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Wheels Enters Last Mile Transportation Fray With $37M

socalTECH

A new, Los Angeles-based startup, Wheels --founded by the founders of dog walking marketplace Wag--has jumped into the crowded "last mile" transportation fray, saying it has raised $37M and launched its services in San Diego. The startup was founded by Jonathan and Joshua Viner, the two brothers who founded Wag. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

socalTECH

San Diego-based uCast Global (www.ucastglobal.com), backed by Gary Winnick, is looking to tackle that entire area of content distribution, and is led by startup veteran Dr. Kanaan Jemili. As you know, today, video is one of the primary means of communications from a personal, corporate, and entertainment level. I have a Ph.D.

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Best Reads for Casual Friday: Big Tech Businesses Gets Political

Xconomy

Time to curl up in your cubicle, pop open one of these in-depth, entertaining reads, and catch up on some of what you missed during a busy week. You’ve made it to Friday. This week we’re taking a look at all the political stories that are coming out of the tech world.

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Interview with Sherry Gunther, Masher Media

socalTECH

We spoke with Sherry Gunther, CEO and founder of the firm, earlier this week to get a better look at the company and the dynamics behind the virtual world market nowadays--as well as why Sherry decided to make the jump from the world of entertainment media to online. Are the tools really there now for you to be able to do that?

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Decoding the Secret of iPhone Game Popularity, With William Volk, Playscreen

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It's an intensely competitive market in developing games for the iPhone and other mobile platforms, with thousands and thousands of titles competing for attention from users. William is in San Diego, and is a longtime gaming vet, having been at Activision in the days of The Manhole and Myst.

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Schlep & Fetch: Delivering Anything and Everything, On Demand

socalTECH

I'm also an entertainment and music writer. They were very excited, so they pushed it out to their chapters in San Diego and elsewhre, and they also came in. How does this compare with competition from the Uber and Lyfts of the world? Bryson Strauss: I was a fine art curator and museum gallery curator for 25 years.

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Cojoin | Data Integration

Tech Zulu Event

But the end result was incredibly valuable, so looked at that end result and we were able to optimize our campaigns and be more efficient than our competition. There’s aggregation, so like in the entertainment industry, audience measurement is huge. That required lots of developers to integrate it and work with it. Plus, sunshine.

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