Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

As we draw closer to the end of 2016, it is important that we take a moment to look back and reflect on all of the ways technology has inspired us, and transformed the way we live and do work. Here are the top five ways technology has impacted us this year. The Device-Agnostic Customer Experience. percent of digital buyers in the U.S.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Thanks to increased performance, better battery life, improved wireless networks, and an infinite marketplace to connect developers and consumers, the shift towards mobile-only is not just a trend but a reality. So, why does it feel like more power and better apps have not lead to a greater mobile experience? inch Full HD display.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad have completely revolutionized how consumers interact with the online world in the past few years. One of the first companies to see the potential for a mobile application specifically targeted at the enterprise was Roambi (www.roambi.com), which is based in Solana Beach.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

And apparently, that’s what mobile applications do better – just ask the fast-growing number of app users. This is the consequence of the switch from desktop and laptops to mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. Of that smartphone internet time, mobile apps take up 86% of usage and only 14% access time via the mobile web.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2016

It’s easy to get confused by all the new technical jargon that seems to be constantly spilling out of our computer screens. Deep learning in particular is starting to catch on, and though some may think to overlook it for the time being, a recent announcement from Google may change some people’s minds.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2012

Have you every clicked on a mobile ad on your iPhone or Android phone, and found that the ad you clicked into wasn't usable on your mobile phone? Jason Crilly: We're doing mobile landing pages. We're creating really good looking, really easy to use, really effective mobile landing pages. What exactly is PageWoo?

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InfoChachkie

JULY 25, 2012

RingRevenue's unique technology allows online and offline advertisers and publishers to consistently increase revenues from mobile, print, search and email campaigns by tracking the phone calls generated by such ads. So it only makes sense that the Facebook mobile app has been an enormous success. Yeah, right.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

And while the App Internet is currently more powerful than the Mobile Internet it has fundamental flaws. In other words, our mobile devices are all powerful and the network that they connect into sucks. It’s central standard was HTML (hyper text markup language) that described how we would show data on computer screens.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 18, 2013

The startup--which offers up a wide range of branded, Visa cards--is one of a growing number of finance related technology startups in Southern California. We think the future of payments is in the palm of someone''s hand, in the form of their mobile phone. It''s just skewed to people who use mobile phone actively.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2013

It’s a promotional video for a technology company. Instead, we’ve matured and grown our technologies and sales infrastructure to a point where the intersection between where we are and where we want to be is perfect to facilitate growth. . Ophir considers GumGum as part technology and part media company.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. Our whole product and technology team is about 500 people. Outside of Facebook, Google is the internet.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. Our whole product and technology team is about 500 people. Outside of Facebook, Google is the internet.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

In a short, densley packed timeline, our panel of industry experts discussed the fine line topics of wearables technology, bitcoin, SaaS, cloud, mobile gaming, and social markets. Babak Razi – Founder of Third Waves Ventures, innovator and supporter of emerging high technologies. Summary of Topics. Big or Bust?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2013

If you are the first to deliver this, your startup might be the next Google! If you add the next generation of natural language processing (NLP), you will be able to ask Google Voice Search or Apple Siri the questions right through your smart phone. Technology environment savvy.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2011

The firm is backed by Google Ventures, as well as a number of well known angels. There are two ways you can use the app -- you can either play your iPad like it is a real instrument, by strumming the touch screen. You're backed by Google, isn't that right? Aviv Grill: Yes, Google ventures led our last round.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

As you might recall, our first installation of REACH , was back in November and covered disruptive technology in the gaming industry. The inspiration to create Call of Duty vs Clash of Cans is very different on mobile. $$ and Advertisements. Gaming (especially mobile) is an inherently social experience. Social Gaming.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 5, 2013

The presence of Google and Microsoft’s outposts have helped to a certain extent, but Southern California can certainly do better when it comes to retaining — and attracting — talent. People don’t just solely watch TV nowadays; they multitask with a handful of screens. At SBF, a number of good ideas were floated to do just that.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. He started targeting the ad by location and interest, and the number of potential people he was reaching began decreasing on screen (Facebook tells you dynamically). Tesla is not. It's a great talk.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

They cite Quara, Google, Twitter & Facebook as obvious examples. Besides, why call when you can use Google, or send a Twitter message?” Google doesn’t seem to ever take calls from ME when I have a complaint! Google, Facebook & Twitter all provide free services to end users and we eat them up.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Join us for an evening of demonstrations from vetted technology startups, followed by an inspiring keynote from Two Bit Circus Co-Founder, Brent Bushnell. Two Bit Circus combines engineering, education, and amusement to create physical marvels fueled by technology. You cal also download the free mobile apps iPhone and Android.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2016

And what does this portend for the future of mobile interfaces? According to the same PFWTMs, Apple designer Jony Ive wants to get rid of the iPhone’s bezels and use an edge-to-edge OLED screen to make the device look and act like a single sheet of smart glass. So, what’s going on inside Apple? That sounds cool, but tricky.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Ten years ago wearable technology was a relatively unknown thing. Ask somebody today to describe wearable technology to you, and they’ll probably talk about the latest round of smart watches, or maybe Google Glass. Wearable technology will expand in more numerous and impactful ways than smartphones have in the past ten years.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 19, 2013

Not to be outdone by innovations from Google and Facebook, Twitter is finally getting into the time currency engagement race for eyeballs with fresh spinoffs. Now it appears that Twitter is going to try to cash in on the lucrative TV-Twitter experience in some way by creating their own technology around it. Twitter and TV.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 20, 2016

Google Nexus 6P. That includes Google’s Nexus 6P smartphone. It will also come with quick charge technology. We should also expect the Nexus 6 to be the launching point for Android N, which is the new Android OS Google will be debuting. We can also expect USB-C for charging and data transfer. Apple iPhone 7.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 22, 2015

Technology is a useful servant, but a dangerous master. Pew Research Internet Project recently conducted a survey on the IoT, and 83% of respondents, both technology experts and keen Internet users, agreed that the Internet of Things, embedded computing and wearables will have far-reaching, and at the same time, useful effects by 2025.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2015

Everyone needs to know what they will roll out later in the year and what new technology will revolutionize the way we live. Walking into the booth, you immediately sense Sony’s push on 4K technology. The SmartEye looked more polished and ready to compete with Google Glass. Pros: The giant 4K TVs. Pros: Underrated booth.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Rufus Labs is a wearable technology startup in Los Angeles with a heavy focus on building devices for the industrial sector (EMS, police, campus/event security, warehouse, etc). Technology: Sensay is a human routing engine that makes anonymous peer-to-peer chat and transactions possible between strangers. IoT: Rufus Labs. Records.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2011

monocle or Google Goggles allow you to take pictures of restaurants/objects and give you more in-depth information on the subject. With the aid of visual cues or prominent AR markers , these apps can spawn 3D objects from flat surfaces to be made viewable on phones and mobile devices. Only makes sense right? Simply mind-blowing stuff!

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2013

The Connected Car , where automotive and technology (outside of vehicle performance and earth saving “greenness”) collide. Integrated car-to-mobile communication that allows you to drive and plan your day without touching your phone once. Like mobile devices, it’s not just about talking (or traveling) anymore.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

They were going to bring the Internet to your mobile phones ushering in the era of “m-commerce.&# Gag. I had just returned from living in Japan where I witnessed the hugely successful launch of i-mode by NTT DoCoMo so I knew the potential that the mobile web would ultimately bring, but I saw so many flaws in the launch of WAP.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Also of note was Ryan Orrico’s launch of HandJob, a new form of job applicant screening and referral tracking. When using the Handjob app , users must shake the app up and down or side to side and out pops a pre-screened job applicant. All presentations were of extremely high quality and teams did a killer job. is also hiring.

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Both Sides of the Table

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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2011

This happens with Google, too. Every change in the algorithm wipes years of effort off of the traffic numbers of affected companies as anybody hurt by the Google Panda release will tell you. in turn killed Google when it came to search. While Google stopped Facebook in their tracks when they built a social networking company.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

Dig deeper and you see that they do: project management (like 37 Signals), share and store files online (like DropBox and Box.net), create and edit documents online (like Google Docs & Zoho), Wikis (like SocialText) and Discussions (like Yammer). ’ When you use technology for a really long time you begin to spot patterns.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Video will be inextricably linked to the future of the Internet and consumption between PCs, mobile devices and TVs will merge. But with the introduction of Apple TV, Google TV, the Boxee Box & other initiatives it’s clear that this battle will heat up in 2011. Enter Google.

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