Xconomy

JULY 31, 2017

It’s been a long time since tech’s biggest companies could be sorted into discrete buckets according to the products they pioneered—-Google, the search software giant; Apple, the computer and mobile device innovator; e-commerce leader Amazon; business software stalwart Microsoft; and social media engine Facebook. A diagram of the current.

Competition 64

Competition Social Media Web Commerce 64

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. Remember when? Bringing us to today – Viewers or profit? Revenue experiments (and failures). How about charging by the bite (not byte)?

Metrics 296

Metrics Sites Advertising Web 296

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. I don’t intend either, Burstly has respectable and strong competition. The world is going mobile. I’ll explain in detail below.

Mobile 282

Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

socalTECH

MAY 24, 2013

San Diego-based Givit is powering the Mozilla Firefox Flicks competition, the companies said this morning, with Givit providing its iPhone capturing, editing, and sharing tools to Mozilla''s contest. iphone mobile contest video mozilla givit flicks firefox' Financial details of the deals were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

San Diego 124

San Diego Competition Mobile Web 124

Xconomy

MARCH 25, 2018

A San Diego software development team with an idea for an emergency mobile app that it said would be faster than calling 911 is headed this week to US Ignite’s Application Summit in Kansas City, MO. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

San Diego 74

San Diego Mobile Competition Software Development 74

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. You provide the free app in the App Store that gives subscribers mobile access to your service. This freemium model has been used for years by web apps. Make your app support all platforms. Build your own marketplace platform.

Develop 138

Develop Development Platform Mobile 138

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology provider OpenX says this morning that it has been selected by Townhall Media , to help supply "header bidding" for Townnhall's mobile and web properties. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed.

OpenX 100

OpenX Media News Advertising 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

2020 seems like a decade away into space, however Motreal-based reelyActive, the winner os Startup World Competition , is doing just this. The Montreal-based startup beat 15 entrepreneurs from Europe, Africa, North/South America to emerge top at the competition held at Parisoma co-working space. Hyperlocal context. Internet of things.

Competition 83

Competition Startup Social Media Software 83

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2023

Display ads on mobile devices, including video and audio, also offer a new opportunity to reach target customers. Display advertising. To use online display ads to generate leads, you post ads on websites frequented by your target audience or ones with content related to the ad. Email marketing.

Marketing 114

Marketing Invest Social Media SEM 114

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The group is hosting an all night hackathon starting Friday, October 19th which will put up to fifty programmers against each other to create new web, mobile, or desktop apps on the theme of film and technology. The group is offering up a $2500 first prize, $1500 second prize, and $500 third prize for entries in the hackathon.

Technology 185

Technology Southern California Startup Content 185

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

CleanWeb Hackathons are weekend programming competitions taking place in major cities around the globe. The CleanWeb Hackathon will be coming to Los Angeles for the first time starting Friday Nov.

Los Angeles 113

Los Angeles Angel USC Competition 113

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

CleanWeb Hackathons are weekend programming competitions taking place in major cities around the globe. The CleanWeb Hackathon will be coming to Los Angeles for the first time starting Friday Nov.

Los Angeles 113

Los Angeles Angel USC Competition 113

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 10, 2012

CleanWeb Hackathons are weekend programming competitions taking place in major cities around the globe. The CleanWeb Hackathon will be coming to Los Angeles for the first time starting Friday Nov.

Los Angeles 113

Los Angeles Angel USC Competition 113

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 4, 2013

The pride and effort they have placed in building up their business should be reflected through their web presence. With over three billion local search queries in any given month on Google alone, no business can afford not to be on the web. And with 20% of traffic coming from smart phones your site has to be mobile friendly.

Web Design 58

Web Design Web Design Sites 58

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

And apparently, that’s what mobile applications do better – just ask the fast-growing number of app users. This is the consequence of the switch from desktop and laptops to mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. Of that smartphone internet time, mobile apps take up 86% of usage and only 14% access time via the mobile web.

Mobile 40

Mobile Social Media Google Software Review 40

socalTECH

MAY 15, 2013

The new design comes as many in the industry have pointed to a new, competitive era, due to the rise of mobile platforms, tablets, and a move away from the traditional, desktop web experience where eHarmony made its mark.

eHarmony 178

eHarmony Malibu Santa Monica Design 178

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Journey is a platform to build data gathering mobile apps much faster than would traditionally have been possible. That is the problem Embark Mobile is set to solve across the world beginning in Africa. Journey was created by our company, Embark Mobile (or “Embark” for short). Why the name? How does it work?

Mobile 65

Mobile Platform JavaScript Web 65

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Display ads on mobile devices, including video and audio, also offer a new opportunity to reach target customers. Display advertising. To use online display ads to generate leads, you post ads on websites frequented by your target audience or ones with content related to the ad. Email marketing.

Customer 146

Customer Custom Marketing Startup 146

Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Kristina Tsvetanova says she found the motivation for her startup Blitab in 2014, when a blind colleague’s struggle to communicate via the Internet made her conscious of the barriers facing visually impaired people in a digital world.

Competition 78

Competition Screening Resource Startup 78

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. Perhaps because of their focus on building a large portfolio, or their competitiveness, these angels sometimes accept valuations that cause later friction while moving to VCs, or even other angel groups. The cost of entry for tech startups continues to go down.

Guide 136

Guide Venture Capital Funding Class 136

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 4, 2013

The pride and effort they have placed in building up their business should be reflected through their web presence. With over three billion local search queries in any given month on Google alone, no business can afford not to be on the web. And with 20% of traffic coming from smart phones your site has to be mobile friendly.

Web Design 40

Web Design Web Design Sites 40

Xconomy

OCTOBER 2, 2019

A new mobility company, Cerence , is making its public-market debut Wednesday, and its first CEO, Sanjay Dhawan, says he’s been meeting with more than 50 investors in recent weeks to talk up its prospects. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

Artificial Inteligence 52

Artificial Inteligence Mobile Competition Activity 52

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

The opportunity set is much bigger than ever (50x more users, 10x time online, mobile, social, credit-card enabled, global) … when things work they work faster and at an unprecedented scale. Of course the concentration of capital in growth firms and the intense competition to fund the best deals leads to some risks.

Venture Capital 362

Venture Capital Capital Startup Writing 362

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Winning entrepreneurs have long since supplemented conventional print and video “push” marketing with digital online interactive “pull” marketing, and more recently added social-local-mobile ( SoLoMo ) to the mix. Mobile and global are driving all of these in innovative new ways to grow your business.

Technical Review 106

Technical Review Startup Innocal Mobile 106

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, we investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. That is the quandary which entrepreneurs face today in building models for new companies around a web presence.

Metrics 207

Metrics Sites Advertising Web 207

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

“If big companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon are prevented from acquiring startups, that actually reduces competition,” Sirinivasan writes. If big companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon are prevented from acquiring startups, that actually reduces competition. — Balaji S.

Technical Review 144

Technical Review Startup Chief Technology Officer Social Media 144

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 15, 2012

Mobile email without getting out my laptop and connecting to the Internet? I was jealous watching all my friends surf the web on their iPhones. I used it to browse the web. Where Mark Zuckerberg always seems paranoid about competition and industry change – they seemed oblivious to it. – we all needed email.

Email 386

Email Startup Marketing Competition 386

Frank Addante

AUGUST 22, 2013

The answer is simple: devices, Internet access, Web sites and mobile apps are getting faster. And ad decisions need to happen faster than a Web site, or mobile app, loading. At Rubicon Project, we’ve engineered the world’s first real-time cloud computing technology. Innovation & Engineering'

Advertising 79

Advertising Cloud Computing Web Technical Review 79

TechEmpower

APRIL 21, 2015

Competition for the top position in the JSON-serialization test within the Peak environment has heated up so much that Round 10 sees a more than 100% increase in the top performance versus Round 9 (2.2M We provide web and mobile application development services and are passionate about application performance. versus 1.05M).

Framework 200

Framework EC2 TechEmpower Java 200

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

Startup 233

Startup Tips Web Platform 233

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. Perhaps because of their focus on building a large portfolio, or their competitiveness, these angels sometimes accept valuations that cause later friction while moving to VCs, or even other angel groups. The cost of entry for tech startups continues to go down.

Funding 125

Funding Venture Capital Startup Class 125

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Users leave messages for each other through BlockChalk mobile app. Mobile gifting service. Provider of real-time data and predictive analytics for web site publishers. OTHER DEALS: 1.

Venture Capital 214

Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Winning entrepreneurs have long since supplemented conventional print and video “push” marketing with digital online interactive “pull” marketing, and more recently added social-local-mobile ( SoLoMo ) to the mix. Mobile and global are driving all of these in innovative new ways to grow your business.

Marketing 56

Marketing Startup Technical Review Innocal 56

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

For instance, one of our targets are those who have large audiences, like mobile carriers. These large mobile carriers have audiences, but something they dont have content services to attract and retain subscribers to a mobile network. We build products and services tied to mobile carriers. Who are your core customers?

Content 113

Content Startup Mobile Platform 113

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Hilariously simple tutorials, gaming, Windows 8 real-time, Windows Azure as a virtually unlimited scaling mechanism, and of course, awesome web and mobile possibilities are just a few of the examples you’ll see demonstrated. Despite what you read in the media HTML5 web applications can be extremely powerful and engaging.

Training 65

Training Technical Review Technology Software Review 65

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

That allows our media buying team an dour content team to make moves, to buy more inventory on the web, and drive more traffic on the website, with the whole goal of bringing in more consumers and acquiring more customers for our clients. The world here is constantly changing -- particularly with shifts to mobile, Google algorithms, etc. -

Startup 239

Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 4, 2012

Gamification fuels that drive and brings the competition to technology. We see it in web applications, mobile apps, project management tools, etc. BunchBall’s Nitro, delivers a comprehensive set of game mechanics for websites, social communities, and mobile applications. billion actions each month.

Platform 93

Platform Mobile Startup Software 93