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SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Furukawa has previously worked for Yahoo!, ZEFR said that Furukawa had most recently founded his own mobile ad company, and has 15 years of experience in the product management and technology development area. Venture Partners, Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital and Richmond Park Partners. READ MORE>>.

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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.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Venice, California-based Tecca , the online and mobile site providing articles, reviews, how-to articles, and other information about electronics products, said Monday that it is now reaching over one million unique visitors a month. The site says it is now the largest technology website specifically catering to women.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

Schneider was most recently CEO of LifeLock, and had led LifeLock through its sale to Symantec last year; she also previously served at Yahoo! Wag--founded in 2015 by Joshua and Jonathan Viner--says its services are now available in more than 100 cities nationwide. and Knight Ridder. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 17, 2012

Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Clearstone Ventures is backing a Bay Area gift card-based, payment network, Openbucks , as part of a Series A funding for Openbucks. According to Openbucks, it has raised $4.8M According to Openbucks, it has raised $4.8M

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MAY 13, 2013

And to keep up with the Jones’s it seems that Yahoo! Almost certainly the startup would have raised some capital. You have been at Google, Salesforce.com, Yahoo! Does Yahoo! So why not announce big, hairy audacious goals on recruiting the best mobile talent with sign-on bonuses and retention plans?

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Venture Capital is a Long Term Game. Personally, my work has shifted 80 percent to my mobile device for work communication, text, email and reading. IPOs for Uber, Lyft, AirBnB and other high flying startups will infuse the tech ecosystem with more entrepreneurs, founders, and capital to catalyze a new generation of startups.

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JULY 1, 2010

Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Includes content mobile guides, ie. Current round: $4.2mm led by Spark Capital and Foundry Group.

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APRIL 25, 2013

com) recently scored a round of funding from such notable investors as Data Collective, Brad Jones of Redpoint Ventures, Horizon Ventures, and TenOneTen Ventures, the new Southern California venture capital firm headed by Gil Elbaz and David Waxman. It''s mobile and mobile apps, but not just mobile apps. SRCH2 (www.srch2.com)

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MAY 4, 2010

Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. There weren’t enough details to know whether Corduro was trying to build a mobile payments company like Zong or a retail merchant processing solution like Square.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

and chat rooms on Bulletin Board Systems to Yahoo message boards, LinkedIn, Myspace, Twitter, and Instagram. Since the advent of the World Wide Web in the mid-1990s, we’ve seen such networks proliferate, from the Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link (remember The WELL?)

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APRIL 28, 2010

Dave told us about how and why he and his co-founders--both previously executives at Twistbox--decided to start their own startup, specifically outside of the mobile industry, and a bit about the product. We've been steeped in mobile content development and publishing. How long has Bccthis been around?

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Close shop to try and control monetization and you can only rely on your own internal innovation machine & capital. Social Networking is Becoming Mobile. Does Facebook have a permanent dominance of the future given their 500m users?

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

What is the future of social media, digital television or mobile computing. Background: GRP Partners is a Los Angeles based Venture Capital firm with additional operations in London and Paris. In the technology space we have backed Overture (acquired by Yahoo!), .&# This isn’t likely to appeal to us.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. MusicMatch was acquired by Yahoo! There will be plenty of FREE food and drinks!

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JUNE 17, 2011

He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets.

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MARCH 17, 2010

Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo. But we have a great city for building technology companies. If you decide to build a company in LA, here’s what you need to know: 1. You don’t.

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JULY 13, 2009

billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies. We've invested in a fantastic company called Mobiclip, which provides high throughput video with low battery consumption on mobile devices.

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MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Since almost everyone has a mobile device nowadays and an app is available for almost every news media agency. Where do you see mobile going? I think mobile is proving to be a good companion to journalism. The mobile keeps me widely informed. You even got Yahoo! Are you planning a mobile version of Assignmint?

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JULY 20, 2009

Jetty is used in everything from Eclipse programming environments to a number of commercial application servers out there, to open source projects like Hadoop, the highly sponsored project from Yahoo which showed the fasting sorting of terabyte of random information recently. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit.

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JULY 22, 2019

We invest both capital and an enormous amount of time and mentorship to help companies build the best businesses, as rapidly as possible. However, unless you're building rockets and giant launch pads, we're not talking about massive capital outlays. Is this the usual three month format for a Techstars accelerator?

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access. eBay and others.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo! Close shop to try and control monetization and you can only rely on your own internal innovation machine & capital. The Past (1985-2002).

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JULY 28, 2017

In a world where there seems likes there is a major, security breach every day, where usernames and passwords are just not enough because they keep getting stolen, and where hackers have even started to hijack people's mobile phones to break into accounts, what do you do? That's where things are today. We are lazy.

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JULY 13, 2013

And we had these vans and mobile kegs in the back, and we would go to golf courses. So then when I wanted to go into venture capital, they said, “You can’t do that, you need to be in EIR.” So when I got into venture capital, I thought, “Well, what can I do that’s different?”

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Prior to Tilofy, I had technical positions at Yahoo, Microsoft, and Samsung, ranging from development, to program management, to senior technology person on Samsung''s smart TV platform. If you''re familiar with Shszam, the mobile app which scans and tells you who an artist is, we''ve created something like Shazam for the real world.

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MAY 5, 2011

When you think about the success that is Silicon Valley, the unfair advantage is not just the huge amounts of available venture capital. When you start a company in the Bay Area you can often get your first biz dev deal done with Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com, eBay, Yahoo! Who can get help get access to their capital?

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MARCH 1, 2011

Mike Yavonditte is the founder of the “super hot&# Hashable , a startup out of NYC that has been described as a “ Mint.com for Social Capital ” Mike sold his previous company, Quigo , to Aol for $340 Million. Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! were doing.

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JUNE 6, 2011

We're looking to launch our first class in the fall, with five to ten companies, with the TechStars model of a small capital investment, and a seed investment of $6000 per founder. which became Softbank Marketing, selling ads for Yahoo before Yahoo had its own salesforce. Then I started working for these companies as well.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Jason Cohen, Capital Thought. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Apps, content, mobile. . Web and mobile technology have developed differently in Japan than any other country with hardware, Entrepreneurism / Monetization business, japan, Localization. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization cloud, freelance, mobile. .

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MAY 6, 2012

Michael Schneider – CEO of Mobile Roadie. Michael Schneider is the CEO of Mobile Roadie , the leading self-service mobile app engagement platform. In just a few minutes, anyone (no programming knowledge required) can create a mobile app. ThinkNear helps you target mobile ads to consumers at precise locations.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Yahoo. Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo. raise capital and move up north as soon as they got successful. Viddy, a mobile-video-sharing company, has its office a block from Google in Venice. COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB. NAME Facebook. SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT.

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AUGUST 28, 2012

Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. Aiming to head off Apple, Microsoft shows off Xbox SmartGlass mobile app and Xbox dashboard update. Venture capital.

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