socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2019

El Segundo-based online postage and shipping software developer Stamps.com says it has named Katie May, the CEO of e-commerce software company ShippingEasy.com , to its board of directors. ShippingEasy was acquired by Stamps.com in 2016.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

According to the two, they will link to develop and deliver new identity services, to help improve online account security, verify financial and e-commerce transactions, and prevent fraud. The first products are expected in 2016. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2015

That includes e-commerce retailers, which continue to claim a growing slice of overall retail sales. Any discussion of the 2015 e-commerce holiday season has to focus first on consumers; they’re always the most important factor in the equation. Nordstrom, for example, plans to offer 20% fewer sales days this year and 25% fewer in 2016.)

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Fandango said the new unit will create innovative moviegoing products and services, focused on such areas as location-based services, social commerce, augmented and virtual reality, interactive video, and personalization, among others. Fandango said it hopes to release the first products from the FandangoLabs efforts in 2016.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 22, 2016

How can your company best benefit from social networking ads in 2016? In addition, make use of as much automation as you can in 2016 to reduce manpower costs and put the money towards other more important matters. Here is the breakdown of these 3 factors to watch in 2016: 1. That was $15.5 billion in 2015 alone.

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Xconomy

MAY 16, 2019

The San Diego-based company is part of Adigica Health, an e-commerce company founded in 2016 to develop and market direct-to-consumer healthcare products. BioClarity, which sells plant-based skincare products to online shoppers, announced Wednesday that it has raised a $13 million investment round.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

After the Ukraine event, we spearheaded a project to address those issues, and in 2016, we put together that project to reduce the attack surface on the U.S. We won that in late 2016, and have now kicked off a $4M project to help provide security as part of the team for the Department of Energy.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

Bryan Biniak: Connected Travel was founde d n 2016. Less than 10 percent of people are taking public transportation, and only about 20 percent of commerce is online. Through this insurance journey, and using behavior-based insurance, we opened up this world around commerce. Tell me about Connected Travel?

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Like Detroit-based GM (NYSE: GM ), which is shifting its attention from traditional auto manufacturing to projects like its self-driving car unit Cruise—a San Francisco startup GM bought in 2016—Volvo Cars is one of the flock of established carmakers drawn to the Bay Area to take part in its thriving mobility innovation cluster.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

Messaging apps from Zingle—along with applications from bigger Bay Area competitors like Twilio, Plivo, and Tropo—also have proven to be useful tools for e-commerce and business-to-customer interactions. Zingle (@ZingleMe) July 14, 2016. Happy #TBT from our fearless Founder & CEO @fordblakely !

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Xconomy

AUGUST 15, 2018

The San Francisco-based startup was founded in 2016 with the goal of reducing food waste, especially the $20 billion in “ugly and surplus” produce that Full Harvest, citing U.S. Full Harvest raised $2 million in seed funding last year. Environmental Protection Agency data, Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2017

Social media postings and e-Commerce transactions are just a couple of the sources of external data that are of great interest to many companies. Facebook now exceeds two billion users posting, the Internet has a billion websites, and there are 600 e-Commerce items ordered every second. Social media and web data.

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Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2018

When Cathy Polinsky became chief technology officer of Stitch Fix in late 2016, she knew one of the San Francisco-based company’s key challenges was continually refining its core software algorithm to make sure customers received the right tailored suggestions in their monthly wardrobe boxes. So, she made it into a game.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

By 2016, app downloads are estimated to reach 44 billion and app-to-person messaging is seen to overtake text messaging. Through mobile e-commerce apps, businesses give information, engage with customers, and ultimately build a stronger brand. The mobile apps trend is also covering all devices today as it expands to tablets and PCs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2016

Of course, a move on price also puts them in the realm of new competitors, including e-commerce vendors and big-box stores. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 06/15/2016. Many high-margin, low-volume startups are forced to consider the price-volume tradeoff. Are you still hesitating?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2016

You wouldn’t ask a customer ordering on your e-commerce site to wait a few days for an email response, so don’t do it when they have a support question. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 06/08/2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2016

The most common channels in use today include e-commerce, direct to customer, wholesale to dealers, and value-added resellers. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 06/01/2016. The right channel for marketing and distribution is one of the basic “four Ps” of business (product, promotion, price and placement).

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Xconomy

JUNE 21, 2016

Award winners from San Diego and other regions are now eligible for consideration for the national Entrepreneur Of The Year 2016 program. The overall Entrepreneur Of The Year award winner will be announced on November 19 at EY’s national awards gala in Palm Springs, CA. The winners are: — Life Sciences: BioLegend CEO Gene Lay.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

Harris writes: “The figures, dating back to 2016, paint a picture of a company desperate to meet over-ambitious autonomy targets and one that is willing to spend freely, even recklessly, to get there. The report notes how e-commerce is pushing this delivery phenomenon forward. by 30 percent. It could be as high as 50 percent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

zettabytes by the year 2016. Digital commerce: infinite options for buying goods and services online. It’s enough to drown any business which tries to fight it or ignore it, and it’s an opportunity to ride higher and faster than even the successes of Google and Facebook, for those startups that use it as their driving force.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

exabytes per month at the end of 2016, of which half was video. Digital commerce: infinite options for buying goods and services online. Per the latest study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic has grown 18-fold over the past 5 years, reaching 7.2

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Walmart’s been investing heavily in its e-commerce capabilities — too heavily for some investors’ tastes , in fact — in an effort to make up ground on Amazon and Google , both of which are already deep into the drone development process. As the technology advances and production costs drop, UAS should open a new frontier for e-commerce.

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Commerce Customer Custom Product 70

Xconomy

JULY 17, 2018

Selling a new Web-connected thermostat or other wired gizmo to consumers without a plan to deliver the necessary security patches is not only bad business—it’s unethical. So is failing to challenge a law or tech company rule that governs work on technology products, if that rule causes unjustifiable harms to people or the environment.

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Web Organization Artificial Inteligence Technology 52

Xconomy

JUNE 4, 2019

But the growing concern about the pervasive control of tech giants in arenas such as social media, advertising, and e-commerce stemmed first from revelations about consumers’ lack of meaningful control over the privacy of their personal data.

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Social Media Commerce Google Advertising 75

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

On the one hand innovation is clearly at an all time high unleashed by smart phones, fast telecom networks, social networks that spread commerce and the fact that we are all one click away from buying things on Amazon, Apple, Google or PayPal. Fast forward 3 years and looking out into the 2016 horizon, what do I see?

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 13, 2017

2016 was a good year to be a tech startup in LA, and, with the $25 billion planned public offering for the city’s startup darling, Snap Inc., Last year saw the city reap windfall exits from the acquisition of companies like Dollar Shave Club, and has a number of promising e-commerce companies… Read More.

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