Xconomy

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Headed by the computational neuroscientist Eugene Izhikevich, the company maintained a low profile at Qualcomm’s San Diego headquarters until 2013, when Brain Corp. As an example of advanced AI technology, it’s not particularly sexy or glamorous. began life in 2009 with a lofty goal of reverse-engineering the human brain.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 22, 2016

In downtown San Diego, a private real estate company best known for its master-planned communities in suburban Southern California has posed some existential questions for regional tech hubs looking to build their own startup ecosystems. Google has the Googleplex, its campus in Mountain View, CA, with 3.1

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

I’ve had this conversation with several communities such as in San Diego where I believe there are way more qualified and talented engineers than available local capital to support them. Actually, there is tons of wealth in San Diego but it isn’t organized well to support them. San Diego has Qualcomm.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

We now have two loactions in San Diego, one location in Newport Beach, and one in Rodeo Drive, in Beverly Hills. For example, someone would book an appointment or service with an application, and the idea was that application would take a payment for that lead as their monthly payment. Constantine Suychmez: Great question.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Whether someone is in Google address book, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter, they all end up in one place. It also generated search alerts--like a Google alert, for mentions of that person's name, company, and also keywords. Then, you have aggregated status updates and aggregated communication with all of those individual contacts.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

Plus, there are companies like Yahoo, Google, and others who have set up shop here. For example, our friends at the LMU incubator are doing a great job helping companies to mature. And, businesses like Google really have expanded their footprint in the last three or four years. That said, we still need investors here.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Late on Wednesday, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN ) announced it has started free two-hour delivery of products from Whole Foods Market, the most significant example of the e-commerce giant using technology at the Austin, TX-based grocery chain since it purchased Whole Foods last year for $13.7

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2012

Last month, San Diego-based Tealium (www.tealium.com) announced a healthy, $10.5M As an example, if you're deploying Google Analytics, the way you deploy it is copying and pasting a page code on your website, also referred to as a tag. How do you streamline that process?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2011

The device is an alarm-clock like, Internet connected electronic product developed by the firm of the same name, San Diego-based Chumby (www.chumby.com). For example, there is the Chrome OS which was recently launched, which is Chumby-like. The second piece, are platforms like Android and Google TV.

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Xconomy

JULY 6, 2016

A center led by the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego will work on ways for those individuals to participate. To coordinate all the data, a center run by Vanderbilt University, Verily (formerly known as Google Life Sciences), and the Broad Institute will build the infrastructure.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

However, San Diego-based Deal Current (www.dealcurrent.com) appears to have found a sustainable niche in the industry--not providing daily deals, but powering those multiplying deal sites, including a number of major newspaper groups. One of our clients, a San Diego newspaper, asked us to build a daily deal platform for them.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 23, 2018

For example, advertisers will have to unmask their identities and reveal who’s funding their ads, Facebook civic engagement team member Samidh Chakrabarti wrote in a blog post. Company CEO Mark Zuckerberg had already announced Friday.

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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. Horvitz, is pictured above at left with founding members of the partnership, Francesca Rossi, IBM; Yann LeCun, Facebook; and Mustafa Suleyman, Google/DeepMind.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Last week, San Diego-based OpenCandy (www.opencandy.com) announced it had raised $3.5M We found that when a consumer is downloading a piece of software--for example, a photo editing application, we could actually make a recommendation to the user via the installer. What's the idea behind OpenCandy? How are you doing that?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

In late April 2010, VentureBeat published that Blippy credit card numbers were published on Google search: [link] followed by Blippy’s response. It was an early example of the power of direct marketing and subscription services. Investors: Google Ventures. Read more: TechCrunch. Wildfire Interactive. Enter ShoeDazzle.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

A good example of this, we can keep track of a supply chain. It''s about as complicated as Google Adwords. It wouldn''t be covered in the Los Angeles Times, and not by the San Diego papers. It''s designed for business people. It''s not a programming tool, even though it uses a lot of big data.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It's another big week for startup launches, this time in San Diego at DEMOfall. We support various translation gateways from Google, Microsoft, and other third party translation engines. We spoke with Idris Manley , founder of NativeTung, last week, to hear more about the company. It also supports blogs.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Your parents want to know why on Earth you’d leave a job at Google. You have a runway that would make San Diego Airport’s look long. I’d like to give you a few examples that are more nuanced: 1. It’s so much scarier than most people admit – even to themselves. “Honey?

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Xconomy

JULY 29, 2016

What are some examples of government-funded research in AI and robotics that is happening today that will set the stage for tomorrow’s products? For example, DARPA and the Navy are testing at sea today an autonomous ship that is designed to go “toe-to-toe” against a human adversary in the wild during complex unconstrained military operations.

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Xconomy

JUNE 29, 2016

For example, coders use modular concepts that are then implemented in specific code: sometimes directly copied from earlier code, sometimes written differently. For example, when you play only the white keys on a piano you are playing a C major scale. The use of intellectual property (IP) to claim these tools can be problematic.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 5, 2016

Even when faced with examples of incredibly successful entrepreneurs who started their billion-dollar businesses during their college years or after dropping out of college—think Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs—many remain skeptical about high school students and their entrepreneurial capabilities.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

He’s a great example of how to build “your” personal brand to take it to the next level. |. |. As a Democracy Fellow, Gregory researches the political psychology of organizations like Google and the Obama Administration, and their relation to the distinctive attitudes of Generation Y. Gregory Ferenstein, Fast Company Magazine.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. I did programming for the career center at UC San Diego, trying to build programs for the career center.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

A really good example is a product that is sold offline, where the marketing is done online. Plus, San Diego and all of Southern California there’s a lot of opportunities in the marketing space, so we really like that as well. We’re starting to see Google Glass and other interactive personal devices. Plus, sunshine.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

For example, their poll this week showed Democratic presidental candidate Hillary Clinton regaining … Next Page » Reprints | Share: But that method was losing reliability due to lower response rates, as well as the movement toward mobile phones.

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