socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

San Diego-based SweetLabs , the company headed by Darrius Thompson, and which runs both the OpenCandy advertising network and the desktop Pokki app platform, said today that it has raised $13M in a Series C funding round. Thompson is the former co-founder of DivX. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

But two of the biggest tech companies, Google and Apple, are now getting an outsized dose of sugar, just for some little fixes they’re making to their browser controls. Despite efforts they’ve made on these weighty issues, they still draw considerable ire. They are allowing users to close the Hellmouth called Autoplay.

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Xconomy

JUNE 4, 2019

Both the House leadership and the Trump administration are preparing to challenge the power of Google, Facebook, and other big tech companies by launching antitrust investigations into their allegedly anticompetitive business practices, as the Washington Post detailed it this week.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The tech industry, which reaps billions of dollars by harvesting personal data and using it to sell targeted advertising and other services, opened the door to federal data privacy regulations today in a proposal by ITI, a lobbying organization for tech companies.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

Confident Technologies / Curtis Staker / San Diego - Staker is the former President of Websense, and has pulled together an experienced team with a depth of experience from the firm. Elbaz sold Applied Semantics to Google in 2003, for pre-IPO stock, reaping first round investors more than a 100x return on their investment.

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Xconomy

MARCH 27, 2019

The Federal Trade Commission, which has been digging into the privacy practices of tech giants Facebook and Google, is now training its sights on the internet service providers that bring us all our online content. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Readers in San Diego, Orange County, Ventura County, and elsewhere, please comment or send us your comments!). Los Angeles has a strong online advertising industry, and Rubicon Project is one of the companies we heard has been doing well and. Despite a huge number of companies, we found there are a number which. Rubicon Project.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

However, San Diego-based Deal Current (www.dealcurrent.com) appears to have found a sustainable niche in the industry--not providing daily deals, but powering those multiplying deal sites, including a number of major newspaper groups. In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

election, lawmakers pressed Facebook, Twitter, and Google to take exhaustive measures to stop the same thing from happening again. At Congressional hearings this week on Russia’s use of social media to interfere with the 2016 U.S.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

San Diego-based Daasity (www.daasity.com)  which just raised $2.3M Maybe they might be using a platform like Shopify to sell their products and power their website, and they might use Facebook for advertising, and maybe they're using paid search with Google. So, what are you working now and where are you going next?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

But we had a great chance to talk about the recent moves that Twitter has made to “plug holes” and changing its “TOS” on advertising. Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Competitors: SmashWords , Google Books. They sponsor TWiVC.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Those investors included a company called Paradigm, which is a big talent agency, Howard Lindzon in San Diego, and up north Greylock and Adam Nash. My background is that I was at IAC, focused on advertising solutions and advertising engagement. One of the companies there I was working with was CollegeHumor.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. Have you had any issues with that here?

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Xconomy

JANUARY 23, 2018

For example, advertisers will have to unmask their identities and reveal who’s funding their ads, Facebook civic engagement team member Samidh Chakrabarti wrote in a blog post. Company CEO Mark Zuckerberg had already announced Friday.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

It then extracts reams of their private information, McNamee says, and allows advertisers and propagandists to tap it to manipulate users’ buying. Roger McNamee, in a podcast interview with The New York Times , says the company is a dangerous, predatory instrument that uses the fun and convenience of its app to get users addicted.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2011

The device is an alarm-clock like, Internet connected electronic product developed by the firm of the same name, San Diego-based Chumby (www.chumby.com). The idea was to spread the Chumby's content in a number of places, free to the consumer, and monetize through advertising. com to Vivendi Universal.

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Xconomy

JULY 6, 2016

A center led by the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego will work on ways for those individuals to participate. To coordinate all the data, a center run by Vanderbilt University, Verily (formerly known as Google Life Sciences), and the Broad Institute will build the infrastructure.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2017

News is constantly streaming out these days about the role of Facebook, Twitter, and Google in the 2016 presidential election; most disturbing to the public is the apparent use of social media, search, and video channels by Russian operatives seeking to influence U.S.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

It''s about as complicated as Google Adwords. I helped to grow that to a major player in ecommerce and online advertising, which is used to find and buy chips use in your iPhone, in your computer, and everything else today. It wouldn''t be covered in the Los Angeles Times, and not by the San Diego papers.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 1, 2011

In this interview, we catch up with an amazing TechZulu Spotlight alumnus, Joey Flores, CEO of Earbits , a hand-curated music discovery engine that allows its bands and artists to advertise and promote their own material, events, announcements, contests, whatever. You can sell CDs, downloads, ringtones, t-shirts, stickers, and more.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Last week, San Diego-based OpenCandy (www.opencandy.com) announced it had raised $3.5M He flew into San Diego, met with the team, and started connecting the dots with us, and started going over the roadmap and what have you. in a venture round for the firm's software recommendation startup. That happened with David.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Clash of the Titans: Google joins Apple, Microsoft in announcing new tablets (and more). Google Plus. Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs was named one of Fortune’s 10 Brilliant Technology Visionaries for 2012 alongside the great and powerful Oz’s of Apple and Google. Advertise on VentureBeat. 20 hrs ago. Streaming media.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 3, 2016

Then Google announced its intent to ban payday and title lenders from advertising in search results. The first banned lenders from withdrawing money directly from their customers’ bank accounts, while the second restricted their ability to lend by imposing credit limits.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2019

In late 2017, a federal watchdog unit assigned a working group to keep an eye on cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, and to sound an alert if those alternate currencies showed signs of becoming a risk to the stability of the US financial system.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Google. The southern migration is taking place as companies like Google. A substantial portion of Venices real-estate boom is attributable to Google. Like Googles other locations, it offers amenities like a climbing wall and an outdoor movie theater, as well as bicycles and surfboards that can be rented during the workday.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

MW: At my previous company, I was running big online advertising campaigns and delivering – in this case – leads to clients. Plus, San Diego and all of Southern California there’s a lot of opportunities in the marketing space, so we really like that as well. Where did the idea come about in the first place? Plus, sunshine.

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