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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Los Angeles-based Alelo , a USC spinout developing foreign language and culture training tools, said this week that it has opened an office in Suffolk, Virginia. Tags: alelo language games training. The firm said the new office was opened to better serve government customers interested in its products. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Los Angles-based Cognition Technologies , the developer of semantic, natural language processing technology focused on the Internet search area, is reporting a win with Microsoft's Bing search engine today. Tags: cognition search natural language software bing microsoft. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Los Angeles-based CyberDefender , a developer of PC antispyware and antivirus software, reported today that it has appointed Brian Yoder as its new Vice President of Engineering. The firm said that Yoder was an early member of the Peter Norton Computing/Symantec team, and has been a software developer since the late 1970's.

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APRIL 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based Language Weaver , which develops language translation software, has inked a new deal with a UK-based developer of enterprise software for managing content translation. Language Weaver said that SDL will use its translation software within its software. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

Los Angeles-based SightCine , a developer of digital overlay projection technology, told socalTECH today that the firm has raised an initial round of seed funding. According to the firm, its initial product allows movie theaters to display subtitles in multiple languages on a single screen.

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MARCH 3, 2010

Pasadena-based X1 Technologies , the developer of desktop search software run by Idealab, announced today that it has upgraded its software. Tags: desktop search software idealab enterprise. X1's software is used to index and search enterprise desktops. The new software is Version 6.7 of the X1 Professional Client. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus , which develops open source, cloud computing management software, has linked with a developer of scaling software for the Java programming language, Terracotta, the firms said Tuesday. Tags: eucalpytus java cloud computing amazon terracotta. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 13, 2009

Los Angeles-based Language Weaver, which develops automated language translation software, is boosting its commercial efforts, saying today that it increased its commercial revenues by over 70 percent last year. Tags: weaver translation automated language software. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 16, 2010

The Tech Coast Angels , Southern California's largest angel investment group, is hailing its latest exits today, saying that the recent IPOs for Green Dot and Trius Therapeutics , as well as the sale of Language Weaver to SDL, have left members "smiling". READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Aliso Viejo-based Networks In Motion , a developer of location-based, wireless search software, announced today that the firm has added support for 10 additional languages and 38 countries to its NAVBuilder product, specifically to support markets in Europe and South America. Tags: networks motion wireless mobile application.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Irvine-based Integrien , a developer of enterprise IT monitoring software, has been acquired by VMware , according to VMware this morning. The TCA recently saw the acquisition of Language Weaver, and IPOs in Green Dot and Trius Therapeutics. Tags: analytics software monitoring enterprise acquisition merger vmware integrien.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Los Angeles-based Alelo , the USC spinout which is developing language learning systems based on video games, disclosed this week that the firm has been selected as a prime contractor by the U.S. Tags: military video defense army computer alelo games simulation. Alelo said that it was selected by the U.S.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Sheu a professor of EECS and Biomedical Engineering at UCI--it has launched the new search site to help people find answers to problems using natural language search and prior user opinions. Tags: semantig startup internet.

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AUGUST 13, 2010

Last month, Los Angeles-based Language Weaver (www.languageweaver.com), the developer of machine translation software, was acquired by SDL , a publicly held, UK-based firm in the language translation business. Mark Tapling: Starting in March of 2008, Language Weaver really embarked on a growth strategy.

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MARCH 18, 2009

According to MySpace, the upgrade includes new access to the activity stream of MySpace users, integration of OAuth and OpenID for authentication of users, and new developer resources to help developers create and manage applications. Tags: myspaceid myspace. The firm also said that it will be adding Google Android support soon.

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JUNE 4, 2009

San Diego-based Qualcomm and Sun Microsystems announced today that the two are in an effort to port the popular Java programming language to Qualcomm's Snapdragon ARM processor. Tags: smartbook netbook embedded telecom processor snapdragon android qualcomm. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 18, 2009

Los Angeles-based RotoHog , a developer of fantasy sports games, has inked a deal with Fox Sports on a Spanish-language, fantasy sports game focused on the 2009 Major League Baseball season. Tags: sports rotohog major america league latin baseball. Financial impact of the deal was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Los Angeles-based Webtide , which develops the popular Jetty Application Server for the Java programming language, has been acquired by Intalio. Tags: webtide merger acquisition intalio open source jetty java. Intalio announced the buy Tuesday morning, but did not disclose financial terms of the buy. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

It's been awhile since we last caught up with Los Angeles-based Language Weaver (www.languageweaver.com), a venture-backed firm which develops language translation software, so we sat down the other day with Mark Tapling , the President and CEO of the firm, to hear more about where the company is nowadays--plus its strategy for growth and an exit.

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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.

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JANUARY 15, 2009

Woodland Hills-based MetaDolce Technologies, a developer software for web search, said Thursday that it has launched a new product which will allow web sites to accept "natural language" queries for visitors. Tags: search metadolce software.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

LA will be covering a multitude of themes such as: Language and gov 2.0, Noon-1:00PM Lunch Time Speaker: Language Standards. Tags: frontpage. This weekend TechZulu will bring you the first west coast unconference on social media and government live. if you want to be part of this event just click here to register.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2010

If you are not naturally charismatic, practice diligently to develop these skills of body language and verbal language. Tags: entrepreneur founder leadership lonliness business. Charismatic leaders don’t feel the loneliness, and use a wide range of methods to manage their image. Maintain non-business activities.

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MARCH 29, 2012

It was a QR code campaign using a hash tag, and we printed that on T-shirts, buttons, wrapped cars, and launched that at SXSW. We're hiring senior developers, and we're also focusing on sales operations as well. If you run a campaign on Tumblr to reach your target customers, we are in Tumblr speaking their same language.

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

Even if you don’t have “direct&# sales I would tell you that “everything is a sale&# including fund raising, hiring, getting press and doing business development. Also, this goes equally for business development. Tags: Startup Advice. I only found out through customer meetings. I learned this the hard way.&#.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Essayist, programmer, and programming language designer. In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. He’s currently working on a new programming language called Arc, a new book on startups, and is one of the partners in Y Combinator. ycombinator.com. .

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

Today the Traveling Geeks saw presentations from 11 interesting startups at French incubator, the Paris Development Agency. MLState - has created OPA (One Pot Application), a new development architecture for building social networks, games, etc. Int13 - a developer of augmented reality games for smartphones.

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JULY 28, 2010

Mobile Roadie , the Southern California based startup that helps anyone create and develop an Android and iPhone apps announced today Mobile Roadie Pro. International language support now includes Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Chinese (Simplified), and Korean. Tags: frontpage. Below is a video of the new Mobile Roadie Pro and the 3.0

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AUGUST 26, 2010

In the binary language of computers, a zero represents the “off” state and a one represents the “on” state. Tags: entrepreneur startup business plan funding. By Akira Hirai Startup funding is a binary event. His website is [link].

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JANUARY 10, 2010

I didn’t go back and re-read the book or double check my exact language but the thoughts below are directionally correct (the fact that I remember anything a few years later from a business book is already a huge positive sign). Always developing. If you always planned to study a second language – START!

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Due to the language and culture issues in Europe we opted for a country structure with an MD in each country and local sales, marketing & customers support staff. I had developers who thought that the chief architect was a bottleneck – having to be involved in every decision. Tags: Startup Advice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2010

The theory of multiple intelligences was developed way back in 1983 by Dr. Howard Gardner , at Harvard University. Linguistic intelligence is the ability to think in words and to use language to express complex meanings. Tags: startup entrpreneur multiple intelligences business. Naturalist intelligence (“nature smart”).

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JUNE 18, 2009

We caught up with the firm's CEO, Gregg Champion--who formerly was Vice President of Programming and Development at Mania TV--to learn more about the company, its business, as well as its fundraising plans. Gregg Champion: I had been a vice president of development at ManiaTV, a Gen-Y content site. What is Onecubicle?

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JANUARY 21, 2010

If you don’t follow the image reference above or the tag line, “ You don’t need double talk; you need Bob Loblaw “ (try saying it out loud) , and if you care! I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? the link is here.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

The channel is sponsored by the Intel AppUp Developer Program. Youll be given two code snippets that look something like this: This code should go immediately before the tag. Dont forget to complete the class - look for the @todo tags. in the @todo tags) I dont get what are those methods supposed to do.

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OCTOBER 14, 2009

We developed an automatic book scanner. I hope in fifty years, or maybe a hundred years, we will have a repository of information that is searchable, in any book every written or published, in any language, where it's been worked out with publishers. Tags: book scanning publisher atiz warnock nick.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

People looking for an African safari, philanthropic opportunities, Doctors Without Borders, learning a second language, or going to a music festival for the first time, can connect with AdventureLink via any channel--whether that is a local travel agency, through a major online travel site, or through AdventureLink.com.

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