socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Los Angeles-based online ordering technology developer ChowNow says it has launched a new product, called the Order Better Network. The brands include Google, Snapchat, OpenTable, Tripadvisor, Yelp, plus a number of airline and hotel rewards programs. Pricing on the new product was not announced.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 30, 2022

The Los Angeles-based company partnered with NBA Top Shot NFT creator Dapper Labs to develop the storefront on Dapper’s Flow blockchain and debuted it to a group of invite-only beta users in December last year, TechCrunch reported at the time. ” Genies CEO and founder Akash Nigam. Image Credits: Genies.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Among the announcements at the demo day were the funding of smartphone toy company SnowShoe , and an acquisition of Smart Toy , a developer of an interactive toy. The Disney Accelerator said that Smart Toy was acquired by Los Angeles-based children''s product firm Cartwheel Kids, and that SnowShoe raised $2.2M in its seed funding round.

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2017

Interested in getting involved in the development of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones)? We've combed through our database of companies to figure out which companies are involved in this industry here, ranging from key developers of military UAS/UAV platforms, to startups developing the software behind the growing consumer drone market.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

Along with this, tech experts have also developed other social apps for both Android and iPhone users, focusing on photos and icons. There’s Snapchat that uses photos and then instantly disappears after 10 seconds, and then there’s the up-comer, Emojli , that uses tiny cartoonish icons for engagement. Snap Away with Snapchat.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Put simply Chuck is amongst the smartest and most knowledgeable leaders in the CRM industry and in the components I consider the future of enterprise software — voice driving input/output, chat-based computing and mobile-first design. If you’re a consumer software company your buyer is your user. Think about Snapchat.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2014

Venice-based Zefr (www.zefr.com) got its start in the content world--licensing movie clips and posting them online--but soon, figured out there was a whole different opportunity in developing software tools to understand exactly what was happening on YouTube. That''s what we call our rights ID or rights management software stack.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 billion dollars of regional GDP.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 5, 2019

Snap has taken a three-pronged approach: extending its stories feature (and ads) into third-party apps and building out its camera play with an AR platform , but it is the launch of social games that is the most intriguing. It managed to stop the rot with a flat Q4 , but resting on its laurels isn’t going to bring the good times back.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Social video sharing platform Viddy has not been doing well as of late, even though it had struck a chord with loyal consumers and had a raised a significant amount of capital to see it grow. And after six months of insane design, coding and development, we have several new products to share with the world.”

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

It will be interesting to see if any new startups can compete against the industry giants in picture and video sharing: Instagram, Vine, FaceBook, and SnapChat. Although the Mirror API isn’t particularly robust, it expedites the development of push notification services on Glass.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

I built my first software company in the early days of SaaS and there were few models to go by. One thing I observed was that many customers wanted an “on premise” version of our software and were willing to pay extra money for it. In the long run it will be cheaper, better maintained and even more secure.”

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