socalTECH

MAY 13, 2013

Can your software skills help make your local community a better place? According to the group, the hackathon is the first ever "civic hackathon" in Los Angeles, and asks participants to pull in civic data from the City of LA to help power apps. Could doing some coding over a weekend help improve your local government? READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2014

Los Angeles-based financial software developer BlackLine Systems said today that it has hired a new, Chief Technology Officer. According to the enterprise software company, it has named Alain Avakian as its CTO. He also has served at such companies at Stamps.com, Citysearch/Ticketmaster, and TCI/AND Interactive and Packard Bell.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 9, 2011

Los Angeles-based Factual , the big data startup headed by Gil Elbaz, said last night that it has launched a new API into beta. The new API makes it easier for software developers to correlate data from those multiple, different sites, creating in essence a "universal translator" for data between those services. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2010

Los Angeles-based IVT , a provider of web casting software and services, announced today that it has named Jim McGovern as its new CEO. McGovern has also served at Business.com, Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch, and IBM. McGovern has also served at Business.com, Ticketmaster Online-Citysearch, and IBM. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Scot Richardson , CEO of Los Angeles-based LaughStub (www.laughstub.com), which develops software which helps comedy clubs and others manage ticket sales, online marketing, and customer relationship management. Scot Richardson: We've done two rounds of funding, both angel rounds.

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JUNE 1, 2015

Los Angeles-based Boingo (www.boingo.com) is one of longest standing Internet companies. We had launched in 2001 as a Wi-Fi service provider, putting software on customer's laptops, so that when they traveled from hotspot to hotspot, their laptop could automatically connect to the next hotspot.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies.

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