Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

The word “cloud”—as in cloud computing, and cloud storage—has served as a handy shorthand term, but it has always been inherently vague and a little misleading. But cloud gets it right on one score—it suggests distance. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Power has been guiding growth companies for 25 years, and now teaches innovation at the Harvard Extension School.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week. In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world this year? I think "enterprise 2.0"

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Venture Capital Capital Southern California High Tech 164

Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

But today, online companies that sell services rather than merchandise also need to be concerned about state sales taxes. Online service companies need to be aware of these potential tax traps so they are not surprised when a state tax agency comes knocking on their door.

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Sales Company Companies Software Review 62

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

James Borow and Clark Landry (shared position), SHIFT (Los Angeles, Santa Monica, advertising). Alex Kazerani and James Segil (shared), EdgeCast Networks (Los Angeles, content delivery network). Matt Munson , Twenty20 (Los Angeles, photo sharing). Thorsten von Eicken , Rightscale (Santa Barbara, cloud computing).

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Southern California SoCalTech Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 279

socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2011

For today's Insights and Opinions section, where we share the thoughts and insights of local technology thought leaders, we have an article from Tony Greenberg , CEO of Ramprate on A Cynic's Prediction of IT and Media in 2011. Last year brought us the return of 3D from the 1950s, cloud (a.k.a. Everything that's old will be new again.

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Media Cloud Computing Press Examples 168

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2012

Mobile video sharing app developer. M raised, and cloud computing provider Eucalyptus , with $30.0M most active in investing in local companies here -- were GRP Partners , with 10 investments; followed by Siemer Ventures. Viddy , with $30.7.M raised, also were among the top fundings. Tied with four investments east.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Power has been guiding growth companies for 25 years, and now teaches innovation at the Harvard Extension School.

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Pricing Cloud Computing Customer Custom 123

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Silicon Valley had the lion's share of the venture funding dollars in Q3, with $1.75 funding, fellow San Diego cloud computing firm RightScale , with $25.0M raised by companies in the sector. billion invested in the region. For the quarter, San Diego County garnered the most venture capital, with $231.3M in investments.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. 2010 was very good to us.

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Technical Review Southern California Cloud Computing Venture Capital 160

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

WEMO Media is an interesting combination of Hollywood, computer games, and deep technical experience, one of the few companies we have seen which seems to combine both the worlds of high tech and software with content, interactive, and Hollywood. We spoke with Neville about the company: What is theBlu?

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Cloud Computing Web Entertainment Media 208

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Since its origin as an academic research project in 2007, Eucalyptus has become the dominant open source cloud solution, boasting over 25,000 clouds formed. According to Marten, “We enable companies to run, within their own firewall, a cloud that behaves exactly like the public clouds, exactly like Amazon.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Platform Resource 212

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

My article 5 Time-Tested Success Tips From Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos was so well received, I am sharing five more pearls of wisdom from Mr. Bezos. A company that is constantly improving, even in small ways, is a difficult company to beat. Share and Enjoy. A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

After months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Companies: Spotlight Companies. It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship. View Larger Map.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2019

From meager beginnings selling books online back in 1994, Amazon is currently the largest e-commerce retailer and cloud computing platform in the world, and now dominates even the giant Walmart. Compensate with shares rather than bonuses to make it happen. Everyone wants to grow and innovate like Amazon these days.

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Commerce Artificial Inteligence Cloud Computing Platform 89

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Perhaps it should come as no surprise that the cloud price wars have flared up once again. After taking a brief hiatus amidst nervous tensions, competition between cloud computing vendors has reached a fever pitch in the past month. The cloud price wars (sometimes known as the “Race to Zero”) aren’t exactly a new phenomenon.

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Pricing Cloud Computing Google Services 40

Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Cloudera and Hortonworks, two large, publicly traded companies that compete to offer Web-based data storage and analytics, announced plans today to merge into a combined entity they value at $5.2 Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS. The goal of the combined entity is to provide a leading data platform.

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Platform Software Review Web Pricing 93

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 19, 2013

Circa 1996, I ran into a former co-worker who had departed my then-current startup, Computer Motion (NASDAQ: RBOT, purchased by Intuitive Surgical), to join an Internet company. However, rather than proudly sporting swag issued by his new company, he was wearing a polo shirt embroidered with an Artemis Research logo.

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Cloud Computing Web Entrepreneur Marketing 176

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

For example, new mobile devices are creating an era of cloud computing and BYOD (What is BYOD?). Believe it or not, only about half of UK companies have adopted some sort of BYOD policy, with only a dismal four percent having fully gone BYOD. The post IT Skills that Facilitate Cloud and BYOD Adoption appeared first on TechZulu.

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Cloud Computing CIO Mobile Networking 40

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

In 2012 the company rolled out Inktank, an innovative open source storage solution based on Ceph’s distributed file system, which was subsequently sold to Red Hat for $175 million. Even the most conservative companies began adopting the open-source LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) to dynamically create and maintain their websites.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Power has been guiding growth companies for 25 years, and now teaches innovation at the Harvard Extension School.

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Startup Pricing Cloud Computing Customer 116

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Zingle, a startup whose software is used by hospitality, travel, and retail industries to more easily and quickly connect with their customers via messaging, has been acquired for about $42 million in cash by Medallia, a publicly traded software company in San Francisco. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2011

Cloud computing is still all the rage in the business world these days. A typical definition (from Wikipedia) is that “cloud computing, is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices on-demand, like a public utility.”

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Cloud Computing Startup Demand SaaS 91

Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

It was a year of big exits—both IPOs and acquisitions—for tech and life sciences companies. Venture funding remained strong, but more money went to fewer (and later-stage) companies overall. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Artificial Inteligence Acquisition Technology Funding 98

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure. Facebook is a “platform cloud&# provider, too. Enter Amazon.

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Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

Xconomy

JANUARY 15, 2019

The company says its software allows developers to couple deep learning with. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

Software 108

Software Platform Develop Development 108

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

We spoke with Jim Franklin , the firm's CEO, to hear more about how the company went from an accelerator startup at TechStars just a few years ago, to now more than 100 employees spread across offices in Boulder; Colorado, Anaheim, California; Frankfurt; London, and elsewhere, to tackle the problems of transactional email.

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Email Startup IP Newsletter 157

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Power has been guiding growth companies for 25 years, and now teaches innovation at the Harvard Extension School.

Pricing 105

Pricing Cloud Computing Customer Custom 105

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

San Diego’s ResMed (NYSE: ticker[[RMD]]) announced its intention to buy the privately held tech company on Monday. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS. Medical device maker ResMed has agreed to acquire Minnesota-based MatrixCare, which makes software for long-term care providers, for $750 million.

Software 89

Software Acquisition .Net Pricing 89

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Power has been guiding growth companies for 25 years, and now teaches innovation at the Harvard Extension School.

Pricing 52

Pricing Cloud Computing Customer Custom 52

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

In the early 1970s, the Seven-Up Company devised an ingenious plan to market its flagship soda. The company hired the Dominican actor Geoffrey Holder, who delivered the commercial’s signature tagline with memorable panache, “ Maaarvelous, absolutely maaarvelous.” What made the commercials noteworthy was not their charismatic pitchman.

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Entrepreneur Cloud Computing Invest Funding 140

Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2016

This is one of the first applications of cloud computing in a clinical application,” says Arterys CEO and co-founder Fabien Beckers. GE Healthcare will be the first MRI vendor to shift its data processing to the cloud, says Eric Stahre, CEO of GE Healthcare’s MR unit. market, the companies say.

Cloud Computing 40

Cloud Computing Startup Web Chief Technology Officer 40

Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

Near the nation’s capital, Arlington, VA has a thriving startup community that supports female-led companies, startups in STEM, cyber security, defense, and everything in between aimed at improving the status quo. John Kaufhold, founder of Deep Learning Analytics, said his company has benefited from the influx of investors to Arlington.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Product Cloud Computing 70

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Walmart made its name with brick-and-mortar stores, but the company has been vocal in recent months about its intent to fight for dominance in the digital landscape, an arena in which Amazon is a native. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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San Diego Cloud Computing Company Companies 78

Xconomy

MARCH 20, 2018

Mythic, based in both Redwood City, CA, and Austin, TX, is one of the upstart companies benefiting from a surge of investing in the chip-making field, where the growing computational demands due to the use of AI are creating an opening for young entrepreneurs with out-of-the-box ideas.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 77

Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Andrian Pawluk was living in San Diego when Teradata hired him this year and tasked him with transforming 65,000 square feet of offices into an alluring workspace for techies, but he had never previously heard of the data warehouse and business analytics company. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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San Diego Report Cloud Computing Company 69

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

“Cognitive computing,” artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced data analytics are evolving companies’ understanding of their customers in game-changing ways. Through screen mirroring, users have greater flexibility over how they view – and share – content.

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Artificial Inteligence Screening Google Customer 106