socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2012

me , a developer of mobile, interactive applications for the television and entertainment market, announced today that it has linked with Caesars Interactive Entertainment , to produce an application for the World Series of Poker (WSOP). The firm said it has created a "second-screen" experience for the WSOP telecasts on ESPN.

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Beverly Hills Screening Entertainment Mobile 145

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. The first big wave of this change came from the introduction of the iPhone, which was the first well built mobile device for using the web. The world is going mobile.

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Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Mobile devices like the iPhone and iPad have completely revolutionized how consumers interact with the online world in the past few years. One of the first companies to see the potential for a mobile application specifically targeted at the enterprise was Roambi (www.roambi.com), which is based in Solana Beach.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Los Angeles-based mobile entertainment and gaming developer Jam City said today that it is getting behind an effort to encourage its users to register to vote in the upcoming U.S. midterm elections, through a joint effort with nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization When We All Vote.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Children that have iPads, and a need for great content to interact with on those iPads that meet the tough standards of Gregg and Evan Spiridellis. The criteria for this JibJab dad approved content is that it must be fun, engaging, with music that doesn’t suck after the 3 rd play, and also promotes learning. Gregg Spiridellis pondered.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Those who are more involved in traditional entertainment are seeing a major shift online which is why an additional one-day seminar was created to coincide with Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood as a partnership called, Idea to Screen. Online content isn’t a small market, nor is it going away anytime soon.

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Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2015

One of the best ways for increase in business development is to create a more responsive web design. You’ll want to make sure that your website looks good on desktop computers, tablets, and mobile device screens. When the size of the screen hits a certain threshold, your design will be put into columns or grid form.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2010

Santa Monica-based Jacked , a developer of second-screen, companion applications for TV broadcasts, has been acquired by Roundbox , a New Jersey-based developer of mobile broadcast software. Tags: jacked roundbox merger acquisition television content software. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

And over the past three years, Imperson has developed conversational chatbots powered by their artificial intelligence for several Disney projects, including most recently for Walt Disney World’s Pandora – The World of Avatar , according to a press release. Epic Games.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Entertainment Press 108

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Back in 2013, Google reported that 90 percent of multiple device owners switch between screens to complete tasks, using an average of three different combinations every day. Through screen mirroring, users have greater flexibility over how they view – and share – content. So much so, that eMarketer forecasts 51.2

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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.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Culver City-based Fourth Wall Studios , a developer of interactive content backed by LA billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, has laid off the majority of its staff, and stopped production, according to a report from the LA Times.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

And while the App Internet is currently more powerful than the Mobile Internet it has fundamental flaws. In other words, our mobile devices are all powerful and the network that they connect into sucks. We had to develop whole frameworks of “middleware” to deal with this problem. He’s right about this.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

For Wedge Buster (www.wedgebuster.com), you do it by pulling together a huge collection of sports-related social and mobile games. round from the NFL's Drew Brees, skating's Rob Dyrdek, and a number of local venture and angel investors to create what the company hopes is the dominant provider of social and mobile sports game.

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Mobile Platform Startup Examples 248

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

Andrew & Petri posited that a modern media company would build lovable characters that span video games, online digital media, lovable plush physical toys and then ultimately find its way to the big screen. They also had much experience before that. We all loved Andrew & Petri and their vision.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

Advertising technology is hot with the rise of mobile, evidenced in part by Verizon’s merger with AOL valued at $4.4 billion, and on a much smaller scale, Undertone’s recent acquisition of mobile ad provider Sparkflow.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

The introduction of live photos on latest mobile phones has lead to cinemagraphs coming into the forefront of designers minds. Cinemagraphs has visual effects which bonds well with the social media, content producers and advertisers have started to recognise its power and should start to actively harness it. Cinemagraphs.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Today the Traveling Geeks saw presentations from 11 interesting startups at French incubator, the Paris Development Agency. Scan & Target - a SaaS solution for real-time text mining and analysis of User Generated Content. The site offers up a hybrid mix of traditional journalists, industry experts and User Generated Content.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Global audiences of prosumer video producers will create content that is viewed by global audiences in numbers far in excess of traditional TV. The problem with the “long tail” content is that only the platform provider (ie YouTube) makes money. Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices. think Apple.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2013

He explains with online marketing in general, there’s the huge shift into native advertising (inputting marketing messaging in line with content users are actively engaging with) – Largely due to a shift away from traditional in banner advertising. Let’s talk mobile. Why the shift? Banner blindness.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens. with the clips.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Content and Distribution. Content and Distribution. Content and Distribution. Content and Distribution. Merging of 2nd Screen & TV Everywhere Experiences. Content and Distribution. Sparking Social Change With Content Integration. Sparking Social Change With Content Integration.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2011

Basically, we're a kids content publisher. The only problem was, the only content out there were things like video games, movies, and things like that. The convenience of getting to that content was causing me to provide her with that content, even though it was not my first choice. It's been such fun.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

He points specifically to 1995, two decades ago, when consoles ruled the world and PC games were a tiny subset; but as we’ve seen the many faces of the gaming industry develop, we’re now looking at the wild success of virtual crystals, flight-indept birds; a world where free to play + micro-transaction models sit front and center.

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Mobile Platform Technology Screening 93

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.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Separately, the company also launched a new iPhone app, which it says features new expert content linked to those city guides and a new redesigned UI. However, unlike social sites like Pinterest, those guides appear to all developed by staffers or experts provided by Citysearch. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. Mobile Web America, Inc. has created a simple to use, online application for your business to create a mobile site and secure its mobile presence. SuperDemo: Bill Gross.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

In a short, densley packed timeline, our panel of industry experts discussed the fine line topics of wearables technology, bitcoin, SaaS, cloud, mobile gaming, and social markets. The company hopes to prepare advertisers for varying screen sizes. Peter Csathy jumps in to answer questions about content.

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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: My background is screen printing and production.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 5, 2013

Take, for example, the recent City Council vote to end ride-sharing services and effectively shut down an entire sector of emerging tech startups – putting both their app developers and their enterprising users stranded in no man’s land. People don’t just solely watch TV nowadays; they multitask with a handful of screens.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

We connect consumers to great content from around the Internet, from social networks, from thousands of branded video channels, and around any particular topic they're interested in. We've also developed a version in partnership with Samsung for their connected TVs and video players, and recently released an iPhone version.

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socalTECH

MARCH 25, 2015

David Marshall: b Spot is at the convergence of games and gambling, letting you legally gamble in the United States on mobile devices. We allow for game developers to put gambling results within their games, so that a consumer can play games that have gambling inside of them. We''ve got both small and large developers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

For startup new product development, this is a strategy used for fast and quantitative market testing of a product or product feature, popularized first by Eric Ries for web applications. Social mobile web. Responsive web technology that re-sizes text and images to fit any screen is the norm with new websites. Gamification.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Valarm is an Android mobile app and integrated suite of web-based tools that will track almost anything via GPS, and remotely monitor almost any environment via built-in and external sensors. For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

Blayze , the first online video audience development platform that empowers brands, YouTube channels, and media companies to buy and sell highly targeted new viewers. GetMeRated , a mobile app where teens and twentysomethings find new friends through photos and chat. Forget the second screen, play and interact with video content today.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. They are dedicated to providing high-availability systems, beautiful user interfaces, furious developer support and unparalleled customer care. It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship.

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