Xconomy

JUNE 11, 2018

Intel sealed its commitment to become a player in the burgeoning autonomous vehicle industry when it bought computer vision company Mobileye for more than $15 billion in 2017.

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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.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Thursday, October 26, 2017 -- Founder Stories: David Knight, Angel City Data. Angel City Data has deployed over 2,000 custom desktop, web and mobile software solutions for clients such as Apple, Disney, Warner Bros., Burbank Tech Talks and TechFire. Harvard, Caltech, UCLA, USC, the BBC, and NASA.

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Xconomy

APRIL 5, 2019

—Mobile app startup Bitmo announced it had raised more than $3 million in seed funding from investors including Everplus Capital, Longboard Capital Advisors, and several Southern California-based family fund offices. Bitmo’s mobile app allows users to send and receive digital gift cards that can be switched between a number of stores.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2016

The new solution uses Rubicon Project's infrastructure and marketplace software. The move looks to be the first time Rubicon's programmatic ad system has been used outside of the more traditional Internet and mobile ad areas. Financial details of the deal between Rubicon Project and Clear Channel were not announced by the companies.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2017

exchanges during the first half of 2017, according to the report EY Global IPO Trends. 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. Eighty companies raised a total of $22 billion on U.S.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

Battery isn’t the only marquee investor to find value in ServiceTitan’s business developing software managing day labor. It was Iconiq that put a whopping $80 million into ServiceTitan just last year — and while the 2017 cash infusion may have been larger, the company’s valuation has continued to rise.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Equipped with diagnostic software that can assess problems with vehicles based on their owners descriptions and service trucks that can handle most maintenance and repair work, Wrench meets fleet operators and consumers at their vehicle’s to provide servicing and repairs. Wrench raises $4 million to bring auto repairs to your door.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Fieldwire , whose mobile app helps builders and construction crews coordinate their work, announced today it has lined up a total of $33.5 million in a Series B funding round in 2017, and it has just added another $25 million from a Series C funding round led by veteran Silicon Valley venture capital firm Menlo Ventures.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

. “Whether it be a passion for an obscure manga or your favorite football team, Kik has shown an incredible ability to provide a platform for new friendships to be forged through your mobile phone.” In acquiring Kik, the holding company is expanding its mobile app portfolio.

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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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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2017

If you’re thinking about breaking away from the cable monopolies and getting your data, music, and video in other ways, congratulations, I’m with you. I cut the cord back in 2009, and now millions of people are doing the same every year.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

View the Slideshow A little more than a year ago, amid a resurgence in San Diego’s software sector, Xconomy identified a baker’s dozen of local tech companies to watch in 2016. The results were so encouraging, we’re doing it again. Financial terms were not disclosed. Webroot withheld terms of the deal.).

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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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Social Media News Web Report 58

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2016

The introduction of KidGuard, new cell phone monitoring software that gives parents the ability to access their child's digital interactions, was a major accomplishment. Setting up the device is very easy and you can start your cooking from their app on your mobile. What's was biggest news from you or your‏ firm this year?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Fund I was fully deployed by June 30th of 2017, and we went out to raised Fund II, which was a wet close, where you invest as you close. We sold Velocloud to Vmware, in the software defined network (SDN) area. If your company was mobile, or cloud based before, now it has to be AI-enabled. We started March Capital in late 2013.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Appetize said it will use the new funding to expand its team, which it says it hopes to grow to over 150 employees split across offices in Los Angeles, New York and Atlanta, by mid-2017. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

That was around 2017, when the two first began brainstorming how they would build their company. In a separate email, Gross laid out exactly what he found so promising about Elementary’s combination of machine learning and image recognition tools software and robotics.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2017

Millions of consumers who used to type their search questions on a laptop or the tiny keys of a smartphone are now simply telling a tabletop device what they want. Signs are that the Amazon Echo and Google Home—both equipped with smart voice assistants—will turn out to be blockbuster sellers of the holiday gift season of 2016.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 15, 2012

Mobile office assistant. The automotive service offers a fully integrated mobile assistant messaging experience similar to having an assistant on standby in the car. The voice technology is expected to minimize distractions caused by mobile phones during driving. Distracted driving. Nuance now will handle solving this.

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Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2018

Unit sales rose 279 percent from 2016 to 2017, according to the association. “We The Consumer Technology Association estimates that nearly 44 million voice-enabled assistants will be sold this year in the United States. We have entered the era of voice ,” Jim Harris, a management consultant writes on the CTA’s website.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 28, 2021

Tech start-ups are usually spearheading a new narrative in their respective industries,” says Tobias Dawes, CEO of The Software Institute. It, apparently, is the only provider in the world of Salesforce-native request for proposal, or RFP, response, and automation software. Are Startups Running Out of Big Ideas?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

Check your brand definition against the clarity of this one from Xerox for office software. For example, LinkedIn is attuned to business professionals, Facebook is dominated by the social and upwardly mobile crowd. In looking ahead, don’t forget the mobile platforms (iPhone, Android), and location-based services (Foursquare, ShopKick).

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Social Media Media Platform Tool 58

Tech.Co

AUGUST 27, 2017

Here are five trends startups are considering for their operations in 2017. You cannot deny that the internet of things (IoT) has taken over: security cameras link with each other; mobile devices connect to the printer; and lights detect and activate human movements. Many users now rely on mobile applications.

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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

APRIL 5, 2017

Diamond Bar-based LifeRay (www.liferay.com) is a company that not too many people have heard of, but which is used to run the websites for such well known organizations like Toyota, T-Mobile, Coach, Fujitsu, Allianz, and Sesame Street. Bryan Cheung: We're an enterprise software company. What is LifeRay? How did the company start?

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2016

And what does this portend for the future of mobile interfaces? Planes have evolved on the inside through the addition of features like all-glass cockpits and fly-by-wire software. The company might be planning something splashy for 2017, the 10th anniversary of the original iPhone. So, what’s going on inside Apple?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

” And then this happened: While the much beloved Twitter had been going through a long and slow decline over many months, LinkedIn and Tableau Software went through a big-bang correction (a reversion to the mean) in a single day in early February. We still seemed very close and many firms were still “digging in.”

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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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Tech.Co

JANUARY 4, 2018

Their Enhanced Vision Engine (EVE) blends software and hardware into a digital eyewear device that can help restore sight to the visually impaired by projecting images onto healthier parts of the retina. The company was selected for the CES Innovation Awards Honoree for 2017 and 2018. ICI Vision (Tel Aviv, Israel).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

That is why I invited the Founder & CEO, Jonah Peretti , to come talk at the 2017 Upfront Summit and make the case himself. But I knew I had to look for investments in “software meets X (often known as Vertical Software solutions)” rather than necessarily horizontal enterprise software applications.

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