socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

One of the major growth areas along Silicon Beach has been in the whole area of creating content for digital platforms. But, how do you figure out what actual content will resonate with online consumers? I figured out that there was this massive market for comedic content, but the market was extremely scattered.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. So, we built our own, new and improved version of a microblogging platform. It's fun, I guess.

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Ideas Web Startup Content 248

socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2009

San Diego-based VMIX , a provider of software used by web sites to manage online video publishing, said Thursday that the firm has inked a deal with television broadcasting firm Post-Newsweek Stations. Tags: vmix video publishing content television. Financial impact of the deal was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

San Diego 100

San Diego Content Sites Web 100

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

San Diego-based VMIX , which provides a platform for publishing and managing online video, reports today that it has signed on an ad agency and reseller, which has resulted in more than 30 customers for the firm. Tags: vmix publishing video content advertising. Financial impact of the customers were not disclosed.

Mission Ventures 100

Mission Ventures Enterprise Partners San Diego Advertising 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It's another big week for startup launches, this time in San Diego at DEMOfall. One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites.

Startup 133

Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

For today's interview, we talked with San Diego-based ShowUHow (www.showuhow.com), a firm which is providing both content and a software platform which allows e-commerce retailers to provide video instruction guides on the products they carry. The whole platform is build on the software-as-a-service model.

Guide 113

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Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2018

These revelations led to Congressional investigations, and pledges by social media companies to better curate the content flowing through their platforms. The drumbeat of mishaps and scandals this year also included charges of sexual harassment and gender discrimination among tech companies and investors. Have all these.

Technical Review 71

Technical Review Social Media News Software Review 71

socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2013

What we''re doing, is curating the most popular interests, brands, and entertainers, which comprise the interest in the social web, and putting in on one platform. As you start to see what''s going on in social, who''s most active, and who is creating and sharing content, you find that it''s the entertainment industry and music.

Mobile 159

Mobile Startup Entertainment Tech Coast Angels 159

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

We want to create the right mix of the types of activities, price points, and make sure we have high quality content and high quality activities. Enter the light bulb, which was that this was a real opportunity to create a new platform, which can facilitate connecting experts with users. Who are your other cofounders? READ MORE>>.

Startup 271

Startup CTO Coach Activity Software Review 271

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2012

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. Even then, users are very demanding.

Mobile 216

Mobile Startup Software Review Platform 216

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. That sets us up nicely for the next phase of the web. Everybody knows about the leaked memo of AOL’s Tim Armstrong saying he wants to up his content from 4% video to 70% video. LA is producing content at scale.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Today, San Diego-based Metaplace (www.metaplace.com), which develops virtual world software, is announcing a funding round from Charles River Ventures, Crescendo Ventures, and high profile investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. Basically, it's an open platform, really aimed at end users. That's what we're about.

Web 100

Web Blogging Web 2.0 Startup 100

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. presidential election in 2016.

Social Media 67

Social Media Blogging News Advertising 67

socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

I actually started my web site, CheapCheapCheap, while I was in college. Certain people might like certain deals, and not others, and people end up opting-out when they don't see content they like. The issue with our competitors, is that they cater to so many people with different demographics, which makes it difficult.

Orange County 170

Orange County Startup Sites Southern California 170

Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

At their annual developer conferences, Google I/O, held last month, and Apple’s WWDC, last week they both announced updates to their development platforms. Apple’s service revenue is growing, and they’re making investments to compete more directly in producing original content (against the likes of Netflix, Amazon, etc.).

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Artificial Inteligence Google Software Review Case Study 55

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Matt Weghorst: Cojoin is a data integration platform. We find that there’s all this really specialized software, software as a service, certain platforms, and different places you can do marketing; all of those have their own sets of data. Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version? Plus, sunshine.

Startup 85

Startup Southern California Mobile Software 85

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Brian Garrett: It's analytics, it's delivery platforms, it's optimization of technology facilitating compression to delivery of video. It's analytics around users and visitation on web sites, and it's knowledge of the consumption of photos--for example, GumGum--or video images on the web. What do you mean by infrastructure?

Southern California 153

Southern California Startup Palomar Rustic Canyon 153

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

San Diego-based Intercasting (www.intercasting.com) is one of the companies which seems to have gotten some traction, and has deployed with Boost, Virgin, Sprint, and is in the process of deploying with Verizon and ATT. Derrick Oien: We have a platform we develop, called ANTHEM. Intercasting is backed by $17.5M

Social Network 113

Social Network Anthem Mobile Java 113

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. The San Diego-based company is one of 53 California companies ranked on the Fortune 500, 22 of which are SoCal companies. Web Design Software. Web Hosting Software. Skip to primary content.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. I was immediately reminded that they were interested in seeing the slides as the main partner who had courted me at DEMO in San Diego shuffled nervously through the print outs of the slides I had sent him in advance.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. a perks platform for small and medium sized businesses. Joey Flores – Co-Founder and CEO of Earbits. sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.).

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