TechEmpower
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'Happy Halloween fans of web development frameworks! After a several-month hiatus, Round 7 of our project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms is available! Round 7 includes many new framework test implementations contributed by the community. They are Falcore, Grizzly, HttpListener, PHPixie, Plain, Racket-WS, Start, Stream, and Treefrog.
InfoChachkie
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. I am writing this article while sitting on a rooftop deck, overlooking the ocean in Baja, Mexico. The warm sea breeze and chilled beers are no doubt influencing my thinking, but sometimes it takes a change in latitude to gain a change in attitude (sorry Mr. Buffet, I couldn''t resist). My uber-relaxed state of mind aside, I have always believed that the key to personal and professional success is to select a locale that will facilitate yo
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socalTECH
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
'Is your cell phone the secret to fixing e-commerce''s problem with abandoned shopping carts? Sekur.me , a new Santa Ana-based startup, has come up with a new app and service to use your cell phone for payment, bypassing the complexity of shopping carts. We spoke with CEO and founder Jack Bicer --just back from DEMO--to learn more about the app and why he thinks the company has the solution to e-commerce shopping cart abandonment.
Berkonomics
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'My immediate family members were entrepreneurs from as far back as I can trace. Dad was a jeweler, then a furniture store owner. Mom wrote books and articles from her college days until she could no longer see the keyboard. One grandfather owned and maintained his apartment houses. The other was a grocer, then a jeweler. So it seemed perfectly natural that my brother and I find our separate callings as entrepreneurs from the very start.
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Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 27, 2013
'Fundraising is brutal. Actually, according to Paul Graham of Y-Combinator fame, “Raising money is the second hardest part of starting a startup. The hardest part is making something people want.” More startups may fail for that reason, but a close second is the difficulty of raising money. A while back, I outlined “ The 10 Best Sources of Cash to Start Your Business ” for startups, listing angel investors as alternative #6.
Tech Zulu Event
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'The University of Southern California has developed a reputation for innovation and entrepreneurship over the years. On Friday October 25th, this innovative spirit was put on display at the 2013 Student Innovator Showcase. In this yearly event put on by the Stevens Center for Innovation , 30 teams, selected from a pool of 70 applicants, presented their unique ideas to crowds of students, parents, and judges.
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socalTECH
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'Coworking space BLANKSPACES said today that it has opened up its third location in Southern California, and has opened up a new office location in downtown Los Angeles. The company--which was one of the first coworking spaces in Southern California--said it has opened up a new location between 5th and 6th street, near Pershing Square. The coworking operator said that the new location has eight team offices, ten individual offices, and three meeting rooms.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 30, 2013
'E-commerce giant Amazon.com said Tuesday that it is opening up another fulfillment center in the Inland Empire, in Moreno Valley, which it says will create more than 1,000 full time jobs. The new center will be the fourth fulfillment center for the company in California. The new employees will help to pick, pack, and ship products to Amazon.com customers.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
'We''re trying to identify the top 100 up-and-coming individuals in Southern California''s technology industry! We''re looking to identify the individuals here in the technology industry, across all sectors, who are most likely to create the next big thing, produce the next big exit or to influence the industry in a significant way--the next generation of entrepreneurs and leaders across all of Southern California.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'San Diego-based Achates Power , which is developing more efficient internal combustion engines, has linked with a major manufacturer of opposed-piston engines, Fairbanks Morse Engine. According to the two companies, they are in a joint development and licensing agreement with Achates Power, to apply the company''s technology to Fairbanks Morse diesel and dual-fuel opposed-piston engines.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
'Santa Monica-based eHarmony is going beyond the algorithm, and into personalized counseling, saying this morning that it has launched a new service it calls eH+ , which will join a personal counselor to its algorithmically driven services to present users with personalized service. According to eHarmony, the new service will provide credentialed therapists who will guide people through the entire online dating process, helping users choose matches and vetting those connections in a personal way
socalTECH
OCTOBER 30, 2013
'Santa Monica-based ServiceMesh , the developer of enterprise, cloud management tools headed by Eric Pulier, has been acquired by CSC , the two said late Wednesday afternoon. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. According to CSC, it will use the acquisition to help it transform itself into a "next-generation" IT company. ServiceMesh develops enterprise cloud software management products, used to manage enterprise apps running in private, public, and hybrid cloud environments.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 30, 2013
'For our Insights and Opinions section today--where we feature the thoughts and opinions of the local high tech community--we have an article from Jeff Grabow , of Ernst & Young, talking about the changing world of venture capital : The VC environment isn''t what it used to be. Guess what? That''s not a bad thing. The venture environment has evolved and understanding three key trends in that evolution can be critical to getting your company funded.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 30, 2013
'Southern California venture capital investors Domain Associates and Versant Venture saw a public exit of one of their portfolio companies this morning, molecular diagnostics equipment maker Veracyte. Veracyte debuted on the NASDAQ Global Market this morning at $13.00 per share, and was trading slightly down at $12.95 this morning. Veracyte''s other investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and TPG Biotech.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'Los Angeles-based native advertising technology provider Nativo said this morning that it has named Oded Cohen as its new SVP of Engineering. Cohen joins the company from Digital Generation (DG), where he was VP of Engineering, heading up a team of 70. Cohen also served at MediaMind Technologies. Nativo develops online advertising technology used by publishers for managing native ads; the firm is backed by Greycroft Partners, e.ventures and Signia Venture Partners.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
'Venture-backed biotechnology startup Ignyta , which is backed by Colt Ventures and City Hill Ventures, has gone public in a reverse merger. According to the company, it completed a reverse merger with Infinity Oil & Gas Company, which trades on the OTCBB as IGASD. The company said it will start trading as RXDX on the OTCBB on or around December 2nd.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'San Diego-based life sciences equipment manufacturer Illumina said today that it has agreed to acquire NextBio , a developer of big-data based, clinical and genomic informatics software. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. NextBio was based in Santa Clara, California. NextBio''s software let users compare genomic information against both public and private data sets.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 30, 2013
'If you''ve ever ordered flowers from one of the big floral services, you know it''s an impersonal, cookie-cutter, and heavily commoditized area. Those services work on volume, and the designs you can send--and which you receive--are from a limited selection, not at all personalized to the recipient, and for the florist delivering the flowers, provides slim margins and no opportunity to build a customer base.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
'Technology billionaire Elon Musk is doubling down on Los Angeles--property, at least--and has acquired his neighbor''s house , across from his existing house in Bel Air. According to Trulia, Musk paid $6.75M for the home, which was once owned by actor Gene Wilder. Musk splits his time between Los Angeles and Silicon Valley, rotating between Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and SolarCity.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 30, 2013
'In what might be the first ever "celebrity product engineer", computer maker Lenovo held a launch event yesterday at Youtube Space LA for a new tablet, announcing that it has partnered with Ashton Kutcher to be the newest product engineer on its new line of tablets. Lenovo said that Kutcher will work with the company''s engineering teams to help develop and market the company''s new Yoga line of tablets, providing input and decision-making into design, specifications, software and usage scenari
socalTECH
OCTOBER 29, 2013
'Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , the digital advertising startup which helps publishers automate ad placements on their websites via a real-time, trading platform, has expanded its management team, saying that it has named four new executives Tuesday. The two include a new Chief Marketing Officer, Julie Ginches; a new Head of Seller Cloud, Kaylie Smith; a new SVP, Product, Stacey Gomes; and a new SVP, Operations & Strategy, Ingrid Lestiyo.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 29, 2013
'Santa Ana-based electronics distributor Ingram Micro has acquired Shipwire , a provider of e-commerce fulfillment and supply chain management which was based in Palo Alto, California. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. According to Ingram Micro, the move will help accelerate its growth in the e-commerce fulfillment area. Ingram Micro said that Shipwire will continue to be operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of the company, under the direction of Shipwire founder and CEO Damon Sche
socalTECH
OCTOBER 29, 2013
'Los Angeles-based YouTube network Fullscreen announced today that it has launched a new, personalized consulting service called Channel+ , aimed at helping agencies, brands, and media companies with their YouTube efforts. According to Fullscreen, Channel+ has been a service of the company for two years, but has now become a dedicated business division.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 29, 2013
'Santa Monica-based Convertro , the developer of marketing analytics software headed by startup veteran Jeff Zwelling, has bolstered its executive talent base today, announcing the hiring of new new VPs. Convertro said that it has named Paul Bates as Vice President of Advertiser Solutions, and Sarah Chambers as Vice President of Account Management. Bates was previously VP of Product Management at MarketShare, and Chambers was previously at Clearsaleing (eBay Enterprise Attribution).
socalTECH
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'Santa Monica-based customer relationship management software prover Nimble announced this morning that it has integrated its software with Microsoft Office 365 and Outlook 2013. The company said the new integration automatically logs message history from Outlook, lets users access Nimble''s contact records and profiles from within Outlook, provides contact importing tools from email, and more.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'Los Angeles-based streaming television site Hulu announced late Friday that it has named Elaine Paul as its new CFO. Paul replaces Tom Fuelling, who had been at Hulu since 2007. Paul was previously SVP of Corporate Strategy at Disney, and also had worked at the Walt Disney Internet Group. Hulu said that Paul had been involved in Disney''s original investment in Hulu back in 2009.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
'Irvine-based Netwrix , a developer of configuration management and auditing software, said today that it has named Nick Cavalancia as its new Vice President of Marketing. Cavalancia had previously been at SpectorSoft, serving as Vice President of Marketing. He also had served at ScriptLogic. READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'Los Angeles-based NantWorks , the investment and umbrella company for the projects of billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, announced a deal today with Alcatel-Lucent , where Nantworks will acquire Alcatel-Lucent''s Digital Multimedia Solutions business unit. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Alcatel-Lucent said its DMS unit develops technology for the areas of advance television, new media, digital advertising, retailing services, and health.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 31, 2013
'Pasadena-based prepaid debit card provider Green Dot said Thursday that it has expanded the line of products it offers through Walmart, under the Walmart MoneyCard brand. According to Green Dot and Walmart, they have added six new card types to its line of cards, ranging from a "basic" low cost card to a "MoneyCard Preferred" card with waived monthly service fees for customers with direct deposit.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 29, 2013
'Long Beach-based mobile game developer Cie Games said Monday that it has released an Android version of the company''s game, Racing Rivals. The multi-player, racing game had previously been only avialable on iOS. The new title is available on Google Play. The game is sponsored by Nitto Tire. Cie Games develops a number of mobile and social games focused on auto-related activities, which are sponsored and built around automotive brands.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'How much is Los Angeles-based Snapchat really worth? The report last week that Snapchat is raising a new funding round at $3.5 billion--and turned down a $1 billion acquisition offer from Facebook --has some wondering if we''ve returned to 1999-era, dot-com valuations for companies. READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'Glendale-based Everbridge , the developer of communications and emergency notification services, said today that Westfield Gas & Electric, a utility located in Westfield, Massachusetts, has selected its platform for a severe weather and power outage alert system. Financial impact of the win was not announced. Everbridge said the utility serves approximately 19,000 electric customers and 9,000 gas customers.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 28, 2013
'Demand Media said today that the company''s domain name subsidiary has entered the generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) market, and has been awarded the contracts necessary to participate as a registrar in the new market. According to Demand Media, its Domain Name Services business officially has become an Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) accredited registry fro the new gTLDs, including both Demand Media''s eNom and Name.com businesses.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
'For Friday''s Insights and Opinions section, we''re again featuring a tidbit of advice from investor and author Dave Berkus, who talks about entrepreneurial DNA. My immediate family members were entrepreneurs from as far back as I can trace. Dad was a jeweler, then a furniture store owner. Mom wrote books and articles from her college days until she could no longer see the keyboard.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
'San Diego-based RF Industries , a manufacturer of interconnects and cable assemblies, said Thursday that it has sold its RadioMobile division to the current management team of the division, to a new company, RadioMobile. Financial terms of the spinoff were not announced. According to RF Industries, in exchange for the transfer of assets, it will receive a portion of all of RadioMobile''s future revenues for three years.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
'Woodland Hills-based United Online announced this morning that it has successfully spuin off FTD , via a distribution of FTD common stock. The company also said it has completed a one-for-seven reverse stock split of its shares. As part of the move, United Online and FTD will now be separately traded on the NASDAQ, with United Online continuing to trade as UNTD, and FTD now trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market as FTD.
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