Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2018

Diffbot , a tech startup that continuously scours the Web to assemble a “knowledge graph” of billions of facts in context, announced today that it’s opening up the searchable resource to the public—with starter rates as low as a cable TV bill.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

Google Fiber plans to acquire Webpass in a deal that trims the ranks of independent Internet service providers—an industry already maligned for its lack of competition—but ultimately could boost consumer access to high-speed Internet. Six-year-old Google Fiber has had its own set of challenges.

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Xconomy

MAY 16, 2018

After establishing a partnership with the Google Cloud Platform, Zesty.io CEO Gerry Widmer said Wednesday the San Diego-based company is expanding its workforce and extending its Web content management system (WCMS) to international customers. founder Randy Apuzzo at the end of 2017.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 16, 2018

Big tech companies like Google are facing heat for developing disruptive technologies that can make traditional jobs obsolete. But at the same time, the tech industry is growing fast, and is eager to recruit workers outside the sector to fill entry-level jobs that often go begging, a Google executive says.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 31, 2017

In his first public appearance since leaving Google Ventures, Bill Maris said Wednesday his new venture fund, Section 32, is nearly fully invested—less than four months after he officially unveiled its existence in the San Diego area.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 31, 2018

In another setback for Google’s Internet business, the tech giant has decided to wind down the Boston-area operations of Webpass, a wireless Internet service provider Google Fiber acquired in June 2016. A statement e-mailed by a Google spokeswoman didn’t give a reason for the decision.

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Xconomy

MAY 18, 2017

After beta testing technology that provides remote assistant services for the blind, San Diego-based Aira has raised $12 million in a Series B round that it says will enable the company to expand its service to thousands of visually impaired users this year.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2019

But tech companies are already writing the novel kinds of software these revolutionary computers will need in order to operate—and businesses are even helping to train the workforce for a future era of “quantum speed-up.’’ For that training task, Microsoft and X, the cutting-edge research arm of. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 26, 2018

San Diego startup Cuida Health, a recent graduate of the Connect Springboard accelerator program, this week launched its first product: a voice-activated “social wellness” app for seniors. Lisa doesn’t interrupt. She doesn’t mind long pauses between responses. And she has a sense of humor. Oh – and, she’s virtual.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 22, 2016

In downtown San Diego, a private real estate company best known for its master-planned communities in suburban Southern California has posed some existential questions for regional tech hubs looking to build their own startup ecosystems. Google has the Googleplex, its campus in Mountain View, CA, with 3.1

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

A growing number of startups are trying to encourage people to share genomic and other health data for research purposes by offering them some form of compensation. Now, as competition in this young sector ramps up, one of the big questions is what type of incentive will attract the most individuals.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

In particular I tried to do most of the “entrepreneur advice on VC” up front so that if you don’t want to watch our views on the deals you don’t have to. Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Competitors: SmashWords , Google Books.

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2018

The San Jose, CA-based company, begun in 2003 by four co-founders who bootstrapped its funding, has built a customer base of 1,100 firms including Google, GM, Siemens, Cisco Systems, LinkedIn, Comcast, and Juniper Networks. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Entrepreneur-turned-venture capitalist Vinod Khosla made big headlines almost six years ago when he wrote a blog post called “Do We Need Doctors or Algorithms?” Along the way, Khosla has invested in a range of startup companies—including several tackling radiology, cardiology, and mental health (see slide and list at bottom)—that are.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Before getting out on the open road, however, the company wants to show its self-driving system can clean up a mess in aisle 3 at Jimbo’s. As an independent startup backed by the corporate venture arm of Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ), Brain Corp. The startup moved off-campus in 2014, with $11 million in funding from Qualcomm Ventures.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2017

There are many ways to stand out as a biotech CEO, from getting a company started in the first place to pushing its first drug over the finish line. Together with a panel of judges—a group of 11 Boston-area life sciences veterans—we’ve combed through all the entries to come up with the seven finalists we found most compelling.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It's another big week for startup launches, this time in San Diego at DEMOfall. We've been two years in development, and are excited to provide a revolutionary platform for web sites, blogs, and social sites to create and grow their international business. It also supports blogs. How did you start NativeTung?

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

In other Google-related news, Recode reported that Bill Maris, the founder and president of Google Ventures (now called GV), has left the firm and will be replaced by David Krane. . —The U.S. Alex Lash examined the company’s role, via its biotech subsidiary Verily Life Sciences, in the massive project. —David H.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2017

If you do a Google search for AAPL, the stock ticker for Apple, the top search results are typically Yahoo Finance, Twitter, Google Finance—and StockTwits, a social media communications platform for Wall Street traders and active retail investors. Rosen (pictured above).

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Xconomy

APRIL 9, 2018

It’s the kind of clothes swapping that women have been doing offline since, likely, as long as there have been garments, says Emily Fox, director of marketing communications at LeTote, a San Francisco e-commerce startup. Women are tired of what’s in their closets; they. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In order to use “free” apps and Web services from the likes of Facebook (NASDAQ: FB ) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL ), people are required to share personal data that gets used by brands and companies to try and sell them stuff. That online contract. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

As we gear up for Robo Madness 2017: A.I. Gets Real , our annual robotics and artificial intelligence conference at Google’s offices in Kendall Square, let’s connect a few dots around the topic of automation. A drone carrying a package took off from the roof of a UPS truck, dropped the package at.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The race is on to sign up consumers seeking same-day delivery of groceries, household items, and personal goods. That announcement was followed early Thursday by Target (NYSE: TGT ) saying it would provide same-day delivery of its products through Shipt, a Birmingham, AL, startup the Minneapolis-based retailer bought for.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Miner helped shape the smartphone era with Android, a mobile operating system startup that Google acquired in 2005. Within 20 years, computer keyboards will be relegated to the technology dustbin, says Android co-founder Rich Miner. Android software now powers over 2 billion devices.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The produce grown by indoor farming startup Bowery never sees soil or natural sunlight before making its way to select restaurants and grocery stores in the Big Apple. Foodies in New York City may not realize it, but some of the tasty kale, bok choy, and other leafy greens they buy trace their origins to an industrial park in New Jersey.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 5, 2016

What is the ideal age to start a company? It’s a question that often circulates in the business press and on tech blogs. Twenty-somethings also tend to have few external commitments, like a spouse, kids, or a mortgage, which makes startup life easier to manage. Today’s teens have grown up with the Internet.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Esperanto Technologies , a startup AI chip developer that has operated mostly below the radar since its founding in 2014, announced this week that it raised $58 million in a Series B fundraising round. The field includes big semiconductor companies like Nvidia and tech giants like Google and Facebook, as well as other startups.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 23, 2018

With “Hey Google” and “Alexa” echoing from the expo halls of Las Vegas to millions of homes, the hype around voice-controlled computing is reaching a new peak in early 2018. Voice-controlled devices are permeating our world, and this new user interface is the future of computing—or so we are told by the companies purveying it.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Scooping up Raleigh, NC-based Red Hat (NYSE: RHT ) could make IBM (NYSE: IBM ) more competitive with bigger cloud players such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, says Michael Skok, Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2019

Those are some of the companies you’ll hear from at this year’s Napa Summit , the Xconomy Retreat on Technology, Jobs, and Growth. This is our most special event of the year—the eighth year we’ve held it—and it’s limited to about 100 VIP guests.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. Clash of the Titans: Google joins Apple, Microsoft in announcing new tablets (and more). Clash of the Titans: Google joins Apple, Microsoft in announcing new tablets (and more). Apple event rumor round-up: iPad Mini, iPad 3.5, Google Plus. 11 hrs ago. 20 hrs ago.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Under Obama, the federal government developed a program, nicknamed the “Startup Visa” plan, that would have. The suit by the National Venture Capital Association is another attempt to stop the new administration from overturning immigration policies upheld during former President Barack Obama’s tenure.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Think about the retailer e-mails we receive daily or the ads that appear on Google or our social media sites. Retailers are not only wasting so much money targeting us with bad data, consumers get frustrated,” says Katy Aucoin, founder and CEO of Dearduck, a Houston e-commerce data startup.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 18, 2018

San Diego and San Francisco. There were a few notable absences from the list, released early today. Detroit, MI, which had high expectations as a competitor, was left out, as was Madison, WI, and most of California. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2017

She leads a startup called Openwater , which is developing a new kind of wearable imaging device that might one day enable communication by thoughts alone. Xconomy has followed Jepsen’s work over the years —from her role as CTO of One Laptop Per Child, to senior executive positions at Google X and Facebook/Oculus.

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