Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Within 20 years, computer keyboards will be relegated to the technology dustbin, says Android co-founder Rich Miner. Miner helped shape the smartphone era with Android, a mobile operating system startup that Google acquired in 2005. Android software now powers over 2 billion devices.

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OCTOBER 18, 2010

Manhattan Beach-based MaestroDev , the developer of private cloud computing software, has officially named Doug Dennington as the firm's new President. Dennington was most recently Director, Open Source Sales at Progress Software and IONA Technologies, and was also a member of the founding team at Simula Labs, LogicBlaze, and Gluecode.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

Ostendo Technologies, a Carlsbad, CA-based company founded in 2005 to advance curved screens and other innovative display technologies, has raised $41.8 In recent years, however, the company seems to be more focused on advancing its virtual reality display technology. million, according to a recent regulatory filing.

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APRIL 23, 2010

Camarillo-based Surfware , a developer of computer aided manufacturing (CAM) software, said this week that it has received a patent on its technology. patent number 7,577,490 for its Engagement Milling technology, which covers the firm's TRUEmill CAM technology. The firm said it was recently awarded U.S.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. On October 24th tech enthusiast will come together to discuss the latest in Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming. Sponsored giveaways and contests.

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

Search engine giant Google said over the weekend that the firm has been developing technology for self driving cars, driving automated cars across California, including Los Angeles and Santa Monica.

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APRIL 30, 2010

Last week, San Diego-based Confident Technologies (www.confidenttechnologies.com) announced that it had acquired the assets of Vidoop, and created a company focused on security and authentication of users. What does Confident Technologies do? The Confident authentication suite of software, which also includes out of band technology.

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MARCH 27, 2009

Aliso Viejo-based Smith Micro Software , reported Thursday that the firm has gained a new patent covering its compression technology. 7,502,514, "System and Method for Lossless Compression of Already Compressed Files" for technology used to compression JPEG files. Lovato is the firm's Vice President of Advanced Technology.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018?

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Patent and Trademark office, for compression technology in its StuffIt software line. Smith Micro said the technology covered by the patent -- titled "Detection and recompression of embedded compressed data inside existing data streams " -- helps detect and compress previously compressed data embedded in files. READ MORE>>

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

If you're a large, enterprise company, in recent years, cloud computing has become an increasingly large--and expensive--piece of your information technology (IT) mix. What's unique about us, is that there haven't been modern, commercial technology which companies could subscribe to an implement in their corporate environment.

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APRIL 5, 2017

Bryan Cheung: We're an enterprise software company. Technology is transforming every aspect of business, and our technology is one piece of the puzzle that helps them get there. Bryan Cheung: Our two software architects had worked on this for four years, before starting the company. What is LifeRay?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. 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. As a technologist he felt the US was “ground zero&# for technology innovation.

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JULY 16, 2010

Quinn Curtis: We were around since 2005, we were incorporated and funded in 2006. Quinn Curtis: We had recently signed Webroot as a licensee of our software, as an OEM partner. How does your technology specifically fit into Webroot? Our reputation produt and content classification technology is the best on the market.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

“My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content.

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JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. It's nice to see us covering all of these cloud-enabling types of technologies in Southern California for a change. However, they had a lack of technology vendors in the cloud.

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MAY 15, 2009

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. a social networking site for families), where the Yammer technology was developed.

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JULY 9, 2012

Matt Eichner, General Manager, Global Enterprise Search in a blog post says;” Technology creates tremendous opportunities to improve people’s lives. Another service, iGoogle launched in 2005 will be switched off on 1 st November 2013. iGoogle at the moment cannot compete with newer apps on platforms like Chrome and Android .

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

We sat down with Brett Crosby (who founded Urchin Software, the company which became Google Analytics) and Brew Johnson , the co-founders of the company, to learn more about the company and what it's working on. We said, let's create a technology marketplace and platform that creates benefits for those existing lenders, as well as investors.

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JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. You could just outspend. Tesla is not. It's a great talk.

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JULY 27, 2015

All of digital advertising today uses Flash as a foundation technology. I started a company, Neoganda, in the digital advertising area in 2005. We decided we wanted to solve that problem, instead of waiting around to utilize some other technology invented by someone else. It certainly has challenges. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

Access control, as a whole, hasn't evolved over forty years, and we're bringing technology like the mobile cloud and software in the cloud, to create really disruptive innovation to how businesses respond to customers. In 2000, James and I started KnowledgeBase, which we sold in 2005. We then started Edgecast in 2006.

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JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. The new fund is focused entirely on technology companies. That was quite a prominent exit for us.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

TVSync’s parent company Voible , has provided fingerprint protection technology to most major movie studios and TV networks since 2005. Their VDNA technology helps protect and manage content rights for works that may be pirated and uploaded illegally by automatically identifying that content, tracking it and taking it down.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon are striving to be the super-mega technology company that owns every layer of the value chain. 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. Search is just another web application.

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MARCH 9, 2015

I remember, telling my friends and family in 2005 that I was working on a 3D printer, and their eyes would glaze over. Only if I talked to another engineer, would they understand what the technology was about. We were working on 3D printing before 3D printing was cool. It was clear at the time however, that the time was not then.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

All we have to do is look at the data, though: Since its launch in 2005, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has sold 66 million copies worldwide. Microsoft donated over $504 million worth of software to 43,650 organizations worldwide in 2010. That makes it the first in console sales. And that’s why businesses continue to depend on Microsoft.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1 Examples of that are if you're looking for a credit card, looking for antivirus software, or summer camp for the kids, or colleges. Kevin O'Connor: I've been really fortunate in life, in that I love technology, and love solving problems.

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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. Where does Webtide fit into the software world?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Prior to TripAdvisor, Erik spent over four years at eBay, where he held a variety of positions, including leadership of eBay’s premium features business, which grew during his tenure from $124 million in revenue in 2002 to $410 million in 2005, significantly outpacing overall eBay revenue and listings growth.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 10, 2010

Funk initiated the study last fall to create an historical statistical analysis of the financial outcomes for the region's venture-backed information technology companies. The region has produced 95 exits over $100 million (13%), 50 over $250 million (7%) and 23 over $500 million (3%) during the period analyzed.

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JUNE 6, 2011

Then, Bruce and I met about four years ago, at a company called Evryx Technology/SnapNow, which was a mobile marketing/mobile search firm using visual recognition. I've invested in Thermark Technologies, I've invested in Evryx, where we worked together. I've also been involved in ValueLogic software.

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JANUARY 13, 2016

For instance, the recent acquisition of Elastica by Blue Coat gave the security-based business a useful tool for detecting harmful uses of existing technology. This added to the value of Blue Coat System’s overall business model by allowing them to expand into software that works alongside their current hardware developments.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

On the other side, we had about one third of our investments in early stage, technology driven companies. Unfortunately, these were not located in LA--it did not have much of a technology startup culture at that point in time--but, every one of our companies had a product or service they sold into the media or entertainment space.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Cyber Monday was officially termed in 2005 by the National Retail Federation after 77% of online retailers reported a surge in spending on the Monday after Thanksgiving. The future of Black Friday will ultimately depend upon the next generation of shoppers and their preferences, who have made clear their affinity for new technology.

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AUGUST 23, 2010

It was acquired by Experian in 2005 for $330M. It also was acquired by Experian in 2005. In July 2005 News Corporation bought MySpace parent company eUniverse for $580 M, of which approximately $327 M was the valuation of MySpace. Previously, Ian co-founded personal music sharing software provider Mediacode with Rob Lord.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

Taher Scherzay: I spent 20 years working for the industry, working for Lucent Technologies. I have always been in engineering, and was a software developer for some time, and also Director of Engineering. What's your background and how'd you get into the startup area?

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