socalTECH

MAY 7, 2010

Crigler has previously served at Havok, a subsidiary of Intel, as well as Criterion/Electronic Arts, and Database Marketing Group. Image Metrics is a developer of markerless facial animation software and related services for the film and videogame industry. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 8, 2010

McCurdy was previously at Electronic Arts, serving as Vice President of Technology, and was behind the company's online division and massively multiplayer online games (MMOG) efforts. Tags: titan gaming online game videogame software brock pierce. Pierce was the founder of Affinity Media/IGE, which he sold to Goldman Sachs.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 25, 2011

Sponsored by the Center for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds and The Institute for Software Research. Speaker: Artem Kovalovs, Gameplay programmer at Visceral Games, Electronic Arts, Los Angeles. Thursday, March 31, 2011 -- Student-Driven 3D Game Engine Development: Practical Approach.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2011

Wilson joins the company from Electronic Arts, where he was most recently CTO of EA Redwood Shores. Stevenson joins the firm from Namco Bandai Games, where he was VP of Online Development; Stevenson has also served at Atari. Gaikai is venture backed by Benchmark Capital, TriplePoint Capital, Rustic Canyon Partners and Intel.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

Irvine-based WebVisible , which helps small businesses place online advertising, said this morning it is in a big hiring push, and is immediately looking to hire over 75 employees across sales, IT, software engineering, and product design positions.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 19, 2010

The company said it is hiring project managers, engineers, and technical leads in the area of software and quality assurance and database administrators. In fact, the firm even opened up a Los Angeles office in May in the Electronic Arts building in Playa Vista, hoping to tap into the talent base on LA's west side. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2009

Emergent said that THQ will use its Gamebryo and Gamebryo LightSpeed software for internal and external development, across the Xbox 360, PLAYSTATION 3, Ninetendo Wii, and PC platforms. Tags: emergent game technologies games content gaming video software. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. in additional funding in February.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Los Angeles-based MarketShare Partners , a provider of marketing analytics software said Wednesday afternoon that it has scored an investment round from Elevation Partners. Tags: partners elevation private bono marketing equity venture software capital marketshare advertising. Financial terms of the funding were not disclosed.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

KidZui said it has already signed up pilot client including DreamWorks, Disney, Universal Theatrical, Warner Brothers, LeapFrog, Electronic Arts, Square Enix, Toys"R"Us, Foopets, National Geographic, and Herotopia for the advertising effort. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 2, 2021

The next step, and a big part of what Evans and his team of 55 employees will work on building will be a developer ecosystem, so software designers can start building out new tools to sell through the Maestro platform. “The third piece is a developer ecosystem,” Evans said.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

WEMO Media is an interesting combination of Hollywood, computer games, and deep technical experience, one of the few companies we have seen which seems to combine both the worlds of high tech and software with content, interactive, and Hollywood. Part of our DNA is pure software engineering, and dealing with that large amount of data.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 16, 2019

A slew of banks are coming together to back a new roll-up strategy for the Los Angeles-based mobile gaming studio, Jam City and giving the company $145 million in new funding to carry that out.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The Los Angeles game development studio Jam City is setting up a shop in Toronto with the acquisition of Bingo Pop from Uken Games. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. The deal is part of a broader effort to expand the Jam City portfolio of games and geographic footprint.

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Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Cisco, Oracle, Apple, Electronic Arts and Atari. Zondigo, Inc. Startup 3.0:

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

Before you think I was a complete nerd, in addition to making money selling software, which I did at 15, 16 years old, I also made money throwing keg parties. So Small Talk was a big object-oriented programming language, and a bunch of people from our company went to work at Small Talk, and they all went into the software industry.

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