socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2013

According to the firm, the company's technology is now analyzing over 100 million data elements and 300,000 sources per month to help its clients organize the best and most useful content from around the web. The firm's software is one of the few which helps enable the trend of using content curation to automate content publishing.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2013

How do you keep up with everything that''s happening with your favorite interests, brands, and personalities on your mobile phone? Yapert raised a funding round a few weeks ago from the Tech Coast Angels, Desert Angeles, and Pasadena Angels for its mobile apps, which consolidates news and information about your favorite interests.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 26, 2024

Want to browse the web privately? ? The connection between excessive social media usage and a catalog of different mental health issues has been highlighted by numerous studies , and many people exhibit behaviors that suggest they’re addicted to their mobile devices. Or appear as if you're in another country?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology provider OpenX says this morning that it has been selected by Townhall Media , to help supply "header bidding" for Townnhall's mobile and web properties. OpenX said that Townhall, which provides conservative news, has more than 17 million monthly unique visitors.

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TechEmpower

JULY 2, 2013

July marks the fourth month of our ongoing project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms. The results web site has been improved with test-type and hardware-type navigation, allowing you to share links to a specific results chart, such as Round 6, Fortunes on EC2. We are hiring.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 3, 2012

News Corp has announced it will cease publication of its standalone publication of The Daily iPad app December 15, 2012 and embed its technology and staff into the The Post. 60 year old News Corporation today Monday Dec. 60 year old News Corporation today Monday Dec. Thompson reports January 1 2013.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Pluto's service aggregates content from all of its content providers into themed "channels", which users can tune into and watch on connected TVs and devices, mobile devices, and the web. READ MORE>>.

Content 100

Content Entertainment News Venture Capital 100

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Mobile first is becoming an important part of our daily lives. We interact with the world through our mobile devices, and they are quickly becoming our main vehicles for accessing and sharing information. Hence the emergence of Source13, a new mobile conference produced by Flurry.

Mobile 71

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

News aggregating company Thoora gives you all your media news, social and traditional, in one place. Thoora has recently come out of private beta offering their free service of breaking news that is based off of millions of blogs, thousands of traditional media outlets and Twitter. on the web.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

Encinitas-based Verve Wireless , which develops products to help newspapers publishers take their content to mobile phones, is announcing this morning that it has partnered with Media News Group, A.H. Separately, the firm said it has rolled out a new, iPhone 3.0 Tags: verve wireless publishing publisher mobile phone.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Our mobile phones are capable of doing almost anything these days. People can buy anything, look up news, watch videos, and the list goes on and on. App developers are coming up with new ideas daily to make our lives easier. We launched with a web app, so we are only web-based. How long has Porter been around?

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socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2010

Los Angeles-based Mail.com Media Corporation (MMC), which operates the Mail.com email service and portal, as well as its own network of content-focused web sites, said today that it has acquired BGR.com , a mobile/gadget review and news site. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

Encinitas-based Verve Wireless is powering a new web site launch for local news publisher Examiner.com, as Examiner.com said it has launched a new mobile site, m.examiner.com. According to Examiner, the mobile site will highlight content produced by the firm's US coverage. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

From research and working with IAC, was saw that more than fifty percent of the videos online are web humor and comedy. We saw that one third of Americans under 40 have started using satirical news sources as replacements for news from someone like Fox News or CNN.

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Content News Startup Research 230

Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2018

Aside from these revelations about “fake news,” the year brought reports on major data breaches at Equifax and other companies, on the influence of new technologies in the future job market, and on privacy concerns about Web-connected home devices.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 7, 2009

Monday, July 13, 2009 -- SMCLA: Citizen Journalism: Social Media's Effect on How News is Reported and Consumed. More and more people are turning to social media as the first place they look for breaking news.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2012

They can discover that event in the app, or soon, on our web platform, say--hey, this looks cool, the last event has some great pictures, looks like this might be fun--and they can buy tickets. I always said--how much better would life be if I could sit at a table of locals, eat, and talk about our commonalities, and get local insider news.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

In what can only be good news for many a high tech professional, coffee chain Starbucks said today that it will turn on free Wi-Fi in its stores July 1st, at all of its U.S. Starbucks said that it will give Wi-Fi enabled laptops, tablets, and mobile phones with unlimited access to the Web. and Canadian company-owned stores.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

What was the biggest news for you this year? 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. At io/LA we launched a new 8000 sq/ft co-work and incubator space in Hollywood. Don't bet on any one platform.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2012

They can discover that event in the app, or soon, on our web platform, say--hey, this looks cool, the last event has some great pictures, looks like this might be fun--and they can buy tickets. I always said--how much better would life be if I could sit at a table of locals, eat, and talk about our commonalities, and get local insider news.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

The rise of couponing in late 2008 coincided with the recession of the late 2000s;” this factor combined with an increased consumer interest in mobile technology and devices led to an unprecedented decline in print media. Getting Mobile-Ready. With roughly 91% of the population using mobile devices and 26.3%

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2010

What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? The biggest news was a complete, new launch of a new product, strategy and brand. For us, it was a big departure from social networking and a new commitment to social entertainment. Yesterday, we heard from Bruce Hallett of Miramar Venture Partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

According to current Kauffman Indicators of Entrepreneurship , the share of new entrepreneurs who started businesses to pursue opportunity rather than from necessity now exceeds 86%, more than 12 percentage points higher than ten years ago at the height of the last recession. Cost of entry for a startup is at an all-time low.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Social Networking in Web 1.0. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

We build web and mobile applications, and we've been doing so for a little over fifteen years. Anyone who has been around the web development block is going to tell you that they select technologies with some balance between coolness and pragmatism. To our delight, technology has evolved and improved in many ways over that time.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

By contrast, NBC News teamed up with Palo Alto, CA-based tech firm SurveyMonkey to conduct online polls. But on Election Eve, NBC News reported that Clinton held a stable 6-point lead over Donald Trump. Another news organization’s polls, also conducted online, broke away from the pack and forecast Trump’s win.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Not Really At first you may be thinking that this is all bad news. However, the good news is that for most investors, you can certainly change the question and get a lot more information without ever building the MVP. But now that you have a product, you should be able to show that people want to and/or are willing to pay to use it.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 20, 2012

Mobile social discovery is all the rage as evidenced by the early success of apps like Banjo , which achieved an astounding 500,000 downloads in its first six months alone. You can search by interest to see which of your friends are nearby, or by keyword around any location – a great feature for events or breaking news.

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News Mobile Web Software 77

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. We spoke with Jennifer about what HitFix is looking to do, her own background, and how HitFix is different from the many celebrity gossip and news sites out there.

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News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? 1) Mobile web. Mobile app downloads went from 300mm in 2009 to 5 billion in 2010, Android ad impressions up over 2,000% as two examples. Earlier today, we talked with Greg Martin at Archer Venture Capital. 2010 was very good to us.

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Technical Review Southern California Cloud Computing Venture Capital 160

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? I left a great firm, Redpoint Ventures (after 11 years), to start a new firm, Archer Venture Capital. Using the social web to fill excess capacity that exists in nearly every business was one of the best uses of the web that I've seen. Great things will emerge there.

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2009

The bracket game will allow users to predict the winners of all of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament games, starting with Game 1 on Thursday, March 19th, and also will feature insights from basketball players, tournament news from FOXSports.com, mobile alerts, rankings, and more. READ MORE>>.

News 100

News Web Los Angeles Mobile 100

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 20, 2012

Mobile social discovery is all the rage as evidenced by the early success of apps like Banjo , which achieved an astounding 500,000 downloads in its first six months alone. You can search by interest to see which of your friends are nearby, or by keyword around any location – a great feature for events or breaking news.

News 63

News Mobile Web Software 63

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd talk with Los Angeles-based Sidebar (www.sidebar.com), a venture backed startup in the mobile space, to learn more about what they are up to. Patrick Kennedy: Sidebar is a company that was founded to bring consumers personalized content, focused on mobile delivery of that content.

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Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

For example, mobile now has become the formidable new communication channel, posting a year-over-year growth rate of 47 percent in 2014, according to WBR Digital Research. That means your marketing must now include shopping apps, location-based services and mobile wallets. Get beyond push messages to real customer engagement.

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Customer Custom Marketing Social Media 103

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased about 10 percent, from 280 out of 100,000 adults in the 2014 Startup Activity Index, to 310 out of 100,000 adults in the 2015 Index. I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment. No wonder 90% of the successful startups still bootstrap.

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Startup Social Media Entrepreneur Satisfaction 108

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. Total raised: $5.0mm.

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Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225