Xconomy

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Statistical models, simulations, social media outreach, and the capacity to analyze big data sets—you’d think by now that technology would have delivered election forecasts that more reliably predicted Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential race. Further research may refine the method, they say.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2018

Any year-end review of technology news must also include reports on Russian hacking of the 2016 election campaign, and the manipulation of social media channels to spread false and divisive political messages.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

And apparently, that’s what mobile applications do better – just ask the fast-growing number of app users. This is the consequence of the switch from desktop and laptops to mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. Of that smartphone internet time, mobile apps take up 86% of usage and only 14% access time via the mobile web.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2017

I think we will see the rise of a newer and larger mobile-focused media companies and the continued evolution in traditional television entertainment. His exits in 2016 alone included Science portfolio companies HelloSociety (acquired by New York Times), FameBit (acquired by Google) and Dollar Shave Club (acquired by Unilever).

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Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2018

Much attention was focused this past year on the impact of social media on the 2016 presidential election, as reports emerged about the use of these platforms by entities linked with Russia to spread false, misleading, or inflammatory political messages.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 23, 2018

Facebook expanded its mea culpa on Monday for failing to prevent “bad actors” such as Russian entities from using the social media platform to distort democratic processes—notably the U.S. presidential election in 2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). Not so fast.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2015

Where do you fit into the mobile ad market? We've figured out how to take the banner into 2016 and beyond. Since the iPhone in 2007, we are seeing that mobile is taking over, and what we were doing was not as relevant. What's unique about what entertainment companies are looking for in mobile ads?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB ) has been under pressure to cleanse its pages of fake news since the discovery that Russian-backed agents using false identities tried to sway voters by spreading false and divisive messages during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The company has since purged hundreds of accounts linked to foreign entities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

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 exabytes per month at the end of 2016, of which half was video. Virtual living: the rise and growing dominance of social media. Smartphone penetration in the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2016

Today’s customers want to be mobile and location sensitive. Make sure you website is mobile-friendly, totally user-friendly, includes a blog and provides for customers review and feedback. Include mobile-app support and new social-media channels. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 03/16/2016.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

What that means, is for companies that have a physical presence in the real world, stores and the like, interaction with consumers today on mobile is now primarily through things that represent their stores, rather than directly with their brands. So, as you are heavily into the mobile area, what have you learned over the last few years?

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LATechDigest

OCTOBER 26, 2016

— LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) October 25, 2016. — LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) October 25, 2016. mitchlasky re: #techla "I feel more at home here… LA's biz culture, the fluidity b/t media & tech is unique" #latechsummit pic.twitter.com/OuYnCoIZiH. LA Tech has arrived.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

In a recent study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 81% in 2013 and will reach 1.3 zettabytes by the year 2016. Virtual living: the rise and growing dominance of social media. Use internal collaboration platforms, then extend to online customers through your website, blogs, and social media.

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Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2018

Unit sales rose 279 percent from 2016 to 2017, according to the association. “We Users can instruct these devices to order takeout, give the weather forecast, or turn on or off various Internet-connected devices. We have entered the era of voice ,” Jim Harris, a management consultant writes on the CTA’s website.

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StartUp Beat

JUNE 6, 2018

The browser-based softphone leverages open source Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) technology that can be used alone or along with IP phones, softphones, and the Telzio mobile app. Now, the Los Angeles-based company has expanded its offerings, giving businesses the added ability to manage calls using its Webphone.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 26, 2017

This has caused much confusion both in the public and the media. In August 2016, Hyperloop One broke ground on Development Loop (DevLoop), which became the world’s first full-scale Hyperloop test track. Hardt Global Mobility. Fortunately, this article is your ticket to understanding the state of the industry as it stands today.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

If you want to know more about them and why they grew so rapidly I’ve written about them here ( online / offline mobile ad integration ) & here ( the most obvious mobile phone ad unit ). So we first turned to solve the question of how to better meet the needs of our growing customer base of large brands and media companies.

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Inverted Software

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

In this new reality consumers have no brand loyalty and will often only follow brands social media in order to utilize discounts. percent in 2016. Millennials do their shopping online using a mobile device. billion in fiscal 2016, a 1.8% All of, are trends that the vast majority of Baby Boomers do not possess. Gal Ratner.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

In recent years, the company has expanded beyond its core technology to help its customers track their customers through affiliate marketing, display advertising, and online search and social media, and to target market segments with specific product offers. “We It’s about defining your data across the Web and now mobile.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

These should never be confused with social-media friends that you have never met or hardly know. Free mobile and online technologies will find friends at no cost, with no emotional investment required, so they have very little personal value. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 01/29/2016.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Investors have been concerned about the social media giant’s slowing growth rate in a year when it has been under scrutiny for data privacy violations and its role in the spread of false and divisive messages by fake user accounts traced to Russian agents during U.S. election campaigns.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2018

Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. Mobility and connecting to work via the ‘cloud.’ In the US, 55 million workers identified themselves as freelancers in 2016, up 6% from 2014. Computers are no longer stand-alone dedicated devices, but are built into personal devices, like phones and tablets.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In 2016, that represented a couple of unique concepts. I'm crazy and relentless about figuring that out, and how to find it and mobilize the company around that. Fair made its name early on subscriptions, can you talk a bit about the reason for the shift away from that? Brad Stewart: The company had two previous lives.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2016

And if you’re paying attention, you’ll understand that this is their third push for native media consumption: first photos, then videos, and now written content. Nick Denton (@nicknotned) March 1, 2016. From what I’ve seen so far, they really do load instantaneously and have a great layout and user experience. Sound familiar?

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

They've told their large enterprise customers they're sunsetting the product in 2016, and with that announcement, we've gotten a large number of their base evaluating our system. It's more of the entertainment and media side of town, however, it's a very vibrant place. Chrome River is picking up a number of those customers.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

This is only one of the ways social media and other technologies are changing the experience of forming our views on election issues and choosing our candidates. The items are chosen based on their social media rankings among “political influencers” from both the conservative and liberal camps.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2019

In late 2017, a federal watchdog unit assigned a working group to keep an eye on cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, and to sound an alert if those alternate currencies showed signs of becoming a risk to the stability of the US financial system.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

The link-in-bio business is heating up as more mobile website builders compete for a coveted slice of real estate on a creator’s TikTok, Instagram or Twitter. Linktree has been around since 2016 and has more funding than its up-and-coming competitors. Now, Snipfeed enters the ring with its own $5.5

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Xconomy

JUNE 24, 2019

To hear some people talk, you’d think the age of bipartisan action in Congress was a lost phenomenon of the distant past. But it’s not so, at least when it comes to certain issues. And no one knows it better than the big Silicon Valley tech companies that are the recent targets of proposed bipartisan bills.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 26, 2018

s data privacy regulator fined Facebook $645,000 for violations that allowed political marketing firm Cambridge Analytica and other outside companies to extract 87 million Facebook profiles worldwide without adequate user knowledge or consent. The purpose of the U.K.’s

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Xconomy

JULY 18, 2018

If top European leaders faced a testy President Donald Trump in a series of meetings this summer, imagine the mood when the president of the European Commission arrives at the White House next Wednesday.

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Google Report San Diego Social Media 49

Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2017

We’ve just passed a year full of news about the role of technology companies in U.S. elections, democracy, free speech, fairness in hiring, sexual harassment, privacy, data security, and the future job market for humans in the age of robots and artificial intelligence.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2016

Digital marketing is the cost-effective place to start, utilizing the internet, mobile phones, display advertising, and other digital mediums. It is search engines, web content, blogs, social media, e-mail direct, on one of many mobile-phone approaches? Encourage ongoing social media customer conversations.

Marketing 58

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

Bloomberg reports that forty-nine percent more companies went public in 2017 versus 2016. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. With the key social media platforms today, an entrepreneur can tune a product, build a brand, and grow the business with very low cost and a high interactivity never before possible.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2016

These might include anyone bringing in a new customer, representing the company in a good social cause, or participating in a video or social media campaign on their own time. Mobilize the total power of your team to not only build the product, but also build the market. Reward success.

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