SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. However, these platforms could be interesting for prototype and pilot solutions. The other conclusion was that you need to have a migration path from the platform.

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JULY 27, 2020

Our interview today is with Nick Hedges , the CEO of Santa Monica-based MomentFeed. For us, relatively large and very large multi location brands use our platform to ensure they get discovered online. Oftentimes that will be Google, sometimes that will be Apple, sometimes it will be another network.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2012

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the customer relationship management and contact management software developer headed by Jon Ferrara, has snagged a high profile hire this morning, hiring former Salesforce Director of Mobile Product Jason McDowall as its new Director of Product. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Monica Mobile Platform Google 140

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

GoMeta develops a mobile platform--currently running on iOS--that allows developers create their own augmented reality apps and worlds. Shapiro was most recently at Google, but also had served at Anybeat, MySpace Music, and founded video site Veoh. The funding came from Mike Jones (Science Inc., READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

They are no longer remarkable in Santa Monica or Venice or in many cities in America, Europe or South America. In my home town of Santa Monica they painted 19 miles of bike lanes green to help delineate bikes & scooters from cars and they built 3 miles of soft barriers to test how this works with traffic flow.

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JUNE 20, 2012

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the developer of cloud-based, customer contact management software headed by former Goldmine founder Jon Ferrara, said this week that it has been doubling its month over month revenue since launching its paid platform, and now has over 40,000 registered users.

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DECEMBER 28, 2017

Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that particularly caught your eye in 2017? And you can now buy them with WAX tokens, where I'm an advisor and they raised $80 million (also based in Santa Monica). CryptoKitties!

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Fan Appz, a Santa Monica headquartered firm founded in 2010, and a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) today Tuesday launched its Personalized Marketing Platform, a next-generation social media marketing solution set to help firms convert fans into customers and increase repeat purchases by turning good customers into great ones.

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APRIL 8, 2014

In some cases, we also leverage what we called our tiered device platform, the brand and company Rami has built over the last two decades plus, which is a supply chain, logistics, and distribution company and brand. We''re happy to report that we''ve found quite a bunch of those here in our backyard in Santa Monica. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

Anyone who has been in sales, business development, or just works a lot with others is familiar with contact management software--tracking who you have been talking to, when, notes, and more for sales teams. He's again set his sights on contact management with a new company, based in Santa Monica, called Nimble (www.nimble.com).

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Google Tool Email Sales 216

socalTECH

DECEMBER 2, 2013

In the world of drone aircraft and robots, right now everyone develops their own, on-board operating systems software to run those autonomous systems. We spoke with Dreamhammer''s CEO, Nelson Paez , about the company''s software and its vision for a interoperable operating system for drones and robots. What''s Dreamhammer?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

We spoke with co-founder Ryan Costello about Santa Monica-based Event Farm (www.eventfarm.com), on how its software technology is being used to power high end, VIP events for large companies. Ryan Costello: We're a software company. We provide an event and experiential marketing platform.

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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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San Diego Social Media Commerce Snapchat 159

socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Gil is one of the founders of Applied Semantics, the firm acquired by Google for its AdSense technology. Gil Elbaz: What we have been working on, and what we offer now, is a platform where anyone can share and mash open data. In your launch you mention that Demand Media and others are using the platform. How does that work?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

I made the point (not widely publicized) that OS4 is currently “breaking&# many applications that use ad networks that are not Apples (most notably AdMob, owned by Google). I sure hope that Apple is working with Google to make this work. Thus we see lots of movement from Google, Verizon, HTC, Dell, HP and others.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2012

I had been a developer, working at a software publisher as a software developer working on consule games, and wanted to get back into publishing. really, that opportunity has only recently been realized fully with Apple in 2008, and later with Google. That was tough for a lot of our competitors.

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Mobile Java Google Startup 168

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The third is a platform to connect everyone on, which is being provided by Internships.com, which is at techla.internships.com. Here, if you look at a school like USC, it''s just a long way from Santa Monica. We had over eighty companies put their internships on the platform. That''s also true of UCLA. READ MORE>>.

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Startup UCLA USC High Tech 185

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. The DataPop team is building a platform that enables real time creation and delivery of highly engaging ads to consumers on a massive scale.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

This weekend, February 22-24th, will be your chance to attend UCLA Anderson School of Management’s 42 hour Developers Contest, hosted at ROC in Santa Monica. The contest theme is Travel and is open to apps on any platform, meaning you’ll be seeing new Windows, Mac, Android and iOS software being created before your eyes.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Tonight starting at 7:00pm PST we will be streaming and bringing you all the action live from Cross Campus in Santa Monica. Event Details: Where : Cross Campus 820 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90401. Make sure to tune in! TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. Date : Thursday, October 24, 2013.

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

This runs on a number of platforms? Rahul Sonnad: It runs on iPhone, Google Android, and will be running on a netbook with a major OEM this April, and in the near future you'd expect it to run on HTML alone. Once I had that, it was clear to me that putting some software linking that with the Internet would be very powerful.

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Clearstone Incubator HTML Twiistup 124

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? Obviously, anyone except the largest five to ten content companies in the world, such as Google, Netflix, or Amazon, does not need to own their own CDN.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. We are creating a platform that enables users to play instant games and apps directly on the computer desktop.

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Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. Import your content from a Google Maps Account, KML file, or create it from scratch using their content management system. TCA is a not-for-profit organization.

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. Import your content from a Google Maps Account, KML file, or create it from scratch using their content management system. TCA is a not-for-profit organization.

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Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60