socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

UberMedia , the Pasadena-based startup developing third party, Twitter clients and other mobile apps, said yesterday that it has launched a new mobile ad campaign product called Appvertise. Developers use their iTunes account to pay for the CPC ads. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In this solo episode we meet up with Sarah Zurell and talk about Pavemint, the creative talent of Los Angeles, Hollywood to tech, collaboration, diversity, and running full featured product development. Media Sponsor: SOCALTECH - High Tech News and Information for Southern California. www.collective-genius.com. www.socaltech.com.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Pasadena-based 17hats , a startup that develops business management software aimed specifically at solo entrepreneurs (solopreneurs), has raised $4M in a Series A funding. The funding was led by Wavemaer Partners, and also included Talmadge O'Neill and Harry Tsao of Mezi Media and Tamim Mourad of PriceGrabber. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2016

Pasadena-based mobile ad measurement platform developer UberMedia , one of the companies out of Idealab, has released a new, mobile attribution product that tracks cross-media advertisement and correlates that to foot traffic in stores.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Pasadena-based UberMedia , the Idealab-backed developer of mobile apps and other mobile advertising products, said today that it has named Yahoo veteran Eric Aledort as the company''s Chief Business Development Officer. Aledort was most recently VP, head of media for Yahoo''s global partnerships group.

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socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2014

Pasadena-based UberMedia , which develops mobile advertising technology, is looking to connect mobile ads with television advertising with a new, targeting tool. ubermedia television advertising targeting mobile media' Pricing on the new product was not announced by the company. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Pasadena-based FastSoft , the developer of Internet acceleration appliances, has been acquired by Akamai , Akamai said Thursday afternoon. FastSoft's technology is based out of Caltech, and was originally developed to accelerate traffic on the next generation Internet, Internet2. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2011

A report today from Greentech Media says that Pasadena-based Idealab 's sale of portfolio firm RayTracker was worth $44.8M. in funding in RayTracker a developer of solar tracking technology. RayTracker was also based in Pasadena, but was acquired in January by solar panel firm First Solar.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Where is the future of the cloud being developed? Three companies--all started in Southern California--have been picked up for their cloud technology over the last few months, including today''s acquisition of Pasadena-based Metacloud by Cisco Corp.; READ MORE>>'

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Pasadena-based UberMedia , the developer of Twitter client applications, said Thursday that it has partnered with the publisher of The Economist to power a new desktop application and curated channel Idea People Media , The Economist Group's vertical ad network business.

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socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2015

Pasadena-based New Matter , the Idealab-backed startup developing affordable, consumer 3D printers, has begun shipping production units of its devices, the company said this morning. The new 3D printer uses Polylactic Acid (PLA) plastic, which is safer and more environmentally friendly than typical 3D printing media.

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socalTECH

JUNE 22, 2011

Pasadena-based OnGreen , the clean technology, funding marketplace headed by Nikhil Jain, said this week that it has named Mark Richards as its Chief Technology Officer. Richards was most recently Vice President of Technical Operations at Fox Interactive Media, and also served as Interim VP of Infrastructure and Technology at Hulu.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2018

These venture capitalists think the same forces that have transformed transportation, media, retail and logistics will also work their way through prepared food businesses. If investors at some of the biggest technology companies are right, the next big restaurant chain could have no kitchens of its own. They just have to enable it.

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socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2010

Pasadena-based Clean Green Guy , the online marketplace for green and clean business deals, said Wednesday that it has named Patrick McKenna as its new Vice President of Business Development. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2010

Pasadena-based TweetUp , the Twitter advertising startup out of Idealab, said today that it has acquired Twidroid , which develops its own Twitter client for Android phones. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. TweetUp will power the ads on both Twidroyd, as well as the popurls site.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 4, 2011

They are looking for coders, roboticist, marketing managers, and community managers, to fill the areas of their Green Tech, Social Media, Big Data, and Enterprise companies. Pasadena, CA 91103. That’s right folks Idealab is hosting a job fair at their offices for 10 of their startups companies. REGISTER HERE. 6:00pm – 9:30pm.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2010

Pasadena-based software-as-a-service developer Central Desktop reported today that the firm had 44 percent, year-over-year growth, and boosted its staff by 50 percent in 2009, as a result of demand for the firm's online project collaboration tools. The firm said its customers now include such companies as Netflix, U.S.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2009

Santa Ana-based Teresis Media Management , a provider of workflow and digital asset management products for the entertainment and broadcast industry, said this morning that it has enhanced support for Mac users. Teresis develops products used to manage pre- and post-production processes.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

seamlessly connect to your smartphone, PC, and streaming media services. The Mint Plus Cleaner--which was developed in Pasadena by Evolution Robotics, the. Access your media collection, connect to the Internet, stream video from Hulu, NetFlix, YouTUbe, and more. Is your pet dog a social media maven? Sonos Play:3.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2019

There's a new opportunity in clean technology investments, according to venture capitalist Aaron Fyke , the head of a new, Pasadena-based venture capital investment fund, Thin Line Capital (www.thinlinecapital.com). In 2009, the finance world fell apart, and the venture world fell apart, and I returned to Pasadena.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Pasadena-based UberMedia (Www.ubermedia.com) is taking that data, and sorting through it to help businesses. We started out as a social media app developer in 2010, which gave us an opportunity to figure out how a powerful and rich data set would allow us to mine the interests and consumer behavior out of mobile signals.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Other big deals included $60M in investment in San Diego's Skinit , a developer of personalized "skins" for electronic devices, and $37.0M for Row 44 , the Westlake Village-based developer of wireless equipment for commercial airlines. The largest deal in the quarter was for Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2009

Pasadena-based Perfect Market, the Idealab-backed startup which is looking to help publishers monetize their underutilized and archive content, said Wednesday that it has created a new advisory board.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2015

As founder of Digital LA, I run one to two tech events every week bringing together tech, startups, investors, Hollywood, developers designers, and more. We also added panels reflecting LA''s growing tech communities from the West Side to Pasadena, and topics including health tech and space tech, as these industries grow.

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2014

Kevin is also well known as the organizer of the Digital LA networking group (digitalla.net), which hosts dozens and dozens of events in Silicon Beach every year (Editor''s note: socalTECH.com is a media sponsor of the event). We''re showing people that we have the cool media-entertainment stuff, which is cool and great, and we love that.

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socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2009

Pasadena-based Big Stage Entertainment , the startup which uses photos to create animated, 3-D facial avatars of users, has added new content from a game from GGL Global Gaming. Big Stage is a spinout of technology from USC, originally developed for the CIA.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

This second annual fest brings together technology leaders, startup CEOs, investors, Hollywood studio executives, entrepreneurs, developers, students and more to celebrate LA’s dynamic technology industries with panels, workshops, hackathon, mixers, and a start-up showcase spotlighting 40 local startups. and launching at Silicon Beach Fest.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Demand Media. Demand Media consistently popped up near number one in the list of "companies to work for" from our readers. The firm, based in Pasadena, has dozens of. big requirements for development, release, and QA engineers. The now-public. The company recently reported record. LiveNation. RightScale.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Monday, March 12, 2007 MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point The NY Times did a piece today on MyShape, a start-up in Pasadena - Log in Your Measurements, and the Clothes May Fit. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking? He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and Frontera Capital for a voice-over-IP service, and we thought we'd talk with Cliff Rees, the firm's CEO, to understand how the firm is different from those many providers. Our CTO, Vladamir, the head of our engineering and core development team, went and formed his own garage R&D company.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

million led by GRP Partners, with participation from Baroda Ventures, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI), Daher Capital, Double M Capital, Karlin Ventures, Clark Landry, Andy Rankin, and Launchpad LA. . · YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7

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Steve Reich

AUGUST 9, 2012

As a Pasadena Angel, I wanted to be shocked, but I wasn’t. But as a community, we have to figure out how Angels can effectively participate in the development of accelerator-based companies. A VC I respect just told me “the environment is not flush with cash, no matter what the media is saying.”

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2013

Yapert raised a funding round a few weeks ago from the Tech Coast Angels, Desert Angeles, and Pasadena Angels for its mobile apps, which consolidates news and information about your favorite interests. We developed our software for iOS, and we''ve had to work on Android development much quicker than companies would have 24 months ago.

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socalTECH

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. I was hired to head up strategy, marketing development, and product management.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

Last week, Pasadena-based Punchcard (www.punchcard.com) launched its mobile apps, which help local retailers provide rewards to loyal customers. I headed up product development to build out their portal services. We made it easier for local businesses to acquire customers through search and social media We sold that to Deluxe Corp.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

One of the firms poised to take advantage of that growth is Pasadena-based OpenX (www.openx.org), which develops one of the most widely used ad serving solutions available. We run it through our exchange, OpenX Market, which is in simple terms a stock market for online media. We manage that competition through an aucton process.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

But, while the customer is king, what does it mean for the state of product development at Tesla? The latest mode is just the latest in a long line of updates and improvements that Tesla has rolled out across its cars, with some being recommendations tweeted directly at Musk, then quickly adopted. What New Modes are Being Added to Tesla Cars?

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