Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2016

When Xconomy convened a dinner discussion earlier this year that included prominent San Diego cybersecurity innovators, startup founders, and system administrators, I was stunned to learn that Gary Hayslip oversees an IT network that blocks an average of 800,000 cyber attacks a day. Gary Hayslip. It’s not a tool to replace everything.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2013

DB Networks , a developer of a firewall specifically designed to counteract SQL injection and database denial of service attacks on websites and web applications, has raised $4.5M The San Diego company said it raised the Series B round from Khosla Ventures. in a funding round.

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Xconomy

APRIL 12, 2017

Lymber was barely a year old when Mindbody (NASDAQ: MB ) announced recently that it acquired the San Diego mobile app developer. Lymber, named as a 2017 Xconomy San Diego startup to watch , has developed a technology platform that enables mobile users to book openings in fitness and wellness classes.

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socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2011

San Diego-based SweetLabs , the firm formerly known as OpenCandy, is taking on the mobile app model, and applying it to the desktop. The firm said today that it has launched a beta of Pokki , a platform which lets web developers create desktop apps, using languages such as HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

San Diego-based SweetLabs , the company headed by Darrius Thompson, and which runs both the OpenCandy advertising network and the desktop Pokki app platform, said today that it has raised $13M in a Series C funding round. Pokki allows developers to create desktop apps using web technologylike HTML5.

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JULY 27, 2010

San Diego-based VMIX , which develops online video management tools and software, announced today that its platform is being used by NASA. VMIX said that NASA is using its online video platform to power multimedia content on the www.nasa.gov web site. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2010

San Diego-based Sorenson Media , a developer of online video hosting and encoding products, announced today that web performance firm Gomez has selected the firm's online video platform, Sorenson 360. Sorenson is providing Gomez with development and delivery of marketing videos to its customers. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Boston-based Cybereason has formed a partnership with Arm, the dominant developer of computer chip architecture, which was acquired by SoftBank in 2016. Security-tech company Cybereason is announcing another boon flowing from close ties with its biggest investor, Japanese telecom and tech giant SoftBank.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Andrew Connell is the CEO of DinnerDate.com , a startup which has been in beta in San Diego for the last few months, and is just now expanding out to new markets. It's born out of trying to address the problems that have developed in the modern dating industry over time. What's your background?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Los Angeles-based PixelFish, which develops video advertising for small and medium sized businesses, said this morning that it has acquired Eyespot, a provider of video hosting services for web sites. Pixelfish said the buy will help it accelerate the development of its video advertising platform.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

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. We are unique in being an open platform, that allows for all of these variations to happen. Thats what uCast is all about.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2017

Cloudbeds, a cloud-based provider of hospitality management software, said today it has raised slightly more than $9 million in Series B financing to expand its software-as-a-service platform and broaden awareness of its brand. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2016

What do you get when you combine a charitable pub crawl, the movie Anchorman, and a software developer randomly hired off Craigslist? In the case of San Diego's Classy (www.classy.org), you get an extremely popular piece of software-as-a-service to help you manage a nonprofit and its fundraising efforts.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2018

Much attention was focused this past year on the impact of social media on the 2016 presidential election, as reports emerged about the use of these platforms by entities linked with Russia to spread false, misleading, or inflammatory political messages. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2019

San Francisco-based Degreed is among the educational technology companies now classified as “learning experience platforms,’’ because they organize staff participation in skills development training and coordinate it with the goals of employers, who are their clients.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. When you get all that data and analyze it, you get interesting insights,” Sheik said.

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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. And in particular, if you're developing comedy and humor content -- which is a big segment of the content being created--how to do you help people find the content which will resonate with them.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

Department of Energy to help develop tools to secure the power grid. However, if you think about IT security, all the systems everyone is familiar with, ERP systems, web, and email, and other basic network systems, all those systems that are designed to run companies, my history and background is in securing those platforms.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 14, 2018

Together, the two companies plan to offer a standardized platform where all participants in the transportation ecosystem—including Ford’s rival automakers—can build services, from their own ride-hailing apps to entertainment channels for passengers marking time in self-driving.

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socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

The firm recently relocated its headquarters from Hawaii, and we talked with Rob about why someone might need the service, how it's different from the scores of social networking sites on the web, and what problem it's trying to solve. as a social identity platform, which you think of as a social hub, rather than a filter or aggregator.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

The booth for San Diego based Tweetphoto was a happening spot at the 140 Characters Conference. Tweetphoto is an extensible photo sharing platform, that allows you to send photos via mobile or email to Twitter and Facebook. They even had a few moments to chat it up with TechZulu’s Amanda Coolong : .

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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. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

PerfectForms is a platform for business users to create web applications, to provide visibility to processes, and to report on information collected. In 1999, I was involved with GE Financial, launching a broker platform, so that they could self-score and autodoc their funding deals. It was a very manual process.

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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. It's very broad, and casual.

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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. Idris Manley: It's interesting.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

To fix that, San Diego-based Kazuhm (www.kazuhm.com) has created software, which uses the same kinds of distributed computing techniques made popular in the consumer world by community projects like SETI, and applied that to the enterprise. They sign up through a web portal, online, and they create a resource pool.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Enter the light bulb, which was that this was a real opportunity to create a new platform, which can facilitate connecting experts with users. He built their entire publishing and analytics platform, and spent more than four years there before he came to join us to start this. Who are your other cofounders?

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socalTECH

APRIL 11, 2013

One of the companies which has been helping to power that revolution is TakeLessons (www.takelessons.com), a San Diego company which helps music teachers find students, both for in-person lessons as well as for online teaching sessions. The idea is that products have moved to the web in a big way. That''s favorable for us.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2016

To solve that problem, Arterys tapped into technologies used to develop three-dimensional video games like “Super Mario 3D World.” Arterys uses Amazon’s Web servers to analyze data from the scans. “A The company is inviting 3D medical imaging developers to work within the platform.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The recent funding deals that Intel Capital laid out in San Diego Monday, on the first day of its 17th annual global summit, also reflect the strategic thinking of Wendell Brooks, who took the helm at Intel Capital about a year ago as longtime president Arvind Sodhani retired.

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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.

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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. 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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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. The reviews API enables developers to respond to customer comments in Google Play, a huge advantage for companies that understand apps are now an extension of their brands.

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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?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Every developer, biz dev person, marketeer or sales rep on your team will be surrounded by scores of companies calling them like Sirens to switch teams. But we do have great technology developers. In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. Now let’s think about retention.

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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

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. Developers. While real estate and tourism continue to be strong economic drivers, there is also a thriving business climate developing life-changing technologies. Skip to secondary content. Newsletters. 11 hrs ago. 20 hrs ago.

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