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JULY 27, 2020

Oftentimes that will be Google, sometimes that will be Apple, sometimes it will be another network. What our software does, is optimizes every signal the discovery algorithms look at when they decide to show results for those terms. We also started offering up some aspects of our software for free to help our customers thrive in COVID.

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DECEMBER 5, 2011

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the developer of customer relationship management and contacts management software headed by Goldmine Software founder Jon Ferrara, looks to be shifting its sights to paid, business accounts. The firm's biggest competition is Salesforce.com. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 12, 2013

We saw early on that the cloud as we know it today--utility services, software, and so on--was an entry point to do that, including with hosting. We rebuilt our network with very scalable Juniper networking gear, and we''ve made some very deliberate decisions on hardware and storage. So, for us, competition is good.

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APRIL 29, 2014

A number of teams have recently been looking to turn that vision into reality, as a result of the Qualcomm Tricorder Prize , a $10M competition being run by the X Prize Foundation to create a real life Tricorder. That''s essentially how the Tricoder competition was formed--it''s time for this to happen. It was announced in the 90''s.

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JULY 31, 2013

Our initial apps have been around distribution automation or distribution monitoring, such as monitoring distribution lines and figuring out when they go down, particularly in areas not covered by cellular or other wireless networks, and which are hard to reach. Lots of vendors are looking at cell phone networks as being nearly ubiquitous.

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JUNE 1, 2015

Dave told us more about where the company is nowadays--plus told us about a few lessons learned about the company's journey from startup aggregating Wi-Fi networks, to now actually owning and operating its own wireless network--both Wi-Fi and its own cellular, distributed antennas system networks.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Twitter has rolled out its own mobile applications in competition with third party Twitter clients; its own link shortener; and its own advertising service. Tags: adly twitter facebook tweet advertising software. The firm is backed by Greycroft Partners, GRP Partners, and Matt Coffin. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? And a host of interesting companies in last mile have cropped up to give the Amazon ecosystem some competition, like two companies from the last Techstars LA class - Shipsi and PRZM. Find her @annawbarber. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

Our 2019 investment in Backtracks, a developer of podcast analytics software, has shown fantastic traction and continues to provide value to podcast creators helping them to better understand their listeners and monetize their content. Think Google Ad Words for podcasting. At the same time, more capital continues to be raised in LA.

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

The clean technology sector is infamous for taking a big toll on startups--requiring large investments, risky technology propositions, steep international competition, and fickle government policies. Neal Roche: I spent twenty years in the Internet networking business, working on internal hardware for test and measurement.

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OCTOBER 7, 2008

According to the X PRIZE Foundation, AGI, a developer of analysis software for the national security and space communities, will offer discounted services to teams competing in its competition. AGI joins Space Exploration Technologies, the SETI Institute, Universal Space Network, and Space Florida as partners in the prize.

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Santa Monica Google Competition Networking 100

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. We have standing agreements to drive revenue share from all of those merchants in our network.

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San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M We put all of that into our system, and distribute it among our network through our logistics platform.

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Help IP Content Google 133

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JULY 9, 2012

To do that, we spoke with Vic Alston , the CEO of Calabasas-based Ixia (www.ixiacom.com), a publicly traded maker of network testing equipment and software. One of the things the Anue acquisition does, is it brings us into a whole new market, the live network market. It's pretty sustained, strong growth we see there.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

One, is we give them software--known as an ad server--which helps them manage different ad streams they have. The software helps them manage all of that, so that they can target campaigns, optimize ads, and report out in different ways. The software takes care of all of the optimization of that.

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OpenX Advertising Yahoo Pasadena 242

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JUNE 19, 2013

Ben Satterfield is the co-founder of TestFlight, an immensely popular piece of software for iOS (and now Android) which lets developers distribute beta copies of their apps to their users. You can load software over the air, just like the app store. The way we go about that is different than the competition. It just made sense.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. In LA we have SoCalTech , for which I am grateful.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

The crux of it is we help buyers user their network to verify suppliers, primarily in Asia and China, where we started. It''s a social network for world trade, kind of a combo between Alibaba and LinkedIn. It''s also a dog-eat-dog world over there with the competition. We then add things like ratings, and then shipment data.

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MARCH 21, 2011

I've been doing that, and building the tools and networks for those brands for a long time, but I wanted to try my hand at an actual, physical product. There was a real opportunity for me to arbitrage the last decade and a half of my experience in the Internet, and apply that to a products company, and to get some real competitive advantage.

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JUNE 25, 2009

Cliff Rees: We're a software as a solutions company. Running on a Dell pizza box, we can run 20 times as many calls as other software, giving us the lowest cost basis in the industry. Asterisk was not build with scalability in mind, and it was built by software engineers who don't know telecom.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

We seem to receive lots of pitches from companies looking to attack the mobile market with their mobile software applications, but few who have deployed on-deck with carriers. What exactly are your mobile social networking applications? On the server side, we have a gateway to integrate with social networking partners.

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Social Network Anthem Mobile Java 113

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MAY 21, 2013

We have our own ad network, where we work with partners like AOL, and Local.com to augment our traffic, through structured deals with third parties. Maybe we''re not at the super massive Google scale, but with our ad networks here we still have a billion and a half events every day, which is a lot to get your hands around. READ MORE>>.

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

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MAY 21, 2013

We have our own ad network, where we work with partners like AOL, and Local.com to augment our traffic, through structured deals with third parties. Maybe we''re not at the supper massive Google scale, but with our ad networks here we still have a billion and a half events every day, which is a lot to get your hands around.

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2010

Kevin Strong: FutureDash is a software company, and our core technology is actually focused on real-time dashboards, primarily for consumers and small businesses. The category of customers we're targeting are building consumer networking equipment, such as routers, gateways, and set-top boxes. Kevin Strong: This is really different.

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Startup OCTANE Outsource Development Google 140

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MAY 2, 2013

In particular, funding for companies developing deep technology--software and cloud, as opposed to content and media--seems to be lacking. Although they might have more people in the field up in the Bay Area, there''s more competition for those people. David Waxman: I think the real key is having enough talent.

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Invest Technology Startup Venture Capital 159

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MARCH 20, 2009

Our ABCSearch business is quite large--we do over 10 billion searches across our network and syndicate--and we have deals with all the search engines, Ask.com, Yahoo, all of the domain parking companies, and many contextual ad companies. It seems like you'd be somewhat competitive to what they do.

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PPC Sherman Oaks Advertising Yahoo 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2012

I had been a developer, working at a software publisher as a software developer working on consule games, and wanted to get back into publishing. Amazon has shown an interesting blueprint of how someone else can get another app store to be competitive in the market. Speaking of iOS and Android, what's the future of platforms?

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Mobile Java Google Startup 168

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MARCH 31, 2014

Whether that''s for competitive analysis or market analysis, our product is basically able to monitor--on a very large scale--things that are important to your particular company. There''s a fair amount of software and computer science involved in this area. We''re looking for lighting bolts in time which are important.

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Orange County Startup News IBM 245

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NOVEMBER 25, 2008

The difference in what we're doing, is we're an active sensor network. In 2004, we switched over to Zigbee sensor networks, 802.15.4, They have much more important things that putting in an RTLS system--they've got electronic medical records, infection control, and other software that are more important. for a number of reasons.

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