socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2014

Carpinteria-based online learning and video education site lynda.com said Tuesday that the company has updated its iOS application, completely re-designing the mobile app for the latest features of the operating system. The company also said it has added Google Chromecast support on its Android version of its mobile app. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In what looks like a plan by Specific Media to revamp the relevance of former social networking giant MySpace as a choice for social networking, the firm is showing a new video of a revamped user interface for the site. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based Fandango , the movie ticketing and information service, said today that it has had the best ever number in May for traffic and ticket sales, for the company's entire 12-year history. Fandango is owned by Comcast, which acquired the movie site back in 2007. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Los Angeles-based Withoutabox , which is now a part of Amazon.com's IMDB.com division, said this week that it has launched a new service targeted at film festivals. The site is looking to supplant the existing process of mailing DVDs to film festivals for screening. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Software products and apps can be quickly wire-framed with free tools such as MockFlow , or even Microsoft Powerpoint to lay out the key screens. There are also a wealth of invention support sites, such as InventorSpot and IntellectualVentures.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Entangled Media , one of the startups out of the current class at MuckerLab , has developed Younity (www.getyounity.com), a service which hopes to do just that--make your files available from anywhere. Erik Caso: Younity creates a personal cloud for all of your files, built from your devices, and over time, your online services.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

Some positions posted to the site recently: Sr. IT Infrastructure/Technical Services Manager , Malibu, Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. socalTECH.com's job board is open to our premium, monthly members of our service, and has no additional cost above the $24.95 Linux System Engineer , Santa Monica, Adconion Media Group.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

The power of large screen real estate. They are location aware, which is important in personalizing the service offering. I have talked with people in the industry who tell me that mobile movie sites convert ticket sales much higher than desktop websites. The power of a keyboard. Fred’s post was right.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Los Angeles-based Break Media , which operates a online network of web properties focused on men, announced this morning that it is teaming up with Quantcast to collect demographic information about its sites. The service will collect demographic data about who is viewing the firm's web videos.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2012

It's not an uncommon experience, and one which drove Holden Steinberg and Jason Crilly to start PageWoo (www.pagewoo.com), a service which is aimed at helping businesses create mobile-friendly landing pages for their advertisements. We're not a mobile site creator, and are really part of the ad experience.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Recent job postings on the site: LAMP/Perl Developers , Los Angeles, Oversee.net. You can also use socalTECH.com's database of high tech companies in Southern California to locate employers near you, companies which have recently received funding and are likely to hire, or screen for companies in certain industries.

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socalTECH

MAY 6, 2009

According to Marshal8e6, Microsoft will integrate its library of URLS an dkeywords into the Microsoft Reputation Service (MRS). That library is used by Marshal8e6's products to screen and filter web sites for its customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Software products and apps can be quickly wire-framed with free tools such as MockFlow , or even Microsoft Powerpoint to lay out the key screens. There are also a wealth of invention support sites, such as InventorSpot and IntellectualVentures.

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Outsource Development Ideas Tool Outsource 124

socalTECH

MAY 16, 2012

It's an election year in the United States, and the screens and airwaves are full of provocative sound bites, pundits, scandals, and the latest political gossip of the day. We sat down with the two Los Angeles founders and heard more about the service. What's the story behind the site, and when did you come up with it?

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socalTECH

JULY 25, 2016

If you go to sites like Zillow, Trulia, and Redfin, there has been a lack of innovation in the past few years. I've been a buyer, an agent, and broker, and have gone through lots of different platforms, mediums, and sites, and it's hard to get a comprehensive picture of a home or neighborhood, without going to lots of different sites.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2011

In the summer of 1999, Expertcity (creator of GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting, acquired by Citrix) released a free service called BuddyHelp. In the spirit of the “land grab” mentality of the day, we emphasized usage of our screen sharing technology with no thought applied to how we would convert such users into paying customers.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

Just before the holidays, we caught up with Blair Harrison , founder of Frequency (www.frequency.com), a personal video service which lets consumers watch video from the Internet on any of their devices. Harrison created one of the Internet's first video search sites, FastTV, and also ran IFILM, which he sold to Viacom in 2006.

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socalTECH

MAY 16, 2012

It's an election year in the United States, and the screens and airwaves are full of provocative sound bites, pundits, scandals, and the latest political gossip of the day. We sat down with the two Los Angeles founders and heard more about the service. What's the story behind the site, and when did you come up with it?

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Education Sites Startup News 171

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Most of these investors are members of Angel groups that have a rigorous filtering and screening process, to select the top 3% and most fundable proposals. That’s why this item is so important, and is probably the biggest stumbling block I see in getting through the initial Angel screening. Get your Internet domain name and website.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

Carriers are certainly a big class of customer, and we also have content aggregators, who are aggregating games, news and information, mobile applications, and web sites. What happened with smart phones, is consumers are buying more and more applications, but a screen can only fit a dozen icons. We're really headed for three screens.

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Content Screening Mobile Custom 189

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

Recently, Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com) launched a new marketplace on its site, for anyone interested in selling professional documents. We thought we'd get the background on the new effort directly from Jason Nazar , CEO and founder of Docstoc, to learn more about the new service. A year ago, we were around 3.5

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

In the world of many online television, movie, and video sites, scores of music streaming services, and other entertainment content, it''s often a difficult task to find what you really want to watch, listen to, or read. But, by the time you go to all of those sites, you have dozens of tabs open. It''s a very fractured process.

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Entertainment Startup Southern California Netflix 206

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 9, 2013

To do that, Fanhattan lets users search and find the specific show and lists all the sites available to watch. The search box is placed in the middle of the screen and all the extra options are all placed on the top, bottom, and the sides of the screen. The web version is currently in its beta stages, but seems almost complete.

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socalTECH

JULY 25, 2012

Users of the Instagram mobile application--which runs on iPhone and Android--are familiar with how that app has become one of the key ways people socialize and share their life with others, all via the service's photo sharing and comments. Edward Park: My background is screen printing and production. What is Insteegram about?

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Startup Commerce Web 2.0 Screening 174

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2015

A great website design simply reflects well on your business and the quality of your service. You’ll want to make sure that your website looks good on desktop computers, tablets, and mobile device screens. When the size of the screen hits a certain threshold, your design will be put into columns or grid form.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2011

The service guides you through six steps before you’re able to start an online meeting. Unlike some other services, the online meeting takes place completely in the web browser. For the presenter, if you’d like to share your screen to the other participants, there is a bit of legwork to enable this.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In an era, where every single streaming music service seems to be the same thingindistinguishable from each otherhow do they differentiate and create customer loyalty? Cricket Wireless had us design, develop, and operate that platform, which was one of the first subscription music services built into your home. What is Super Hi-Fi?

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Startup Artificial Inteligence Content Platform 113

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve is now in charge of Marina Del Rey-based TeleSign (www.telesign.com), which has quietly become a huge force in providing authentication services to nearly every major Internet service out there. Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world. To learn more, we caught up with Steve.

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Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

The beauty of platform is fans are signing into Facebook when fans engage with films on our site, and those film makers are collecting valuable data and page profiles on their audience. Who is the ideal audience for this service--studios, independents, others? Where's the service now? We're a member of our the coworking space.

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Hollywood CTO Hire Social Media Platform 256

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In an era, where every single streaming music service seems to be the same thingindistinguishable from each otherhow do they differentiate and create customer loyalty? Cricket Wireless had us design, develop, and operate that platform, which was one of the first subscription music services built into your home. What is Super Hi-Fi?

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

We look at ourselves as a human tissues company…We’ll test your compound in our lab as a service.”. The company announced this week that it has developed a similar testing service for screening pre-clinical drug candidates on living human kidney tissue. Now Organovo is expanding its capabilities.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 22, 2012

Really though, it’s a new bookmarking service that has been all the rage lately. Most focus on two things though, the amount of women that use the site and the amount of money dirty marketing people are going to make from it. His boards include some great collections of dream cars and iPhone home screens. I guess I was right.

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Blogging RSS Social Network Screening 178

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Business incubators for sharing services were all the rage back in the days of the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). Both provide excellent networking to investors, and on-site technical leadership, which I believe sets them apart. About that time the bubble burst, causing more than 80% of them to disappear.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Startup Seed Funding 86

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. I’m not covering the actual layers of the Internet (under the OSI model) but rather the Cloud Services layer. Let me explain. I’m just listed who I perceive as the market leaders.

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Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

socalTECH

JULY 28, 2014

With around a hundred employees in Los Angeles, and $40M in revenues, Fonality (www.fonality.com) --a developer of voice-over-IP phone software and systems--has managed to rise above the crowd of commodity voice-over-IP and PBX service providers. What does Fonality do? What''s on your goal list now?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2011

Business incubators for sharing services were all the rage back in the days of the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). Both provide excellent networking to investors, and on-site technical leadership, which I believe sets them apart. About that time the bubble burst, causing more than 80% of them to disappear.

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Incubator Startup Seed Funding Mentor 93

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2013

Content is king, and local startup Yekra has just secured $3 million in funding for their digital rights distribution service for the every man. Yekra has introduced the first DRM-protected player that can run on any connected device or screen.

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