socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2018

However, the company's technology team, Walmart Labs (www.walmartlabs.com)--which said this month that it is planning on major growth in San Diego is responsible for the company's key supply chain technology, online e-commerce site, and much more. The last area my team is responsible for, is what we call our site merchandising tools.

San Diego 100

San Diego Southern California Technology Artificial Inteligence 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2010

For today's Insights and Opinions section, where we feature insights and analysis from the local technology community, we have an article from Jeff Cohn , an entrepreneur and veteran of the angel and VC investment community here in Southern California. However (More.).

Venture Capital 145

Venture Capital Capital Tech Coast Angels Angel 145

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

A few months ago, Peter Lee --a venture local capitalist who has served at firms such as Prism Ventures and Clearstone Ventures Partners--joined a relatively unknown venture firm here in Southern California, Baroda Ventures (www.barodaventures.com). He made a lot of money from those deals, so in 1999 he set up Baroda Ventures.

Southern California 113

Southern California Venture Capital Startup SoCal 113

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens. DataPop : DataPop was founded by performance marketing veterans from Yahoo!, Tags: SoCal Stuff. Commission Junction, MySpace, TicketMaster and many more.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. It’s been an amazing experience so far, but the best part are the relationships I’ve built since getting started. As a board member of the Technology Council of Southern California, I first reached out to my fellow board members.

Social Network 180

Social Network Networking Yahoo Social Media 180

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

which became Softbank Marketing, selling ads for Yahoo before Yahoo had its own salesforce. So I got started in the tech and internet world very early stage. I've also worked with startups in Southern California, including TouchCommerce, and I was with them when they were on their first round of funding.

Startup 221

Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

UCLA’s ASM has partnered with Microsoft, Nokia, WIX, Yahoo! and more to bring a true hack-a-thon to Silicon Beach, helping substantiate Southern California’s thriving Tech Community. The details of this event are quite amazing. Fri, Feb 22. 3:00pm Doors Open. 4:00pm Registration Begins & Social hour.

UCLA 88

UCLA Yahoo Southern California Santa Monica 88

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based WePlay (www.weplay.com) is hoping to be the site for all of that, and more. He saw the power of user generated content, and the power of building a passionate community online, which certainly led to a good thing with Yahoo. We're COPPA compliant for users under 13 years old, unlike most of the other sites out there.

Southern California 183

Southern California Startup Platform Coach 183

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. It’s been an amazing experience so far, but the best part are the relationships I’ve built since getting started. I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, The first to respond was @robinzucker of Yahoo!

Social Network 196

Social Network Networking Social Media Yahoo 196

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 13, 2010

In this post, I want to look at just the question of when it makes sense to use Facebook Connect, Twitter Oauth, OpenID, Yahoo Browser-Based Authentication, Google Friend Connect or basically any of the other authentication mechanisms. Wouldn’t it be nice if users could register on our site using these same mechanisms?

Google 292

Google Startup Yahoo Email 292

socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2012

And, how do programs like YouTube's recent push to help fund original content channels on the site helping? We have our own site, IBNSports.com, and we also work with partners schools to create a presence on the network. We then take that same content, repurpose it, and distribute it on television.

Content 212

Content Google Southern California Orange County 212

socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2013

com) recently scored a round of funding from such notable investors as Data Collective, Brad Jones of Redpoint Ventures, Horizon Ventures, and TenOneTen Ventures, the new Southern California venture capital firm headed by Gil Elbaz and David Waxman. The conversion rates go up, when e-commerce sites deploy instant search.

Technology 216

Technology Google Commerce Southern California 216

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Southern California has had its share of new startup accelerators launch in the last few months, however, few people here have actually experienced an accelerator firsthand. We had to figure out what would help the other 90 percent build better and more interesting sites. After TechStars, how did you end up in LA?

Startup 242

Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2015

In the last few years, Southern California has been a key market in launching mobile applications and services, due to a huge, mobile-savvy consumer population. So, it''s no surprise that the area--specifically, San Diego--was chosen for the pilot launch of a new service from eBay, called Close5 (www.close5.com),

San Diego 100

San Diego Mobile Marketing Sites 100

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. in Computer Science.

Blogging 150

Blogging CTO Coach CTO Hire Southern California 150

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Year 2010 Tips of the Trade for Buying and Converting your traffic on Google, Yahoo and Bing. Learning not only how to drive qualified visitors to your site quickly and economically, but learning the strategies of the masters will allow you to win at this increasingly challenging form of marketing.

Paid Search 100

Paid Search TechBiz Marketing Yahoo 100

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies. We'd like to be one of the most prominent investors in Southern California. Here in Southern California, we do have a ways to go.

GRP Partners 157

GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

To solve that issue, Mike, as well as a number of other entrepreneurs here in Southern California, is in the midst of organizing Students4Startups (www.students4startups.com), a group which hopes to connect graduating students in the area to local startup companies. Does that mean job listings on your site, or more?

Startup 206

Startup Technical Review Outsource Yahoo 206

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

We spoke with Jim Franklin , the firm's CEO, to hear more about how the company went from an accelerator startup at TechStars just a few years ago, to now more than 100 employees spread across offices in Boulder; Colorado, Anaheim, California; Frankfurt; London, and elsewhere, to tackle the problems of transactional email. What is Sendgrid?

Email 157

Email Startup IP Newsletter 157

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. One of the more interesting new features is that the site now takes into account social signals. I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community.

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles Angel Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 150

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2009

Dialpad was acquired by Yahoo in 2005, and became the voice engine for Yahoo's VoIP services. Last year, we were passively trying to get users to come to web site, experience things, and buy, this year we're going after them. So how did you end up in Los Angeles, and why did you move down here?

Startup 100

Startup Southern California Yahoo Organization 100

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?"

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

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: Essentially, what we do is we create a global layer for web sites, that supports multiple language content channels.

Startup 133

Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

How do a bunch of German moviemakers end up in Los Angeles, running a site helping studios to market and promote their films via their venture backed startup? MOviepilot is starting to bring its movie recommendations and discovery site to the U.S., and has set up shop here to connect with the local entertainment industry.

Startup 164

Startup Paramount Netflix Entertainment 164

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

It seems like that background matches well to the popularity of crowdsourced hardware on Kickstarter and other sites, do you play there? Plus, there are companies like Yahoo, Google, and others who have set up shop here. Our expertise is in manufacturing, in bringing products to market, and advising those companies.

Seed Funding 220

Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2008

We spoke with the two founders of the firm, Rob Angarita and Aaron Hawkey , about what the site is all about, and the interesting way in which they connected with their angel investor. After that, Rob and I took a year or so to gain traction, and in 2005 we committed full time to the business. We asked Shai -- how did he hear about us?

Study 113

Study Education Startup Sites 113

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). Okay, thats AdSense.

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Our open source powers Hadoop, Jetty powers Google--if you look at our community site, the list of products that use use is exhaustive.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Mission Ventures Venture Capital 100

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Yahoo. Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo. Jim Andersen, president of prolific Westside developer NMS Properties, says the firm is opening five more buildings not far from the offices of Google and Yahoo, among other tech firms. COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB. NAME Facebook.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

You don’t want to make use of unholy crap, so you need to roll your own. Here’s how you can (could) integrate a URI shortener into your site’s architecture. Your site’s architecture may require a different approach. For example Yahoo truncates the trailing slash.

SEO 37

SEO IP PHP Blogging 37

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

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.” The site features running commentary and visual diagrams on the idiosyncrasies of fatherhood, parenting missteps and his own adjustment to having children.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 For those building Web sites or using social media tools, these standards will be the stamp of approval.

Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

How to do it the right way Here is what a site owner can expect from a Twitter app’s Web robot: A meaningful user agent A Web robot must provide a user agent name that fulfills at least these requirements: A unique string that identifies the bot. XXXL t-shirt that I really like to get a descriptive link from this site.

Social Media 41

Social Media Develop Development Media 41