Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2018

One of the largest and most consequential data breaches in 2017 afflicted credit reporting agency Equifax, and it was hardly the only victim. These revelations led to Congressional investigations, and pledges by social media companies to better curate the content flowing through their platforms. Have all these.

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

What you might not realize is that the adorable droid was the brain child of Sphero, a robotics and digital technology company and an alumni to the Disney Accelerator program. “This year, more than ever, we are working with companies with the potential to help define the future of media and entertainment together with Disney.”

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APRIL 11, 2018

percent from Q1 of 2017. The most active area for LA area seed investments was in media, entertainment, and gaming, with software-as-a-service businesses also bringing in significant seed funding. According to the report from Amplify, 23 LA startups raised a total of $52.9M in seed funding in Q1, which was up 2.5

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Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2018

Xconomy asked technology and innovation leaders around our network to reflect on the most important developments in their industries during 2017, and the answers were appropriately wide-ranging. Here now are responses, edited for clarity, from Mark Bowles, co-founder of medical diagnostics. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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AUGUST 10, 2018

percent increase in its revenues between Q2 of 2017 and Q2 of 2018 in its quarterly results on Thursday afternoon. j2 Global is Southern California's most acquisitive company in the technology area, and has been gobbling up small online services, digital media outlets, and other companies since inception. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 12, 2019

Los Angeles-based Triton Digital , a provider of advertising services and technology for the online radio streaming, digital audio and podcasting markets, has acquired Omny Studio , a developer of a podcast and on-demand audio publishing platform. Financial terms of the acquisition were not annoucned.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Isn’t it frustrating to think you finally understand something in business, like marketing with social media, only to realize that the landscape changed while you were looking at other priorities? In a classic book on social media by Jim Tobin, “ Earn It. Where are the young social media users going? When the glass is only.04%

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. We’ve called these nine and 10-figure deals, which shine brightly in the media and are hefty enough to bend the curve of VC fund sizes upwards, “ supergiants ” after their stellar counterparts. Jason Rowley. Contributor. More posts by this contributor.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Irvine-based a href="[link] Technology, a developer of advertising software, says it has launched an IPO, intending to sell 7,500,000 shares of its Class A common stock in an offering on the Nasdaq Global Market as DSP. Viant is led by technology veteran Tim Vanderhook, who founded Viant with brothers Chris and Russ. and $21.00

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Tuesday, October 17, 2017 -- Tea Tech and Tequila Autumn Mixer Fundraiser. Media Technologies MarketPlace, a boutique tech sales and service company, is hosting a fun evening of networking, need to know tech showcases, tea and tequila tasting, live music and culinary goodies. Connect Pasadena. See [link] (more)

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MARCH 2, 2016

Los Angeles-based Render Media (www.rndr.com), which is creating a publisher geared at the social world, social channels, and sharing. We caught up with co-founder and CEO Vic Belonogoff to learn more about Render Media, whose flagship site is Opposing Views. Tell us about Render Media? Demand Media made a business out of that.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 27, 2017

Sunday, April 2, 2017 -- N3XT CON. Hear from industry leaders in technology, entertainment and startups in three rooms at the Pasadena Convention Center.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Wednesday, February 22, 2017 -- AITP-LA February Tech Meetup. AITP-LA February Tech meetup You are invited to an outstanding networking event to connect with professionals in technology, content management, digital media, project and quality management.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 20, 2017

Thursday, January 26, 2017 -- Digital Marketing Bootcamp. Sessions will focus on data, technology, social media, email and content marketing. SIIA and TCOSC is kicking off its Boot Camp Series in Irvine, CA. The one-day boot camp, will discuss the absolute essentials of digital marketing and effective strategies for growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2022

Isn’t it frustrating to think you finally understand something in business, like marketing with social media, only to realize that the landscape changed while you were looking at other priorities? In a classic book on social media by Jim Tobin, “ Earn It. Where are the young social media users going? When the glass is only.04%

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Wednesday, December 6, 2017 -- 10th Annual Digital Family Reunion: Envisioning LA Tech in 2027. From Silicon Beach to DTLA and across So Cal, please join fellow digital media, entertainment and technology professionals for the event of the season -- and the decade. See [link] (more)

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DECEMBER 27, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. Today's contribution is from Brad Brooks , the co-founder and CEO of TigerText , which provides clinical communication solutions for the healthcare industry, and also co-founder of anonymous social media app Whisper.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the movers and shakers in Southern California's technology ecosystem. Other examples include media tech companies ZEFR and GumGum � both having record years and positioned extremely well for continued growth in 2017. Rob Freelen: Focus.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

Burbank-based The Walt Disney Company says it is acquiring a 33 percent stake in BAMTech , the new technology services and video streaming spinout of Major League Baseball (MLB). According to Disney, it has the option to acquire majority ownership of BAMTech in the coming years.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

“We want to inspire, but we also want to be realistic and show beauty in real life,” Glossier founder and CEO Emily Weiss said in a 2017 interview with Inc, just as the brand had reached what Weiss herself described as “cult status.” It’s more of a mockery,” said Isa Watson , founder and CEO of social media app Squad.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on the year from Southern California's technology community. The idea of entrepreneurship as a path and of technology as a change catalyst is taking root in cities and ecosystems all over the world. You'll be able to see all the many 2016 reflections here as they are posted.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the Southern California's technology ecosystem. What's your favorite technology gadget, device, or innovation you ran across this year? Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017? READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018?

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FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Viant is led by technology veteran Tim Vanderhook, who founded Viant with brothers Chris and Russ. in 2018, and the acquisition of Adelphic in 2017. The company jumped all the way to $47.72 per share in its first day of trading. The company's stock jumped all the way to $47.72 in trading on its first day of trading.

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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. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Isn’t it frustrating to think you finally understand something in business, like marketing with social media, only to realize that the landscape changed while you were looking at other priorities? In a classic book on social media by Jim Tobin, “ Earn It. Where are the young social media users going? When the glass is only.04%

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 26, 2018

alone in 2017 (not to mention the roughly 32 million consoles sold at the market’s peak in 2008), according data on the Statista website. . households from getting the gear in their hands and until those costs come down, out-of-home experiences provide the best way to get consumers comfortable with the technology.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Since that time the speed at which companies have developed both technologically and from a business perspective has been nearly as staggering as the 760 mph system itself. This has caused much confusion both in the public and the media. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies. Virgin/Hyperloop One.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

If you are an entrepreneur today, and not using social media to promote your business, you are missing out on a huge opportunity. Most social media outlets don’t require a subscription charge, but they certainly require an investment to be hard hitting – in people, in technology, your reputation, and your time.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2019

In January of 2017, sitting in a back of a Lyft at CES in Vegas, our driver was actually listening to a Latin track playlist his friend from home had sent him. In July of 2017, we started to develop the app, and we had our pilot from September 2017 to December 2017, and went live in March of 2018.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 26, 2017

There was a new controversy seemingly every week, whether it was Uber’s myriad scandals ; more personal data breaches ; Russia’s use of social media and other online platforms to try and influence U.S. Xconomy recently reached out to business and technology leaders from around our network to put 2017 in perspective and look ahead.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The world’s top tech companies have heavily invested in AR/VR and are persistent in broadcasting the technologies’ potential to blur the lines of how consumers interact with the digital world. Beyond the tech titans, it’s the small startups that are dialing into what’s missing in the ecosystem right now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2022

There are others, like Norton LifeLock , acquired in 2017 by Symantec for $2.3 Market your solution and user benefits, not the mysterious technology behind it. Young people naively enter their pictures and personal data for fun on social networking sites, ignoring constant feedback from the media that these are bad practices.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Kanaan Jemili: uCast Global is a digital media company that is looking at creating a scalable global solution for online video. What we specialize in, is the way we deliver this content in a seamless way, in high quality, with the latest technology available. We caught up with Kanaan to learn more about uCast Global. What is uCast?

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

When you look at social messaging, and talk about social messaging, we're talking about social media, text messaging, email, and chat applications. Yet, the ways that enterprises and businesses are monetizing that user interaction is sort of archaic, compared to the evolution of the technology. I harken back to my eBay days.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2019

In January of 2017, sitting in a back of a Lyft at CES in Vegas, our driver was actually listening to a Latin track playlist his friend from home had sent him. In July of 2017, we started to develop the app, and we had our pilot from September 2017 to December 2017, and went live in March of 2018.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Statistica reports that almost 20 percent more companies went public in 2018 versus 2017. 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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