socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

If you're a web publisher, or even a brand developing your own outreach to customers through a newsletter or microsite, how do you efficiently gather and curate all of the news and information out there? It's all about what is happening on the realtime web. Is this a subscription or do these publishers buy software?

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2009

Los Angeles-based RotoHog , which develops fantasy sports games, announced Monday that the firm has signed on Sporting news, to create fantasy games for the brand. Financial terms of the multi-year agreement were not disclosed.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2010

I’m seeing and hearing that it’s becoming tough finding good developers again, at least here in Los Angeles. On Friday, at the LA CTO Forum , I heard from a couple of CTOs having trouble finding good developers. My company, TechEmpower , recently added a few top notch developers, but it wasn’t easy to find just the right people.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2008

Los Angeles-based Big Stage Entertainment has inked its third partnership of the week, saying yesterday that it has tied into Splash News, a provider of celebrity news and photos.

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Tech.Co

JULY 13, 2023

Verifying Get the latest tech news, straight to your inbox Don't miss out on the top business tech news with Tech.co's weekly highlights reel Please fill in your name Please fill in your email Please verify before subscribing. Corp” in Nevada, according to business records seen by the Financial Times. Will xAI Rival OpenAI?

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2013

The startup says it added more than 200 new publishers and 100 new buyer channels for the six months ended March 31, 2013, and that its customers now include more than 500 of the world''s premium publishers, including eBay UK, Time, ABC News, the Wall Street Journal, Tribune Company, Virgin Media, People, Universal and many others.

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socalTECH

MARCH 7, 2017

Los Angeles-based food alternative developer Soylent has rolled out a new chatbot, called "Trish", and started accepting Bitcoin from its customers. In related news, Soylent says it has opened up a Bitcoin store called Soy Route on the "Dark Web", which it says is a nod to it's core community.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capitalists) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets.

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socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2013

Los Angeles-based PublishThis , the developer of publishing technology which is headed by Matt Kumin, is powering the content for a new Cox Media site, the firm said today. PublishThis said it is behind the new Rare.us site, which is focused on politics, news, and lifestyle content for the center-right. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2019

Read on for news of recent financings, plus upcoming opportunities to connect with the local tech community. —Ezoic, a startup that developed software for web publishers that uses machine learning techniques to personalize layouts and ad placements for site visitors, raised $33 million to further develop its technology.

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TechEmpower

JULY 2, 2013

July marks the fourth month of our ongoing project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms. We''ve just posted Round 6, which includes several more developer community-provided framework test implementations: Beego, Dart, Hapi, Jester, Luminus, Nancy, Yaf, Plack, Play-Slick, and Undertow. We are hiring.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Here's a roundup of some grants to be aware of in 2024: FedEx Small Business Grant The National Association for the Self Employed (NASE) Growth Grants Program Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) Business Grants Amber Business Grants For Women The USDA Rural Business Enterprise Grants (RBEG) Program ? Apply here Deadline: Monthly 5.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

As noted in Hacking Hacker News , the company previously dominated the mindshare of the web development community by facilitating the spread of a random posting on Hacker News. Similar to their prior guerilla-marketing stunt, their April Fool''s Day posting topped Hacker News. Don’t Over Sell It.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

In the case of Divshot , a developer of user interface development tools for web apps, it was a chance to join Los Angeles accelerator Launchpad LA. Divshot develops software which provides a drag-and-drop interface to create web apps, which can then export HTML and CSS code for use by software developers.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 3, 2012

News Corp has announced it will cease publication of its standalone publication of The Daily iPad app December 15, 2012 and embed its technology and staff into the The Post. 60 year old News Corporation today Monday Dec. 60 year old News Corporation today Monday Dec. Thompson reports January 1 2013.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

As noted in Hacking Hacker News , the company previously dominated the mindshare of the web development community by facilitating the spread of a random posting on Hacker News. Similar to their prior guerilla-marketing stunt, their April Fool''s Day posting topped Hacker News. Don’t Over Sell It.

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socalTECH

JUNE 22, 2010

Los Angeles-based Stroome , which is developing an online community for collaborative video editing, announced today that it has just won $200,000 from the 2010 Knight News Challenge. The Knight News Challenge is a contest which helps to fund digital news experiments and technology. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets. Commit to a major customer.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2018

Aside from these revelations about “fake news,” the year brought reports on major data breaches at Equifax and other companies, on the influence of new technologies in the future job market, and on privacy concerns about Web-connected home devices.

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socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2011

Venice-based CitizenGlobal , a startup working on crowd-sourced video content, has landed the inventor of the web wiki as Chief Technology Officer. The news was first uncovered by The Oregonian , a Portland paper, which noticed Cunningham had departed AboutUs, a Portland wiki firm.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Verifying Looking for regular tech news straight to your inbox? To top it all off, the AI startup recently partnered up with Getty Images, one of the largest repositories of paid stock imagery, to develop a new generative AI model ‘Runway’ geared towards the film and advertising industries.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. We got lots of traction on the web, and the story was picked up in many places. It ran in April of 2008.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Los Angeles-based Pluto TV , which is developing an online Internet TV platform aimed at curating live TV entertainment for Internet users, said Wednesday afternoon that it has signed up a roster of over 20 new content partners fro the service. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 19, 2011

Los Angeles-based RPost , a developer of electronic signature services, has filed a suit against Adobe and EchoSign for patent infringement, the firm said this morning. News of the lawsuit follows the announcement by Adobe yesterday that it had acquired EchoSign, a Palo Alto developer of web-based, electronic signature software.

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2012

Rubicon develops software which automatically optimizes the ads displayed on web publisher's web sites to increase revenues for those sites.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

We build web and mobile applications, and we've been doing so for a little over fifteen years. As software developers, we're technophiles, so we enjoy these cycles and quite often find humor listening to the energy spent arguing on either side of issues. Not to downplay developer happiness. It's important to us.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

We recently completed a web-based application that uses a unique algorithm to match professionals with new career opportunities. Drop-off on the first page of an application is bad news. Do you participate in professional development workshops, or perhaps enjoy problem-solving puzzles in your downtime?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2009

Santa Monica-based FlipGloss Media , a developer of visually driven, photo-centric web technology aimed at the fashion and news industry, announced today that it has launched a new web site for entertainment news provider Variety. Tags: flipgloss content news software photo photography emmy.

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TechEmpower

MAY 28, 2015

Covering a wide variety of web application frameworks, this project gives developers useful data that can help them find the framework that will provide the performance and features they need for their application. We're delighted that 1M is already old news. versus 1.05M). We didn’t change the hardware between Rounds 9 and 10.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Last fall, Mingly released their first product last fall to help users manage their endless webs of connections. Fast forward to the present with Mingly announcing the launch of two new products to expand their services to a wider audience of users. Finally, some solid relief. To learn more about Mingly , visit their website!

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Hollywood Interactive Group, which develops an online web site for celebrity and entertainment news, said Thursday that it has raised $5M in a Series A funding round. The roudn came from BlueRun Ventures. MyHollywood.com includes a massively multiplayer online game called the "Red Carpet Game" focused on a "virtual Hollywood."

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

And in particular, if you're developing comedy and humor content -- which is a big segment of the content being created--how to do you help people find the content which will resonate with them. From research and working with IAC, was saw that more than fifty percent of the videos online are web humor and comedy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capitalists) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets.

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socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2011

Rubicon also said it has promoted founder Craig Roah to President, Josh Wexler to Senior Vice President Market Development, and Seizo Welch as SVP Finance. Rubicon Project is headed by Frank Addante, and develops ad optimization technology for web publishers, helping them to pick the best ad networks to optimize revenue on their web site.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Every month, there’s news of another partnership among carmakers like GM and tech companies such as Uber, as they vie for dominant roles in a transportation future where individual car ownership may largely give way to rides-on-demand from fleets of autonomous and tech-enabled vehicles. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

"I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. Make sure you go through the 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder. Find out who is good.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

IconFinder provides high quality icons for webdesigners and developers in an easy and efficient way. Before Iconfinder I was working as a web designer and front-end developer, next to studying computer science and business administration. Back in 2004-2005 I was working as a full-time web designer, where we used KDE (Linux).

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