Xconomy

JANUARY 19, 2017

StockTwits, the Twitter-like social media platform for sharing stock market tips and ideas, has acquired San Diego’s SparkFin, a fintech mobile app for discovering and sharing stocks and other investment ideas. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Ian Rosen, a former MarketWatch general manager.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 14, 2018

Ford—one of the automakers competing in China’s huge car market—is now making a bid to provide China’s leading software infrastructure hub dedicated to streamlining transportation by connecting cars and riders with mobility services. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Mobile Cloud Computing Commerce Entertainment 75

socalTECH

JULY 19, 2012

San Diego-based Independa , the developer of electronic devices and services to help encourage independent living among the elderly, said yesterday that it has integrated an urgent response system from fellow San Diego firm GreatCall into its wireless monitoring platform. READ MORE>>.

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San Diego Platform Mobile Help 133

socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2011

San Diego-based Qualcomm announced this morning that it has created a new, wholly owned subsidiary called Qualcomm Life , which will focus on wireless solutions for the medical devices market. The service will help medical device manufacturers connect their devices wirelessly via mobile phones, cell connections, and other technology.

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Funding San Diego Venture Capital Invest 210

socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2010

San Diego-based Trapster , which operates a service for sharing speed trap locations, said today it has reached 5 million users. The firm also has apps for the iPhone, Blackberry, Nokia, Windows Mobile, Garmin, and TomTom. Tags: trapster speed trap light camera traffic police mobile.

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San Diego Mobile Platform Services 159

socalTECH

JUNE 26, 2012

San Diego-based StockTwits , the online stock discussion and micro messaging site run by Howard Lindzon, said Tuesday that it has launched a new site, adding a number of major features to the service.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Cybereason’s security services will be incorporated into the Arm Pelion IoT platform , a suite of Web-based tools that help businesses manage Internet of Things devices, their connectivity, and the data they generate. Cambridge, U.K.

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Services Web Tool Platform 85

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2010

San Diego-based Verve Wireless , the developer of the Associate Press's mobile phone applications, may benefit from the AP's announcement last week of a new business unit specifically targeted at taking advantage of the Apple iPad. Tags: verve wireless mobile phone ipad apple. READ MORE>>.

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News San Diego Press Mobile 174

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

San Diego-based uCast Global (www.ucastglobal.com), backed by Gary Winnick, is looking to tackle that entire area of content distribution, and is led by startup veteran Dr. Kanaan Jemili. We are unique in being an open platform, that allows for all of these variations to happen. Thats what uCast is all about.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 6, 2020

metro area, San Diego and Santa Monica. Spin, which began offering this on April 1, is making this available in Baltimore, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, Portland, San Francisco, Tampa and Washington, D.C. A city might dedicate its shuttle service to transporting goods or essential personnel. Other deals: Qcraft.ai

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Layoffs Startup Newsletter Santa Monica 136

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? READ MORE>>.

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Mobile Startup Entertainment Tech Coast Angels 159

socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2011

San Diego-based SweetLabs , the firm formerly known as OpenCandy, is taking on the mobile app model, and applying it to the desktop. The firm said today that it has launched a beta of Pokki , a platform which lets web developers create desktop apps, using languages such as HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. READ MORE>>.

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JavaScript Journal San Diego Web Development 157

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Andrew Connell is the CEO of DinnerDate.com , a startup which has been in beta in San Diego for the last few months, and is just now expanding out to new markets. At Nokia, I was building relationships with consumer front ends, and prior to that, I worked with big mobile carriers. Andrew Connell: It was fortuitous.

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San Diego Hollywood Mobile eHarmony 264

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. The company’s workforce has grown to about 270, including 80 in San Diego.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2016

In the case of San Diego's Classy (www.classy.org), you get an extremely popular piece of software-as-a-service to help you manage a nonprofit and its fundraising efforts. But, what we're building now is a social contact platform. Scott Chisolm: Classy started as a fundraising application for nonprofit organization.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 8, 2016

It’s been less than a year since Needham, MA-based PTC (NASDAQ: PTC ) shelled out $65 million to acquire Vuforia, the augmented reality technology created by San Diego-based Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ). Vuforia’s headquarters has remained in San Diego, and Vuforia continues to operate four offices in Europe and Israel, Wright said.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2019

Degreed , which helps businesses upgrade the skills of their staffers through an online gateway to learning resources, announced Thursday it has raised $75 million to grow the service and expand internationally.

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Training Education Platform Course 82

socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2015

San Diego''s Events.com (www.events.com) thinks so, saying it is prepared to create a new platformbuilt in the social and mobile agedesigned to help manage all kinds of events, in a way which has been completely overlooked by the incumbent event registration and management providers. What is Events.com all about?

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

My last company got acquired by Qualcomm, and Qualcomm wanted me to move to San Diego to run their emerging business portfolio. I then became and EIR at UC San Diego, and joined EvoNexus, the not-for-profit incubator run by the Irvine Company. I did that for a couple of years, which got me and my wife down to SoCal.

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Southern California Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur 170

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Zong – mobile payments has been a very hot area over the past couple of years with the success and growth of both Boku and Zong. Boku and Zong focus mostly on mobile payments for virtual goods. It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. VC Financings: 1.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. Certona uses the data to offer shoppers personalized options based on “real-time profiling.”.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

Zingle, a Carlsbad, CA-based tech startup targeting the service industry and consumer-facing businesses with its messaging app technology, has raised $3 million in venture capital, according to a regulatory filing earlier this month. or forward the query to an appropriate hotel staffer to respond. Hate2Wait #H8toW8 pic.twitter.com/KcMuKvoqRZ.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

At their annual developer conferences, Google I/O, held last month, and Apple’s WWDC, last week they both announced updates to their development platforms. Apple’s service revenue is growing, and they’re making investments to compete more directly in producing original content (against the likes of Netflix, Amazon, etc.).

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Artificial Inteligence Google Software Review Case Study 55

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

We seem to receive lots of pitches from companies looking to attack the mobile market with their mobile software applications, but few who have deployed on-deck with carriers. What exactly are your mobile social networking applications? Derrick Oien: We have a platform we develop, called ANTHEM.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 29, 2014

If we rewind to 8 years ago, it was me in San Diego training for my second marathon and I was trying to start another company at the time. What makes MapMyFitness unique compared to other services are the services they provide their users. “We I was bootstrapping, so I didn’t want to spend the $400 on a GPS watch.

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Social Media Activity Startup Help 83

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

The booth for San Diego based Tweetphoto was a happening spot at the 140 Characters Conference. Tweetphoto is an extensible photo sharing platform, that allows you to send photos via mobile or email to Twitter and Facebook. They even had a few moments to chat it up with TechZulu’s Amanda Coolong : .

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Sharing a closet, that metaphor … describes a peer-to-peer marketplace, an Uber kind of platform for clothing, where there is an endless supply,” says Pano Anthos, managing director of XRC Labs, a retail tech accelerator program in New York. The use of Uber. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Matt Weghorst: Cojoin is a data integration platform. We find that there’s all this really specialized software, software as a service, certain platforms, and different places you can do marketing; all of those have their own sets of data. Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version?

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Startup Southern California Mobile Software 85

socalTECH

JANUARY 10, 2011

Last month, San Diego-based venture capital firm Mission Ventures (www.missionventures.com) sold its portfolio firm, Carlsbad-based 3E , just the latest in a string of exits for the firm, which also included an IPO in Maxlinear earlier in the year. We've been the beneficiary of that in at least a few instances. READ MORE>>.

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Mission Ventures Acquisition San Diego Invest 140

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 20, 2015

Since its inception in 2010, EAT Club has scaled its service in the Bay Area, delivering more than three million meals to allow thousands of companies like Netflix , Tesla and Cisco to find their workplace zen. companies have the chance to experience this innovative e-commerce food service by experiencing personalized food options at scale.

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Commerce Netflix Sales Los Angeles 40

socalTECH

JULY 19, 2016

We recently launched booking experiences and services in L.A. However, every summer, of every year since I was fifteen, I'd go to San Diego and spend a few months with family there. How did you go from pro surfing in Israel, to starting a company here in L.A.? There's nothing better than an eyewitness report for your sport.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. Aiming to head off Apple, Microsoft shows off Xbox SmartGlass mobile app and Xbox dashboard update. Motorola Solutions shows off its hands-free mobile computer. Cloud services. 11 hrs ago. 20 hrs ago. Editor’s picks.

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Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2019

Imagine the transportation future 20 years from now. Here’s one way things could roll on a weekday: Many of us get picked up at home by a sturdy, standardized, driverless car that will also scoop up a few of our neighbors who work at other businesses near ours.

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San Diego Platform Web Sales 84

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Laura Brashier is the founder of 2date4love , an online dating service for singles who are unable to have sexual intercourse but still want to find love. Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In New York you have access to fashion, media, art and of course, financial services. In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. Each of these companies exited for more than $500 million and several north of $1 billion. There are many strategic assets outside of Silicon Valley.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313