socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Southern California's top startups showed up in force Friday at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, for the Technology Council of Southern California's annual VentureNet conference. socalTECH was a media sponsor of the conference).

Southern California 100

Southern California Conference SoCal Startup 100

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2014

Thankfully gamers and the media were able to experience what would be coming in the next couple days at E3 and beyond from Microsoft, Ubisoft, EA Games, and Sony’s press conferences. Here’s a quick look and grades of each of the press conferences. Microsoft E3 Press Conference. EA Games E3 Press Conference. Grade: B- .

Press 83

Press Conference Startup News 83

socalTECH

MAY 22, 2012

San Diego-based Active Network , the provider of sports and activity registration services and software, said today that it has launched a suite of software aimed at enterprise event management. Active Network said its mobile software is aimed at everything from annual conferences to trade shows. READ MORE>>.

Activity 147

Activity Software Networking San Diego 147

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2012

These days, I’m hearing more and more that Location-Based Services (LBS) are entering the mainstream for mobile users, but I’m not sure why. So far, it’s been just another mobile phone app that tells people where their friends are ( Foursquare and Facebook Glancee ). Event marketing. Lead generation.

Services 82

Services Competition Mobile Entertainment 82

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2013

SideCar's service uses your phone's GPS capability to locate people who are nearby who would be willing to give you a ride for a donation; the company said it's initially launching here in LA on in West LA, Santa Monica, Venice and Culver City, with expansion to the remainder of LA soon. READ MORE>>.

Culver City 230

Culver City West Los Angeles Santa Monica SoCal 230

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Cogi , a startup which allows people to capture and transcribe conference calls and conversations, announced today that it has released a new, iPhone application. The app costs $1.99, and Cogi said that users can also subscribe to other, Premium service options which add transcription and other features to the software.

Santa Barbara 140

Santa Barbara Conference Web Mobile 140

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Mobile first is becoming an important part of our daily lives. We interact with the world through our mobile devices, and they are quickly becoming our main vehicles for accessing and sharing information. Hence the emergence of Source13, a new mobile conference produced by Flurry.

Mobile 71

Mobile Technical Review Platform Startup 71

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 11, 2011

PayDivvy provides a smarter way to manage bills by allowing you to pay, send and share bills…simply and socially…via web or mobile. PayDivvy , unveiled today at the Finovate Conference in San Francisco, was conceived a few years ago while Mike Melby was attending the Wharton School of Business.

Conference 96

Conference Orange County Technical Review Software Review 96

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

Catch up by reading the first edition here or check out last week’s edition , which offered the gamut of mobility news from Lyft and Bird to Waymo’s laser bears and cybersecurity. Toyota Motor, DENSO Corporation, and Toyota Tsusho Corporation made a $15 million investment into connected vehicle services startup Airbiquity.

San Fernando 217

San Fernando Los Angeles Commerce News 217

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Of course you now book when you want and even choose your restaurant based on availability at the time / day you want and you can book on your mobile phone at 2am or 8pm. Today they announced the mobile version of their product – I’d be grateful if you would download it and give it a spin. It sounds crazy, right?

Development Team Review 324

Development Team Review Course Mobile Writing 324

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2011

Los Angeles-based Unsocial , a newly launched, location-based business networking service, said today that it has scored a seed round of funding, and launched its product. Unsocial said it has created a new, location-based business networking tool which allow users to find and network with other people, in real time, at conferences.

Seed Funding 154

Seed Funding Conference Networking Los Angeles 154

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

“The object is to exploit the convergence of people, information, products, services and places with today’s smartphones and tablets, which drive online orders in addition to purchases from brick-and-mortar stores.”. Getting Mobile-Ready. With roughly 91% of the population using mobile devices and 26.3%

Mobile 85

Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

Tech.Co

MARCH 7, 2015

For two plus decades, Steve has been a pillar of the LA startup community leading innovations in Internet, mobile, social media, app development, eCommerce, and now, digital currency technologies. In the early 90’s, Steve helped DIRECTV launch the first commercial satellite TV service in the US and Latin American.

Conference 70

Conference Mobile Social Media Email 70

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Aliso Viejo-based Smith Micro Software , which develops software for the wireless industry, said late Tuesday evening that it is suspending its 2011 annual revenue guidance, and will withdraw from a investment conference this week, after it says orders from a "key customer" will fall below expected levels.

Customer 124

Customer Custom Conference Mobile 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2011

These days, I’m hearing more and more about Location-Based Services (LBS) as the next big opportunity for startups. So far, it’s just another mobile phone app that tells people where there friends are (Foursquare and Facebook Places), but it’s poised to be a lot more. Event marketing. Lead generation.

Services 91

Services Startup Competition Entertainment 91

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 29, 2014

We’ve got an exciting and innovative group of companies coming together for this event,” Kyle Ellicott, Co-Founder/CTO of Wearable World and the GLAZED Conference said. American Airlines is a leader in technology,” Phillip Easter, Director Mobile Apps at American Airlines said. “By

Technology 104

Technology Conference IBM IBM 104

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I don’t feel like canceling LinkedIn just because occasionally a well-meaning but slightly not-clued-in person from a faraway place wants me to be their personal mentor, answer 3-questions for their high-school entrepreneurship project or take a sales pitch for their recruiting services. In Adam’s world, I’m rude. Twitter messages?

Email 250

Email Writing Conference Mobile 250

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

What new technology area, startup, service, or app did you find most interesting or useful this year, and why? Personal mobility and transportation innovation are absolutely massive issues for citiesespecially Los Angelesand we watch the categories closely. mobility and transportation, space tech, and esports. READ MORE>>.

Southern California 100

Southern California News Platform Class 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Vonjour (www.vonjour.com), a Los Angeles startup, has developed a cloud-based customer support and phone system which, in addition to handling all of a company''s usual enterprise phone needs--also lets employers harness employee smartphones to deal with customer support issues, make calls, and interact with customers directly from a mobile app.

Customer 133

Customer Custom Startup Mobile 133

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). People don’t want to speak to customer service reps.

Email 339

Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Leading the pack in iPhone (soon Android as well) app development, Mobile Roadie is a definitely a force to be reckoned with. Mobile Roadie’s has an automated system that enables you to build applications and have them posted to Apple’s App Store within a short span of time.

Mobile 40

Mobile Twiistup Conference News 40

socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2013

TestFlight recently joined forces with Burstly (www.burstly.com) to create a suite of apps for mobile developers and publishers. We spoke with Ben about how Burstly is now creating a company to help mobile developers create, develop, distribute, and monetize their apps. No one else has really thought of that, and has those services.

Startup 262

Startup Mobile Outsource Development Tool 262

Tech.Co

AUGUST 27, 2017

You cannot deny that the internet of things (IoT) has taken over: security cameras link with each other; mobile devices connect to the printer; and lights detect and activate human movements. If you are a software service provider, set your sights on this particular security trend. Many users now rely on mobile applications.

Technical Review 69

Technical Review Startup Mobile Software Review 69

Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

At their annual developer conferences, Google I/O, held last month, and Apple’s WWDC, last week they both announced updates to their development platforms. There were also areas in which the focus of the two conferences diverged. At I/O and WWDC, the primary narrative was about the mobile consumer (i.e. Reprints | Share:

Artificial Inteligence 55

Artificial Inteligence Google Software Review Case Study 55

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

While there have been some large-scale, successful events organized by Emerging Prairie , like the Drone Focus Conference and a visit by the U.S. For example, Myriad Mobile raised $1.5 million for their agtech product, Bushel , which is an industry-first mobile grain app platform.

Screening 70

Screening Mobile Entrepreneur Startup 70

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. Of the ones I have been to recently, the Nantucket Conference has been my favorite. It's a great talk. It's a great talk.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2009

PowerMark www.thepowermarkgroup.com , Southern California's premier full-service marketing and. Dealmaker Media www.undertheradarblo g.com is presenting their 13th Under the Radar conference in Mountain View, CA on. 50% Off Conference Passes for. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services.

SoCalTech 100

SoCalTech Southern California Rustic Canyon Technology Council 100

Berkonomics

MARCH 10, 2010

Email readers continue here.] This is not to bend this insight into a claim that a company should wait to develop new, groundbreaking products and services until a customer asks for them. Together we would work out solutions in the form of new functions, new controls, new reports, and new safeguards.

Customer 149

Customer Custom Design Conference 149

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2012

Almost everyone has had some situation where you wanted to give someone a phone number, but only temporarily--think Craigslist, or maybe at that bar or business conference, where you want to hand out a number, but only have it work for a short while. It turns out that phone numbers and telephony is becoming increasingly available.

Yahoo 200

Yahoo Startup Mobile Ideas 200

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Plus they run conferences with the top people (which is another form of POV marketing by the way). ” In the post they list four charts with data showing how Christmas day is a huge driver of downloads for mobile applications (obviously because many people get new smartphones for the first time). They sell accounting services.

Marketing 389

Marketing Press Blogging Startup 389

socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2014

How much of this is technology versus services? It''s 85 percent a service, but we currently have thousands of hours into developing our own platform, and our own proprietary, database application. I spoke recently at a conference on mobile RTB, which is the next iteration of programmatic development which is taking place.

Advertising 230

Advertising Santa Monica Startup Media 230

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

These days, I’m hearing more and more that Location-Based Services (LBS) are transforming the smartphone Industry, but only for consumers. Beyond mobile phones, the same concepts can be applied to embedded systems, portable navigation devices, and laptops. entrepreneur B2B startup smartphones location-based services business'

Competition 84

Competition Entertainment Advertising Social Media 84

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Faced with their own issue of "flaky" people who were responding with an RSVP for their volunteer projects, but not actually showing up, the founders of trueRSVP (www.truersvp.com) decided to take things into their own hands, and create a service to provide better feedback to event organizers. Fei Xiao: We launched our beta at DEMO.

Startup 147

Startup Organization Sites Conference 147

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 9, 2012

Iconify solves this portfolio management problem by streamlining the portfolio process into a clean and simple template that transforms portfolio work into a website and mobile app that is easily shared and viewed on any device, complete with analytics on the backend. They demoed Iconify in June at the Front-End Design Conference in St.

Template 63

Template Product Design Conference 63

socalTECH

JULY 25, 2012

Users of the Instagram mobile application--which runs on iPhone and Android--are familiar with how that app has become one of the key ways people socialize and share their life with others, all via the service's photo sharing and comments. Edward Park: When we first launched, we were a business to consumer service site.

Startup 174

Startup Commerce Web 2.0 Screening 174

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Here in LA we have a towncar service called Uber that with a tap of an app we can get a door to door town car service ride. Us passengers book a ride via a mobile app and are able to track how close the drivers are plus see their photo beforehand so we don’t get into ‘cars with strangers’. com , but for transportation.

Startup 77

Startup Conference Google Web 77

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 6, 2010

Signing up is really easy and intuitive and the best thing is that the basic service is free, supported by advertising of course, but at $2.95/month, Airset also serves as a data hub, automatically synchronizing information and content across mobile devices. Airset Demo: Tags: frontpage.

Cloud Computing 65

Cloud Computing Web Conference Content 65