socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2019

Los Angeles-based dating application developer Tinder is making it easier for its users to express their sexual orientation on the service, saying on Tuesday that it has added a new "Orientation" option on its profiles.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

The company’s co-founders have a background in mobile application development and together built the first mobile app for one of the largest overnight delivery companies in the United States. They are in doing a special LA courier and Info mixer here in Los Angeles on Thursday, September 1.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Marlin Equity Partners has acquired business intelligence and analytics software developer Logi Analytics , the two said Thursday morning. Financiald details on the transaction were not announced.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2013

Los Angeles-based mobile ad network operator Airpush said this morning that it has reached $4M in monthly developer payouts, and over 90,000 live apps using its mobile ad network. Airpush also said it now has approximately 140 employees split between its Los Angeles and Bangalore offices. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Los Angeles- and Austin-based GameSalad , which develops software which helps people create iOS, Android, and web games, said Friday that its software now supports Windows 8 application development. The startup--which has been supporting Windows development since May--said its latest version, 0.10.0

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Ultimately Forge will bring a suite of products to market for distributed application developers, but for now the company is focused on a service to provide insight into the performance of smart contracts over the Ethereum network. “The others are really interesting projects but they were also where Ethereum was a few years ago.”

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Los Angeles-based Webalo , a company which provides mobile application development tools, said this afternoon that it has raised $3M in a new funding round. Webalo says its software eliminates much of the coding, wating, and cost of traditional, mobile application development. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Los Angeles-based mobile fundraising application developer MobileCause has partnered with Sage , to provide its mobile fundraising platform to Sage's nonprofit customers. MobileCause, which is headed by Doug Plank, is backed by un-named venture and angel investors. Financial details of the link were not disclosed.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 11, 2020

Well, now those development studios can turn to Pragma , which is building the back-end toolkit for gaming companies so their developers can focus on what they do best — making games. In the game industry, a game can stay in beta for years as developers work out the kinks. Pragma’s investors agreed.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

One of the biggest issues facing mobile application developers today, is finding new users among a gigantic sea of applications. A Los Angeles-based startup, PaeDae , is looking to change that with a new platform it is calling BARTR , which it says will let mobile app developers exchange traffic and users.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2013

Los Angeles-based TenFarms , the mobile application development startup headed by Nils Forsblom, announced this morning that it has raised $2.7M in an angel funding round, to launch a new mobile advertising product called Adtile to the market. TenFarms did not disclose the names of those angel investors.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Los Angeles-based content delivery network (CDN) provider NetDNA is making it easier for web application developers to use its CDN services, saying Monday that it has launched a new service to embed web acceleration capabilities into their web services and applications.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2014

Los Angeles-based mobile advertising startup PaeDae announced this morning that it has tied into Intel''s appMobi effort, which will allow Intel developers to integrate with its advertising platform. appMobi develops cross platform application development software for HTML5 and Javascript, and was acquired by Intel last year.

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JavaScript Advertising Platform Mobile 138

socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2015

Los Angeles-based Prevoty , a develops of software toolsets used to provide runtime protection of applications, has raised $8M in a Series A funding round, the company said today. prevoty venture capital security secure application monitoring cloud software' Prevoty i led by Julien Bellanger. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Los Angeles-based Total Immersion , the developer of augmented reality (AR) software, is aiming at the game development market with its technology today, saying it has released a new version of its software specifically aimed at game and application developers.

Web 177

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2012

Los Angeles-based Factual has inked a partnership with EMC, as part of EMC's new Grenplus Chorus toolset for data scientist collaboration. Factual operates an online data service, targeted at application developers, to retrieve live data on business locations, restaurants, and other verticals. READ MORE>>.

Los Angeles 145

Los Angeles Services Angel Develop 145

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Los Angeles-based FastPay , a provider of payment products for digital publishers, application developers, and game developers, said today that it has raised a funding round. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. Source of the new funding was also not announced.

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2011

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) has quitely launched a major contest looking to spur development of mobile application that utilize information about the Los Angeles area's public transit.

Software Development 178

Software Development Develop Development Software 178

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based GRP Partners is one of the lead investors in a developer of social media analytics software, Awe.sm , Awe.sm Awe.sm's tools are used by application developers to monitor and measure social media and sharing activity through their apps. said Thursday.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2010

Los Angeles-based GoTV Networks , a developer of mobile applications, said today that it has acquired the HOMBRE (Hands-On Mobile Binary Runtime Environment) division of Hands-On Mobile Inc. As part of the acquisition, the firm said it has named Scott Scherer as SVP of Product Development and Technology for the firm.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Los Angeles-based FastPay , which provides specialized line of credit to online publishers, e-commerce companies, videogame companies, and other digital media companies, reports this morning that it has placed over $100M in funding to over 100 customers since its launch in 2010. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2012

Los Angeles-based ntro , the mobile social networking and discovery application developer founded by former Pandemic Studios founder Josh Resnick, has updated the firm's app, as the company looks to make a big splash at SXSW.

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Social Network Mobile Networking Los Angeles 178

socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2013

Things definitely look to be heating up in the software recruiting world, at least, if you judge the latest offer from a local startup to find local recruits for software developers.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Los Angeles-based Burstly , the mobile advertising tools firm run by Evan Rifkin, said this week that it has opened up a new way for mobile application developers to sell their own advertising space. Newtoy recently revealed it has had over 10 million downloads of its game.

Mobile 171

Mobile Services CPC GRP Partners 171

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Santa Monica-based Geodelic , the location-based mobile application development firm run by Rahul Sonnad, confirmed its relationship with Verizon last week. Verizon has been an investor in the firm since June, and Geodelic has been developing applications with Verizon over the last year. READ MORE>>.

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Twiistup Clearstone Santa Monica Venture Capital 187

socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2010

ELC is known for its cloud computing applications development, and Ruby On Rails development. Pourzanjani founded PriceGrabber and sold it to Experian in 2005 for $485M, and is among one of the active angel investors in Los Angeles. According to ELC Technologies, Rahmat takes the helm of ELC.

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Cloud Computing Technology Santa Barbara Venture Capital 197

socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2010

Los Angeles-based Demand Media , the online media firm headed by Richard Rosenblatt, announced today that it has inked a partnership with celebrity model Tyra Banks , to create a new site focused on fashion and beauty. Financial details of the partnership between Banks and Demand Media were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Check out some of the recent positions posted to socalTECH's Job Board in recent days: Senior PHP Developer , Los Angeles, Oversee.net. Web Application Developer , Irvine, GrowMetrix. Web Developer , Calabasas, lynda.com, Inc. The high tech industry in Southern California is hiring.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based Factual , the data API firm led by Gil Elbaz, has made a big enhancement to its Places dataset, the firm explained this morning, saying it has added over 80,000 landmarks (parks, memorials, historic building), 20,000 transport hubs (airports, rail stations, etc.) and 190,000 ATM location to its database.

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Miramar Google Los Angeles Tool 140

socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2010

Los Angeles-based Burstly announced Tuesday afternoon that the firm has raised $1.8M Burstly is developing mobile advertising tools for the Apple iPhone and Google Android platforms, which allows application developers to manage and optimize their advertising inventory. in a venture funding.

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Tool Mobile GRP Partners Advertising 157

socalTECH

MAY 19, 2017

In today's world of web application development, speed is everything. Developers are now turning out code and releasing it live to the world in near real time--what is called DevOps and Agile development. With the rise of the cloud and Agile, it's really changed how developer are coding their websites.

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Web Startup Southern California Software 138

socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2009

Los Angeles-based Demand Media 's LIVESTRONG.com web site, the online health and fitness information web site run in conjunction with Lance Armstrong, said this week that it has rolled out a new 'Calorie Tracker' aplication for the RIM BlackBerry.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Los Angeles-based Ciena Solutions LLC, a provider of SAP integration management services, has been acquired by NetSol Technologies. NetSol, which provides business outsourcing and enterprise application development, did not disclose financial terms of the buy.

Ticketmaster 113

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Climbing the ranks for our Los Angeles, CA region, Mobile Therapy was one of two semifinal winners. My first company, Web Elite, provided high-end Web and application development services for the Automotive community (suppliers and OEMs).

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

(Editor's note: Los Angeles has always had strong ties to business in the UK, and the UK government has been very active in reaching out to Los Angeles technology firms in recent years. Andrew Humphries: There have been some really interesting successes.

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socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2013

Forsblom is now in Los Angeles and San Diego, and reinventing himself with a mobile application company called TenFarms (www.tenfarms.com). PhotoPoll is our first app to push live, and now we're working on our second app, AdTile, which is a mobile advertising solution for applications and mobile software.

Mobile 233

Mobile Southern California Startup Outsource Development 233

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

One of the hottest areas in enterprise and cloud software has been the move by the industry to adopt technologies like NoSQL, a way to tap into the distributed nature of the cloud to accelerate distributed applications. It''s a distributed data platform built for scale, and build for accelerated application development.

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