Xconomy

APRIL 12, 2017

Lymber was barely a year old when Mindbody (NASDAQ: MB ) announced recently that it acquired the San Diego mobile app developer. Lymber, named as a 2017 Xconomy San Diego startup to watch , has developed a technology platform that enables mobile users to book openings in fitness and wellness classes.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Our team has an eye for identifying legacy industries and nascent trends, and creating platforms for innovation. I think we will see the rise of a newer and larger mobile-focused media companies and the continued evolution in traditional television entertainment. I expect this will drive a wave of meaningful M&A.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Deepak’s meditation guide will be available Fall 2016 for both mobile and desktop VR systems. Unimersiv is a platform for VR educational experiences and publish new content each month, including learning how to meditate. For those with HTC Vive and Samsung Gear VR, it’s in public BETA and available here.

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LATechDigest

JANUARY 27, 2020

The biggest digital publishing company that you might not have heard of yet is about to get bigger in 2016 Render Media , the brainchild of founders Eytan Elbaz and Vic Belonogoff, launched as the parent company of a roster of online content brands.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

6 Entrepreneurs share their predictions for this year’s evolution of online industries, which will be key for small businesses across the globe in 2016. As social media becomes a platform for online extremists, valid questions regarding freedom of speech, monitoring and censorship have arisen. Wireless Global Connections.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2016

YouTube AND other platforms. But if you’re not on FB in 2016 you’re crazy. The platforms are expanding and fragmenting. Video is much more valuable with sight, sound & motion. Your job on YouTube is to build fans and convert audiences that want to also consume your content elsewhere. It’s both / and.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

They just announced their Android app (you can download here if you’re on Android or the iOS version if you’re on that platform ). Draft is a Fantasy Sports app designed for the mobile world and the busy lifestyle founded by Jeremy Levine. But it still takes time.

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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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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2016

Now that just about everyone has a smartphone, how can you use that nearly ubiquitous, mobile access to help improve healthcare? For one�according to Los Angeles startup mPulse Mobile (www.mpulsemobile.com), you can help remind people about their appointments, and make sure they take their prescriptions�along with many other use cases.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Boston-based Cybereason has formed a partnership with Arm, the dominant developer of computer chip architecture, which was acquired by SoftBank in 2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

If you want to see what was on my mind – I started foreshadowing change publicly in October 2015 with a forecast of what I expected in 2016 VC funding markets at a presentation I gave at the annual Cendana VC/LP conference hosted by Michael Kim. 2015 turned to 2016. Total customers grew 20% year/year. Fall turned to winter.

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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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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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socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2017

This is the year, according to all the data, where mobile messaging will surpass social. Even without knowing the exact number, we know social is big, but that this year, mobile messaging will pass it in terms of user engagement, sessions per day, and minutes per day. You use those platforms to message friends, family, and colleagues.

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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. Was it difficult from shifting from an agency to becoming a platform developer?

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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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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Frost & Sullivan just named MediaPlatform the product leader in enterprise video platforms. In summary, it really has been an amazing year and we look forward to supporting additional compelling software companies in 2016. What are the technologies or things you think people out to watch in 2016?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

What we are pursuing actively, is creating a curated, merchandising and transaction platform, which takes inventory from dealers so that consumers see a wide swath of inventory, all prioritized around value. We'll continue to build out our consumer financing options, to augment the platform. There's real competition in this area.

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LATechDigest

MAY 13, 2016

SMASHD’s first Cohort brought four early-stage + one mature company into the fold: Sidestep : Mobile platform for live events that allows fans to order merchandise before, during and after an event for VIP pickup and delivery, who has relationships in place with Ticketmaster, and is a merch partner on Beyonce’s latest tour.

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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? Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 06/08/2016.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

Parenting has always required a village of support, and we consider our platform to be that village. We really were inspired by Uber and Lyft, and we saw there was a great potential for scale, and an opportunity to create a platform, and offer it to many more parents beyond the scope of our boutique agency's reach. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JUNE 19, 2018

Sunnyvale, CA-based CrowdStrike, as an endpoint protection and response platform, uses next-generation antivirus software, scans for behavioral indicators of malicious activity, and deploys other threat detection measures to prevent cyberattacks and mitigate harms when they occur.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2018

Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. In startups, and even corporate environments, I see the spread of collaborative social platforms such as Slack and Trello. Mobility and connecting to work via the ‘cloud.’ In the US, 55 million workers identified themselves as freelancers in 2016, up 6% from 2014.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In fact, the focus on social networking platforms, starting with Facebook, has destroyed the meaning of the word friend and even changed it from a noun to a verb. Free mobile and online technologies will find friends at no cost, with no emotional investment required, so they have very little personal value.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

Ford Blakely, who was previously a business and financial consultant with LECG, founded Zingle in 2009 with a stand-alone device for restaurants, coffee shops, and other service businesses that enabled customers to use mobile text messaging for their take-out orders. Zingle (@ZingleMe) July 14, 2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

Bloomberg reports that forty-nine percent more companies went public in 2017 versus 2016. 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. Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium said its business grew by 60 percent in the first half of 2016, but the company did not disclose specifics about its revenue. “We We have a market-leading tag management platform that is the on-ramp to a marketing-led customer management platform,” Lunsford said. For us, it’s never been about tags or Javascript.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

As much of the world has shifted to mobile, smartphones are an important way to reach consumers. However, this year many brands still won’t deliver a full mobile experience, which is to say that, in 2016, many retailers still won’t have apps. Sixty eight percent spent less than $1 million on mobile developments in 2014.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

Mark Zuckerberg made an unannounced visit to Lagos, Nigeria last week on Tuesday, August 30, 2016. According to figures on their network, Nigeria is the largest market in Africa for Facebook, boasting 16 million Nigerians using the platform monthly, with 7 million logging onto the site daily and 97% of them on mobile.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

Catch up by reading the first edition here or check out last week’s edition , which offered the gamut of mobility news from Lyft and Bird to Waymo’s laser bears and cybersecurity. In other micromobility news … Micromobility data platform Populus raised some skrillz — $3.1 Keep it coming. million, to be exact.

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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. Extend data metrics into non-traditional channels, such as email, internal social media, and customer collaboration platforms. Gamify: engagement to get what you pay for.

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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. Extend data metrics into non-traditional channels, such as email, internal social media, and customer collaboration platforms.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

And while producers also have their own direct websites and distributors have their own originals: The world is specializing into mostly content producers and content distributors plus social platforms that also distribute video like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vine and Snapchat. So we expect 2016 to be a bumper year.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In the centerpiece of his education platform , Trump would redirect $20 billion in federal education spending to K-12 school choice programs. The two candidates are hard to compare because Clinton has published many pages of details on her campaign website, while Trump has posted his education goals in much briefer form. schools don’t do now.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 1, 2025

While AI platforms are a dime a dozen these days, Cusp AI is an innovative startup that has developed an AI search engine with a twist. The innovative AI-powered music creation platform – which was created by Anthropic – gives users a way to generate complete songs from simple text prompts or audio inputs.

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