-AgingGames (www.Anti-AgingGames.com), a new online game startup, announced a new service to help users improve their memory and concentration, as well as improve brain function. So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time.
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Interview with John Nahm, PhoneVite
socalTECH
MARCH 12, 2009
We caught up with John to learn a little bit more about what the firm's services offer, as well as how the firm ended up moving to Los Angeles. John Nahm: We offer a basic service, which allows you to send up to 25 calls at a time for free. People use the free service for small parties, groups, or gatherings.
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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010
SoCal CTO
JUNE 9, 2010
While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core - Chris Dixon , May 22, 2010 Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google. It’s also the wrong answer. Should I Get My MBA? What should I do?’.
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Interview with Eric Bjorndahl, TravBuddy.com
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 4, 2008
Eric Bjorndahl: At the highest level, we're a social networking web site for travelers. The most compelling part of our site is it's possible to find travel buddies online through our web site. Berkeley in 2005, and right after that I started working on the site. What's your brother's background? He graduated from U.C.
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The Convergence of Social Media & Traditional Radio
Eric Greenspan
MAY 25, 2010
I didn’t know what I was getting into when I started buying live endorsement radio ads back in 2005. What I mean by this is we do radio better by building it around the web, social media and traditional marketing strategies alongside, behind and wrapped around our radio shows. I spent a lot of money on Mark Germain (Mr.
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220 StoryBots And The Future of Learning,With Gregg Spiridellis, JibJab
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
It might look a little bit like StoryBots (www.storybots.com), the new kids educational and entertainment service just launched by JibJab (www.jibjab.com). On the web, parents can upload photos of themselves, family members, and friends, and put them into a video alongside the StoryBots, in classic kids songs.
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224 Interview with Adam Lieber, Webtide
socalTECH
JULY 20, 2009
One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. We caught up with Webtide to learn more about the firm's open source web server software, Jetty. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit.
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Off To SXSW, Our Schedule, And A Special Thanks
Tech Zulu Event
MARCH 10, 2010
Special thanks to our partners : Stickam - A free service that allows you to stream live video over the internet. License your original work on AudioMicro - we accept for review and potential licensing representation all content that meets our minimum quality and sample rate standards and Terms of Service. Media Temple hosts websites.
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71 TechZulu Partners with meebo!
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 14, 2009
All you have to do is hover over any video or image and drag it to the network or service of your liking. Giving you the ability to chat in realtime with all your friends around the web right from TechZulu. ( Special thanks to our partners : Stickam - A free service that allows you to stream live video over the internet.
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60 Social Networking and Business Value
SoCal CTO
MAY 15, 2009
For the past 26 years, Majid has founded, led, turned-around and merged several companies in various industries, as well as providing consulting services to corporate executives in the areas of technology, governance, turn-around and strategy. He is known for being able to monetize the social web. He was raised and educated in London.
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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague
SoCal Delicious
JANUARY 15, 2010
Most of these bots don’t obey robots.txt , that means you can’t even block them applying Web standards ( learn how to block rogue bots ). Their developers are just too fucking lazy to understand such protocols that every respected service on the Web (search engines…) obeys.
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41 Special Thanks To Our Sponsors
Tech Zulu Event
JANUARY 29, 2010
Imagine: unbiased advice you need & services you want. Special thanks to our partners : Stickam - A free service that allows you to stream live video over the internet. is the leading live video site on the Web, enabling users to create real-time connections with others around the world. Welcome to GDPwealth. Big and Small.
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40 Interview with Derrick Oien, Intercasting
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 19, 2008
Historically, operators have worked with companies like us to bring services to market--they've worked with messaging firms, SMS, gateways for instant messaging, and companies like us for community gateways. Derrick Oien: We launched Rabble in June of 2005, and we launched the first version of ANTHEM in September of 2007.
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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 1, 2011
Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. We successfully took the firm public in 199, and ended up selling to Anderson Media, to provide Walmart.com's music service.
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StoryBots And The Future of Learning,With Gregg Spiradellis, JibJab
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
It might look a little bit like StoryBots (www.storybots.com), the new kids educational and entertainment service just launched by JibJab (www.jibjab.com). On the web, parents can upload photos of themselves, family members, and friends, and put them into a video alongside the StoryBots, in classic kids songs.
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