socalTECH

AUGUST 15, 2016

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital Group announced this morning that it has sold Netmotion Wireless , a developer of mobile security software, to The Carlyle Group. NetMotion Wireless develops mobile security software for mobile devices, and was based in Seattle.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2018

La Jolla-based Connectiv , a developer of cloud-based, mobile software used by biomedical and clinical engineering groups to manage and control their medical devices and equipment, has been acquired by Austin, Texas-based Accruent. Financial terms of the buy were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 24, 2022

Since the launch of Pokémon Go in 2016, players have been coordinating meetups, in-game raids and battles on platforms like Reddit and Discord. This summer, parent company Niantic is unveiling Campfire, a social app designed to help mobile augmented reality (AR) gamers connect.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Friday, September 9, 2016 -- LA CTO Forum. Members are the senior most person in their organization in charge of software, database, web/mobile development. The LA CTO Forum has grown over the past 15 years into an amazing, highly-vetted group with more than 350 members. It's the largest such group in the US.

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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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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

A few weeks ago, Los Angeles-based enterprise expense reporting software maker Chrome River (www.chromeriver.com) took a significant venture funding round--worth $100M--to help expand the company's growth in the enterprise software market. What does Chrome River's software do? Dave Terry: It's just part of our heritage.

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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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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 ). Selling tons of “shelfware” (customers who buy but don’t use your software) and thus having bad customer references.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

The wind, he said, “refers to the ever-growing desire for quality by mobile gamers.” ” Breaking the wave, on the other hand, entails TiMi applying new development tools to building high-budget, high-quality AAA mobile games. “TiMi didn’t succeed in China because of WeChat and QQ.

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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. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that particularly caught your eye in 2017. What are you looking forward to most in 2018?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Mobile and cloud are two prominent examples of such a journey. Internet of things has been THE hot topic for the past couple of years and that trend continues into 2016 and beyond. The post Technology Trends of 2016 appeared first on TechZulu. Here are some of the specifics to pay attention to over the next year.

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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. In 2016, the price of mobile data will remain relatively stable. Streamlined Online Experiences – Think Slack 2016. Mobile Growth Will Continue To Shape Our Lives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2016

For a software startup, a patent can be the intellectual property providing the key competitive advantage, or it can be an expensive non-defensible bureaucratic nightmare -- or both. Some argue to simply eliminate software patents, while others put their hopes in U.S. Patent offices can’t keep up with software technology.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

But robotics is moving slower than expected in some key areas, such as the development of dexterous gripper technology, intuitive user interfaces, and in integrating software and hardware through the full chain of systems engineering, according to Henrik Christensen, director of UC San Diego’s new Institute for Contextual Robotics.

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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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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. Jeb Spencer: For TVC, closing on our new $115 million software focused growth equity fund at the end of last year made for an exciting 2015.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2016

CES is a prime time for gaming companies to showcase their latest tech: There’s always a collection of the newest PC cases, the latest mobile tricks, gaming laptops, and gaming headsets. Developers (and Valve, please), get your software ready for new game development. PlayStation’s VR Work. Laptop gamers, rejoice!

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Greg knows consumer businesses and customers, which has added tremendously to our team where I admittedly have more of a background in enterprise software, data and online video. 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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Xconomy

MAY 25, 2018

A few years before the presidential election of 2016, with all its Wikileaks, Russian disinformation campaigns, and phony Facebook links, San Diego’s Mitek Systems (NASDAQ: MITK made a strategic decision to expand into identity verification technology. Funny how things work out. After paying $10.6

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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

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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

million in funding on TechCrunch led by Harmony Partners and Upfront Ventures to double its footprint of 3 cities (New York, Chicago & Washington DC) to 6 in 2016. So we took a breather to build our software and processes before launching. Building a Large Software Lead. We built warehouse management processes and software.

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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 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. Security-tech company Cybereason is announcing another boon flowing from close ties with its biggest investor, Japanese telecom and tech giant SoftBank.

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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

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. San Diego’s Renovate America specializes in software and financing for residential PACE (property assessed clean energy) programs that improve residential energy and water efficiency.

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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. Our tagline, is where strangers become friends.

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Xconomy

MAY 14, 2019

CrowdStrike , the cybersecurity company that identified the two Russian government-linked hacker groups that invaded the Democratic National Committee (DNC)’s network during the 2016 presidential campaign, filed publicly for an initial public offering on Tuesday.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

That expanded into a 10-city tour in 2015, and a world tour in Europe and Asia in 2016, Pinnell says. Its first mission was to launch a Bay Area VR festival to showcase works in the new immersive art forms. It was a pivotal year when. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

So in February of 2016, he decided to refocus his San Francisco startup on the small, but unexpectedly profitable aspect of his service that could operate in the black. Like many tech entrepreneurs, Sean Behr had a young business that was popular with consumers, but was also losing money.

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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

presidential election in 2016. 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.

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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. CrowdStrike’s Series E financing round was led by General.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2017

That’s a sharp contrast to 2016, when uncertainty and doubt about the economy and presidential election clouded U.S. Improving economic fundamentals are stoking the IPO pipeline in the United States and elsewhere, according to a report issued Tuesday by the global consultant and accounting firm EY. billion in the United States.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2016

So, going by the traditional schedule, the 2016 iPhone would have been a major refresh, perhaps helping to reverse this year’s slowdown in sales of iOS devices. And what does this portend for the future of mobile interfaces? Maybe, before phones can get smarter, software engineers have to get smarter. Let me explain.

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Inverted Software

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

percent in 2016. Millennials do their shopping online using a mobile device. billion in fiscal 2016, a 1.8% Millennials tend to prefer budget friendly, health conscious trendy products made by companies with social and environmental awareness that have a strong online and mobile presents. sales falling 3.9 Gal Ratner.

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