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JULY 25, 2016

Avantika Shahi: We are a home search platform. If you go to sites like Zillow, Trulia, and Redfin, there has been a lack of innovation in the past few years. If you go to sites like Zillow, Trulia, and Redfin, there has been a lack of innovation in the past few years. We're hoping to expand in San Diego and San Francisco next.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Los Angeles-based PixelFish, which develops video advertising for small and medium sized businesses, said this morning that it has acquired Eyespot, a provider of video hosting services for web sites. Pixelfish said the buy will help it accelerate the development of its video advertising platform.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2011

With the proliferation of social networks, communications clients and VoIP phone services, users often find they need to use multiple ways--Twitter, Facebook, phone, FAX, and more--to communicate with their contacts. To try to understand the service's strategy, we spoke with Bryan Hertz,CEO of Telcentris, the parent firm of VoxOx.

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DECEMBER 10, 2008

style group messaging services, said today that it has launched a new platform to help groups communicate with their members. The new platform--billed SmartMessage--helps groups send messages among members and others. Newport Beach-based CircleUp, which provides Web 2.0-style

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2008

San Diego-based Metaplace said this morning that it has raised $6.7M in a financing round for the firm's virtual worlds platform. Metaplace operates a service which allows users to create their own virtual worlds, which they can embed on their own web pages and sites. READ MORE>>

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socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

Rob Farrow is one of the co-founders of Chi.mp , a new startup which is getting set to launch a service to allow users to manage their profiles across the many sites on the Internet. We had a concept around creating a platform, using open standards, to resolve lots of the issues surrounding social networking and the issues of identity.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

We spoke with Jonathan about the advantages of SwoopThat over existing sites. Jonathan Simkin: What makes us unique from other sites, is we're here to help students save time, in addition to money, when they buy books. How did you come up with the web site? What's SwoopThat? You've got to find each one, and research them online.

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socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

Howard Lindzon is CEO and Co-founder of StockTwits (www.stocktwits.com), the financial micro-messaging service. Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. First of all, what's the idea behind StockTwits, for people who haven't used the service?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

For today's interview, we talked with San Diego-based ShowUHow (www.showuhow.com), a firm which is providing both content and a software platform which allows e-commerce retailers to provide video instruction guides on the products they carry. Who is using your services--retailers or manufacturers? Kim Folsom: Both.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

The booth for San Diego based Tweetphoto was a happening spot at the 140 Characters Conference. Tweetphoto is an extensible photo sharing platform, that allows you to send photos via mobile or email to Twitter and Facebook. They even had a few moments to chat it up with TechZulu’s Amanda Coolong : .

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

Albert previously founded CheapCheapCheap.com, an online coupon and deal finding site, and we thought we'd hear from Albert why he thinks the local, group purchasing market is so interesting, and how he hopes to grow the service beyond just Orange County. What is the site all about? How did DealPerk.com come about?

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JUNE 21, 2013

The San Diego firm is headed by Ethan Senturia , who sat down with us to tell us how Dealstruck is trying to help build small businesses and jobs--and also tells us a bit about what it''s like to come from a family full of very successful, and high profile entrepreneurs, and how that has influenced his experience as an entrepreneur himself.

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socalTECH

APRIL 11, 2013

There are now a large number of online, peer-to-peer marketplaces which all aim at one thing; helping connecting people with others, so that they can offer their services or goods (a room for rent, a ride, a vacation timeshare, a dog sitter, etc.) Over time, that service provider gets a quality score.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It's another big week for startup launches, this time in San Diego at DEMOfall. One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. Idris Manley: It's interesting.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

However, if you think about IT security, all the systems everyone is familiar with, ERP systems, web, and email, and other basic network systems, all those systems that are designed to run companies, my history and background is in securing those platforms. However, industrial security is very different. It's a green field opportunity.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based LifeCrowd (www.lifecrowd.com) unveiled its service to help connect people with real life activities. We've only been working on the site for May, June, July, and August, and it's a brand new endeavor for us. What's the story on how you started the company? Bong Koh: We started at the end of April.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

San Diego-based Intercasting (www.intercasting.com) is one of the companies which seems to have gotten some traction, and has deployed with Boost, Virgin, Sprint, and is in the process of deploying with Verizon and ATT. Derrick Oien: We have a platform we develop, called ANTHEM. Intercasting is backed by $17.5M

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APRIL 8, 2014

In some cases, we also leverage what we called our tiered device platform, the brand and company Rami has built over the last two decades plus, which is a supply chain, logistics, and distribution company and brand. We do invest directly in companies that don''t need a shared service, as long as they''re tilting their industry.

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socalTECH

JULY 19, 2016

We recently launched booking experiences and services in L.A. However, every summer, of every year since I was fifteen, I'd go to San Diego and spend a few months with family there. What's the advantage of your app over forecast sites? How did you go from pro surfing in Israel, to starting a company here in L.A.?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2016

But it took several extra layers of technology, and a collaboration with San Francisco startup Arterys , to make that possible. Less than five years ago, those GPUs weren’t available from commercial cloud services, says Arterys co-founder and chief technology officer John Axerio-Cilies. “In

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 1, 2011

So, one day Yotam and I were driving to San Diego and stuck in traffic and he asked how we could offer musicians the same sort of advertising services that I was used to using in my day job. We’re really loving the clean site layout. Our design has a long history.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Laura Brashier is the founder of 2date4love , an online dating service for singles who are unable to have sexual intercourse but still want to find love. Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.”

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Xconomy

JULY 25, 2016

Department of Health and Human Services, IDRI is partnering with developing country vaccine manufacturers to vastly improve their ability to respond quickly during an influenza outbreak. This serves the dual purpose of developing vaccine technologies on site and providing the catalyst for new industries that can offer training and employment.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 3, 2016

The lack of technology and innovation in the pawn industry isn’t a deliberate choice, but comes from the large number of small, independent shops that lack the financial and technical resources to build a custom e-commerce platform. Our timing was good.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The only other ways to get discovered was to have good organic search results or to get covered by a major blog site. I was immediately reminded that they were interested in seeing the slides as the main partner who had courted me at DEMO in San Diego shuffled nervously through the print outs of the slides I had sent him in advance.

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