socalTECH

JULY 22, 2009

Santa Barbara-based cloud computing management software firm RightScale is linking its products into IBM DB2, one of the major enterprise database software packages, the firm said today. RightScale said it will support creating, managing, and automating IBM DB2 Express-C on such services as Amazon EC2.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

IBM and XPRIZE , the Culver City organization which runs major challenges to advance technology and help apply innovation to solving some of the world's biggest challenges, have announced a new IBM Watson AI PRIZE.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The firm said its Personalized Marketing Platform is aimed at brand, to help them turn their fans into customers. Fan Appz said it differs from other, social media marketing products because it is focused on helping brands close a sale. and also served at IBM and other companies. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Los Angeles-based Ampsy , the social content sharing and aggregation software developer led by Jeremy Gocke, has linked into IBM's Watson technology, saying it is using the machine learning technology as part of a new analytics offering. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The firm said its Personalized Marketing Platform is aimed at brand, to help them turn their fans into customers. Fan Appz said it differs from other, social media marketing products because it is focused on helping brands close a sale. and also served at IBM and other companies. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2019

While starting a new business always involves tackling many new challenges, I’ve personally found myself reluctant to ask for help. Thus, in my consulting with entrepreneurs, I always encourage them to get more comfortable asking for help. Of course, there are good ways and bad ways to ask for help.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Way back in the early eighties, I was privileged to be part of the original IBM PC development team, led by Don Estridge. For example, even though we were leading an entrepreneurial effort within IBM, we found it a challenge to deal with the inbred mainframe culture, reverence for process, and accounting practices of a large company.

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MARCH 18, 2014

Bitvore said one of its first products, Bitvore for Munis, helps investment banks and hedge funds looking for an information advantage in municipal bond markets. Pikover is an angel investor, with dozens of local startup investments; he was also co-founder of Xylan (IPO, $2B acquisition) and Access 360 (acquisition by IBM).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative a while back. Applied research is still primarily scientific study, seeking to solve practical problems, but doesn’t yet focus on a commercial product. Commercial product prototypes.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2012

FatCloud , a new startup developing a.NET-focused, platform-as-a-service (PaaS) development platform, said today that it has launched it services, helping developers to deliver their.NET applications. Miller has previously served at such companies as IBM, Platform Computing, Cray Inc., PolyServe and Hewlett-Packard. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Los Angeles-based CitySourced , the developer of mobile software used to help citizens to communicate with cities and local government, has rolled out in Honolulu, Hawaii. CitySourced said the win came via a referral from IBM; the company said it how has nearly 50 cities worldwide in 7 countries using its technology. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Nirvanix said it is providing "the resources we can" to assist its customers to return their data, or move their data to such services as IBM SoftLayer, Amazon S3, Google Storage or Microsoft Azure.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 28, 2018

. “Microsoft is committed to helping content creators achieve more using the cloud with a partner-focused approach to this industries transformation,” said Tad Brockway, General Manager, Azure Storage, Media and Edge at Microsoft, in a statement.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The foundation said it will help the development, distribution and adoption of the OpenStack cloud software. Los Angeles-based Dreamhost , and Los Angeles cloud computing software firm Morphlabs both said this week that they have become founding Gold members of the new group. Intel, NEC and VMware.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Carlsson joins from IBM Global Services, and Tomomatsu joins from Yahoo! MarketShare helps marketers monitor what kind of impact their marketing efforts have on their sales and profits. MarketShare said it appointed Jeanette Carlsson as EVP and Managing Director EMEA, and Shigeyuki Tomomatsu as EVP and Managing Director Japan.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 8, 2013

First, realize that no individual in your organization, including yourself, is as effective alone as with collaborative help from peers. Explore and implement one of the many collaborative environments available through cloud computing, products from Microsoft, Google, IBM, and others. Test the system.

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Berkonomics

JULY 2, 2020

Help from your peers. First, realize that no individual in your organization, including yourself, is as effective alone as with collaborative help from peers. Explore and implement one of the many collaborative environments available through cloud computing, products from Microsoft, Google, IBM, and others. You can do the same.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2011

The firm is targeting enterprise customers with its offering, and has a major deal with IBM to help customers move their software into the cloud.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Morphlabs said that the technology helps users more easily scale out physical resources as part of their cloud computing installations. Morphlabs is the latest in a string of software firms founded by Damarillo, who first made his mark in founding GlueCode, which he sold to IBM. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2016

So far, the story of IBM Watson Health has been mostly about growth and potential. Watson Health is pushing the idea of “cognitive imaging”—using computers to understand and draw clinical insights from images and other medical data—to try to help doctors provide better care at lower cost than the status quo.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

She bought our first computer – an IBM XT with a 10MB hard drive – in order to do her books electronically. AWS helped lower the cost of starting a company by 90%. She was the dominant figure in my family and was both an entrepreneur and a community leader. She opened a bakery and a restaurant.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2010

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Please let them know how much you appreciate their support of socalTECH! Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Startups Made Simple.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Cadence, Intel, IBM, Freescale, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, LSI, X-Fab, and many other leading-edge. Without all of you, we wouldn't be able to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Photo courtesy IBM Business Coaching. Especially if they have sold their companies and live comfortably upon the proceeds, these people are often the most willing to help and the most patient through the process. His average percentage of a company was 5% in return for spending a day a week as I recall.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Morphlabs said its software is aimed at helping service providers compete head-to-head with Amazon Web Services. The firm's CEO, Winston Damarillo, is an open source veteran who has been involved with such companies as Gluecode Software (sold to IBM). READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Steve is helping to spearhead the efforts of TechLA Internships (techla.internships.com), an online site which lists local internships at high tech companies for college students. We often run into students who say: I have an internship opportunity with Google, Microsoft, or IBM--why should I look at a startup?

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socalTECH

MAY 3, 2021

According to the company, it is using machine learning and artificial intelligence (ML and AI) to help businesses find opportunities within their contracts, and help those companies simplify their contract management process. The company says its founders previously worked at Microsoft, Amazon, Experian, and IBM.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2019

Artificial intelligence systems from IBM Watson and BioMind have already made great strides in diagnosing and treating life-threatening cancers. It is already possible to collect digital breadcrumbs on team members or customers and use them to determine if online behaviors signal an intent to complete a desired action.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2019

From Microsoft and IBM to Alphabet’s unit X and Canada’s D-Wave Systems, companies are racing to build powerful quantum computers that may solve problems beyond the capacity of the most sophisticated conventional processors, and do it much faster. For that training task, Microsoft and X, the cutting-edge research arm of.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2020

Ng has also worked at Nokia, Qualcomm, and IBM. Mobilogix said the addition of Ng will help the company to grow, citing Ng's global business experience and connections. SGUA International is a big manufacturer of electronics, including professional audio equiment, AV, smart cards, interactive education, Wi-Fi, and many othe rproducts.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2019

Scanlon was most recently at Gartner, and also has served at Recourse Technologies, Vormetric and BigFix, along with IBM and Verizon. Quinnen was most recently Chief Technology Officer at LumenVox, and also served at Litel Instruments and Qubit Technology. Curtail is led by CEO Frank Huerta.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

And some tech companies are growing like wildfire helping brands to find more people who “like&# them. I’m starting to spend my time evaluating companies that can help brands simultaneously build within the fortress but also maintain social value in the open web. Social Media helps change that.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2017

Influential says it is using artificial intelligence and technlogy from IBM Watson to help brands and agencies tap into a network of more than 17,000 highly engaged influencers on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, and YouTube, and elsewhere. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2022

NVISIONx develops enterprise software, used to find and defensibly purge files that have no business value, to help to reduce data risks. The company said the new funding will go to build out its exec team, for enhancing its market presence, and technology development.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 28, 2015

UC Irvine is jumping onto the big data bandwagon, saying this week that it has launched a new, online course specifically aimed at helping individuals learn all about big data. UCI said the program will use such software as Hadoop, Teradata, Knime, Aster, IBM-Netiza, HP-Veritca, Statistica, R, Python and Crystal Ball.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

And you can always bring on a senior person as a mentor / coach to help guide you personally to become a better sales leader until you’re ready for somebody more senior on your team. He helped set up senior meetings for me based on his personal relationships with people. I had always been a scrappy entrepreneur.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Most investment bankers will coach you into helping them find you a strategic buyer, knowing that such sales are quicker, often less focused upon the small warts of a business, and yield higher prices than financial sales. My buyer-candidate had previously licensed our firm as a distributor, a value-added reseller for its hardware.

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