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DECEMBER 12, 2019

Huntington Beach-based Rocket Lab , the satellite rocket launch developer, has set up its first U.S. launch site, at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island in Virginia. The launch site, which is it second, is in addition to an existing launch complex the company has in New Zealand. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 17, 2019

Los Angeles-based Relativity , a space launch startup which is developing automation technology designed to automate construction of rockets, said on Thursday that it has signed a deal for a launch site at Cape Canaveral.

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JULY 6, 2021

Clean energy developer Arevon Asset Management has installed what it says is one of the largest energy storage sites in the United States in Saticoy, California. According to Arevon, the energy stored on the site can power Oxnard for four hours, or all of Ventura County for thirty minutes.

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TechEmpower

JULY 2, 2013

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. The results web site now includes a "framework overhead" chart inspired by comments from Hacker News user goodwink.

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APRIL 9, 2020

Costa Mesa-based Veritone , which develops artificial intelligence software, says it has launched a new website, DraftClips.com , aimed at giving sports fans free access to over 30,000 clips and hundreds of hours of video footage of 2020 top draft college football footage.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Fake Site - you can have what looks to be a real site, even take "orders" but not actually have anything able to run it. We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites. If you are on the lower complexity end, the key is defining small chunks of work that can be done quickly by a developer.

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MARCH 19, 2014

Redland-based Esri , which provides geographical information systems and mapping software, said today that it is backing the White House Climate Change Data Initiative, and will help communities develop practical methods and approaches that use its GIS technology. READ MORE>>.

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TechEmpower

MAY 2, 2013

As with previous rounds, the developer community has contributed several additional frameworks for Round 4, bringing the total to 57! We felt they did not add tremendous value to the site. We’ve posted Round 4 of our ongoing project measuring the performance of many web application frameworks and platforms.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The conversation centered around a founder who's key question is "Where Do I Find a Developer for My Startup?" His goal was to find a programmer who would come in as an early partner and work as an Equity-Only Developer. Have you tested what you can without development? Is this compelling to a developer?

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JUNE 25, 2013

Los Angeles-based Tongal , which operates a crowdsourced site for creating commercials, reported today that it has hit $1 million in current projects in its reward pool. The site said that so far, its users have earned $4M working on its various creative projects, with many earning more than $100,000 for their work on the site.

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APRIL 24, 2019

However, in the technical arena--as a programmer, developer, or software engineer--it's hard to tell from a resume how good you really are. The startup has developed a system which uses information from online forums, source code sharing, technical communities, and the like to help find and rank technical talent.

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

Los Angeles-based XPRIZE , a nonprofit which runs a series of prizes to encourage the development of technology to solve difficult world problems, says that it has selected a field testing location for its $7M Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Los Angeles-based JumpStartFund wants to change that, and said today that it has tapped two notable engineers to head up crowd-sourcing on its site for the concept. JumpStartFund''s crowdfunding and crowd development site taps the collective knowledge of its community to vote on and suggest ideas to make new companies a reality.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

The company is targeting real estate developers and investors, single family buyers, owners, or "flippers", and others with its service. Los Angeles-based Terrakan said today that it has launched an online platform, aimed at helping homeowners and realtors to generate reports, perform listing research, and network with other people.

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APRIL 7, 2014

Carpinteria-based online video education site Lynda.com said today that it has acquired Compilr , a developer of a software coding and development environment which lets people learn how to write, compile, and test code from their web browser. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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JUNE 15, 2018

Redlands-based Esri , the developer of geographical information systems (GIS) software, has applied its tools to the World Cup, with a new "Story Map" of high resolution satellite imagery of the 12 World Cup venues.

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AUGUST 20, 2014

Does the entertainment industry need its own social networking site? Los Angeles-based Stage 32 thinks so--and so far, has 325,000 members for its online social networking site, which it says ties together film, television, and theater creatives. Stage 32 is led by Richard Botto. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 15, 2013

Playsino , the social casino games and app developer headed by Brock Pierce, said Tuesday that it has released iPhone and iPad versions of its Bingo World app. Playsino, which is based in Santa Monica, is a developr of casino focused games, which are available both on mobile platforms and on sites like Facebook.

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OCTOBER 18, 2012

We were not making a gambling site, but using those to prove your knowledge, using fantasy currency to show your confidence in your picks. However, we wanted to the site to be completely free, and we don't take credit cards, and we're not a gambling site. How does the site work for a user? It's all completely fun.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The conversation centered around a founder who's key question is "Where Do I Find a Developer for My Startup?" His goal was to find a programmer who would come in as an early partner and work as an Equity-Only Developer. Have you tested what you can without development? Is this compelling to a developer?

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Berkonomics

APRIL 5, 2018

Each night’s backup would be carefully marked and the rotated between offsite and on-site locations in a series of steps so that backups of a day, two days, a week and a month were all available both on site and off site. As was each subsequent backup, on-site and offsite. Big OUCH!

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MARCH 7, 2013

Scopely , the Los Angeles developer of game monetization services, told its supporters today that it will pay $5,000 in cash to anyone who refers job candidates that result in a hire for the company. The firm had a number of positions listed on its recruiting site, ranging from mobile (Android, iOS) engineers to a product manager.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

The world is adopting smart phones and for many young people and many people in the developing world this will be one of their first computing devices. I have talked with people in the industry who tell me that mobile movie sites convert ticket sales much higher than desktop websites. Fred’s post was right.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Los Angeles-based Retention Science , the developer of big data analytics software for online marketing, announced today that it has launched a new "Retention Score", which it bills as a Klout Score of e-commerce. The score allows online stores to see, at a glance, what their performance is with customer retention.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 17, 2018

The company intends to build a manufacturing facility on an 18-acre site at Berth 240 and use waterways to transport the massive rocket. The mayor of Los Angeles confirmed earlier reports that SpaceX will build its largest rocket, the BFR, at the Port of Los Angeles. SpaceX says the BFR is simply too big to be transported by roads.

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MAY 14, 2014

The new site is an outgrowth of Brodsky''s work in developing SaveFans.com, another secondary ticketing marketplace that he started after spending a lot of time buying and selling tickets on eBay and StubHub. The company says it leverages PayPal to make sure that deals will be done in a secure way. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

company operates a number of content-focused sites, including LIVESTRONG, eHOW, Cracked, and a domain name registration business, eNOM. positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. big requirements for development, release, and QA engineers. Demand Media. The now-public. LiveNation. RightScale.

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MAY 19, 2014

Los Angeles-based Whisper , which develops mobile apps for anonymously sharing confessions, has raised another $36M in funding. Whisper''s site pairs confessional-style statements from people paired with photos, which can be browsed by other users but are not attributed--or traceable--to any person.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Newport Beach-based startup OnSite Waste Technologies , which is developing counter-top, on-site medical waste sterilization products, says it has signed on a supplier of products for the senior living industry. The company said that Direct Supply, based in Milwaukee, is offering the company's OnSite TE-5000 product to its customers.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Duarte-based cancer research and treatment center City of Hope and Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate, said the two plan to develop their own, cell therapy manufacturing facility, which will be based in Phoenix, Arizona.

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

Are you tired of booking that "luxury room" on your favorite vacation rental site, and finding it''s really a dump? What''s hovelstay.com, and how is it different than all the other vacation rental sites out there? Michael Womack: We are creating a site that has the adventurous and budget traveler in mind.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 29, 2021

“When the stations went down we really couldn’t get anyone on site because most of the issues were communication issues, vandalism, firmware updates or swapping out a part — all things that were not electrical,” Terry said. ChargerHelp takes a workforce-development approach to finding employees. Hiring approach.

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APRIL 24, 2014

Los Angeles-based StudyMode , which develops online, educational tools and apps, said today that it has released a new online game aimed at helping students practice spelling. The company said that its new game, Stellar Speller, is an extension of its flashcard site Cram.com.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

The online coupon search industry is very crowded, with dozens of sites, players large and small, and is a very confusing landscape for consumers. There''s a ton of coupon and deals sites. They do a Google search, and they''re presented with thousands of sites in the search results. Why are you different? How do you do that?

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MARCH 21, 2013

We recently chatted with Debra Domeyer , CEO of Oversee.net (www.oversee.net), a Los Angeles company which provides both domain monetization and runs vertical, consumer lead generation and marketing sites, to hear about the company. We're putting more focus on the consumer, to create great destination sites in high potential, niche markets.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 13, 2011

Some common themes from the discussion: Know Where You Are Going Before you can possibly make a choice around language and framework you need to ask all the important questions that are talked about in Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything and Startup CTO or Developer.

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

Despite the huge surge of content specifically being developed for the web--and for sites like YouTube--making that content profitable and sustainable continues to be an issue for content creators. One of them, is unless you have a million dollar, celebrity campaign, you can hardly ever make the home page of those sites.

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