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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

Tech Zulu Event

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification.

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Language Weaver's Mark Tapling On Growth, Exits

socalTECH

Mark Tapling: Since you last did an in depth interview with us in 2007, the company has doubled in size. We've also had great advances in engaging the trust of the commercial community, with patented advances like automatic scoring of our algorithms, which predicts the quality of translations based on a one-through-five scale.

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Roping in the Legal Eagles

InfoChachkie

Just as you would not ask your family physician to perform a coronary bypass, do not ask your corporate lawyer to help you write your patent application. However, you should seek a patent attorney when it is time to craft your patent application. Copyright © 2007-9 by J. Your Lawyer is not a Doberman….

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

For example Twitter , where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to penis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly chatter (breeding demand for cheap viagra). Designating antisocial geeks. Posting tweet.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

Dropped Calls, Students Protest AT&T Network Coverage Facebook Patents News Feed, Social Net Confusion Ensues Trying to Work from Home More Efficiently? www.goodandgreen.biz Microsoft Office Buy Office Small Business 2007 now. Register Now! Be extra productive. Learn more.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

Whatever the biggest, most challenging, most demanding, most important job we had at L90, I always turned to Tim. He went from recruiter to IT manager to technical sales… Then, he did such a great job in sales that we had to build up more infrastructure for our ad-serving and email delivery platform to support the increased demand.

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