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MAY 5, 2010

Los Angeles-based GoTV Networks , a developer of mobile applications, said today that it has acquired the HOMBRE (Hands-On Mobile Binary Runtime Environment) division of Hands-On Mobile Inc. As part of the acquisition, the firm said it has named Scott Scherer as SVP of Product Development and Technology for the firm.

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Mobile Networking San Diego Patents 154

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Los Angeles-based FastPay , a provider of payment products for digital publishers, application developers, and game developers, said today that it has raised a funding round. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. Source of the new funding was also not announced.

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Funding Los Angeles Develop Development 157

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MAY 19, 2017

In today's world of web application development, speed is everything. Developers are now turning out code and releasing it live to the world in near real time--what is called DevOps and Agile development. With the rise of the cloud and Agile, it's really changed how developer are coding their websites.

Web 138

Web Startup Southern California Software 138

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Product pre-order model. With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. The crowd gets the satisfaction of helping, with minimal risk, and no expectation of any high return. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co Marty Zwilling.

Startup 141

Startup Funding Outsource Development Satisfaction 141

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JANUARY 15, 2015

Ciphrex--which was founded by Enrique and Eric Lombrozo, says it is developing a multisignature, Bitcoin wallet application aimed at both individuals and for application development in the enterprise. The company said the funds will go towards advancing, promoting, and expanding its line of products. READ MORE>>.

San Diego 100

San Diego Software Capital Funding 100

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MAY 17, 2010

El Segundo-based iRise , a developer of software visualization and simulation products, announced today that it has shipped a new product which is specifically designed for SAP. Tags: irise software visualization simulation development. The firm said iRise for SAP Solutions v2.0 The firm said iRise for SAP Solutions v2.0

El Segundo 153

El Segundo Software Design Product 153

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

Los Angeles-based Burstly , the mobile advertising tools firm run by Evan Rifkin, said this week that it has opened up a new way for mobile application developers to sell their own advertising space. Newtoy recently revealed it has had over 10 million downloads of its game.

Mobile 171

Mobile CPC Services GRP Partners 171

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DECEMBER 2, 2013

In the world of drone aircraft and robots, right now everyone develops their own, on-board operating systems software to run those autonomous systems. Nelson Paez : For the past four years, Dreamhammer has been developing a software product called BALLISTA, which is what we refer to as a drone operating system.

Startup 183

Startup Software Southern California Santa Monica 183

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MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly is developing mobile advertising tools for the Apple iPhone and Google Android platforms, which allows application developers to manage and optimize their advertising inventory. As part of the investment, Burstly said that it is opening up access to its advertising tools and exiting beta for its product.

Tool 157

Tool Mobile GRP Partners Advertising 157

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Morphlabs , the developer of cloud-based infrastructure software, announced today that it has launched a new, Openstack-powered public cloud platform. The firm said the new software allows service providers to implement their own, public cloud software--and claims that it out-performs the giant in the market, Amazon Web Services.

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Platform IBM IBM Web 157

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

According to the firm, the addition of the data will allow application developers using its software to improve driver safety, fuel efficiency, and performance. The new data is part of Telogis GeoBase, the data and SDK product used by Telogis customers to build their own, routing and mapping applications. READ MORE>>.

Platform 133

Platform Software Customer Custom 133

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2020

Product pre-order model. With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. The crowd gets the satisfaction of helping, with minimal risk, and no expectation of any high return. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 129

Entrepreneur Outsource Development Satisfaction Equity 129

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APRIL 2, 2013

YouMail , the enhanced voicemail and voicemail application developer, is looking to purge out a backlog of inactive users, saying Tuesday that it has revised its terms of service to make it easier for the company to delete users who haven't used the service recently.

Sites 147

Sites Web Content Services 147

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

As software developers, we're technophiles, so we enjoy these cycles and quite often find humor listening to the energy spent arguing on either side of issues. Not to downplay developer happiness. The web development continuum has sound, safe, but stodgy on one side and shiny-obsession at the risk of unknown stability on the other.

Web 200

Web Platform Technology JavaScript 200

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 7, 2013

Stained Glass Labs (SGL), the first Glass and wearable technologies accelerator has launched the world’s first comprehensive app directory and a self-service app publishing portal for Google Glass pre-launched applications. Entrepreneurs will also be able to communicate with the Bloggerati and showcase their products to the world.

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Google Technical Review Press Software Review 87

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MARCH 8, 2013

UberMedia , the Pasadena-based startup developing third party, Twitter clients and other mobile apps, said yesterday that it has launched a new mobile ad campaign product called Appvertise. Developers use their iTunes account to pay for the CPC ads. READ MORE>>.

Advertising 138

Advertising CPC Tool Idealab 138

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

If you're an NCAA fan, and you've loaded the app for your favorite team, there's a high likelyhood that the app is actually the product of El Segundo-based Hopscotch (www.gohopscotch.com). Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. That really helped us to get to a dominant position in college.

Mobile 162

Mobile Platform El Segundo UCLA 162

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 27, 2015

One of the oldest and most-popular developer communities, IBM’s developerWorks has announced today a first-of-its-kind premium subscription model, developerWorks Premium , geared toward maximizing developer access to IBM’s software, tools, training and partners at a fraction of the cost.

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IBM IBM Tool Resource 40

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NOVEMBER 22, 2013

One of the hottest areas in enterprise and cloud software has been the move by the industry to adopt technologies like NoSQL, a way to tap into the distributed nature of the cloud to accelerate distributed applications. It''s a distributed data platform built for scale, and build for accelerated application development.

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Startup Yahoo Software Education 198

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. But I believe it’s a very comprehensive solution and our due diligence with large app developers confirmed as much. I’ll explain in detail below.

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Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

We build products and services tied to mobile carriers. Those technologies allow us to scale and offer a superior product for customers. Weve also developed technology that allows them to get a really easy start. Weve also developed technology that allows them to get a really easy start. I have a Ph.D.

Content 113

Content Startup Mobile Media 113

Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Habra: Mobile Therapy spent the majority of the time leading up to the initial pitch competition perfecting our platform and ensuring that both the application and the Web dashboard is 100 percent rooted in real science. We spent our first year designing the product with our world-renowned science team.

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Competition Mobile Technical Review Startup 123

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APRIL 1, 2010

We cater to mobile phone developers--right now the iPhone, and coming soon to Android. Had it now been for the application ecosystem that developed, and had someone not bridged the fragmentation in the mobile market, we wouldn't have started the company. Are you now deploying your products in applications?

Startup 164

Startup Platform Advertising GRP Partners 164

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MARCH 15, 2013

Nils Forsblom: TenFarms is a mobile app developer. We build mobile products, not just mobile applications, but products around them. PhotoPoll is our first app to push live, and now we're working on our second app, AdTile, which is a mobile advertising solution for applications and mobile software.

Mobile 233

Mobile Southern California Startup Outsource Development 233

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last week, Los Angeles-based FastPay (www.fastpaypartners.com) announced a round of funding and its services for providing advanced payment to online publishers, application developers, and game developers. Jed Simon: We have a tech enabled product which accelerates payment, not unlike a traditional factor or AR lender.

Advertising 133

Advertising .Net Startup Funding 133

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2013

What has changed is the maturity of products being previewed, and where they go to get noticed. Early products received meaningful feedback. Mike Schwartz, Application Developers Alliance. Partnerships were forged. Shared experiences were had and friendships made. Relive the moments here. A group discussion from RAPP.

Web Design 91

Web Design Conference Media Mobile 91

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

There's a similar installer for Linux, and going beyond the workstations and into the data center, we use Ansible to push the products out to those endpoints. I also spend a chunk of my career in software development, working on enterprise applications. What's your background? I've worked for both large and small companies.

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Cloud Computing Resource Startup Software 133

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

The festival is part of an ongoing initiative by the British government to encourage development and growth in the city's tech startup community. So we're working with the Universities, colleges and schools to make sure they're putting the right programs in place to develop the skills that will fuel the growth in the future.

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Organization Startup Google Invest 209

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Product pre-order model. With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. The crowd gets the satisfaction of helping, with minimal risk, and no expectation of any high return. A much-touted success was the Pebble Watch on Kickstarter , with orders exceeding $10 million.

Venture Capital 108

Venture Capital Angel Equity Satisfaction 108

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 9, 2013

Michael has 2 engineering degrees from RPI and almost 7 years of new product development experience from some of the largest medical device companies in the world. As you probably know, Mike is know exclusively focused on mobile application development and his new StoryPress iPad app.

Mobile 67

Mobile Help Develop Development 67

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

At KnowledgeBase, he worked with EdgeCast co-founders James, Phil and Lior, and as CEO was involved in all aspects of the company and responsible for its development. Prior to starting KnowledgeBase, Alex founded HostPro, an industry-leading web hosting and application services provider.

SaaS 92

SaaS Cloud Computing CIO Web 92

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Here people make online pledges with their credit cards during a campaign, to pre-buy the product for later delivery, if it is ever built. There is no concept of ROI other than product. Kickstarter is the big player in this space. It has had some notable successes for entrepreneurs (over $1M in funding), as well as non-starters.

Funding 99

Funding Satisfaction Sites Equity 99

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

First, I believe that Seesmic has an excellent product – especially the web version of their product and that having another senior and experienced exec like Loic Le Meur would be great for Twitter. The other thing that Salesforce is genius at is using these seminal events to market success stories of their developers.

Acquisition 287

Acquisition Develop Development Conference 287

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

Here people make online pledges with their credit cards during a campaign, to pre-buy the product for later delivery, if it is ever built. There is no concept of ROI other than product. Kickstarter is the big player in this space. It has had some notable successes for entrepreneurs (over $1M in funding), as well as non-starters.

Funding 96

Funding Satisfaction Sites Outsource Development 96

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

Brian Biniak: I was back at Nokia running the products ecosystem with the app store. We had an advanced application development and innovation team. We had a new tablet we had developed back in 2007, and we were asked to come up with concepts to drive cellular usage. We want to make your drive time much more productive.

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Platform 113

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. To be fair to Ben Horowitz – I think he thinks this as well.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

To gain some insight into the area, we spoke with Ian Swanson, one of the founders of Sometrics (www.sometrics.com), which develops software to gather information on social media and optimize advertising. I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. Ian Swanson: We have 1500 publishers using our products.

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Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 113