Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2021

With the advent of the Internet, social media, and instant communication via texting, customer expectations for service, as part of their entire customer experience, have changed. As well as phone support, customers expect you to accept mobile messaging, and provide quick responses via social media and multiple Internet websites.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2012

Sherman Oaks-based RingDNA , a provider of mobile tools to provide real-time CRM data, social media streams and behavioral marketing information to salespeople, has raised $650,000 in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. No details of the funding have yet been announced by the company. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2013

How do you keep up with everything that''s happening with your favorite interests, brands, and personalities on your mobile phone? Right now, that''s a jumble of different social services, websites, and more--which is the problem that Yapert (www.yapert.com) thinks it has solved. Explain exactly what Yapert is all about?

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Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2018

Any year-end review of technology news must also include reports on Russian hacking of the 2016 election campaign, and the manipulation of social media channels to spread false and divisive political messages.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

In the second big piece of news in Los Angeles from Chinese company Bytedance , Bytedance said on Friday that it will invest $50M in a Series B funding in Los Angeles-based Live.me , a developer of an online livestreaming service. is a subsidiary of Chinese company Cheetah Mobile.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 3, 2011

Loudie is a gps location based iPhone application that combines the best of social media to help you keep up with all of your favorite concerts. Loudie is an absolutely interactive social media application for the ultimate music fans. Why should you?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2010

iPhone LA LA Startups law Law news Lisa Borodkin Mobility News online shopping Reputation ShopZilla tech news TZ Law TZLaw YouTube. Tags: Entrepreneurship Social Media TechZulu Law Android BizRate Christina Gagnier Coloft David Kazzie etnrepreneurs Farhad Mohit gri.pe Visit TechZulu for full story.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Today's contribution is from Brad Brooks , the co-founder and CEO of TigerText , which provides clinical communication solutions for the healthcare industry, and also co-founder of anonymous social media app Whisper. What's was biggest news from you or your‏ firm this year? You can see all of our holiday reflections here.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 23, 2018

Facebook expanded its mea culpa on Monday for failing to prevent “bad actors” such as Russian entities from using the social media platform to distort democratic processes—notably the U.S. presidential election in 2016.

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2010

According to TweetUp, the buy also includes the acquisition of popurls , an online site which aggregates the most popular items from Twitter, Digg, YouTube, Delicious, the New York Times, and other news and social media sites. Tags: tweetup twidroid merger acquisition idealab android phone mobile twitter.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 7, 2009

Monday, July 13, 2009 -- SMCLA: Citizen Journalism: Social Media's Effect on How News is Reported and Consumed. More and more people are turning to social media as the first place they look for breaking news. the traditional media and b.) What does this mean for: a.) See [link] (more).

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Statistical models, simulations, social media outreach, and the capacity to analyze big data sets—you’d think by now that technology would have delivered election forecasts that more reliably predicted Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential race. Even so, the Republican pollsters apparently pegged the race.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2018

Much attention was focused this past year on the impact of social media on the 2016 presidential election, as reports emerged about the use of these platforms by entities linked with Russia to spread false, misleading, or inflammatory political messages.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

News aggregating company Thoora gives you all your media news, social and traditional, in one place. Thoora has recently come out of private beta offering their free service of breaking news that is based off of millions of blogs, thousands of traditional media outlets and Twitter.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Big news in the mobile sector this week. Yesterday, Lookout , a mobile securities start-up based out of San Francisco, CA announced their release of an iOS version of their widely used Android compatible app. Lookout is a relatively new company, but has been a dominant figure in the mobile securities sector for Android phones.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

The mobile app and website that allows people to capture and share images and videos of events through social media. You take all the photos and videos and upload it on YouTube, Facebook, Vine, and other social media platforms and experience the event through the eyes of the crowd.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

With the advent of social media and the pervasive move to smartphones, even customers who still prefer to purchase in brick-and-mortar stores have dramatically changed their shopping habits. That means your marketing must now include shopping apps, location-based services and mobile wallets.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? I think that the biggest news for StartEngine this year is our productivity. I think we're going to see a real shakeup in how people view social media. Following that, I think mobile advertisement technologies. Finally, Google. 7 years, 100 companies.

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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.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 25, 2011

The invitation-only attendees included founders, business development leaders, and marketing directors from companies big and small, including NBCUniversal, Mobclix, DDB Los Angeles, Airpush, adly, Mobile Roadie, Disney Animation Studios, BetterWorks, and more. He is also a Social Producer at CBS News’s What’s Trending.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

So good news there is an app out there! This new mobile application allows its owner to privately and securely save details of their sexual encounters. Meet today’s “little black book,” an updated, digital book that keeps track of one’s most private affairs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Tech news keeps proclaiming “phone calls are dead,” which is useful except that the data suggests the exact opposite. All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). Calls are changing but not dying. Not so fast.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

This is only one of the ways social media and other technologies are changing the experience of forming our views on election issues and choosing our candidates. New York-based Newsela aims to offer youngsters straight news without a partisan spin.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

The rise of couponing in late 2008 coincided with the recession of the late 2000s;” this factor combined with an increased consumer interest in mobile technology and devices led to an unprecedented decline in print media. Getting Mobile-Ready. With roughly 91% of the population using mobile devices and 26.3%

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 1, 2011

What kind of services, deeper than social media, do you provide to your customer base? We know that social media is an investment. Looking back ten years now, did you ever think social media would be such a huge part of our lives? Just big signs that social media isn’t going away anytime soon.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Bedloo is a social media voting platform for those who want to find the right answer in life. TechZulu catches up with one of the co-founders of Bedloo, Vincent Plummer, and talks to us about social media, startups, and Bedloo. Once they brought me on board, I told them Bedloo needs to go mobile. That’s it.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Network with hundreds over delicious four course dinner followed by panel on Attracting Venture Capital, and Top Trends for Social Media, Mobile Apps and Consumer Devices. Our very own Amanda Coolong will be moderating the Attracting Venture Capital, Social TV, Social Media and Mobile Trends panel.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 4, 2016

Social Media Engagement. The healthcare industry has typically shied away from social media, but more than 40 percent of patients polled said that social media affects the way they handle their health. You have probably had more than one patient bring you information they got from a social media source.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

bridging digital diplomacy, social media, entrepreneurship, mobile and mapping and reaching into the crossover into citizen engagement tools. For those of you who may not be unfamiliar with Gov 2.0 LA, it is a hybrid conference that stimulates the brain and position people to have actual time to talk to each other.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 15, 2011

and most recently Myspace, where he ran an online marketing team focused on SEO, social media, and paid traffic acquisition. His firm works to infuse projects with the management, social and production assistance needed to break away from the pack. Tony has previously worked for organizations like PayPal, Yahoo!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Over 500,000 new businesses were created last year, or about one per minute of every day. Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Establishing your brand with interactive social media.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking? He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Investors have been concerned about the social media giant’s slowing growth rate in a year when it has been under scrutiny for data privacy violations and its role in the spread of false and divisive messages by fake user accounts traced to Russian agents during U.S. election campaigns.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Now you can experience that feeling again with Viddy, the mobile social video app. This week Viddy, a Los Angeles based company and the fastest growing mobile social video application, has announced that they have raised $6 million dollars in Series A financing. With HD recordings, that file size gets large quick.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Emerging Technology: Mobile Engagement: Reaching the Connected Consumer (Miller PR, Avatar Labs). Badges & Beyond – Gamification and Mobile Apps (Mobile Roadie, Soundcloud). Social + Location + Mobile = The Perfect Beer (Untapped). Social + Location + Mobile = The Perfect Beer (Untapped).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2017

With the advent of the Internet, social media, and instant communication via texting, customer expectations for service, as part of their entire customer experience, have changed. As well as phone support, customers expect you to accept mobile messaging, and provide quick responses via social media and multiple Internet websites.

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