TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2014

Five months ago, Google talked about load-balancing to achieve 1 million requests per second. This is output from Wrk testing a single server running Undertow using conditions similar to Google''s test (1-byte response body, no HTTP pipelining, no special request headers). 1.039 million requests per second.

EC2

socalTECH

MAY 5, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publisher which runs such sites as eHow.com, typeF.com, and LIVESTRONG.COM, said Thursday afternoon that it is launching a new effort focused on long-form web content. The firm said it is looking to engage feature writers to write long articles--"north of 850 words"--for its sites. READ MORE>>.

Demand

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

A lot of focus has been given on how much search algorithm changes at Google have impacted the fortunes, and traffic, of Los Angeles-based Demand Media. Searchmetrics, a provider of SEO tools and analysis, delivered a list of the sites most affected by updates to Google's new search algorithm, Google Panda 2.5,

Google

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

Santa MOnica-based Demand Media is one of the new partners for YouTube , in the big original content programming push by Google's video site, the firm said today. YouTube, in a bid to bolster the content on the site, is launching a new original channels initiatives with plans to launch over 100 new channels in the next year.

Demand

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 29, 2020

Google Cloud today announced the official opening of its Las Vegas data center region. With this, Google Cloud now operates four regions in the western U.S., with Las Vegas complementing Google Cloud’s existing data centers in Los Angeles, Calif.; The Dalles, Ore. and its recently opened Salt Lake City, Utah region.

Google

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MAY 9, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing business run by Richard Rosenblatt, announced its first quarter 2012 results yesterday, and also raised its fiscal 2012 financial guidance. Demand Media said it now expects full year 2012 revenues to be between $361.0M to $367.0M.

Demand

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APRIL 18, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing firm headed by Richard Rosenblatt, said Sunday that it is reaffirming its financial outlook for fiscal year 2011. Demand Media said that that report "significantly overstated" the negative impact of those Google changes. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 11, 2018

. “With its patented app demo technology and tools, users will now be able to experience their apps and games on-demand and without an install across various platforms, starting with Google.”. Zweig says that the service is the first from a third party to be directly integrated into a platform like Google’s Play store.

Google

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APRIL 30, 2012

Los Angeles-based Demand Media just passed up a deal to go private, according to a report over the weekend from the WSJ's AllThingsD, which says that the firm--headed by Richard Rosenblatt--ultimately decided to pass on the offer from private equity shop Thomas H. Lee Partners. Apparently, T.H. Lee offered up to $1.2 Lee offered up to $1.2

Demand

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MAY 15, 2013

to develop all of the infrastructure for buildling your own, commercial drone, from Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures. According to the company, its Series A financing will go towards expanding its team, meeting customer demand, and scaling for growth. A new, Newport Beach-based startup, Airware , has raised $10.7M

Google

socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2015

Luxe Valet , a new, on-demand valet parking app startup, has expanded into Los Angeles, saying that it will offer up its valet parking service to users in Santa Monica, Downtown LA and Venice. a day for the service. a day for the service. Luxe says its team comes from companies such as Groupon, Tesla, Yahoo!

Los Angeles

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JUNE 13, 2017

Los Angeles-based Clutter , which operates an on-demand, physical storage service which picks up and delivers your belongings from offsite storage, has raised $64M in a Series C funding, the company disclosed this morning. The funding came from Atomico, Sequoia Capital, GV (Google Ventures), and Fifth Wall.

Demand

socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2021

Santa Monica-based on-demand scooter and bicycle company Bird has integrated its rentals with Google Maps, the company announced this morning>. According to Bird, anyone using Google Maps will be able to quickly locate nearby Bird scooters and bikes, as well as determine approximate trip duration, estimated price and optimized route.

Google

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 28, 2018

This week, both Microsoft and Google made moves to woo Hollywood to their cloud computing platforms in the latest act of the unfolding drama over who will win the multi-billion dollar business of the entertainment industry as it moves to the cloud. in Los Angeles.

Hollywood

TechEmpower

JULY 2, 2013

By popular demand, Round 6 introduces a plaintext test that uses HTTP pipelining, implemented in 14 frameworks so far. Also in response to popular demand, we ran the plaintext test with higher client-side concurrency levels than other tests. Previously, the most fundamental test was JSON serialization of a very small object.

Framework

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

The group said that the event will feature Michael Robertson (MP3, Linspire, Gizmo5) and Joe Kraus (Excite, Jotspot, Google Ventures). The job fair is one of many in recent months, as demand for technical talent has skyrocketed across Southern California.

San Diego

socalTECH

APRIL 6, 2020

Los Angeles-based games and entertainment content provider IGN says it is launching plans for a new series of live and on-demand gaming events, focused on games and next generation console hardware, as a result of cancellations of events such as E3 2020 and e-sports events. READ MORE>>.

Demand

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APRIL 17, 2015

Santa Monica-based Bitium , the developer of identity and access management software led by Scott Kriz, has rolled out its products in the Google Apps Marketplace, the company said Thursday. Bitium said its products are tightly integrated and work with Google Apps for Work, helping to secure business applications. READ MORE>>.

Google

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Santa Monica-based Factual , the open data startup headed by Gil Elbaz, the inventor of Google's AdSense technology, said today that it has launched a new open set of data that the firm says provides geo-coded data for 14 million local U.S. businesses. READ MORE>>.

Software Review

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 23, 2019

One year after a $38 million Series B valued on-demand aviation startup Blade at $140 million, the company has begun taxiing the Bay Area’s elite. Called UberAIR, Uber will offer short-term shareable flights to commuters as soon as 2023. The company has raised billions of dollars to turn this sci-fi concept into reality.

Van Nuys

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FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Sidecar , one of a number of on-demand, ride services competing for the LA market, is shifting its services towards on-demand delivery, the company said today. Sidecar has been competing against Uber, Curb, Lyft, Flywheel--not to mention plenty of traditional shuttle and taxi services--for the business in Los Angeles and elsewhere.

Demand

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. which he sold to AOL.

Southern California

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Demand Media. Demand Media consistently popped up near number one in the list of "companies to work for" from our readers. The perks which have made Google a perennial favorite of would-be employees in Silicon Valley, and the company's dominance of Internet search, also make it an employee favorite here in SoCal. The now-public.

Technical Review

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OCTOBER 13, 2009

Gil Elbaz , one of the co-founders of Applied Semantics --the firm that developed the technology behind Google's AdSense--has launched a new startup, Factual. Factual said its products are being used by such companies as Demand Media and its Livestrong.com site. It was acquired by Google with pre-IPO stock in 2003. READ MORE>>.

Startup

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Santa Monica-based eHow , the question and answer site owned by Demand Media, said this week that it has rolled out a new, mobile application for the Android operating system. Tags: ehow android demand media question answer mobile phone google. The firm said the new app is available for free. READ MORE>>.

eHow

Xconomy

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Schmidt, the former CEO of Google and former executive chairman of its parent company Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL ), argues that the A.I. Regardless, many in the industry agree that the demand for A.I. Eric Schmidt believes we’re entering an era where artificial intelligence will underpin most facets of human life.

Artificial Inteligence

socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2012

The startup is looking to take advantage of the demand for developers by getting startups to "bid" on engineering talent. The firm says it only has candidates who are from "Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter, Zynga, Stanford, and MIT". READ MORE>>.

Los Angeles

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Yesterday, Google announced that it was shutting down its Google Audio efforts--the search engine giant's efforts to try to sell radio advertising. What are your thoughts on the Google announcement? Tags: bid4spots google radio interview newmark advertising dave. Broadcast isn't like that. READ MORE>>.

Google

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AUGUST 24, 2012

USA Today cited the activity of such companies as Demand Media, Break.com, Buzzmedia, Citysearch, Google, JibJab, ShoeDazzle, and Viddy in Los Angeles, and Qualcomm, Slacker, Sorenson Media, and MOGL in San Diego as examples of those cities' active startup base.

San Diego

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Santa Monica-based Factual , the new data focused startup run by Gil Elbaz , the co-founder of Applied Semantics , which invented Google's AdSense technology, is announcing the investors in the firm this evening. Applied Semantics was the original developer of Google AdSense technology, and was purchased for pre-IPO Google stock in 2003.

Rustic Canyon

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

For Ethan it came down to two companies – BuildOnline or Google. ” I proclaimed to Ethan, “Google is at $400 / share. ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. When Ethan was considering leaving Google we talked about it. “No choice at all!”

CTO Coach

socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2013

In the arms race of search technology, only the big guys -- Google, Microsoft -- seem to be able to keep up with all of the innovations in the space. Most consumers know how this works if they use Google, which launched this two years ago. But, it can only be used in certain places, such as Google itself. SRCH2 (www.srch2.com)

Technology

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Digital advertising spend is projected to grow 25% this year to $191 billion, and Google (69%), Facebook (59%), Snapchat (116%) and Twitter (87%) all just reported rapid growth in their year over year advertising revenues. eCommerce for example grew 39% just last year - so there’s simply more demand. no surprise?—?that’s

Product

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

So much so that if you read Ken Auletta’s wonderful book “ Googled ” you’ll see that Larry and Sergey had for years stated they would never do paid search results. The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here. Yes, Google won.

Entrepreneur

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

Gil is one of the founders of Applied Semantics, the firm acquired by Google for its AdSense technology. In your launch you mention that Demand Media and others are using the platform. In the case of Demand Media, they looked at us to be a host for their data within the health vertical. How does that work?

Startup

socalTECH

JUNE 14, 2010

Los Angeles-based Factual , the open data startup headed by former Google engineering director Gil Elbaz, said this weekend it has partnered with Newsweek on a "America's Best Public High School" initiative. Applied Semantics was acquired for pre-IPO Google stock in April of 2003. READ MORE>>.

Rustic Canyon

socalTECH

JULY 17, 2012

the domain name registration startup which has strong ties to Demand Media , looks to be the dominant applicant for ICANN's new top level domains, in a telling graphic released by law firm Loeb & Loeb today. Donuts Inc. , The infographic , released via ReadWriteWeb, shows, visually, how Donuts Inc. Donuts Inc. Donuts Inc. Donuts Inc.

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