socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2017

Los Angeles-based Naritiv , which produces online content for brands, has been acquired by social media management firm Hootsuite , the two said on Tuesday. Hootsuite said the acquisition specifically was geared towards the Snapchat analytics solutions created by Naritiv. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2016

KidGuard.com said its new software allows parents to monitor sent, received, and deleted text messages on their children's cell phones; track where a child is at any moment in time; access call logs and call information; browse photos sent and received by your child, and even track all social media accesses by kids. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 6, 2015

MakerSquare , which operates coding camps and classes to help students get software jobs, is setting up a new location in Los Angeles, according to the Hack Reactor collective. angeles camp code software education school hackreactor reactor hack makersquare' The two said that MakerSquare will launch its first class on June 29th.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2020

Santa Monica-based Snap , the parent company of Snapchat , said Friday that it has added Kelly Coffey to its board of directors. Coffey is the CEO of City National Bank, which it a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). According to Snap, Coffey officially joins the board of directors on May 18th.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Ransomware: Social media will be the number one vehicle for ransomware distribution in 2018. Currently, there are nearly 1 million social media accounts compromised every day, and that number will continue to rise, thanks to the plethora of easily identifiable targets.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2014

Venice-based Zefr (www.zefr.com) got its start in the content world--licensing movie clips and posting them online--but soon, figured out there was a whole different opportunity in developing software tools to understand exactly what was happening on YouTube. That''s what we call our rights ID or rights management software stack.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 5, 2022

From Los Angeles to Silicon Valley , a trend emerged among social media influencers and startup founders alike: move into a mansion with 10 or so collaborators, work day and night together to build fame and wealth, and hope that your new roommates do their dishes. “Some of these programs are cool, but it’s like, what’s after that?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. He built & IPOd Demand Media. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 billion dollars of regional GDP. But even this is changing.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Daryl Bernstein , RightSignature (Santa Barbara, software). Dev Bhatia , SRCH2 (Irvine, search engine software). Isaac Garcia , Central Desktop (Pasadena, software). John Jersin , Connectifier (Newport Beach, recruiting software). Jason Koch , Telogis (Irvine, fleet tracking software).

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 30, 2022

” He views Facebook and Snapchat primarily as messaging apps and said Instagram is having an “identity crisis.” . “The mentality around this is so different, like, people are just obsessed with the actual digital fashion itself and creating your dream closet,” Nigam said.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

SNAP CEO Evan Spiegel said on Tuesday the company is planning a big redesign of its Snapchat app, to broaden appeal of its app to new users. Snap said its daily active users (DAUs) grew to 178 million in Q3 of 2017, a 3 percent increase quarter-over-quarter. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

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. Our software just has to be on a user's device, and we have lots of ways to get there.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Epic is a short, sharable video concept that allows users to take slow-motion videos which can then be shared to YouTube, Twitter or via Viddy, while Clique is like the ephemeral image messaging popularized by Snapchat. Android Apps & Software Business iPhone Clique Epic Media sharing social Viddy Video'

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Unless you’re SnapChat, Instagram or similar this is probably 3-5 years into your existence. As we’ve ramped up direct sales over the last few years our need to have relationships with the major media & advertising companies has become critical. In the Growth Years. We have also built out an amazing management team.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 6, 2015

With the growing need for Software Engineers at technology, entertainment and media companies in the Los Angeles area, Hack Reactor, which has three founders who are University of Southern California graduates, identified fertile ground for MakerSquare to educate, train and mentor technologists in Southern California. “Los

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Prime examples include Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat. This term is used to describe non-traditional ways to incent growth such as social-media and viral marketing. These alternatives are used in lieu of traditional media such as radio, newspaper and television. Could your startup be the next one? Acquihire” a startup.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

They want to advertise on Facebook and Instagram, and they want to see what they can do with Waze, Snapchat, and Yelp. We certainly have some very valuable agency partners, like Horizon Media and Razorfish, but we just haven't fully focused our energies on agencies, which are a key element in enabling our clients.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2016

And if you’re paying attention, you’ll understand that this is their third push for native media consumption: first photos, then videos, and now written content. If Facebook is able to pull off this move from a media standpoint, they will be the layer of medium consumption above the Internet itself. Sound familiar?

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 5, 2019

Snap is taking a leaf out of the Asian messaging app playbook as its social messaging service enters a new era. The company unveiled a series of new strategies that are aimed at breathing fresh life into the service which has been ruthlessly cloned by Facebook across Instagram, WhatsApp, and even its primary social network. The result?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth. And then the world changed. KickStarter?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

It conjures up a range of emotions anytime I’ve privately expressed my opinion to thought leaders in our industry that I believe it is one of the most innovative companies in digital media. Some, of course, agree with me that BuzzFeed has been and continues to be the gold standard innovator in digital media to emulate.

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