socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2013

How is the changing demographic of web visitors changing how local companies operate? Domeyer recently told us how mobile visitors to the web are dramatically changing how Oversee looks at the market, and are pushing the firm to invest more in technology to adapt to mobile users. That's a huge amount of mobile traffic.

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Mobile CTO Hire CPC Web 224

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0

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TechEmpower

MAY 1, 2014

Since the first round, we have known that the highest-performance frameworks and platforms have been network-limited by our gigabit Ethernet. With ample network bandwidth, the highest-performing frameworks are further differentiated. Similarly, we expect that some application platforms are better suited for NUMA than others.

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Framework TechEmpower Examples Web 546

socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2017

The world of mobile apps has added serious challenges for software developers, who don't just have to deal with crashes�they have to deal with slow performance, strange hangs, multiple carrier networks, and more. Software is a different beast in the mobile environment. Eric Futoran: Embrace.io That was Walter's job.

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Mobile Develop Development Tool 178

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. He knows the ad management and ad network businesses. Both of his co-founders worked with him previously and both worked on ad management platforms.

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Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

TechEmpower

JULY 2, 2013

July marks the fourth month of our ongoing project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms. The results web site has been improved with test-type and hardware-type navigation, allowing you to share links to a specific results chart, such as Round 6, Fortunes on EC2. View Round 6 results now.

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Framework Software Review Technical Review EC2 521

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 And so it goes with social networking.

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TechEmpower

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Merry Christmas web framework performance aficionados! What better way to celebrate the holidays than by cheering on your favorites as they race through a variety of application fundamentals in the biggest web platform grudge match of the season? We certainly can''t think of anything more festive. On EC2, the Netty and Vert.x

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Xconomy

AUGUST 3, 2017

ScoreStream, a San Diego area startup providing a crowdsourced social media platform for reporting high school sports scores, said Thursday it has agreed to distribute high school game scores under a new collaboration agreement with The Associated Press.

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Web Press San Diego Social Media 64

socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Los Angeles-based Pluto TV , which is developing an online Internet TV platform aimed at curating live TV entertainment for Internet users, said Wednesday afternoon that it has signed up a roster of over 20 new content partners fro the service. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Smart matching offline connections startup, At The Pool , has today launched a mobile app that is set to reinvent the way people connect and interact. Social networking isn’t social. The web platform was founded to end loneliness associated with online interaction by replacing it with person to person meeting.

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Mobile Social Network Examples Organization 92

socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2013

The accelerator is among a number that have emerged in Los Angeles in the past year or so; StartEngine specifically has been focusing on startups targeting consumers, small to medium sized businesses, and web infrastructure. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Monica Startup Activision Commerce 178

Xconomy

JUNE 19, 2018

CrowdStrike , a Silicon Valley cybersecurity company that fends off hackers by patrolling the edge devices connected to a network, announced today it raised $200 million in a financing round that sets the company’s valuation at more than $3 billion. CrowdStrike’s Series E financing round was led by General.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2011

Their view was that HTML5 would allow them to replace the notion of having to download a Facebook App into your phone or tablet, and release them from the idea that they have to have nine different apps on different platforms, and have to maintain all of them. Right now, those Facebook apps only work on the web.

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Activision Platform Startup Mobile 217

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Mobile first is becoming an important part of our daily lives. We interact with the world through our mobile devices, and they are quickly becoming our main vehicles for accessing and sharing information. Hence the emergence of Source13, a new mobile conference produced by Flurry. 12,000 apps currently on the platform.

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Mobile Technical Review Platform Startup 71

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Were part of the uCast Global video highway, which is our way of illustrating how content is being driven locally, regionally, and globally, using our platform, but also technology we have integrated and continue to integrate with our partners. How is this different from a typical content delivery network (CDN)?

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Content Startup Mobile Platform 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Kai Stubble: SupperKing is basically the first platform that enables a peer-to-peer, in-home dining experience. They can discover that event in the app, or soon, on our web platform, say--hey, this looks cool, the last event has some great pictures, looks like this might be fun--and they can buy tickets.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Kai Stubbe: SupperKing is basically the first platform that enables a peer-to-peer, in-home dining experience. They can discover that event in the app, or soon, on our web platform, say--hey, this looks cool, the last event has some great pictures, looks like this might be fun--and they can buy tickets.

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Platform Mobile UCLA Sites 247

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. Don't bet on any one platform.

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Technical Review Southern California Incubator High Tech 223

socalTECH

AUGUST 19, 2014

Los Angeles-based Sidevision (www.sidevision.com) has developed a set of tools--aimed at content creators, multi-channel networks (MCNs), and others--to help connect online videos with e-commerce. Justin Wu: We integrate with any video platform, such as YouTube, Vimeo, Kaltura, and we''re built on top of an API. How do you do that?

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Commerce Content Downey Media 153

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. We’re excited to work with them.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

is an HR tech platform that makes it very easy for companies to source diverse talent. Companies can get on the platform and set up a company profile, and post jobs, and source candidates for those jobs. We found that those communities exit on many different platforms, like Slack, GroupMe, Facebook Groups, Google, and elsewhere.

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Technical Review Startup Platform Resource 140

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 4, 2013

The pride and effort they have placed in building up their business should be reflected through their web presence. With over three billion local search queries in any given month on Google alone, no business can afford not to be on the web. And with 20% of traffic coming from smart phones your site has to be mobile friendly.

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Web Design Web Design Sites 58

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

They were going to bring the Internet to your mobile phones ushering in the era of “m-commerce.&# Gag. I had just returned from living in Japan where I witnessed the hugely successful launch of i-mode by NTT DoCoMo so I knew the potential that the mobile web would ultimately bring, but I saw so many flaws in the launch of WAP.

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Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

San Diego-based SweetLabs , the company headed by Darrius Thompson, and which runs both the OpenCandy advertising network and the desktop Pokki app platform, said today that it has raised $13M in a Series C funding round. According to the company, the new funding goes towards growing Pokki, the desktop app platform it launched in June.

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San Diego Advertising Platform Google 140

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Daniel Scalisi is the CEO of Los Angeles-based MobileCause (www.mobilecause.com), a startup focused on the mobile, nonprofit fundraising area. We've now been operating for five months, and have become the leading web service for mobile fundraising in the country. What is mobile fundraising? What's your startup all about?

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Mobile Web Startup Customer 162

socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

We''ve also built a data driven platform, that allows us to drive millions of unique visitors to our network of sites every month, covering the banking, credit, and travel and vertical markets. Brett Rossman: We have a platform we''ve built, and which we are constantly evolving called Magneto.

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Startup El Segundo Marketing Media 239

socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2010

in a venture round from GRP Partners and Rincon Ventures, for the firm's mobile ad management platform. Evan Rifkin: Basically, we are an open and free ad management platform. We cater to mobile phone developers--right now the iPhone, and coming soon to Android. Our space is pretty young.

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Startup Platform Advertising GRP Partners 164

From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 4, 2013

The pride and effort they have placed in building up their business should be reflected through their web presence. With over three billion local search queries in any given month on Google alone, no business can afford not to be on the web. And with 20% of traffic coming from smart phones your site has to be mobile friendly.

Web Design 40

Web Design Web Design Sites 40

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.

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Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Along with Greycroft, I was the first institutional investor in Maker Studios (sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion) and am still the largest investor in Mitu Network , the largest online video producer of Latino content. Content is a “hits driven business” and therefore you can only invest in platforms not media.

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SEM Content Platform Acquisition 150

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g. The success of the iPhone – The success of the iPhone and more importantly the App Store has led to an increase in early-stage VC fundings that mirror the Web 2.0

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Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

Frank Addante

AUGUST 22, 2013

The answer is simple: devices, Internet access, Web sites and mobile apps are getting faster. And ad decisions need to happen faster than a Web site, or mobile app, loading. How does that stack up to big data / hyper processing platforms? 100+ possible bids + 300+ static bids from ad networks + direct orders).

Advertising 79

Advertising Cloud Computing Web Technical Review 79

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Los Angeles-based Boingo Wireless , which operates a network of Wi-Fi access points across the world, said Monday that it has rolled out a new web site focused on alpha and beta versions of its software. READ MORE>>.

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Software Web Sites Los Angeles 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

.” All events are going to be quality one-day conferences with amazing speakers, parties and opportunities to network with new friends and see old friends which is why I’m returning to attend. That said, YouTube Network Fullscreen platform is blazing this new trail with 2.5

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Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

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). We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. But it’s a real phenomenon.

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Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I wanted a smart NorCal investor who had done more mobile investments than I had and Jon Callaghan had very relevant relationships & experience. I am on record as saying that my opinion is that Web 2.0 I said as much in my post about The Future of Social Networking. “And importantly Web 2.0 I still do.

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