socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Los Angeles- and Austin-based GameSalad , which develops software which helps people create iOS, Android, and web games, said Friday that its software now supports Windows 8 application development. The startup--which has been supporting Windows development since May--said its latest version, 0.10.0

Steamboat Ventures 187

Steamboat Ventures Writing Web Los Angeles 187

socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2011

Metro has launched the Metro Development Challenge , which is dangling nearly $10,000 in prizes to for the best mobile and web applications in a number of categories. The agency said it is looking for "creative, useful mobile applications and web mash-ups" which will help riders of the Metro. READ MORE>>.

Software Development 178

Software Development Develop Development Software 178

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

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. Morphlabs said its software is aimed at helping service providers compete head-to-head with Amazon Web Services.

Platform 157

Platform Web IBM IBM 157

socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Los Angeles-based Total Immersion , the developer of augmented reality (AR) software, is aiming at the game development market with its technology today, saying it has released a new version of its software specifically aimed at game and application developers. READ MORE>>.

Web 177

Web Los Angeles Platform Software 177

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

Irvine-based Numecent , which is backed by T-Venture, said Monday that it has launched a new cloud software service aimed at application developers. The company''s software delivers native applications from Microsoft Windows to users via the cloud without requiring recoding or rewrite of that software. READ MORE>>.

SaaS 138

SaaS Software Web Pricing 138

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The company, which is headed by Jed Simon, offers up short term credit lines to web publishers and other digital businesses who typically face 60 day or longer payment cycles. The firm says it recently expanded into a number of verticals, including YouTube Channels, and Facebook Preferred Marketing Developers. READ MORE>>.

Customer 164

Customer Custom Funding Commerce 164

socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2010

According to Demand, Banks' beauty and entertainment firm Bankable is in a deal to develop a Web site, online video offerings, and mobile applications. The deal will make Tyra Banks a shareholder in Demand Media, which is rumored to be in the process of filing for an IPO. Name of the new site was not announced. READ MORE>>.

Demand 205

Demand Sites Media Social Media 205

socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2010

Nirvanix is a provider of a cloud storage service targeted at enterprises and web application developers; Nasuni develops a virtual network attached storage (NAS) file server that runs on VMware. Nasuni said it is using Nirvanix to provide its customers with unlimited cloud capacity.

Windward 145

Windward Mission Ventures San Diego Web 145

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Pokki allows developers to create desktop apps using web technologylike HTML5. The new project comes on top of OpenCandy, the company's ad network effort which allows application developers to advertise and recommend their software while users are installing other desktop applications.

San Diego 140

San Diego Advertising Platform Google 140

socalTECH

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

socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2009

Los Angeles-based Demand Media 's LIVESTRONG.com web site, the online health and fitness information web site run in conjunction with Lance Armstrong, said this week that it has rolled out a new 'Calorie Tracker' aplication for the RIM BlackBerry.

Demand 100

Demand Web Media Los Angeles 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

If you're an application developer, sending emails through your application can be a chore. Sendgrid (www.sendgrid.com) has stepped into that void, providing application programming interfaces (APIs) and all the infrastructure required to handle that email delivery. How do you offload all those headaches?

Email 157

Email Startup IP Newsletter 157

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

On the invitation of UK Trade and Investment, socalTECH Contributing Editor Travis Oberlander has traveled this week to London for us, to compare and contrast the efforts in the UK to establish their own technology center with our own efforts in Southern California.).

Organization 209

Organization Startup Google Invest 209

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

Startup 233

Startup Tips Web Platform 233

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

It''s a distributed data platform built for scale, and build for accelerated application development. The company was actually born in Los Angeles, out of a company which was a.NET development organization. Every time they did a distributed, web-based project, they realized they were reinventing the wheel.

Startup 198

Startup Yahoo Software Education 198

socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2010

Our main differentiation from what's out there now in the mobile area, is we allow developers to target their audience segment however they want, whether that is by time of day, by campaign, and we also turn control over to application developers, so they can transparently see and target their ads, to a greater degree.

Startup 164

Startup Platform Advertising GRP Partners 164

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

They sign up through a web portal, online, and they create a resource pool. I also spend a chunk of my career in software development, working on enterprise applications. I have been lucky to have been around both parts of corporate IT and application development teams, and on the infrastructure side.

Cloud Computing 133

Cloud Computing Resource Startup Software 133

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Back in 1997, when I started thee site, there was no one really doing box office tracking or movie financial tracking on the web. Bruce Nash: I had a tech background, originally, but I've always been a fan of the movies. I really saw it as an opportunity to do something that no one else was doing at the time, so I established the site.

Beverly Hills 164

Beverly Hills Research Hollywood Sites 164

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

The answer was yes, and we also saw that we could begin to play at web scale, be hosted in the cloud, be scalable in an extensive way. They had been recommended as a preferred provider for Facebook application developers, but it didn't work. We then actually went to the leader, Amazon, and we're in the web services group.

Social Media 203

Social Media Startup Tool LAMP 203

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Weve also developed technology that allows them to get a really easy start. They can start on mobile online, or mobile and web, and then develop other applications for Snap TV, Roku, and scale the service as they move forward.

Content 113

Content Startup Mobile Platform 113