socalTECH

AUGUST 15, 2014

Keith Bonnici: We have created a platform that lets standard web publishers tap into the growing pool of money being spent by app developers to market their products. All of the sudden, there was a growth in users coming from mobile platforms. You see users moving to a platform that doesn''t monetize advertising as well.

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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. Have all these. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Tech.Co

JULY 13, 2023

Initially pinned as a generative AI startup for Twitter when it first hit the headlines back in April, the xAI website seems to suggest that the new startup will remain separate from the social media platform, as well as Musk's collection of other technology companies.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Verifying Looking for regular tech news straight to your inbox? Calendly Calendly is an online scheduling platform popular among business and personal users. Gumroad Gumroad is a web-builder and ecommerce platform that lets creators sell products directly to consumers. million site visits in October alone.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 1, 2013

The platform allows investors to do their due diligence on their own time, network with other investors and execute deals with little overhead.” The platform carefully vets every company applicant and only presents less than 2% of opportunities to its investor base. ” Free online tools.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. It's been a tough year for many due to the pandemic; how have you or your company adapted to the business environment? ,p> What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2021?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2013

This has been a long-time dream of Tim Berners-Lee , the man who (really) invented the World Wide Web. He calls his dream the ‘Semantic Web’ (or Web 3.0), meaning it understands user context. He and many other experts believe that the Semantic Web will act more like a personal assistant than a search engine.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Building a strong tech industry to rival that of Silicon Valley is definitely no easy feat, but the overall feeling within Cal Tech’s Baxter Hall at last week’s event certainly bodes well for the year. With a scale-able platform ready to expand to different industries (utilities and maintenance services, etc.)

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, technology has served you well. In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country. The Foundation was created in 1997 by tech pioneers, Jean and Steve Case.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

If they come out on top, Mobile Therapy can expect prizes and support from Tech Wildcatters, 500Startups, Consumer Electronics Association, Crowdfunder, Techstars, American Airlines, and more! Clinicians must be convinced that this positively disruptive technology will indeed help them provide better treatment.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. What are the biggest areas of technical risk? What technology research is required? What technologies will we use? What specific technical innovations might make sense?

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

“The Ruin stirs, and the Five Realms rumble,” a now-archived web announcement read on Thursday morning. And how are these concerns exacerbated given that these authors’ target audience is too young to buy cryptocurrency on platforms like Coinbase and Gemini? The project ultimately imploded due to a combination of factors.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The service--currently only available on iPhone and Android--allows users to find reviews and information about consumer electronics products. Mickie Rosen: Tecca is the easiest and most helpful independent service for mainstream consumers to learn, shop, and make the most of their personal technology. What was behind that decision?

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Tech.Co

MAY 26, 2020

Amazon used its popular affiliate program to spur additional growth, getting reviewers and publishing sites – including us here at Tech.co – to link to Amazon in exchange for a small payout whenever a reader bought something by following that link. Best for: Authors, book reviewers, booktubers. The impact? eBay Partner Network.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 24, 2017

One of the major shifts we have seen in consumer behavior is how reliant they are on reviews and third party recommendations. These social recommendations often come from third party reviews, like bloggers and other influencers, leaving company ads less desirable. In fact, two out of three Millennials use ad blockers.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Round 13 of the ongoing Web Framework Benchmarks project is here! The project now features 230 framework implementations (of our JSON serialization test) and includes new entrants on platforms as diverse as Kotlin and Qt. What a great time to be building web apps! Yes, that Qt. Good fortunes. Many fixes to long-broken tests.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. 1) Mobile web.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

I recall being impressed with Jeff, but I was concerned that he was creating a platform, which often requires a significant amount of capital, takes an extended amount of time to establish and can be subject to margin pressure as the enabling technologies become commoditized. Tech Diligence - Consider The Source.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2011

If you’re a big supporter of indie films or web series you’re probably checking out your favorites on a variety of different sites on the web. has provided a platform since 2005 for indie producers, distributors and advertisers to provide viewers with this kind of content. The folks over at Blip.tv To date, Blip.tv

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

Even though most services are usually not subject to sales tax, some states are now asserting that certain online services are taxable either as software, data processing, or information services, even if the type of service would not be taxable if delivered the old fashioned way – by people – rather than computing platforms.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I believe that huge financial, productivity and technical gains come from new innovation rather than derivative thinking. Instead investors are looking for the next flash sale, private sale, game dynamic, social games that rely on mobile platforms with geo-fenced, location aware offers. Tags: Tech Market Analysis.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

” In our performance consulting work, we often hear variations of the following: “Our web application was running fine with a few hundred users. Often this situation is characterized as a “good problem to have” until you’re the technical person who needs to solve the problem—and quickly. “It was running fine.”

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Brew Johnson: At the high level, it's a marketplace, a lending platform for real estate. The easiest way to look at it, from the tech perspective, is that we are very similar to LendingClub. We said, let's create a technology marketplace and platform that creates benefits for those existing lenders, as well as investors.

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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. At Rubicon Project, we’ve engineered the world’s first real-time cloud computing technology. Innovation & Engineering'

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Social Networking in Web 1.0. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Besides the ability to view lists and the normal twitter-feeds, the app brings Twitter lists from the web to the desktop and places them under a separate Userlists tab. The app doesn’t offer much more (and sometimes less) than its AIR and web-based apps do. In this review, I used a Blackberry 9700 running OS 5.0.330.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. Leverage Existing Platforms or Third Party Products - you want to test your social network, grab Drupal and whip something together, or even just use a hosted service. Review the code being built.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

In this article #StartupsEverywhere , I talked with Joe Wallace, CEO and Chief Innovation Officer of the Coachella Valley Economic Partnership, and Hank McCarrick, CEO and founder of Seco Sys about sustainability, emerging eco tech, and challenges in the ecosystem. Our platform can be used worldwide.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

In this article #StartupsEverywhere , I talked with Joe Wallace, CEO and Chief Innovation Officer of the Coachella Valley Economic Partnership, and Hank McCarrick, CEO and founder of Seco Sys about sustainability, emerging eco tech, and challenges in the ecosystem. Our platform can be used worldwide.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 22, 2015

Why are the world’s biggest Internet companies investing in a technology created in the late 1800’s? People continue to surf the web to gather information when making a considered purchase. Non-mobile, online channels, such as desktop search, display ads and review sites drive 30% of calls. 140 Years Old And Still Kicking.

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Mobile Technical Review Google Tool 100

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. Both of his co-founders worked with him previously and both worked on ad management platforms. I’ll explain in detail below. Enter Burstly. What does it do?

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Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

Business tools — from customer relationship management ( CRM ) platforms to accounting software — help to save startups time and money by automating key processes and maximizing efficiency. The video conferencing platform welcomes over 300 million daily users, and enjoys some of the best name recognition in the industry — and for good reason.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2013

As fast as life moves, technology moves even faster. Especially on the local level, and especially when it comes to embracing technology. They need a government that is more open, more available; a government that speaks their technological language. Technology moves fast. Want to take a trip down memory lane?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

The company was founded by Bong Koh, a former EIR at Prism VentureWorks and venture capitalist at Advanced Technology Ventures; he also co-founded ibeatyou. Enter the light bulb, which was that this was a real opportunity to create a new platform, which can facilitate connecting experts with users. What is LifeCrowd?

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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. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming.

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