socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We've also invented and patented a new technology called "MasterKey" that allows people to play our games natively on all relevant social and mobile platforms. Facebook became so dominant in social, not even Google could touch them. Don't bet on any one platform. Platforms come and go, remember Beta and VHS?

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Southern California Incubator High Tech 223

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

YouTube also boasts of a new channel guide available at just a swipe from the left edge of the screen into one’s subscribed channels giving users instant access to videos they like. It also allows you to share on Google+, Facebook or text message in the app, as well as to Twitter and email. Social Videos. Five Year Contract.

Google 69

Google Outsource Development Screening Mobile 69

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

InfoChachkie

JULY 25, 2012

Anthony Kosner, contributor at Forbes.com, stated that “Facebook gets twice as much mobile traffic on its web app as on its native iOS and Android apps.” While the web based version of Facebook has an abundance of display banners and advertisements littering every page, the mobile version has nothing of the sort.

Netflix 191

Netflix Blogging Mobile Advertising 191

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 11, 2012

Touch Screen. Software Platform. Messaging/Web/Apps. MMS, SMS, Email (Corporate Sync, Google Mail, Push Email, Yahoo Mail) IM (GTalk), WebKit w/ Flash. MotoCast™, Google Mobile Services, Google Talk™. It also boast 4.3-inch A dual-core 1.2 GHz processor and 4G LTE speeds. Form Factor. Android 2.3.5

Entrepreneur 64

Entrepreneur Google Software Review Yahoo 64

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2013

So where does Ophir see GumGum as web browsing moves towards mobile? If our user’s eyes moved to mobile overnight, we’ve enabled the ability to smoothly go across platforms so our units can work well for all devises and streams. Ophir gives his take on Google Glass. “Google Glass is a very nascent technology.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Advertising Google Screening 76

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. We also talked a lot about Stickybits (who uses the SimpleGeo platform) and Occipital who has the red-hot RedLaser scanning product. Time will tell.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I had a really fun 20-minute interview with Howard Lindzon of Stock Twits as part of a 5-part series on whether the web is dead. The topic of whether the web is dead was kicked off by Chris Andersen of Wired Magazine in this article. The Internet existed long before the World Wide Web and web browsers were created.

Web 300

Web HTML SMTP Google 300

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Valarm is an Android mobile app and integrated suite of web-based tools that will track almost anything via GPS, and remotely monitor almost any environment via built-in and external sensors. Cookbook Cafe is the new DIY publishing platform from L.A.-based digmybrand. Get free bids from lawyers on the documents and services you need!

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UCLA Santa Monica Mobile Web 97

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I was excited to read it because Robert Cialdini had been a speaker at Google when my wife worked there and she told me that many members of the senior management team at Google had been raving about his work. I don’t personally invest in angel deals in the web/tech space because of potential conflict with USV down the road.

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Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2012

He also architected web-based trading platforms for several investment banks. You can see the results of Contur’s engine right on your screen. He is passionate about developing reliable online services and structuring data. As the technical lead of Contur development, he is working on creating a solid reliable service.

Email 63

Email CTO Hire Startup Organization 63

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

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. In the same year Salesforce.com launched a SaaS CRM platform to compete with Siebel. Enter Apple. Or would it?

Brentwood 326

Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326

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.

Google 325

Google Press Marketing Content 325

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.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

And with this foundation they worked on Plug.DJ’s platform to solve some fundamental problems: The world is increasingly social, but music discovery was still a largely solitary experience. ” She refers to a great visualization done by Google on the history and breakdown of popular music genres. ” Plug.DJ

Startup 107

Startup Product Sites Tool 107

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

He knows the history of all of the payment gateways, mobile payment platforms, credit offerings, remittance companies, etc. It’s tempting to want to stay in your offices and fund raise via email or web conferencing. It’s your job to find a continued way to stay on the radar screen of the VC. Press the flesh.

Develop 366

Develop Development Funding Venture Capital 366

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Let me just put this more clearly for you up front – the vast majority of the Internet is used for porn so every product has this use but you probably just don’t know about it: YouTube, Tumblr, Facebook, FaceTime, Skype and of course be very careful on Google Search without “safe mode” on. So get over it.

Snapchat 150

Snapchat Screening Venture Capital Guide 150

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. To this day I’m astounded that IBM, Google, Sun, Microsoft and others didn’t offer this service and Amazon did. Cloud Data Platform. We raised $16.5

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

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. So without my weighing into the pro’s / con’s of this I can say that I believe it will capture a large segment of the market but leave room for “open platforms&# to play a big role.

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Content Google Media Hulu 386