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Productivity in Your Pocket

Xconomy

Today, larger mobile screens and touch interfaces are allowing people to do real work—not just e-mail—with the computer they have, wherever they are. The screens were still pretty small in those early years, the iPad arrived in 2010, and with it a bigger touch canvas to do real work. inch screen.

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Social Media is a Boon to Startups Who Do It Right

Startup Professionals Musings

Gone are the days when companies could put up a website that sat on the screen like an electronic business card. According to the “ Small Business Marketing Forecast 2012 ” from Ad-ology, Social media for small business marketing has reached its tipping point. Allowing your social media efforts to stagnate. small businesses.

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Break Some Rules This Summer | Call or SMS as You Drive

Tech Zulu Event

The firm this week launched a new feature for the 2012 BMW 7 Series, dubbed the Dragon Drive! The voice technology enables a driver to dictate a phone call, an email or SMS, edit it or read (listen) and respond to emails and SMS texts received without the touch of a button or touch screen. Driver’s speech into email or SMS.

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ZunguZ Facebook Payment Application | Interview With The Founder Robert Sussman

Tech Zulu Event

We built a Proof of Concept in 2010, went into closed beta in 2011 and opened up to the public in Dec 2012. Using the most current information in this space, Rob & Lance deployed a team in 2010 to build a Proof of Concept for ZunguZ. When was it launched? Who are the founders and their backgrounds? Citi Bank – Payment heads.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Presenting Companies at UCLA

Tech Zulu Event

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. As of May 2010, CallFire has over 20,000 customers! Applications are now open for the January 2012 program. It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship. Community Sponsors.

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The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

But if they suck on your computer Imagine just how bad they really suck on mobile devices where the screen size is much smaller. RingRevenue grew it’s revenue 3x 2010 over 2011 and is on track to grow more than 3x again in 2012 with no signs of slowing. Here are some data provided by a BIA / Kelsey report (2012).

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How Frequency Wants To Bring You Internet Video, with Blair Harrison

socalTECH

We got the core iFilm engineering team in late 2010, and spent about a year and a half building out our platform, and released our first consumer product at the beginning of 2012. Blair Harrison: I think the most important thing at the moment, is the end screen experience is one of the most important thing.