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MAY 10, 2011

Mountain View-based Google has followed the lead of San Diego-based MP3tunes , and debuted its own "music locker" service today at its Google I/O developer conference. The service is a direct competitor to MP3tunes, which offers its own, streaming "music locker" service.

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OCTOBER 27, 2011

San Diego-based Active.com , the sports registration and activities site run by the Active Network, is one of the launch partners for an expansion of Google Offers , the daily deals service run by Google. Financial arrangements between Google and the others were not disclosed.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

San Diego-based Gretel has raised a seed round of funding, to go towards its development of software which helps developers and engineers access and share anonymized data for developing applications. The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Greylock Partners and Village Capital.

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MAY 16, 2018

After establishing a partnership with the Google Cloud Platform, Zesty.io CEO Gerry Widmer said Wednesday the San Diego-based company is expanding its workforce and extending its Web content management system (WCMS) to international customers. founder Randy Apuzzo at the end of 2017.

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MAY 18, 2021

For today's interview, we sat down and chatted with >Zeb Evans, the founder and CEO of San Diego-based ClickUp (www.clickup.com), the developer of a workplace productivity software platform which is based by such companies as Google, Airbnb, and Nike. Who are your typical customers? What is ClickUp?

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MARCH 7, 2014

San Diego-based Emotient has raised $6M in a funding round, to go towards the company''s technology for facial expression recognition, the company said Thursday. emotient venture capital facial expression recognition google glass' READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 31, 2018

In another setback for Google’s Internet business, the tech giant has decided to wind down the Boston-area operations of Webpass, a wireless Internet service provider Google Fiber acquired in June 2016. A statement e-mailed by a Google spokeswoman didn’t give a reason for the decision.

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JUNE 23, 2016

Google Fiber plans to acquire Webpass in a deal that trims the ranks of independent Internet service providers—an industry already maligned for its lack of competition—but ultimately could boost consumer access to high-speed Internet. Six-year-old Google Fiber has had its own set of challenges.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

San Diego-based cloud storage company Nirvanix has officially shut down its service, saying in a posting on its website that it is actively winding down its business, and is scrambling to transfer data on the cloud storage service to other providers.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

San Diego-based OneRoof Energy , the provider of solar financing for residential solar projects, has rolled out a new mobile app for solar monitoring. The company said its new mORE Power app, which runs on iOS, lets its customer remotely monitor their solar system''s production in real time. The new app is free.

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JUNE 4, 2010

San Diego-based VMIX , a provider of online video publishing tools, said yesterday that it is releasing a new, open source demo application which will enable developers to create Apple iPad video applications. The firm said it hopes the open source app will let developers build out custom video iPad applications quickly.

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JULY 7, 2010

Here are eight Southern California companies and the experienced, successful entrepreneurs heading up their efforts, who haven't had any problems finding investors--or customers--for their firms. Elbaz sold Applied Semantics to Google in 2003, for pre-IPO stock, reaping first round investors more than a 100x return on their investment.

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AUGUST 25, 2011

How did an email marketing provider turn into a provider of software which mashes up a combination of email marketing, wiki, customer service management, event and meeting management tool, project management software, and much more? Those resellers include customers like chambers of commerce.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

San Diego-based Daasity (www.daasity.com)  which just raised $2.3M Maybe they might be using a platform like Shopify to sell their products and power their website, and they might use Facebook for advertising, and maybe they're using paid search with Google. What's your background, and how did the startup come about?

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2018

Automation Anywhere , which supplies customers with armies of software robots to take over manual tasks such as insurance claims processing, announced today it raised $250 million in a first funding round that set its post-money valuation at $1.8 Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

. “Cognitive computing,” artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced data analytics are evolving companies’ understanding of their customers in game-changing ways. The Device-Agnostic Customer Experience. Customer expectations now demand seamless and satisfying user experiences.

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MARCH 13, 2020

Dmitri Leonov: We built a distribution business for equipment for the spa industry, and have had 10,000 client over that time, but in the last few years, we've really focused on talking to spa customers about their needs in the market. Essentially, the customer wants natural and organic ingredients. Our average retention is 70 percent.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

In downtown San Diego, a private real estate company best known for its master-planned communities in suburban Southern California has posed some existential questions for regional tech hubs looking to build their own startup ecosystems. Google has the Googleplex, its campus in Mountain View, CA, with 3.1

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

In many ways, Apple and Google are following similar paths. 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. Customer experience is a high priority for both companies. Here are three of the most important takeaways: 1.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Think about the retailer e-mails we receive daily or the ads that appear on Google or our social media sites. Retailers end up distancing themselves from customers when. Houston —Knowledge is power, but too much of a good thing can render data meaningless. That’s the struggle many retailers have in an age of data analytics.

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JUNE 8, 2011

However, San Diego-based Deal Current (www.dealcurrent.com) appears to have found a sustainable niche in the industry--not providing daily deals, but powering those multiplying deal sites, including a number of major newspaper groups. But, with the economy turning south in 2008, lots of those customers went out of business.

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AUGUST 10, 2012

Last month, San Diego-based Tealium (www.tealium.com) announced a healthy, $10.5M A digital marketing tag is typically also referred to as a page code, which customers put on their websites when they want to deploy certain digital marketing solutions. How do you streamline that process? Another angel is performance improvement.

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JULY 7, 2011

Telcentris is based in San Diego. That's allowed us to leverage that platform to sell services, such as telephony to hundreds of business customers, which is why you seeing us doing both things in the space. Speaking of Skype and Googl, are they big competitors? Tell us a little bit about VoxOx and Telcentris?

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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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JANUARY 23, 2018

We started offering this in Los Angeles, and have since expanded to Orange County and San Diego. We are planning to expand to Texas at the end of January, San Francisco soon after, and Denver, Colorado on March 1. The company just raised $15M more in a Series B. Where is the company now in terms of the service? READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 8, 2014

We need to see a company which has already verified their use cases, has customers, has some form of revenue, or something that shows us that they can differentiate themselves, plus have the right team. But, can you really get out there and get customers, and get those customers to repeat orders?

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. That was really enormous for us, and we were the number one searched-for thing on Google that morning.

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MAY 4, 2015

It has become so synonymous with Internet companies that the French have invented a disdainful term including Amazon: “les GAFA,” which they refer to as Google-Apple-Facebook-Amazon to talk about American dominance of the Internet. It is a household name. How valuable are these legacy businesses? The value prop is pretty clear.

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JULY 6, 2016

A center led by the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego will work on ways for those individuals to participate. To coordinate all the data, a center run by Vanderbilt University, Verily (formerly known as Google Life Sciences), and the Broad Institute will build the infrastructure.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Whether someone is in Google address book, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter, they all end up in one place. It also generated search alerts--like a Google alert, for mentions of that person's name, company, and also keywords. Who is the ideal customer for this? It really is there to save you time and funnel it into one list.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. Competitors: SmashWords , Google Books. Estimated 15mm downloads to date. They sponsor TWiVC.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Last night, I was knocking a couple back with a friend at The Waterfront (San Diego’s oldest continually operating pub). Android Apple Gadgets iOS iPhone Mobile Op-Ed apple fans apple keynote competitive market Consumer fingerprint reader Google hardware manufacturers iPhone 3GS iPhone 4 iPhone 5s'

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It's another big week for startup launches, this time in San Diego at DEMOfall. We've essentially provided a customer a single interface, where they can create and analyze their international presence. We support various translation gateways from Google, Microsoft, and other third party translation engines.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

Recently, San Diego-based Rippol (www.rippol.com) launched its web site, a service which uses social networking to help people find and discover interesting videos related to their interests. Before that, I was a student researcher as San Diego Sate University and a UCSD student. Aaron, thanks for the interview.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

The device is an alarm-clock like, Internet connected electronic product developed by the firm of the same name, San Diego-based Chumby (www.chumby.com). The second question for a startup, is if a customer is willing to buy the product--can you scale it to millions of users? com to Vivendi Universal.

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MARCH 31, 2014

We''re rolling it out to finance and Wall Street, monitoring thousands of sources of continuously changing information, such as news, social media, internal email systems, and analyzing specific, material conditions that our customers are looking for. It''s about as complicated as Google Adwords. It''s designed for business people.

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