socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

The firm recently relocated its headquarters from Hawaii, and we talked with Rob about why someone might need the service, how it's different from the scores of social networking sites on the web, and what problem it's trying to solve. FriendFeed is a great example of a successful aggregator. Rob Farrow: The reason behind Chi.mp

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Today, San Diego-based Metaplace (www.metaplace.com), which develops virtual world software, is announcing a funding round from Charles River Ventures, Crescendo Ventures, and high profile investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. Raph Koster: If you think of how virtual worlds have worked, they haven't worked like the web has.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Was about a billion dollars on the IPO” and “was one of the first web analytics companies. was starting.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

Since then, Zingle has evolved into a platform that aggregates message apps, including Facebook Messenger, Twitter direct messaging, SMS (text messaging), and in-app-chat (for branded apps), in a single user interface, enabling a hotel front desk, for example, to respond to guest requests.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The recent funding deals that Intel Capital laid out in San Diego Monday, on the first day of its 17th annual global summit, also reflect the strategic thinking of Wendell Brooks, who took the helm at Intel Capital about a year ago as longtime president Arvind Sodhani retired.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Arterys feeds the gigabytes of MRI information into its Web-based software application, which takes advantage of the outside computing power now broadly available from the network of servers-for-hire we call “the cloud.” Arterys uses Amazon’s Web servers to analyze data from the scans. “A We see this as the first of many.”.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 28, 2018

San Francisco-based Puls, founded in 2015, offers to dispatch technicians quickly to a customer’s home or office to replace malfunctioning parts, mount a widescreen TV on the wall, or install smart home devices such as security systems, voice-activated assistants, and Internet-connected thermostats. The 24/7 service operates.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

For example, medical services are generally not subject to sales tax. The company receives biometric readings from patients, like blood pressure or glucose levels, and these readings are transmitted to the company via its Web platform. There are numerous steps that smart companies can take to avoid unpleasant surprises.

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Xconomy

MARCH 29, 2017

The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, for example, credits commentator Vin Scully for inventing the term to describe the soaring home runs that Wally Moon hit out of the old Los Angeles Coliseum. As expressions go, “moonshot” has recently been gaining a lot of popularity in the media vernacular. But it’s a matter of debate.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

We’ve had Wolfram|Alpha free on the web for years now. And the exciting thing is that now we’ve actually done this across a vast range of areas —enough to support all kinds of computational thinking, for example across all the fields traditionally taught in schools. Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

For example, their poll this week showed Democratic presidental candidate Hillary Clinton regaining … Next Page » Reprints | Share: But that method was losing reliability due to lower response rates, as well as the movement toward mobile phones.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built. I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1.

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