socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2019

The company says that so far, it is offering up its scooter service in Los Angeles and San Diego. SUN said its new custom shared scooter has 10 inch, solid tires, 30 percent better battery capacity than what it's using now, and "all new technology" compared to its existing scooters, and is far more durable.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

One of the companies recognized in Qualcomm's QPrize annual business plan competition has scored a series A funding, four years after being named a finalist in the Qualcomm effort. Singapore-based Capillary Technologies , a developer of mobile customer relationship management (CRM) tools, said it has raised $15.5M READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2012

San Diego-based MOGL , which operates a customer loyalty program for restaurants focused on game mechanics, said today that it has raised $10M in a round of funding. MOGL offers incentives and competitions to spur visits to restaurants. The second round came from Sigma Partners, Austin Ventures, and Avalon Ventures.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2020

What we’ve seen is a more exploratory customer than the industry recognizes, ready to try new form factors, products and categories. Saucey launched in 2014 and now operates across 22 markets including LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento, New York City, Chicago, Washington, Dallas, Orlando, Tampa and Miami.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 31, 2018

We’ll work with customers and partners to minimize disruption, and there will be no immediate impacts to their Webpass service,” according to the statement. “We A statement e-mailed by a Google spokeswoman didn’t give a reason for the decision.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He did note that in the four markets where the company has gone live since launching its business in January 2019 — San Diego, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire , and Sacramento — has yielded an annualized revenue run rate of over $400 million in gross merchandise value (the total value of home sales transacted on its platform). .”

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

San Diego-based Daasity (www.daasity.com)  which just raised $2.3M That makes it difficult to figure out what it costs to acquire a customer, and what a customer is worth. Dan LeBlanc: I used to run customer analytics for a brand called ProFlowers. What's your background, and how did the startup come about?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

San Diego-based Kyocera Wireless has sold its Indian subsidiary, Kyocera Wireless (India) Pvt. employs approximately 600, who provide wireless product development, software engineering, and product testing for Kyocera Wireless, and also develops custom handsets for Indian service providers. to IT firm MindTree Ltd.,

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

South Korea has fined San Diego's Qualcomm $208M in an antitrust case, the Korea Fair Trade Commission said today. The commission said that Qualcomm charged higher royalties on its CDMA licenses to companies using competitive chipsets. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. That's where the original concept came from--so we wrote up the plan, and it won the competition.

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

Dmitri Leonov: We built a distribution business for equipment for the spa industry, and have had 10,000 client over that time, but in the last few years, we've really focused on talking to spa customers about their needs in the market. Essentially, the customer wants natural and organic ingredients. Our average retention is 70 percent.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

San Diego-based uCast Global (www.ucastglobal.com), backed by Gary Winnick, is looking to tackle that entire area of content distribution, and is led by startup veteran Dr. Kanaan Jemili. Those technologies allow us to scale and offer a superior product for customers. Who are your core customers? I have a Ph.D.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

Eugene Cho is CEO of San Diego-based Echo Laboratories (www.discover-echo.com), a startup which is developing a new kind of microscope. The first thing you are trained on, is to qualify customers and figure out if they need upright or inverted microscopes. The startup is backed by the Tech Coast Angels and Dolby Ventures.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

to San Diego. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. pushing CEOs and business owners to innovate to outperform the competition. socalTECH.com offers up continuous coverage of Southern California's growing high. tech economy, with interview with the movers and shakers in the industry, coverage of.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

However, there is still room for competition. Companies must learn to become ecosystem drivers – even if only for a subset of their customers – in order to survive. A distinguishing feature of this model is that they are the destination in their space for a subset of their customers. – Ensure great customer experience.

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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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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2017

Eugene Cho is CEO of San Diego-based Echo (www.discover-echo.com), a startup which is developing a new kind of microscope. The first thing you are trained on, is to qualify customers and figure out if they need upright or inverted microscopes. The startup is backed by the Tech Coast Angels and Dolby Ventures.

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socalTECH

JULY 31, 2013

One of the companies that has recently is On Ramp Wireless (www.onrampwireless.com), a San Diego company in the M2M market headed by Kevin Hell. The firm recently raised a $15M series C funding, and we caught up with Kevin to learn more about why its customers, and investors, are interested in its technology.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Competition isn’t the biggest problem in a field so primed for innovation, says Tang, who is. So how much room remains for startups that are relative latecomers? Plenty, says Chon Tang, one of the leaders involved in launching a new program for chip developers at UC Berkeley’s growing startup accelerator SkyDeck.

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Xconomy

JULY 6, 2016

A center led by the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego will work on ways for those individuals to participate. Randy Scott, the CEO of San Francisco genetic testing firm Invitae (NASDAQ: NVTA ), told Xconomy last year he also wants to repackage and sell customer data. Reprints | Share:

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Last night, I was knocking a couple back with a friend at The Waterfront (San Diego’s oldest continually operating pub). Android Apple Gadgets iOS iPhone Mobile Op-Ed apple fans apple keynote competitive market Consumer fingerprint reader Google hardware manufacturers iPhone 3GS iPhone 4 iPhone 5s'

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. Customer are primarily large media companies (publishers) and their media agencies. Founded in 2009 in San Francisco by David Soloff (ex-Lead Architect of Rapt, which was sold to MSFT in 2008). They sponsor TWiVC. Hello, Chair.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

To fix that, San Diego-based Kazuhm (www.kazuhm.com) has created software, which uses the same kinds of distributed computing techniques made popular in the consumer world by community projects like SETI, and applied that to the enterprise. Tim O'Neal: There are many compelling elements.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Jonathan Simkin: One of the things I did after graudating, is I joined CONNECT, which is like the entrepreneurial center and hub in San Diego, which is run in conjunction with UCSD and other schools here. Back to the service itself-- you've got lots of competition in the space, how are you going to get above that noise?

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2011

Telcentris is based in San Diego. What has set us aside from the competition, is we built our own back end telco platform. That's allowed us to leverage that platform to sell services, such as telephony to hundreds of business customers, which is why you seeing us doing both things in the space.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

We''re rolling it out to finance and Wall Street, monitoring thousands of sources of continuously changing information, such as news, social media, internal email systems, and analyzing specific, material conditions that our customers are looking for. It wouldn''t be covered in the Los Angeles Times, and not by the San Diego papers.

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2015

If you have a retail store and want to provide delivery of flowers to your customers, Schlep and Fetch is an on-demand, plug and play serviec for that. They were very excited, so they pushed it out to their chapters in San Diego and elsewhre, and they also came in. It really makes the customer happier when you do that.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

It’s an interesting tactic that seems unusual in a competitive business environment, but makes sense when considering the constantly expanding sea of cyber threats—and solutions—through which organizations must wade. Cyber industry alliances, the thinking goes, could make customers’ cyber defenses stronger and easier to manage.

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socalTECH

MAY 8, 2015

We're off to a great start in LA, Orange County, and San Diego, and we've also raised a good amount of cash to help us expand beyond California in the next couple of months. We learned an unbelievable amount on how to acquire customers, what issues there were, what the dynamic was in each of these markets.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

A cybersecurity report by Ponemon Institute, in association with Keeper Security, found that in the 12 months leading up to June 2016, 55 percent of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) experienced a cyber attack, while 50 percent encountered data breaches involving customer and employee information.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion. I thought, what would I do if I was trying to sell to a customer. Page 3: Competition. Page 4: Business Model. Page 5: Financials.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

As is typically the case in any industry, but even more so in security, larger companies with established customers and products typically innovate more slowly than startups that are not encumbered by a legacy business. Symantec Forces the Industry to Stay Competitive.

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Xconomy

JUNE 15, 2016

Having a board helps you keep your eye consistently on the strategic aspects of your business which, in turn, helps you attract investors and customers. However, even in a small startup, there are many risks that matter – such as hiring the wrong leaders, not getting sufficient investor support, or lacking a competitive advantage.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. A great leader knows customers and has direct relationships with them. He seemed to never care about fans (customers) who also were happy to let the door hit his butt on the way out. The reality of most startups is about survival.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

San Diego-based Intercasting (www.intercasting.com) is one of the companies which seems to have gotten some traction, and has deployed with Boost, Virgin, Sprint, and is in the process of deploying with Verizon and ATT. The second customer is the social networking sites. For our customers, that wouldn't work.

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Xconomy

JULY 12, 2016

competitiveness and leadership, as well as safety of the national airspace system, it’s crucial that states and localities recognize and defer to the Federal Aviation Administration’s jurisdiction, its recently released nationwide rules , and other subsequent policies that balance safety and innovation.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Some of the biggest school districts, including LA Unified, San Diego, and Oakland all use our software. In terms of the software, our student learning software, we're able to provide a very customized, personalized learning experience for students. Ramit Varma: I've been sort of in and out of the venture space since we started.

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