socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2014

Los Angeles-based mobile advertising company Airpush has quietly grown to around $100M in annual revenues, according to a recent ranking from Forbes--a big surprise, as the company was completely bootstrapped by founder Asher Delug , who eschewed the usual use of venture capital and private equity to build a company to those revenue levels.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Thursday, February 24, 2011 -- DIGIDAY:MOBILE: Publishers, Agency Executives and Brand Marketers are set to come together and discuss one of the hottest markets in digital content and advertising: Mobile. 100 discount for socalTECH readers use code SCTECH. See [link] (more)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Wednesday, September 21, 2011 -- Digital Lounge Mixer. Network with Startups, Digital Media, Entertainment, Music, Marketing, Advertising, Web Services and Apps, Mobile Business Owners, Professional Services, Entrepreneurs, Investors and Corporations. See [link] (more)

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Entertainment Advertising Web Mobile 100

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Mogreet , the mobile marketing and video firm headed by James Citron, released mobile video stats gathered by the firm during Q1 today, saying that Verizon leads the market in terms of mobile video messaging views. T-Mobile represented 5.8 percent, then Spring at 9.7 percent, then Spring at 9.7

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Mogreet Mobile Los Angeles Report 214

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

The 2011 ARE is bound to go above and beyond last year’s event. If you are an AR Enthusiast – you will feel like a kid in a candy store at ARE 2011. Dates: May 17-18, 2011. ARE 2011 Sponsors: Qualcomm , Occipital , and Ogmento. For a complete list of confirmed business talk speakers visit the website at: [link].

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Software Review Case Study Startup Technical Review 73

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The group says that so far, from 2009 to 2011, it accepted 23 companies, of which 19 received funding worth a total of $80M; the accelerator said that the nine companies acquired exceeds $60M in proceeds. LaunchpadLA started initially as a mentoring group, but expanded into accelerating and investing in companies in the last few years.

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Class Startup Web Design Mentor 168

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 -- DIGIDAY:ON MEDIA: February 23, 2011: Where THE digital media moguls caucus on the business of buying and planning and advertising across digital platforms.

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Media SoCalTech Advertising Platform 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Pablo joins TechZulu and talks about Proven, job markets, and the future of mobile. Then we rescued it from nothing around the end of 2011. PF: For Candidates it’s a mobile job search and applications. It’s going to be impossible to imagine not to apply for a job through some sort of mobile device.

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Mobile Marketing Writing Startup 86

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2010

What are the technologies, companies, or things you think the community ought to pay the most attention to in 2011? The second thing, is to look at companies who are creating value on mobile and the web that is not advertising based. One is to watch the companies who have the ability to leverage the power of social.

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Southern California High Tech Miramar News 178

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I entered Pepcom’s Mobile Focus event with heightened excitement after driving through the busy intersections of Downtown San Diego’s rickshaw littered streets. Literally, I mean everyone… pets included, with Tagg , a Qualcomm backed venture that allows consumers to track their dogs via mobile or computer access.

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San Diego Mobile Startup Cloud Computing 65

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

TechZulu is sending 5 lucky gamers to the first mobile 3D gaming tournament being held here in Los Angeles to compete! All entries must be made by 11:59pm Saturday 8/17/2011. That’s right folks TechZulu has just struck the most amazing loot for all you gaming enthusiast out there. What game is known to be the first 3D MMO game.

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Mobile Hollywood Entertainment Los Angeles 90

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). Calls are changing but not dying. Much more data in the full post.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

1) Mobile web. Mobile app downloads went from 300mm in 2009 to 5 billion in 2010, Android ad impressions up over 2,000% as two examples. The current incarnation of the mobile web changes what the Internet IS to users, and the manner in which it is incorporated into their lives. (2) 2) Advertising in the Facebook ecosystem.

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Technical Review Southern California Cloud Computing Venture Capital 160

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

We realized afer 2011 that we were spreading ourselves thin by trying to make five to ten websites great. Evan Britton: We had worked our tails off in 2011, but at the end of the year, all of our sites were flat. That also particularly fits well on mobile. Our mobile traffic is up 450% over the last twelve months.

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Google Sites Startup Web 236

InfoChachkie

JULY 9, 2012

During the latter half of 2011, Google awarded a number of leading YouTubers and nascent Internet TV networks grants of $1 million to $2 million. Networks have significantly increased YouTubers’ advertising revenue by negotiating sponsorships and large ad purchases with major brands.

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Google Develop Development Funding 133

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

What a weekend! Coming hot off the coat tail of earlier this year’s Startup Weekend LA where Zaarly launched, this LASW was nothing less than amazing and as someone put, one of the best tech events in LA they had ever been to.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The Internet thus far has been monetized by display, video, and in-text advertising — but the one place every user’s eye focuses on first are photos. Tanz has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine “Young Millionaires of 2011 Special Report.” from Carnegie Mellon University. The old media companies were resistant to change.

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Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

According to Andrey Doronichev, head of YouTube mobile in a blog post today said, “All diehard YouTube fans starting today can download the official YouTube app for iPhone and iPod touch from the App Store. In the post Doronichev says YouTube on mobile has over 1 billion mobile views a day and expect the new move to even better the views.

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Google Outsource Development Screening Mobile 69

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

GroupPrice was recently named in Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top 100 Brilliant Companies for 2011. Krishna drives the advertising and marketing strategy at Mobclix, the only real-time bidding mobile ad exchange, enabling over 35 ad networks to reach targeted inventory across over 15,000 mobile apps.

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SEO CTO Coach Conference Social Media 85

socalTECH

MARCH 25, 2015

crackdown on illegal online gambling and online poker back in 2011. David Marshall: b Spot is at the convergence of games and gambling, letting you legally gamble in the United States on mobile devices. What we found at Youbet, after tens of millions of dollars of promotion and advertising, is that less than 1.15

Platform 100

Platform Develop Development Mobile 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

Essentially, we help them learn how to get more with less, and also how to consider new investments in things like social media, mobile marketing, or video. Advertisers are known for their creative focus, not focus on analytics. Wes Nichols: I'd say that for 2011, what we are going to see is a dramatic rollout of our software.

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Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Edmunds.com has been around forever in Los Angeles, but after a recent redesign and a focus on updating its web site, new mobile. Los Angeles has a strong online advertising industry, and Rubicon Project is one of the companies we heard has been doing well and. HauteLook was acquired for $270M in 2011 by Nordstrom. LiveNation.

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Technical Review Company Companies Southern California 279

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

But they make the overwhelming majority of their money from advertising. They are selling audiences to advertisers. Whenever I talk about advertising people comment how much everybody hates ads. The customer are advertising agencies and brands themselves. But What About Mobile? Ads are effective. Believe me.

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Mobile Technical Review Google Screening 311

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Advertise Here. Advertise Here. 2011 Holiday. Your guide for the best gadget gifts of 2011. Enterprise. Smartphones. Digital Cameras. Headphones. CrunchBase. Hot topics. Zuckerberg Interview. Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene. Have a Tip, Pitch or Guest Column?

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SoCal Southern California Startup Tips 77

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2013

Shani Higgins took over as CEO at Technorati in 2011. Under her leadership, Technorati Media has become a profitable integrated online media company with an advertising network, social rich media technology platform, and the internet’s largest blog directory.

Social Media 72

Social Media Media Blogging Platform 72

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2011

Our daily lives are filled with advertisements of the latest and greatest technologies offering to “change the way we live.” Recently we’ve begun to see the rapid adaptation of mobile applications and their defiance of technology’s limits. Remember that promotional advertisement handed to you about the big concert coming next month?

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Advertising Content Template Technology 87

socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2012

It all came together in the fall of last year, and we technically started the company in October of 2011. They're designing in a glass tower, and pushing that through a traditional wholesale and retail channel, and hoping to create demand from advertising. We hit it off, and had a shared vision for the company we wanted to build.

Startup 182

Startup Commerce Design Media 182

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Founded in the summer of 2011 and their first product out a few weeks ago amSTATS wants to help users to follow fitness events and programs near them and find a great fitness trainer to help them stay fit. Advertising revenue is generated from each site visitor, paid or otherwise. We have 115 paying customers right now.

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Leveraging mobile application and online platform. As a result, the team transformed the advertising industry with the creation of the first in-image ad network. When: Thursday, October 27th, 2011 – 7:00 p.m. CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform. Event Details. to 10:30 p.m.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. Aiming to head off Apple, Microsoft shows off Xbox SmartGlass mobile app and Xbox dashboard update. Motorola Solutions shows off its hands-free mobile computer. billion for its endowment in 2011 alone. 11 hrs ago.

Southern California 57

Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Iroko Patners had , a souring relationship with YouTube, Google Ads Words, Amazon Web Services even though the movie streaming firm had about eight million YouTube streams a month, with a $1 million revenue run-rate in 2011. Subscribers can pay online and will soon be able to pay by mobile phone – it’s simple and safe.

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Netflix Marketing Technical Review Content 82

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 hours per day on average, and that’s excluding the other 13 hours a day where we have our mobile devices, our connected TVs, our iPads and Kindles and soon our cars connected to the web.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The production and marketing of the film (made from a script written by Aaron Sorkin based on the book "Accidental Billionaires" by Ben Mezrich) itself breaks new legal ground in the area of life rights, the First Amendment and Facebook's decision not to accept advertising for the film.

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IP Social Network Technical Review Networking 81

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Cyrus Farudi is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Flipswap, Inc in 2004 and Capsule in 2011. Michael Schneider – CEO of Mobile Roadie. Michael Schneider is the CEO of Mobile Roadie , the leading self-service mobile app engagement platform. ThinkNear helps you target mobile ads to consumers at precise locations.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

What made Twitter unique was the infrastructure and psychology that coincided with the rise of mobile text messaging. In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. The fact that Twitter built a product around the mobile phone culture right out of the gate is significant: it created a new social pipeline.

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Platform Startup News Content 40