socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

According to GoGuardian, the new software assesses the content students are creating and interacting with online via web searches, social media, chat, forums, email and online collaboration tools. Pricing on the new software was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Now you can do it for free, or a few hundred dollars, with one of the many web building tools available, like Shopify or Weebly. With Google, you get all the storage you need in the cloud for free. Social media facilitates marketing and sales. A programmer can build a new smartphone app for a few thousand dollars.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

Warren’s plan called for regulators to be appointed to oversee the unwinding of several acquisitions that were critical to the development of the core technology that make Alphabet’s Google and the social media giant Facebook so profitable… and Zappos. — Balaji S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

If you can’t justify both a web site and a blog, skip the old-fashioned web site, and make your blog do double duty as described below. Every business wants their web site to appear on the first page of search engine results from a relevant search (Search Engine Optimization). Add content regularly. Conversational style.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

Google has acquired smart home appliance company, Nest Labs for $3.2 Google’s acquisition of Nest gives the the co-founders an early exit and resources to up their hardware game. Google EnergySense. Nest is not Google’s first hardware acquisition. ” Nest and Google are not new to each other.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Cultivate a preferred relationship with Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google to ensure the best possible placement of your offering. This freemium model has been used for years by web apps. Offer premium services after user is hooked. Even a conversion rate of one percent can build a healthy business.

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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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Social Media Commerce Google Advertising 75

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2019

Initially that means a creative, collaborative toolset for visual communications, allowing users to develop really compelling slides, print materials or social media posts that are more visually compelling and easier-to-build for those who aren’t naturally gifted as visual story tellers. What are some examples? Yeah, this sucks.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Think about the retailer e-mails we receive daily or the ads that appear on Google or our social media sites. Though based on our Web searches, those ads don’t necessarily represent what we would like to buy. Houston —Knowledge is power, but too much of a good thing can render data meaningless.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 30, 2011

Google, they’ve cracked a nut here. With Wave being an experiment, and Buzz being a dead duck from the get go, Google Plus (Google+) is actually a usable, integrated, complete-feeling product released this week, and it’s pretty damn good. Now, there’s Google+. Holy cow is Google+ fast and responsive.

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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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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others. One thing to make clear, StartupRoar is a jump off point.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2011

Most web publishers measure where their traffic is coming from using an analytics package such as Google Analytics, Omniture or Core Metrics. These were good packages in the pre social media world at helping figure out who was driving your traffic. to track all of my social media sharing behavior.

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Social Media Google Media Marketing 292

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

TechZulu will be streaming SMCLA: Going Goo Goo Over Google Analytics, live from the Mahalo Office in Santa Monica. This month we are going to take a deeper dive into one of the easiest ways to measure online social media efforts – through Google analytics. Come join Social Media Club – Los Angeles on Tuesday, Feb.

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

The 7 Ways to Get (unpaid) Traffic on the Web. “If There are 7 Ways to Get Traffic on the Web, in no weighted order they are: 1.) Social Media. Increase the production of your content.It’s a simple formula, go to Google and type in this query site:“ name of your site.com ”.The Search Engines. Refreshing Content.

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0. Now, what we've entered is actually Social Media 2.0, Now, what we've entered is actually Social Media 2.0, That was in addition to the social media work I'd done.

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Social Media Zumbox Media Startup 248

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

At Congressional hearings this week on Russia’s use of social media to interfere with the 2016 U.S. election, lawmakers pressed Facebook, Twitter, and Google to take exhaustive measures to stop the same thing from happening again. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2023

Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $1 trillion. It’s only been in the last decade or two, that social media companies, like Facebook and Twitter, have achieved market valuations in billions of dollars (unicorn status), while clearly sacrificing revenue to gain users.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2020

Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $1 trillion. It’s only been in the last decade or two, that social media companies, like Facebook and Twitter, have achieved market valuations in billions of dollars (unicorn status), while clearly sacrificing revenue to gain users.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Yet I am amazed to see from recent data that nearly 36 percent of small businesses today still have no web presence at all. I still remember my disappointment the first time I published my website, did an immediate Google search on the name, and it said my company didn’t exist. Here are a few: Register domain name and set up hosting.

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Web Startup Sites Design 76

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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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2010

Bourgeois is currently head of "Team FREDNET", which is developing a robotic Lunar Lander for the Google Lunar X Prize. Robertson is the outspoken founder of MP3.com, com, and also founded Linspire and Gizmo5. Senturia is CEO of Blackbird Ventures, and a notable San Diego angel investor. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 20, 2011

On Tuesday, Google’s native iOS app for its Google+ service was released on the App Store. You get all the basic functionality of the mobile web version but the native application adds push notifications, photo uploading and the ability to create Huddles. The Google+ app is a very good start but there are a few downsides.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Anticipate and establish supporting social media accounts. Customers expect consistency of your brand name across all channels, so don’t pick a web site name if the comparable name is available or already taken on relevant social media. It’s easier, cheaper, and quicker to pivot at this stage rather than later.

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Product Entrepreneur Technical Advisors Technical Review 127

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

They first started in 1994 and are therefore almost as old as the Web itself. And as Jon Steinberg of Buzzfeed points out, the CTRs for social media banner ads are just 0.08%. I’m sure it probably resonants with how most of you read the web. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. Banner Ads. Holy Shiitake

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

Cultivate a preferred relationship with Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google to ensure the best possible placement of your offering. This freemium model has been used for years by web apps. Offer premium services after user is hooked. Even a conversion rate of one percent can build a healthy business.

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Mobile Develop Development Platform 126

Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2017

News is constantly streaming out these days about the role of Facebook, Twitter, and Google in the 2016 presidential election; most disturbing to the public is the apparent use of social media, search, and video channels by Russian operatives seeking to influence U.S.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Big news in the social gaming sphere as major interactive gaming player Kabam announces the launch of The Godfather: Five Families out of beta and into commercial exclusively with Google+ Games. It’s some pretty major news at it signifies an interesting list of milestones in the social gaming industry: 1.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Then I check and manage our Google Adwords campaign and check our analytics/stats. I frequently work on networking through the social web and building new relationships that will foster knowledge gathering or business growth. We need to spend some time discussing what you do with the social web. Love the minis!

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

What do children's vitamins and social media have to do with one another? Gordon Gould , the co-founder of SmartPants, talks about the company and how it's applying what he learned founding ThisNext and from a long experience in the social media market to the consumer products goods area--what he describes as Brands 2.0.

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Web Social Media SEO Media 225

Xconomy

JANUARY 7, 2019

Looking back over the past two years, it seems that public perceptions of tech companies have shifted, compared with the eager acceptance that often prevailed as innovations from these businesses transformed social interactions, transportation, and other aspects of life.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with ecommerce, your latest invention, or personal services. Mashable claims there are 150,000 new web sites created per day. Having a web site is necessary, but not sufficient. like Google. like Google.

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Inverted Software

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Hootsuite helps you publish and track content by connecting to all of your social media accounts. With Hootsuite you can schedule regular social media updates, find hot content to share, monitor customer interaction and even create sweepstakes or polls. Here is our list: Hootsuite. ConstantContact.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2019

Thus I recommend that every business publish a website and start a blog even before they have a product to sell, enabling the following benefits: Get Google to work for you in highlighting your site. Blogging is a good hub for all your social media outreach. It’s never too early to start marketing to define your brand.

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Blogging Search Engine Optimization Writing SEO 85

Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

RingCentral Startup tool: Web conferencing app Price from: $11.99 If you manage remote or hybrid teams, RingCentral provides the best web conferencing software we've reviewed. Zoho supports a wide variety of social platforms too, from Instagram and TikTok to more niche sites like Pinterest. Here are a couple of our favorites.

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Tool Startup Software Review Technical Review 128

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. Or leave the Web, respectively pay the publishers.

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