L.A. Business Journal

DECEMBER 28, 2017

LeEco founder's assets seized as China pursues absent web mogul; Snapchat developing ‘Stories Everywhere’ outside the app; and TaskUs grows to more than 8,000 employees.

Web 100

Web Snapchat Report Develop 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Online women's publishing site SheKnows has bumped into the 50 largest web properties in the U.S., Citing numbers from th ecomScore July 2012 report, the Los Angeles-based site--which is part of AtomicOnline--said it now has nearly 25 million readers. the site said this week.

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socalTECH

JULY 25, 2019

Los Angeles-based web application security software developer Signal Sciences says that it is seeing strong revenue growth, as it grows its headcount by nearly 100 employees just in the past year. The company said its software protects more than 25,000 applications.

Report 150

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Now in its eighth year, this project measures the high-water mark performance of server side web application frameworks and platforms using predominantly community-contributed test implementations. sebastienros reports that Stephen Toub posted an excellent blog containing detail on all the performance improvements in.NET 5.

Framework 280

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TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

Next, define what you need from a metrics and reporting standpoint. Don’t overcomplicate things with reporting tools. Start by building just enough of your product to get early CAC and CLV signals (they won’t be perfect). Don’t worry about scaling just yet. If your numbers work out, then scaling becomes a question of capital.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2009

Carlsbad-based Breach Security , a developer of Internet security software, has released the results of a security report, saying that nineteen percent of all online attacks in 2009 so far have been based on social networking sites. web sites to launch their hacking attempts.

Social Network 150

Social Network Web Sites Web 2.0 150

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

A security researcher is reporting that Pasadena-based matchmaking site Santa Monica-based eHarmony is alerting users to change their passwords, after a reported breach of customer information. The breach follows a rash of similar security issues from other web-based service providers in the last few months.

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socalTECH

APRIL 23, 2021

Los Angeles-based videogame commerce technology developer Xsolla says it has acquired Slemma, a developer of data analytics and visualization and reporting software. The company said Slemma's web-based tools allow users to create simple, easy-to-use and dynamic data reports with customizable dashboards.

Commerce 113

Commerce Report Tool Web 113

socalTECH

AUGUST 21, 2014

News & World Report. The two companies said that Agent Ace is powering a new, consumer web portal, Best Agents , to help connect readers with real estate agents. marketplace matching agent realestate content publishing publisher report world news' Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Irvine-based Local.com reports this morning that it has acquired another 10,000 web hosting customers, from LaRoss Partners, LLC. According to Local.com, the buy brings its total web hosting subscribers to 50,000. The deal was worth $1.6M READ MORE>>.

Web 124

Web Customer Custom Acquisition 124

socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Los Angeles-based Beats Electronics , fresh off of a big investment from The Carlyle Group , is getting set to launch its new music streaming service, according to a report Monday.

Report 174

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2020

Curtis is the former publisher of the Robb Report, which he sold back in 2015, and has a long history of operating media companies that have published such titles as Home Office Computing, Home Theater, Mobile Computing, Worth, and many others. We have published 74 different magazine titles over the last 30 years. That was our plan.

Media 150

Media Report Advertising Content 150

socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2014

Los Angeles-based music software startup Topspin has laid off a "significant" amount of staff, according to reports , with a majority of the company''s staff getting the pink slip. The startup offered up web-based apps to help artists and labels reach their fans. Topspin is venture backed by Foundry Group and Redpoint Ventures.

Layoffs 147

Layoffs Report Redpoint Web 147

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.

Web 64

Web Press San Diego Social Media 64

socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2011

San Diego-based Websense is reportedly considering a sale of the company, according to a report this week in the Wall Street Journal. Websense is a provider of web filtering software. The Journal reports Websense has hired investment banking firm Qatalyst Partners on the sale.

Report 145

Report Journal San Diego Sales 145

socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Another glitch in Amazon Web Services this morning briefly took down a large number of services this morning, including Slack, Hulu, and others, due to what AWS reported was a power outage at a data center.

Hulu 113

Hulu Cloud Computing Web Services 113

socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2013

According to a report this morning, multiple lawsuits are now in motion from Fisker''s vendors, over unpaid bills, including one by its web site and mobile designer. Irvine-based Fisker Automotive has yet to file for bankruptcy, but its vendors appear to be getting in line for any liquidation of the firm.

Report 147

Report Layoffs Web Design 147

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The personal account details of nearly 28 million users of HauteLook , the private sales site founded in Los Angeles and now owned by Nordstrom , have been hacked and have just shown up for sale on the "dark web" , according to security researchers. It's unclear how those records were stolen from HauteLook and others.

Web 168

Web Sales Research Los Angeles 168

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2011

A report, published Friday by Wired, says that Los Angeles-based video streaming site Hulu has cut its use of web analytics service Kissmetrics -- a startup founded by former Orange County entrepreneur Neil Patel -- after U.C. Berkeley security researchers detected the use of undetectable cookie code by Kissmetrics.

Hulu 165

Hulu Orange County Report Research 165

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2012

Rubicon reports that the the July 2012 comScore ranking found that Rubicon Project now reaches 96.2% Rubicon's advertising network and tools are used by web publishers to optimize the return on their online advertising, by automatically steering ad space to the best ad network for their site. of the U.S.

Advertising 147

Advertising Google Report Networking 147

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

Greg Martin , the partner heading up Redpoint Ventures ' Los Angeles office, has reportedly left the firm, according to a report from the Private Equity Insider. Martin is no longer listed on Redpoint's web site, was not listed in its latest fundraising documents, and declined to comment on the story.

Redpoint 160

Redpoint Report Venture Capital Equity 160

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.

Web 98

Web Entrepreneur Software Review Google 98

L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 31, 2018

Electric scooter company Bird launches new tools for cities to manage e-scooter fleets; web security firm Signal Sciences Corp. Sixteen-year Warner Media veteran Kristen O’Hara joining Snap Inc.; inks deal with health care platform Castlight Health Inc.

Media 113

Media Report Web Tool 113

socalTECH

JUNE 22, 2009

Carlsbad-based Breach Security reports this morning that it has released a new version of the firm's flagship WebDefend web application security appliance. According to Breach, the latest version of the firm's product is primarily focused on Web 2.0 programming techniques. READ MORE>>.

Web 2.0 100

Web 2.0 Web RSS Tool 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

San Diego-based machine vision and fleet telematics provider Lytx reported this week that it has signed up UniGroup , the $1.6 billion company behind United Van Lines and Mayflower.

San Diego 113

San Diego Web Tool Report 113

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2009

San Diego-based music startup Slacker has apparently lost its CEO, according to a report from VentureWire. The firm operates a personalized Internet radio service, which is tied to both a Web-based music player and a hardware device tied to Slacker's web service. The firm has raised around $70M in funding. READ MORE>>.

Report 124

Report Mission Ventures San Diego Web 124

socalTECH

JULY 28, 2010

The latest report out of Internet traffic analysis firm comScore finds that there's a higher percentage of women than men using social networking sites. According to comScore's new report "Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping the Internet," 75.8 percent of women globally used social networking sites in May, versus only 69.7

Social Network 150

Social Network Sites Networking Report 150

Xconomy

JULY 2, 2019

Back in 2014, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee’s seminal paper proposing the World Wide Web, the Pew Research Center asked an. Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. Because if we could, we’d all be bankrupt.

.Net 87

.Net Report Web Research 87

Xconomy

OCTOBER 9, 2017

billion this year through sales of digital tokens—so-called initial coin offerings or ICOs—and this method of fundraising exceeded traditional early-stage tech startup investments in June and July, CNBC reported in August. Companies have raised more than $1.25 Lubin is a former. Read more » Reprints | Share:

Web 86

Web Report Sales Invest 86

L.A. Business Journal

OCTOBER 11, 2017

incubator; and Hulu adds channel guide to live TV web user interface. SpaceX to launch another used rocket; SpringRole, professional reputation management network, rolls out of Science Inc.

SpaceX 100

SpaceX Hulu Incubator Guide 100

socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2020

Santa Monica-based Bird reportedly let 400 of its employees go on Friday, via a pre-recorded Zoom meeting, according to a report. The on-demand scooter company said it laid off 30% of its staff, saying "Layoffs are never easy or comfortable to do" and saying that the layoffs were done as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Layoffs 124

Layoffs Santa Monica News Demand 124

socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2010

A report today says that the latest updates to Demand Media's S-1 are a result of government scrutiny over how the firm is accounting for content developed for its sites. Currently, Demand amortizes those expenses over five years, and apparently other publishing firms typically amortize those expenses over much less time. READ MORE>>.

Demand 145

Demand Media Report Content 145

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

This follows reports that the streaming company is also working to buy the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles. Back in 2010, web performance and security company Cloudflare launched on-stage at our Disrupt SF Battlefield. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is coming to Disrupt Berlin.

Netflix 243

Netflix Guide Los Angeles Screening 243

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

This is the current dream of Tim Berners-Lee , the man who invented the (first) World Wide Web. He calls his dream ‘Web 3.0’ or the ‘Semantic Web,’ meaning it understands user context. He and many other experts believe that the Web 3.0 As you search the Web, the browser records your interests in your local storage.

Web 92

Web Startup Artificial Inteligence Journal 92

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2021

Every startup fears that one angry and unfair customer who can jeopardize the business by a negative post on Ripoff Report , Yelp , or one of the hundreds of other consumer complaint and review sites on the Internet. Web reputation management, both business and personal, has become a top priority requirement.

Search Engine Optimization 163

Search Engine Optimization Content Social Network Google 163

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 17, 2021

Although the test results website is protected by a login page that prompts the customer for their email address and password, the vulnerable part of the website that allowed the customer to change the web address and access other customers’ information could be accessed directly from the web, bypassing the sign-in prompt altogether.

Software Review 205

Software Review Los Angeles Custom Customer 205

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2018

San Francisco-based Cloudflare , which provides a service which helps web site and web application developers manage caching and access to their websites, protecting against cyberattacks, distributed denial of service (DDoS)--and which is backed by Qualcomm--is heading towards an IPO. billion.

San Diego 113

San Diego Google Web Report 113