Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

At Congressional hearings this week on Russia’s use of social media to interfere with the 2016 U.S. election, lawmakers pressed Facebook, Twitter, and Google to take exhaustive measures to stop the same thing from happening again. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2011

San Diego-based GreenRope (www.greenrope.com) is just that, and to figure out how it got to where it is, we spoke with Lars Helgeson, the firm's CEO, about what exactly GreenRope provides, how it grew out of email marketing, and where it is going. Lars Helgeson: Generally, our sweet spot is companies with under 300,000 contacts.

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Xconomy

JULY 31, 2017

It’s been a long time since tech’s biggest companies could be sorted into discrete buckets according to the products they pioneered—-Google, the search software giant; Apple, the computer and mobile device innovator; e-commerce leader Amazon; business software stalwart Microsoft; and social media engine Facebook.

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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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Xconomy

JUNE 24, 2019

And no one knows it better than the big Silicon Valley tech companies that are the recent targets of proposed bipartisan bills. Josh Hawley, to introduce legislation that would force companies like Facebook (NASDAQ: FB ) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL ) to reveal how much money they’re making by scooping up troves of personal.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Combining the theme of holiday shopping with Southern California's technology industry, here are eight electronic gifts from local companies to add to your shopping list this season. seamlessly connect to your smartphone, PC, and streaming media services. is based in San Diego. Is your pet dog a social media maven?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Tomorrow starting at 8pm PST We will be live streaming ( click here to view live stream ) the "Action Sports + Social Media Marketing Mash Up" event put on by SoCal Action Sports Network. Gregory Ferenstein, Fast Company Magazine. Efren divides his time between San Diego, Los Angeles and tech events around the US.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 23, 2018

Facebook expanded its mea culpa on Monday for failing to prevent “bad actors” such as Russian entities from using the social media platform to distort democratic processes—notably the U.S. Company CEO Mark Zuckerberg had already announced Friday. presidential election in 2016. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Members of Congress have been pressuring social media companies to ferret out any Russian-linked entities that may have been using their services to spread fake news or otherwise influence voter opinion, and share their findings with the government. elections heat up.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2011

Telcentris is based in San Diego. In other words, you can log into your social media sites like Twitter, log into Instant Messenger and other accounts, and it will pull your contacts and give you a seamless way to organize those contacts. Speaking of Skype and Googl, are they big competitors?

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

Most of the money in the space space, all the big players, sell cosmetics and things like Botox, and there are a bunch of companies manufacturing equipment which they sell from $30,000 to $50,0000. We now have two loactions in San Diego, one location in Newport Beach, and one in Rodeo Drive, in Beverly Hills.

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Xconomy

MAY 1, 2018

You’d be hard-pressed to find a workplace today where using technology isn’t an integral part of the job, whether it’s an AI-powered recruiting tool, special coding software for app development, or even just Google Sheets that help workers keep track of budgets.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

In today''s electronic world, there is an immense number of data sources creating millions of data points that companies are hoping to make sense of. There are lots of products that might look for any mention of a product name or company name, and yes, we do that--but more importantly, we are also analyzing situations that arise.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Other players such as Obopay have set out to focus on mobile person-to-person cash transfers, mFoundry (a GRP portfolio company) has focused on mobile banking and a mobile wallet and one of my favorite companies m-via is focusing on mobile remittances (right now between the US and Mexico). Wildfire Interactive. 4mm in Series A.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

This is only one of the ways social media and other technologies are changing the experience of forming our views on election issues and choosing our candidates. The items are chosen based on their social media rankings among “political influencers” from both the conservative and liberal camps. See how it works here.).

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Clash of the Titans: Google joins Apple, Microsoft in announcing new tablets (and more). Streaming media. Social media. Google Plus. Social networking. Social games. MYTH 2: Silicon Valley companies will always have the best shot at funding. 20 hrs ago. Streaming video. Smartphones. Interviews.

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Xconomy

JULY 17, 2018

So is failing to challenge a law or tech company rule that governs work on technology products, if that rule causes unjustifiable harms to people or the environment.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 7, 2019

Looking back over the past two years, it seems that public perceptions of tech companies have shifted, compared with the eager acceptance that often prevailed as innovations from these businesses transformed social interactions, transportation, and other aspects of life. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The company has since purged hundreds of accounts linked to foreign entities. Facebook (NASDAQ: FB ) has been under pressure to cleanse its pages of fake news since the discovery that Russian-backed agents using false identities tried to sway voters by spreading false and divisive messages during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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Xconomy

MARCH 4, 2019

The consequences of that wider public awareness are now spreading to technology companies in general. In part, it’s a reflection of the long tail of consequences that began in early 2018 when the broader public learned that Facebook had shared data from millions of user profiles with now-shuttered political marketing firm Cambridge Analytica.

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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

COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB. COMPANY GOOG COMPANY|GOOG. NAME Google. COMPANY YHOO COMPANY|YHOO. COMPANY MSFT COMPANY|MSFT. COMPANY TSLA COMPANY|TSLA. PIXELS IN PARADISE | Andrew Frame, founder of the Internet-telephone company Ooma, paid $5.5 Financial News. SmartMoney.

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