socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2008

San Diego-based MyNuMo, a firm which develops mobile phone applications, said this week that it has renamed itself PlayScreen, and launched a number of Google Android phone applications.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Google CEO Sundar Pichai took his turn in the Congressional hotseat on Tuesday, following similar appearances by the chief executives of Facebook and Twitter earlier this year before lawmakers who are increasingly alert to the vast societal impact of Silicon Valley tech giants.

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Xconomy

JULY 31, 2017

It’s been a long time since tech’s biggest companies could be sorted into discrete buckets according to the products they pioneered—-Google, the search software giant; Apple, the computer and mobile device innovator; e-commerce leader Amazon; business software stalwart Microsoft; and social media engine Facebook.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2019

From Microsoft and IBM to Alphabet’s unit X and Canada’s D-Wave Systems, companies are racing to build powerful quantum computers that may solve problems beyond the capacity of the most sophisticated conventional processors, and do it much faster.

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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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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2017

Adam Riggs-Zeigen has come a long way since 2013, when he co-founded San Diego’s Rock My World and introduced the mobile app RockMyRun to provide upbeat music playlists to motivate smartphone-equipped runners. “We We found that it expanded into other avenues, like fitness studios,” Riggs-Zeigen recalled in a recent interview.

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Xconomy

JULY 18, 2018

s antitrust division has just fined Google a record $5 billion after concluding that the U.S. President Trump and the European Union’s top executive officer, Jean-Claude Juncker, are slated to discuss economic issues, security, and other topics on July 25, as The Guardian reported. One particular subject may be hard to avoid: the E.U.’s

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2019

In a tech culture that looks toward self-driving cars as the pinnacle of mobility innovation, we’re still debating whether fully autonomous vehicles are an imminent reality for our roads or an ever-receding Shangri-La.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Back in 2013, Google reported that 90 percent of multiple device owners switch between screens to complete tasks, using an average of three different combinations every day. The Device-Agnostic Customer Experience. So much so, that eMarketer forecasts 51.2 percent of digital buyers in the U.S. The Continued Growth of Cloud.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Readers in San Diego, Orange County, Ventura County, and elsewhere, please comment or send us your comments!). Edmunds.com has been around forever in Los Angeles, but after a recent redesign and a focus on updating its web site, new mobile. Despite a huge number of companies, we found there are a number which.

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Xconomy

MARCH 27, 2019

The Federal Trade Commission, which has been digging into the privacy practices of tech giants Facebook and Google, is now training its sights on the internet service providers that bring us all our online content.

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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. Both Google and Apple announced continued investment in their app stores, specifically around developer support.

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Xconomy

JUNE 24, 2019

Josh Hawley, to introduce legislation that would force companies like Facebook (NASDAQ: FB ) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL ) to reveal how much money they’re making by scooping up troves of personal. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, joined today with a Missouri Republican, Sen.

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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. Users leave messages for each other through BlockChalk mobile app. Mobile gifting service.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2017

If you do a Google search for AAPL, the stock ticker for Apple, the top search results are typically Yahoo Finance, Twitter, Google Finance—and StockTwits, a social media communications platform for Wall Street traders and active retail investors. Rosen (pictured above).

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2019

Back in 2014, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee’s seminal paper proposing the World Wide Web, the Pew Research Center asked an. Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. Because if we could, we’d all be bankrupt.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Those investors included a company called Paradigm, which is a big talent agency, Howard Lindzon in San Diego, and up north Greylock and Adam Nash. From research and working with IAC, was saw that more than fifty percent of the videos online are web humor and comedy.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Zong – mobile payments has been a very hot area over the past couple of years with the success and growth of both Boku and Zong. Boku and Zong focus mostly on mobile payments for virtual goods. It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. VC Financings: 1.

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Xconomy

JUNE 4, 2019

Both the House leadership and the Trump administration are preparing to challenge the power of Google, Facebook, and other big tech companies by launching antitrust investigations into their allegedly anticompetitive business practices, as the Washington Post detailed it this week.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Cloudera and Hortonworks, two large, publicly traded companies that compete to offer Web-based data storage and analytics, announced plans today to merge into a combined entity they value at $5.2

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Platform Software Review Web Pricing 93

Xconomy

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The tech industry, which reaps billions of dollars by harvesting personal data and using it to sell targeted advertising and other services, opened the door to federal data privacy regulations today in a proposal by ITI, a lobbying organization for tech companies.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 2, 2019

A new mobility company, Cerence , is making its public-market debut Wednesday, and its first CEO, Sanjay Dhawan, says he’s been meeting with more than 50 investors in recent weeks to talk up its prospects. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Like Detroit-based GM (NYSE: GM ), which is shifting its attention from traditional auto manufacturing to projects like its self-driving car unit Cruise—a San Francisco startup GM bought in 2016—Volvo Cars is one of the flock of established carmakers drawn to the Bay Area to take part in its thriving mobility innovation cluster.

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Mobile Startup Venture Capital San Diego 79

Xconomy

MARCH 9, 2017

Uber has suffered a series of troubles early this year, from sexual harassment claims by a former staff engineer to an intellectual property theft lawsuit by Google unit Waymo. But Uber’s most longstanding, recurrent, and core problem stems from its relationship with its contract drivers.

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Google Demand San Diego Company 76

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The field includes big semiconductor companies like Nvidia and tech giants like Google and Facebook, as well as other startups. Mountain View, CA-based Esperanto is vying with a host of competitors to create new processors for high-order tasks like machine learning and deep learning, while also minimizing power consumption.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The company is one of the smaller companies trying to elbow into a field dominated by Google Maps. [[The The $100 Billion SoftBank Vision fund led a $114. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Google Funding Capital Venture Capital 52

Xconomy

JULY 17, 2018

Selling a new Web-connected thermostat or other wired gizmo to consumers without a plan to deliver the necessary security patches is not only bad business—it’s unethical. So is failing to challenge a law or tech company rule that governs work on technology products, if that rule causes unjustifiable harms to people or the environment.

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Web Organization Artificial Inteligence Technology 52

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. Aiming to head off Apple, Microsoft shows off Xbox SmartGlass mobile app and Xbox dashboard update. Clash of the Titans: Google joins Apple, Microsoft in announcing new tablets (and more). Google Plus. 11 hrs ago.

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Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version? So mobile is a huge part of it. You aren’t going to make a mobile-centric app right now? Tablet and mobile are a huge part of that. Tablet and mobile are a huge part of that. What’s your take on the mobile ecosystem in the future?

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Startup Southern California Mobile Software 85

Xconomy

MARCH 22, 2018

YouTube has broadened its restrictions on gun-related videos, while thousands of Americans are mobilizing to demand stricter gun controls Saturday in a mass march spurred by young survivors of a deadly armed attack on a Florida high school last month.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2017

Signs are that the Amazon Echo and Google Home—both equipped with smart voice assistants—will turn out to be blockbuster sellers of the holiday gift season of 2016. Millions of consumers who used to type their search questions on a laptop or the tiny keys of a smartphone are now simply telling a tabletop device what they want.

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Google Artificial Inteligence San Diego Company 40

Xconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Udacity , a pioneer in the online teaching of IT skills, is celebrating a milestone today—50,000 students have now graduated from one of its revenue-generating “Nanodegree” programs.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

[ Updated 12/27/18, 9:54 am ] Manoj Saxena is bullish on artificial intelligence. As chairman of Austin, TX-based A.I. startup CognitiveScale and managing director of The Entrepreneur Fund , which makes investments in early-stage machine learning companies, Saxena believes A.I.

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Xconomy

MAY 9, 2019

Ride-hailing giant Uber secured $8.1 billion in new capital late Thursday as it priced an initial public offering that set its market capitalization at $82.4 billion , according to calculations by The New York Times and other news outlets.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2019

In late 2017, a federal watchdog unit assigned a working group to keep an eye on cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, and to sound an alert if those alternate currencies showed signs of becoming a risk to the stability of the US financial system.

Pricing 89

Pricing Report Invest Venture Capital 89

Xconomy

MAY 21, 2019

Sebastian Thrun first made his mark on autonomous vehicle development at the dawn of that industry, when he led a Stanford team whose robot car Stanley won the $2 million DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 by racing driverless through the Mojave Desert for 132 miles.

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Education Software Engineering Training Research 87

Xconomy

AUGUST 31, 2018

If you’re a city dweller, and unhappy with the big company that provides your Internet connection, chances are good there’s a scrappy little outfit that thinks it can do better for you.

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Networking Services Customer Custom 79