socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2013

Los Angeles-based GonnaBe , the startup headed by Hank Leber, rolled out its platform this week, releasing a new iPhone application which the startup says acts as the "crystal ball for your social life.". If you're a mobile user, what's the best way to help plan out your busy weekend and social life?

Help

socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2020

Santa Barbara-based Impact , which develops partnership management software, said this morning that it has acquired ACTIVATE , an influencer marketing platform which provides influencer discovery, program workflow, measurement, and analytics. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

Activity

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Content is a “hits driven business” and therefore you can only invest in platforms not media. The point isn’t to “build a business on YouTube” but rather to use YouTube as a marketing platform to build a video business that works across many platforms. I think most arguments miss the mark.

SEM

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

The biggest trend in the last twelve months is the rapid consolidation of major technology platforms across the board (social, cloud, mobile, video, communications, e-book, etc.) As data like the Startup Genome have begun to point out, LA will continue to emerge as one of the most active tech / startup ecosystems in the world.

Southern California

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

But, we find that lots of kids these days are overscheduled, and not only that, are overscheduled into a lot of the same kinds of kid''s activities. There are only a hand full of activities every kid does, and it just fills up their schedule. READ MORE>>.

Help

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

According to an email from Craig, the company decided to close down the BettterWorks perk platform, and will not longer be active after next Thursday. Craig said that the shutdown came as a result of not being able to sustain a large enough market, relative ot the high cost of customer acquisition.

Santa Monica

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based LifeCrowd (www.lifecrowd.com) unveiled its service to help connect people with real life activities. The firm is initially focusing on the Los Angeles market, and connecting people with fun, interesting classes, activities, and more in the local area.

Startup

socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2015

San Diego''s Events.com (www.events.com) thinks so, saying it is prepared to create a new platformbuilt in the social and mobile agedesigned to help manage all kinds of events, in a way which has been completely overlooked by the incumbent event registration and management providers. What is Events.com all about? That''s the vision.

Software

TechEmpower

JUNE 6, 2018

26 languages, 431 frameworks, 1774 benchmarks; and the knock on benefits to the the users of any framework that actively participates are enormous - you are truly doing great work! Introduced prior to Round 16, the continuous benchmarking platform really came into a fully-realized state in the past several months.

Framework

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

And while over the past few years we have been laser-focused on cash returns, we are equally planting seeds for our next 10–15 years of returns by actively investing in today’s market. What do you do with a $650 million platform? In fact, I am still active on two boards where I first invested in 2009. The answer is: not much.

Startup

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2018

InvolveSoft has created a platform which helps employees contribute to the community, by helping them find volunteer events, with a focus on a company streamline corporate engagement, team activities, volunteering, leadership & training, and diversity & inclusion. READ MORE>>.

Platform

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2021

Welcome Tech , which has built a digital platform aimed at immigrants and their families, has raised $35 million in a Series B funding round co-led by TTV Capital, Owl Ventures and SoftBank Group Corp.’s Today, Welcome’s platform is approaching 3 million active users, according to co-founder and CEO Amir Hemmat.

Platform

socalTECH

MAY 10, 2013

Four years ago, Los Angeles-based Adly (www.adly.com) launched to much fanfare as one of the first local startups to tie into the brand-new, Twitter micro messaging platform. We''re the leading social advertising platform that leverages celebrity relationships. Marketers have a hard time keeping up with all th emost recent platforms.

Social Media

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2011

In order to do that, what we did is instead of focusing on the front end apps, we worked on developing our own, back end unified communications platform, which gives us a the ability to offer telephony and text messaging, file sharing, and video conferencing. We're on a growth trajectory, and things are looking really good. READ MORE>>.

Social Network

socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2013

Hello Society calls itself the "premier Pinterest marketing & technology platform", and now has expanded its offerings beyond just Pinterest analytics to also include a way to court "tastemakers" active on Pinterest; a way to run Pinterest contests and promotions; creative tools; and even account management and services for marketers.

Marketing

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2019

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” Is it Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or one of the other 200 active platforms vying for attention these days? For the new platforms and all the rest, that’s where tracking and testing comes in.

Social Media

socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

You build relationships with communications and activity. What it did uniquely, is it also integrated contacts and communications--all in single platform. Jon Ferrara: What we did when we set out to build Nimble, is we starting building a platform which integrate your contacts and calendar.

Google

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2015

Rexter''s software--which runs across mobile platforms, tablets, and PCs--helps consolidate and manage their contacts from across social networking sites and email, and helps users manage those contacts and activities.

Altadena

socalTECH

JULY 23, 2012

Los Angeles startup accelerator StartEngine has launched its third class, a new batch of fourteen startups which have set up shop in the incubator's Westwood Village space under the watchful eyes of Activision co-founder Howard Marks and investor Paul Kessler. READ MORE>>.

Class

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

GrubMarket , which provides a B2C platform for consumers to order produce and other food and home items for delivery, and a B2B service where it supplies grocery stores, meal-kit companies and other food tech startups with products that they resell, is today announcing that it has raised $60 million in a Series D round of funding.

Technical Review

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

A well-performing application will not slow, block, or otherwise frustrate the fulfillment of requests based on other users’ concurrent activities. Though to be clear, no platform is infinitely performant; so at some point an algorithm’s complexity will require more complex architecture.). a single-threaded search engine).

Web

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2020

According to the company--which normally runs in-person, corporate team building events--its new "Cyber Sleuths" virtual game uses video and web-conferencing platforms like Zoom, Microsoft Team, Google Hangouts learn the tools to succeed working remotely for the first time.

Culver City

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

Its primary goal is to focus on identifying what is truly driving demand, analytically, so that our customers can optimize their activities. We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments.

Social Media

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2011

We are an offer-based platform that allows users to negotiate the price they buy and sell tickets for, on the secondary market. We're also building out our platform, leveraging new technology like mobile and social technology. But, what we've noticed, from activity on our site and sales--is it is getting very hot again.

Ticketmaster

socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2013

Will all that activity help create the next big technology, advertising, gaming, or e-commerce startup? In a way, the event--like the Demo Days from the other accelerators around town--seems to have focused the startup community and prospective startup community on the possibilities inherent in a new startup. It's unclear.

Startup

socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2021

We created this in 2003 for the medical interpreting market, but since then, we've expanded the platform so that it's not just about language. We now have 1800 hospitals across the country, and have had over 100,000 encounters over the platform. Jamey Edwards: Our go-to-market platform is an iPad Pro mounted on a specialized cart.

Platform

TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Renowned as one of the leading projects of its kind, it benchmarks the peak performance of server-side web application frameworks and platforms, primarily using tests contributed by the community. Numerous individuals and organizations leverage the insights from The TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks to enhance their framework’s performance.

Framework

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2014

I considered changing to a blog publishing platform that would allow me to change the visual design more easily myself. He runs platform for Upfront Ventures and is doing an amazing job. I appreciate your pro-activeness and your patience with me. But that seemed too much work for me. Kyle played a major role in this.

Blogging

socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Santa Monica-based voice and texting API developer CallFire said this week that it has just hit two billion messages send via its platform, and decided to donate $10,000 in credits on its service to a nonprofit to celebrate the milestone.

Santa Monica

socalTECH

MAY 6, 2014

Irvine-based PEAR Sports , a developer of personalized coaching apps for the iPhone and Android, has raised $5M in a funding round, to go towards its mobile apps and platform. PEAR Sports said the funding will go towards sales and marketing of its mobile app and hardware.

Coach

socalTECH

MAY 9, 2019

According to LunaPBC, it will use the new funding to expand into new areas of health information, including accepting whole genome and exome DNA files, RNA, microbiome, electronic health records (EHRs), fitness and activity trackers, smart devices, and other health data areas.

Platform

socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2015

El Segundo-based ClearPath Networks , a developer of a cloud-based platform aimed at helping network, broadband, and cloud operators manage their services, has named a new VP. He also is very active in the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a group focused on software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV).

El Segundo

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

So, what we do, is bring all of that data together into a unified, comprehensive solution, so they can manage all of that activity and data in one place. All of the activity we're monitoring, and ways we're engaging and allowing clients to engage with consumers are 100 percent through their smart phone.

Social Media

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

Darren Marble: At the core, we are a virtual film studio, that empowers filmmakers to actively build, engage, and monetize their online audience. The beauty of platform is fans are signing into Facebook when fans engage with films on our site, and those film makers are collecting valuable data and page profiles on their audience.

Hollywood

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2019

The second part of the platform addresses other aspects of recruitment, including prequalification, and the other is around engagement, where we've just launched a LinkedIn plug-in that's an engagement tool. The first product is a platform, a technical recruitment engine. It's all objective data. Are people using the product now?

Sites

TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Content Recommendations in Streaming Services While many streaming platforms suggest content based on viewing history, LLMs have the power to significantly elevate this experience. These enhanced capabilities transform the search experience from a passive retrieval process into an active, dynamic interaction.

Generative AI

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 24, 2020

The company touts its service as the only technology offering that can take a property from marketing to the close of a sale or lease without having to leave the platform. So far, the company has seen $700 billion of transactions flow through the platform and roughly 40% of those deals were exclusive to the company.

Los Angeles