socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Bitvore has created an intelligence gathering and analysis system--originally developed for secretive intelligence agencies--but is now being used by finance and Wall Street customers to mine data for tracking investments. The company's President, Jeff Curie, was also an executive at Access360, IBM, and SupplyFrame.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Los Angeles-based BlackLine , which develops financial controls and automation software, says it has named a new Chief Technology Officer. According to BlackLine, it has named Peter Hirsch as its new CTO, to head up the technology direction of its cloud software platform. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Another partnering model example is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools. This facilitates technology growth and innovation for startups in Silicon Alley, as well as positioning IBM for future growth. Johansen calls this uncovering your right-of-way.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2016

So far, the story of IBM Watson Health has been mostly about growth and potential. So is the scope of the new IBM collaboration, which spans cancer (breast, lung, and others), eye health, diabetes, brain disease, and cardiovascular disease. Today, it’s more about action. If that all sounds optimistic, well, of course it is.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Recently IBM combined forces with DevPost to put out the call for developer/heroes to solve some of the world’s most dramatic and important problems with its worldwide hacker contest for good called Bluemixathon: Operation Rescue and Recovery. Developers can be modern day heroes. Developer by day, life-saver by night?

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

Warren’s plan called for regulators to be appointed to oversee the unwinding of several acquisitions that were critical to the development of the core technology that make Alphabet’s Google and the social media giant Facebook so profitable… and Zappos. One issue is do we need regulation on the full platform companies.

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OCTOBER 16, 2013

Lindsay was most recently VP of Engineering from Brand Affinity Technologies, and also had previously served at such companies as Adforce, Secured Funding Corp, eBuilt, Autobytel, and IBM. Local said that Lindsay will focus on mobile development and the company''s Krillion local shopping platform. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Santa Barbara-based cloud computing software developer RightScale has expanded into Australia, the firm said last week. RightScale said it has set up operations in Sydney, which will provide local sales, support and professional services for its platform in that country. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 20, 2016

According to OTOY, the investment will go towards applying its service to develop and distribute original, holographic content. OTOY said it is currently workings with Jon Stewart on upcoming content for HBO, built on its platform. OTOY is led by Jules Urbach, and says its other major shareholders are Autodesk and Yuri Milner.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Another partnering model example is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools. This facilitates technology growth and innovation for startups in Silicon Alley, as well as positioning IBM for growth down the road. Johansen calls this uncovering your right-of-way.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital Group announced htis morning that it is buying Syncsort , a new Jersey-based developer of big data, data migration, and other tools. Financial terms of the acquisition were not anounced by the companies.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 3, 2016

Irvine-based vehicle telematics provider Spireon reported Thursday afternoon that it has reached three million subscribers to its platform, and has named a new CEO. Weiss was previously CEO of Unitrends, and also had served at McAfee, IBM, and other companies. The company said it has named Kevin Weiss to the CEO position.

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2012

Santa Monica-based CallFire , the developer of telephony APIs and VoIP services, said this morning that it has named former NetZero co-founder Ron Burr as its new Chief Revenue Officer. CallFire's platform enables voice and text messaging campaigns to businesses, organizations, and the government. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2019

For example, I grew up in IBM when Bill Gates was helping us deliver the first IBM PC. We slowly realized that Microsoft’s value went far beyond his technical contributions, due to his connections with key software developers and relationships with hardware manufacturers who could make the PC revolution universal.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Two new additions to our portfolio companies stand out in particular: NextCar (Scott Painters latest disruptive LA-based automotive market play) and Transmute (Karyl Fowlers Austin-based supply chain identity and credentialing platform). We look forward to seeing how AI and ML will continue to disrupt finance, CPG, big data, and SaaS.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 1, 2015

IBM has announced today a solution to this problem called Bluemix Local. “With the delivery of Bluemix Local , IBM now has the broadest spectrum of hybrid cloud capability in the industry,” said Steve Robinson, general manager, Cloud Platform Services, IBM. ” IBM gave this example.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Journey is a platform to build data gathering mobile apps much faster than would traditionally have been possible. In the light of this, our product development efforts are focused on making it increasingly easier and faster to build apps. That is the problem Embark Mobile is set to solve across the world beginning in Africa.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Another new partnering model is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools. This will facilitate technology growth and innovation for startups in Silicon Alley, as well as position IBM for growth down the road. Johansen calls this uncovering your right-of-way.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2019

San Francisco-based Degreed is among the educational technology companies now classified as “learning experience platforms,’’ because they organize staff participation in skills development training and coordinate it with the goals of employers, who are their clients.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Another partnering model example is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools. This facilitates technology growth and innovation for startups in Silicon Alley, as well as positioning IBM for growth down the road. Johansen calls this uncovering your right-of-way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Another new partnering model is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools. This will facilitate technology growth and innovation for startups in Silicon Alley, as well as position IBM for growth down the road. Johansen calls this uncovering your right-of-way.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The third is a platform to connect everyone on, which is being provided by Internships.com, which is at techla.internships.com. We often run into students who say: I have an internship opportunity with Google, Microsoft, or IBM--why should I look at a startup? We had over eighty companies put their internships on the platform.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

In the mid 1960’s, large mainframe manufacturers, such as IBM, Burroughs and Honeywell, provided complete IT solutions. IBM might not have offered the best printers, but buyers had no choice because early mainframe vendors provided a closed set of proprietary technologies. The earliest mega-scale web services (e.g.,

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OCTOBER 27, 2015

One of the oldest and most-popular developer communities, IBM’s developerWorks has announced today a first-of-its-kind premium subscription model, developerWorks Premium , geared toward maximizing developer access to IBM’s software, tools, training and partners at a fraction of the cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2010

The honest truth is that I worked with Microsoft then from my “safe” perch in big IBM, during the early days of the IBM PC. We in IBM didn’t get it at all, and we insisted on calling the IBM PC a “workstation” which in retrospect sounds like “work” for a bunch of robots at their “stations.” Enlist community of support.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? Our mission is to organize all of the world''s real time location information. My degree is from USC in big data.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Currently, I am the cofounder and CIO of Remesh , which is an AI platform that understands and engages groups of people in conversation in real time. I've also been dabbling in the development of our local startup ecosystem, and hope to bring willing folks together to improve it. Aaron: I agree.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

One of his companies - Gluecode - was sold to IBM for a pretty good price. There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models. Common revenue streams are consulting, training, support, customization, upgraded versions for corporate applications, etc.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

One of the startups in that area--born out of a.NET development organization here in Los Angeles--is FatCloud (www.fatcloud.com), which develops a NoSQL database which ties directly into Microsoft''s SQL Server database. Ian Miller: FatCloud is a data management and software platform company with a NoSQL database.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic Development Corporation (Fargo, ND). Our local startups have always been able to make some great connections at Innovate Celebrate ,” said John Machacek, SVP Finance and Entrepreneurial Development of GFMEDC, about the Startup of the Year program. Indiegogo (San Francisco,CA and New York, NY).

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 11, 2011

Co-creator of Farmville and the technical platform for Zynga. Co-creator of the Lotus Share platform, which powers the new Lotus Connections Files and Wikis components at IBM. George Ishii: Co-founder of BetterWorks. Co-founder of Yammer, and Geni. Early designer of Paypal. Josh Woods: Senior Engineer at BetterWorks.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When we talk about cloud computing we have to be careful to differentiate between open cloud (services the are provided solely to for the economic purpose of building a cloud business) and the “platform cloud&# where certain service providers offer cloud services wrapped around their core product. These are very different. Not Google.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest , former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), Co-Founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). Could we really build a generalize platform and assemble the data in a cost effective way? 3) Why the hell are you at it again?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

But that’s changing with a new crop of rich media platforms disrupting the ecosystem with new mobile and non-standard rich media ad formats, one of which – Jetpack – is located right here in Santa Monica. The company recently announced plans to introduce a self-service version of its rich media authoring and ad serving platform.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The Partnership on AI , formally unveiled Wednesday, includes Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, Google and its 2014 acquisition DeepMind. Each company is investing untold billions of dollars in developing AI technologies, betting on a future defined by computer systems that can perceive, reason, advise, and decide.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2009

We developed a platform for them. We knew what the baseline was, so we went ahead and put together a hybrid platform, using some off the shelf technology, and some of our own technology, and gave it to them. Help us understand how this is different from blade servers from people like HP or IBM?

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest, former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), co-founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). Could we really build a generalize platform and assemble the data in a cost effective way? Company : FindTheBest. All rights reserved.

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