Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2019

That opening to biotech startups in 2014 was controversial at the time. Five years ago, the big tech incubator Y Combinator started to welcome life sciences companies into its sizable startup classes, which had previously nurtured entrepreneurs in information technology almost exclusively.

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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). billion by 2014. Calls are changing but not dying. There are 2.9

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In a blogpost touting student successes, Udacity co-founder Sebastian Thrun (pictured above in 2014) said Nanodegree graduates are reporting average salary increases of 33 percent in the United States and Canada when they score new jobs after updating. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

Pew Internet Project’s research on Social Networking reports that as of January 2014, 74% of online adults use social networking sites. Digital Insights reports in their 2014 Social Media statistics that Facebook has 1.01 billion active mobile users monthly as of March 31, 2014, while Twitter has 255 million active users.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Kristina Tsvetanova says she found the motivation for her startup Blitab in 2014, when a blind colleague’s struggle to communicate via the Internet made her conscious of the barriers facing visually impaired people in a digital world.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2015

Yet someone the raw nature of filming & consuming on mobile is new. They allow my to drive traffic to my blog, to websites or anywhere I want as long as the audience will click. Mark Suster (@msuster) November 7, 2014. The best mobile companies do this. It’s very intimate. That’s how Google became Google.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Back in 2014, I wrote a column intended to help consumers walk away from their. With the growing interest in cord-cutting, you’d think it would be getting easier to find alternative sources for broadband Internet service. But no, it’s actually a bit more complicated than it used to be, because there are more options to choose from.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Per a new study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 69 percent in 2014, reaching 2.5 According to what I see, as outlined by Surdak, this data surge is being driven by the following six technological and social trends: Mobility: smartphones, tablets, and the “Internet of things.”

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

René Pinnell says he and his wife Selena Pinnell were “blown away” by the virtual reality projects their friends were creating in 2014, so they looked for an entrepreneurial niche that would allow them to support such artists. That year the couple, both trained in design, founded a startup in San Francisco, then called KaleidoscopeVR.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Other popular tools are available at low cost, with built-in e-commerce capabilities (pay via credit card), including this Top Ten list for 2014. The menu should include a link to your blog, separately set up on Blogger, Wordpress, or TypePad – all free. Or, fall back to the old standby DreamWeaver by Adobe. Life is more fun that way.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Esperanto Technologies , a startup AI chip developer that has operated mostly below the radar since its founding in 2014, announced this week that it raised $58 million in a Series B fundraising round.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

If you want to know more about them and why they grew so rapidly I’ve written about them here ( online / offline mobile ad integration ) & here ( the most obvious mobile phone ad unit ). See as a board we can already see very clearly how our 2014 & 2015 years pencil out with a fair degree of predictability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2015

For example, it used to be that marketing via social media meant banner ads on Facebook, buying search engine results, and sponsoring blog entries, but these don’t suffice anymore. In 2014 Tumblr overtook Instagram as fastest-growing social platform, and Snapchat is the fastest-growing mobile app, driven largely by Millennials and teens.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

As much of the world has shifted to mobile, smartphones are an important way to reach consumers. However, this year many brands still won’t deliver a full mobile experience, which is to say that, in 2016, many retailers still won’t have apps. The report notes that in general, the companies that prioritize mobile had modest budgets.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

pulls assumably free and public data from the CrunchBase database to provide a mobile accessible directory of contacts and company info. Check out a sample demo of their Google Glass product, due to arrive in 2014 (well, it was due to arrive then). People+ , developed by 3-person startup (Pro Populi, Inc.)

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Los Angeles-based Flipagram (www.flipagram.com) has created a potent and wildly viral mobile app, which combines photos, music, and video to create addictive, engaging mini slideshows of your life. We have enough money to last until February of 2014, but here are the options. That was a pivotal moment. There's no other way to do that.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Los Angeles-based Flipagram (www.flipagram.com) has created a potent and wildly viral mobile app, which combines photos, music, and video to create addictive, engaging mini slideshows of your life. We have enough money to last until February of 2014, but here are the options. That was a pivotal moment. There's no other way to do that.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Brooks joined the division in 2014 after spending 23 years as an investment banker in Europe and the United States, but his strategic vision for the future of digital technology and computing is only now becoming manifest.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 24, 2014

AJ: Buddytruk has been active and accepting pickups in Los Angeles since August 1, 2014. After we had our app completed, our initial batch of drivers recruited, insurance in place, and a solid operational foundation set, we were able to open our doors for business on August 1, 2014. TZ: How long has Buddytruck been active?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The startup moved off-campus in 2014, with $11 million in funding from Qualcomm Ventures. Headed by the computational neuroscientist Eugene Izhikevich, the company maintained a low profile at Qualcomm’s San Diego headquarters until 2013, when Brain Corp. emerged in the collective glow of the Obama Administration’s brain initiative.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Cho, a former sales manager for Nikon Instruments and Vala Sciences, founded Echo Labs in 2014. Founder Jill Bigelow (who is not related to me) said the brace includes a removable heat or ice pack feature that provides increased mobility, mood, and birth satisfaction. He told the audience Revolve sales had generated $1.8

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Xconomy

AUGUST 4, 2016

As the global market for mobile phones has matured, Qualcomm has been seeking new opportunities in the wireless technology business. Such reasons include tighter automotive emission standards, self-driving cars, and driver behavior.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

Amanda explains hardware production and the company’s decision to build their platform on Clearwire , an independent mobile broadband company (which was recently acquired by Sprint), and the ultra-fast pace Karma wanted to build. In 2014, Karma will be releasing an LTE device and with coverage in 300 US cities.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Four of the companies here were founded in 2014, another three were started in 2015, and two—CureMatch and Lymber—debuted earlier this year. With the benefit of all their insights, I winnowed the list to 12. Generally speaking, the companies selected this time are at an earlier stage than last year’s list.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 22, 2015

Vehicle manufacturers and mobile network operators have been signing deals for several years, and these partnerships are expecting to introduce vehicles with embedded connectivity to market in 2015. As you must have guessed, QNX is currently rocking with a 53% share in 2013, and over 60% in 2014. Time will tell.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2015

All content – whether a wiki, blog, document, IM or video conversation – is centralized, making it accessible by every employee through a simple, intelligent search. “Employees want the flexibility and mobility that comes with working with the cloud, but with so much internal data moving through the platform, security is imperative.

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2019

Back in 2014, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee’s seminal paper proposing the World Wide Web, the Pew Research Center asked an. Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. Because if we could, we’d all be bankrupt.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. Viddy, a mobile-video-sharing company, has its office a block from Google in Venice. » More.

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