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MARCH 3, 2010

The firm is targeting the automotive and transportation, data center, communications infrastructure, video surveillance and industrial automation markets with the new disk drive, which uses the SATA 3.0 Tags: western digital disk drive storage electronics. interface and feature a five year limited warranty. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

Irvine-based Mavent , a developer of mortgage compliance software, has been acquired by Ellie Mae , a provider of software and services for the banking and mortgage industry, Ellie Mae announced Wednesday. Tags: fannellie mavent merger acquisition mortgage financial bank. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2009

El Segundo-based AWR, a developer of electronic design automation (EDA) software for high-frequency circuit designs, said late Thursday that it has scored a win with Anritsu Company, a developer of test and measurement products. Tags: anritsu frequency high automation electronic design software semiconductor. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 22, 2009

DataDirect said the new product provides a global namespace for files distributed across multiple sites, provides automated, policy-based distribution of content, and scaling from a few Terabytes to Petabytes of data. Tags: data storage cloud datadirect. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Rubicon, which is backed by Clearstone Ventures, Mayfield, and IDG Ventures, publishes its market report every quarter, examining the online advertising industry. Rubicon Project develops automated software and services which optimizes the CPM paid to online advertisers, by choosing the best online advertising to run on publisher web sites.

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Clearstone Advertising Report Entertainment 100

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

Businesses online are able to monitor the conversations that happen about their company, their competitors and their industry like they have never before been able to. Tools (covered at the end of the post) are emerging to help us to automate this process given the sheer volume of Tweets we must now monitor.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It's in the automated translation category of the industry. Help us understand your technology--is this focused on the automated language translation technology, or on the process of localizing a web site? When you look at the industry as a whole, there are couple of well-funded players. What's your own background?

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AUGUST 22, 2018

At our prior life at Edgecast and Verizon, we had ten badges on a loop on our belt, kind of like a bunch of dog tags to burden you. It allows you to have a smart office, which is completely automated. The second item, was this was one of the few industries that has not been cloudified yet. All of that is now gone.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Unlike the current situation--where a sales person basically has to hunt and peck for inventory--it might take days for a response to a proposal--now, a sales person can answer four, five, or maybe six simple questions, they can hit a button, and it comes back with an automated proposal. Steve Pelletier: We try to bring up a couple of points.

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AUGUST 31, 2009

Hamet is now helping True Ventures look at investments in Southern California, and we thought it would be worthwhile to talk to him about the firm's new interest here, his role, plus his insights into where the advertising industry is now. Is there a specific type of industry of interest? Tell us what you're doing for True Ventures?

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

We've created a way that allows businesses to automate that process. Taher Scherzay: I spent 20 years working for the industry, working for Lucent Technologies. Beyond that, the system allows them to automate business applications, such as promotions. What's your background and how'd you get into the startup area?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Mobile Roadie’s has an automated system that enables you to build applications and have them posted to Apple’s App Store within a short span of time. From their very humble beginnings of just specifically being focused on providing iPhone apps to musicians to now being the go to iPhone app provider for no matter what industry you may be in.

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AUGUST 15, 2010

We think that the magazine industry is going through incredible change but that the Internet website experience doesn’t yet fulfill our magazine needs. I thought the world was moving to more automated content creation and content factories. Tags: Startup Advice. He waits for a brief moment and lets the suspense build.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

It's the last bastion for automation within the travel industry. It's also where the leisure industry is migrating to. I personally enjoy traveling, and looking at the space from a technology automation perspective. Tags: tompkins travel interview entrepreneur adventurelink services kelly adventure.

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AUGUST 4, 2010

As you probably know, there are now many applications for semiconductors, which are used as a substrate for all kinds of small scale, highly automated biotech applications and medical equipment. The reason why, is you have new technology in the industry and don't have GIA blessing, you're presumed to be cheating. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 7, 2010

He was originally working on home automation and control, and as he started to talk to people about what he was developing, energy turned out to be what people were honing in on, and which was the most interesting component of what he was doing. I was impressed by what he was working on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2010

Yes, a certain amount of automation is necessary for efficiency, but customers should never feel like they are at the mercy of machines when all they really want is to talk to a human being. Take stock of how the other companies in your industry interact with customers and seek out specific ways to do a better job of it.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Marketing and lead automation software for businesses; claim to have largest market share in sector since March 2008. These are all “billion dollar industries” he says. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. Read more: PEHub. Conway also spoke about the big trends in tech right now. Read more: TechCrunch.

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MARCH 30, 2010

It broke the hegemony that the carriers had over software on mobile phones and the industry will forever be changed (for the better) for this. However, we feel the automation and ease of use for such a small percentage will be acceptable to most developers. Tags: Featured SoCal Stuff. Enter Burstly. I like that.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

The biggest hurdle with those tools, we found in talking with multiple people, was that the CRM was great, and so was the sales force automation--but a lot of the sales guys didn't use them to maximize their sales, they used them because they had to, because management makes them. Salesforce has 55,000 customers, and 1.5 Speaking of Force.

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JANUARY 16, 2010

In our industry it must be 90+%. Now that my running is getting back into gear I want to automate the measurement process. Tags: SoCal Stuff Tech Market Analysis. But WakeMate isn’t simply an efficient alarm clock. The founders claim that up to 75% of the population has some form of sleep deprivation.

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socalTECH

JULY 8, 2009

It's very automated. We're rating adds in all these industries, such as apparel, auto, beer, and beverages--22 of the key categories, which are the bulk of the $60 billion spent in TV advertising each year. Tags: software saas analytics content television advertising metrix startup interview. Steve Goldman: Very little.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2009

Mark Cromack: Certainly, we've been in the telecom industry for the last twenty or thirty years. How much technology automation is involved here, or is there just lots of labor involved? Tags: phone startup interview telephone mark cromack transcription transcribe cogi. We started a variety of different companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Great inches eked out on tech blogs or industry rags. million sales quota and the exact knowledge of how to sell salesforce automation tools is going to sell your dinky product that is unproven? Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Sales & Marketing Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. End of story. What Went Wrong?

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