socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2015

Santa Monica-based CallFire , which offers up cloud-based text and voice communications services, said today that it has shifted the roles of two of its founders. CallFire is led by Ron Burr. READ MORE>>. callfire voice text cloud communications executive'

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socalTECH

JUNE 7, 2013

Aliso Viejo-based Corent Technology , which develops software that makes it easy for companies to convert their legacy applications into software-as-a-service, has added a new advisor, the firm said this week. Corent said it has added Mario Leone, former CIO of Ingram Micro, FIAT, Federal-Mogul and Dow Chemical, as an advisor.

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PHP Java SaaS CIO 138

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Prior to that, he was CIO at Overture Services. Quality Systems said Morefield will oversee all of the operations of the company and its business units. Morefield was most recently President and CEO of LEADS360, and also previously served as Chief Operations Officer at Experian Consumer Direct. READ MORE>>.

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CIO Software Services Develop 147

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2012

Online advertising network Adconion is tapping a Los Angeles technology vet as its Global Chief Technology Officer, the company said Monday. Adconion said that it has appointed Scott Sullivan to the CTO position, recruiting him away from Everbridge Communications, where he was also CTO.

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Chief Technology Officer CIO Yahoo Advertising 140

socalTECH

JULY 12, 2013

Many companies would love to be able to get the benefits of cloud--easy configurability, low cost, scaling, and more--but, due to various reasons, can''t take advantage of public cloud services like Amazon. The company announced a funding round from Canaan Partners, Storm Ventures, and AME Cloud a couple of weeks ago.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 10, 2021

In an exclusive interview with TechCrunch, Klarna CEO and founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski said the company has seen explosive growth in the U.S. While the company was profitable for its first 14 years of life, it has not been profitable the last two, according to Siemiatkowski, and that’s been by design.

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Los Angeles Funding CIO Marketing 266

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2010

Sullivan was most recently Chief Technology Officer, Interactive, for the Tribune Company and the Los Angeles Times. Sullivan has also served at Edmunds.com, where he was CIO, and Yahoo!/Overture Overture Services, where he was SVP Technology Operations and Engineering. READ MORE>>.

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Chief Technology Officer CIO Yahoo Los Angeles 145

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Customers can stream your companys content, shop for goods, search for local products and services, and receive personalized serviceall from their mobile phones. Wednesday, February 8, 2012 -- Mobile Apps: The New Direct-To-Consumer Channel. Mobile Apps enable businesses to relate to customers one-to-one.

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Mobile AWT Cloud Computing CIO 100

socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together. Perspectium recently raised a funding round from TVC Capital.

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SaaS Startup Customer Custom 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2020

What was the biggest news for you/your company this year? We had a soft launch to test our new identity protection & identity management features to complement our core people search service in 2020. It's been a tough year for many due to the pandemic; how have you or your company adapted to the business environment?

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Technical Review Startup CIO Southern California 113

Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

Just a few months earlier, Hinshaw had sold his private healthcare IT consulting company, MaxIT Healthcare, to government contractor SAIC for $473 million. They came to San Diego in 1996, when Scripps Health hired Balgrosky as CIO and senior vice president. He founded MaxIT Healthcare in 2001.

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San Diego CIO Incubator Startup 67

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Join us for a special evening with InfoWorld’s Dave Linthicum as he delves into global enterprise software trends with some of LA’s most successful SaaS and cloud computing companies. Featuring panelists from SOA Software , Edgecast and Bitium , we’ll discuss: Top priorities and challenges for today’s CIO. Alex Kazerani.

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SaaS Cloud Computing CIO Web 92

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Morefield is the former COO of Experian Consumer Direct, as well as CIO at Overture Services. According to the firm, founding CEO Jeff Solomon becomes Senior Vice President and will focus on product and technology development at the company. Morefield has also served at PayMyBills and at Home Savings of America.

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Rustic Canyon CIO Web Los Angeles 100

socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2019

One Los Angeles company, ZestFinance (www.zestfinance.com), has been working in this area for a few years. We caught up with Jay Budzik , the CTO of ZestFinance, to better understand how the company is applying machine learning techniques to the world of lending, and what the advantage of machine learning is to that industry.

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Artificial Inteligence Tool CIO Customer 113

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2013

He references CIO Bernard Golden’s argument, made in The IT Jobs Cloud Computing Will Create , that while some roles may disappear altogether, others will remain, but in much less demand. Rackspace Hosting is the service leader in cloud computing, and a founder of OpenStack, an open source cloud operating system.

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Cloud Computing Marketing CIO Organization 85

socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2014

We caught up with founder and CEO Grant Kirkwood --a serial entrepreneur and veteran of providing infrastructure to the enterprise markets--on the vision behind the company. Most of the CIOs we are talking to are at large banks and healthcare providers. Most companies don''t do infrastructure very well, really.

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Cloud Computing Outsource Development Outsource Startup 217

AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 1, 2008

“California is the birthplace of the information technology revolution and the home of the companies that are creating the future course of our information rich society. Great California companies like Google, Hewlett Packard, Apple, Sun Microsystems and hundreds more like them are transforming the way people live, work and communicate.

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AeA CIO Web 2.0 Technology 40

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Whatever you’re trying to brand – your company, your community or yourself – this is the first exercise I would recommend that you start with. We’ll work our asses off and build huge companies that will define the next generation of American’s lives.” This is the list I would start with.

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Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Sure, there are roles like CTO or CIO, but the input and decision making process has remained fairly static. Some of the things that have changed includes their ages, types of experience and the kind of expertise they offer a company. Things have shifted though for companies that are looking for board members.

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Technology CTO Hire Conference Education 40

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Facebook just hit 1 billion active users globally and that was great but a new social payment application is set to make Facebook users across the world get more from their connections and even allowing companies to sell or receive payments from their pages. TechZulu caught up Robert Sussman, Co-CEO of Zunguz , the Facebook payment app.

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Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CIO) and a product lead (CTO). Ideally, they will have links to distributors you need, or even be investors in your company as well. File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names.

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Tips Startup CTO Hire Press 88

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

Up until now linking, syndication, and shared comment services have been used to connect the dots on distributed conversations but the practical usefulness of these approaches has been reached in many cases. Poor integration between social media and location services. Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

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Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

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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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313