SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 7, 2009

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 -- Mobile Experience 2.0. After years of dialog on mobile convergence, what has actually converged on the mobile platform is the high quality experience, spurred by innovations in Media Content (Video, Music, Movies, T.V.), in an open Forum at UCLA. See [link] (more).

Mobile 100

Mobile UCLA Screening Media 100

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

Advertising technology is hot with the rise of mobile, evidenced in part by Verizon’s merger with AOL valued at $4.4 billion, and on a much smaller scale, Undertone’s recent acquisition of mobile ad provider Sparkflow. Jetpack was founded in 2009 by digital media veterans Marc Brown, Chris Tragos and Kevin Woolery.

Advertising 100

Advertising Media Mobile Buzznet 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd talk with Los Angeles-based Sidebar (www.sidebar.com), a venture backed startup in the mobile space, to learn more about what they are up to. Patrick Kennedy: Sidebar is a company that was founded to bring consumers personalized content, focused on mobile delivery of that content.

Content 189

Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

Andrew & Petri posited that a modern media company would build lovable characters that span video games, online digital media, lovable plush physical toys and then ultimately find its way to the big screen. If you can engage massive online audiences they will come en masse to bigger budget theatrical releases.

Funding 373

Funding Technical Review Startup Screening 373

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Coincident has created a platform that will allow storytellers and producers to create robust second screen stories on the fly that incorporate video, images and other web content. What is coming is Internet-enabled televisions, content streaming with built-in social media interactions in real time and multiple screen activities.

Screening 109

Screening Content CTO Hire Platform 109

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Santa Monica-baesd online art site Saatchi Art 0--part of Demand Media--said Thursdya that it has launched a new, mobile app that lets users use virtual reality to see how a piece of art might look like on their wall. saatchi wall preview augmented reality virtual mobile' READ MORE>>.

Santa Monica 153

Santa Monica Screening Mobile Demand 153

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

This was pre social media. I am often asked about social media by those who want to know how they should best do it professionally. My advice always follows along the line of: Twitter is part media distribution platform. It shouldn’t be a one-way media publishing platform. To get on his radar screen.

Social Media 307

Social Media Blogging Media Startup 307

socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2014

Pasadena-based UberMedia , which develops mobile advertising technology, is looking to connect mobile ads with television advertising with a new, targeting tool. ubermedia television advertising targeting mobile media' Pricing on the new product was not announced by the company. READ MORE>>.

Tool 147

Tool Advertising Mobile Screening 147

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2012

Have you every clicked on a mobile ad on your iPhone or Android phone, and found that the ad you clicked into wasn't usable on your mobile phone? Jason Crilly: We're doing mobile landing pages. We're creating really good looking, really easy to use, really effective mobile landing pages. What exactly is PageWoo?

Mobile 249

Mobile Startup Advertising Sites 249

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Of course you now book when you want and even choose your restaurant based on availability at the time / day you want and you can book on your mobile phone at 2am or 8pm. Today they announced the mobile version of their product – I’d be grateful if you would download it and give it a spin. It sounds crazy, right?

Development Team Review 324

Development Team Review Course Mobile Writing 324

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

It means the “ torso TV ” consumption patterns will be more important than the head or the long tail for the next era of media companies. You should only worry about this if you’re a large, traditional media company with fat margins. Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices.

Startup 380

Startup Media Content Platform 380

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Utilizing this same core technology, TVSync has developed automatic content recognition (ACR) software that can be accessed in seconds by video and/or audio using the camera and/or mic from a mobile device. The platform allows users to sync content and commands across all four screens — the smartphone, tablet/pad, computer and TV.

Screening 82

Screening Content Mobile Netflix 82

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 31, 2010

Saturday, February 6, 2010 -- New Media Revenue Models: Growing Greenbacks in the Digital Ecosystem. The New Media ecosystem is growing rapidly with content distribution networks, mobile devices and social networks connecting and interconnecting consumers like never before. Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum.

Media 100

Media Enterprise Forum CalTech Social Network 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We've also invented and patented a new technology called "MasterKey" that allows people to play our games natively on all relevant social and mobile platforms. Yet a tiny 13 person company called Instagram, leveraged the massive growth of mobile to create a new social network.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Southern California Incubator High Tech 223

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. The company’s first offering will be a mobile retail commerce platform.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Entangled Media , one of the startups out of the current class at MuckerLab , has developed Younity (www.getyounity.com), a service which hopes to do just that--make your files available from anywhere. I use my desktop when I need the screen real estate or processing power. The idea is that we're context-based users now.

Screening 230

Screening Resource Services Mobile 230

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

And apparently, that’s what mobile applications do better – just ask the fast-growing number of app users. This is the consequence of the switch from desktop and laptops to mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. Of that smartphone internet time, mobile apps take up 86% of usage and only 14% access time via the mobile web.

Mobile 95

Mobile Social Media Google Software Review 95

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2017

Los Angeles-based mobile ticketing firm Atom Tickets said this morning that it is teaming up with Paramount Pictures and Participant Media, to offer up its users a chance to see the new Al Gore film, "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power", at special public screenings.

Paramount 113

Paramount Southern California Screening Los Angeles 113

socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2009

Irvine-based Gateway said this morning it has released a new notebook PC targeted at gaming, entertainment, and digital media.

Screening 100

Screening Entertainment Ideas Mobile 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. I don’t see this changing much like I don’t see you building blockbuster movies outside LA or shift the media buying center of gravity out of NY. In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned.

Venture Capital 314

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 314

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

Startup 233

Startup Tips Web Platform 233

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Those who are more involved in traditional entertainment are seeing a major shift online which is why an additional one-day seminar was created to coincide with Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood as a partnership called, Idea to Screen. tech community and to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing us in the coming years. See you there!

Hollywood 100

Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2013

Transmedia elements in the works include alternate reality games (ARG), mobile apps, webisodes and whatever else the fans come up with. There will be a smattering of special screenings worldwide. Entrepreneurship Events Funding Video New Media Nicolas Alcala Riot Cinema Collective Russia Share-alike The Cosmonaut'

Screening 111

Screening Media Content Startup 111

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Entangled Media has released their public beta to Younity , a new utility that provides spontaneous access to your data across devices. As mobile devices become both increasingly common and just as increasingly diverse, many are finding that keeping data synched between them to be a daunting and time consuming task.

Mobile 98

Mobile Media Screening Software 98

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. OTHER DEALS: 1. File sharing?

Venture Capital 241

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 241

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2011

Path , the developers of the eponymous app for the iPhone, has come up with a mobile check in app with a focus on who you’re with. When you’d like to share who you’re currently “With&# , you are presented with a simple screen to tag who you’re with and what you are doing. The picture is optional.

Mobile 74

Mobile Social Network Screening Demand 74

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 24, 2013

Lynn Walford of Wireless and Mobile News shows it off for us here. inch full HD (1080p) screen and HTC Sense innovations. HTC BlinkFeed provides customized content and real-time updates streamed live on your home screen. A gorgeous day to talk tech while enjoying some of Hollywood’s premiere theme park attractions.

Screening 106

Screening Social Media Guide Hollywood 106

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Topspin said the new application allows users to scan both paper and smart-phone screen tickets and supports multiple scanners, among other updates. The software is used by Topspin's customers to scan tickets sold through Topspin's software. The firm said the update will be available to its users for free.

Redpoint 140

Redpoint Venice Yahoo Screening 140

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 9, 2020

“Any time someone sends a communication, that will trigger an alert that floats as a Mojichat animation on top of the screen,” Greene said of the earlier activation. . “My plan is to become the avatar solution for all of Unity,” Greene told me earlier. and the work with Dr.

Advertising 179

Advertising Los Angeles Activity Screening 179

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I entered Pepcom’s Mobile Focus event with heightened excitement after driving through the busy intersections of Downtown San Diego’s rickshaw littered streets. Literally, I mean everyone… pets included, with Tagg , a Qualcomm backed venture that allows consumers to track their dogs via mobile or computer access.

San Diego 65

San Diego Mobile Startup Cloud Computing 65

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The screen gets really hot as its pressed up to your cheek and so I find myself just putting my ear up to the speaker. So grin and bear it by keeping your cheek on the hot screen? Well, that might trigger unwanted clicking on your home screen too. Android Gadgets Mobile Samsung #attmobilereview AT&T Galaxy MEGA'

Screening 91

Screening Press Slides Email 91

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

Fact: social media is among the top most powerful communication tools today. Digital Insights reports in their 2014 Social Media statistics that Facebook has 1.01 billion active mobile users monthly as of March 31, 2014, while Twitter has 255 million active users. And this gives way for mobile messaging apps.

Snapchat 82

Snapchat Social Media Social Network Media 82

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2013

This makes Younity far more robust and usable for anyone who tries to keep their C: drive clear and opts to store the majority of their media on separate or removable drives. You’re also given the flexibility to continue sharing media on a drive that’s been relocated to another Younity connected device. So what are you waiting for?

Mobile 89

Mobile Social Network Software Screening 89

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Solaborate is bringing professionals and companies from the tech industry together and connect them through a new social media platform. Today is the day Solaborate is publicly launching a beta-version of their platform on the web with an iOS and Android mobile apps for those on the road. Where do you see social media and mobile going?

Social Media 92

Social Media Social Network Tool Mobile 92

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 15, 2012

One for each of the main Hero Screens you have in your application. A Hero Screen is defined as a major application screen, from which additional screens will branch out. Donald has a mobile phone, but doesn’t download many apps. Sally is taken to the Create an Account screen.

Marketing 84

Marketing Screening Social Network Startup 84

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2011

3D Movies, 3D Printing, 3D Televisions, 3DS, our entire screen world is turning 3D and now its time for your mobile screen to get in on the fun. LG 4G Thrill is one of the first mobile devices in the United States to have 3D viewing capabilities without the glasses. Sporting a 4.3-inch Not so with the LG Thrill.

Software Review 77

Software Review Screening Orange County Mobile 77

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 13, 2012

” And along with their multiple product launches and offerings in a wide variety: audio, video, mobile, etc., To be honest, Sony hasn’t quite sparked much excitement in the mobile sphere for quite awhile, but their Xperia ION looks promising. inch HD screen (1280 x 720) and HDMI-out support. seconds from standby.

Screening 63

Screening Mobile Content Platform 63