socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2012

San Diego-based Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. , The two said the support will allow developers with little mobile experience to write and execute Java applications directly on the Qualcomm chips, which are used for 3G connectivity in embedded devices. The two said they are working to bring Oracle Java ME Embedded 3.2

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2019

But tech companies are already writing the novel kinds of software these revolutionary computers will need in order to operate—and businesses are even helping to train the workforce for a future era of “quantum speed-up.’’ It’ll be some years before such uber-computers are robust and reliable enough for broad commercial use.

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Xconomy

JULY 3, 2019

No one has done more than Donald Norman to teach us that every piece of hardware and software—in fact, every human-made object, including the internet—embodies design decisions that aren’t always made with the best interests of users in mind.

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Xconomy

JUNE 6, 2016

After operating in the shadows for the past 11 years, a San Diego neural technology company founded by former NASA administrator Dan Goldin is stepping into the light to introduce two commercial products intended to advance the frontier of human-machine interaction.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

However, San Diego-based Deal Current (www.dealcurrent.com) appears to have found a sustainable niche in the industry--not providing daily deals, but powering those multiplying deal sites, including a number of major newspaper groups. One of our clients, a San Diego newspaper, asked us to build a daily deal platform for them.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2010

What I have found, in consumer facing Internet and mobile applications, is it isn't much different from creating a good movie, a good TV show, or writing a good story, or even going to a good restaurant. In the consumer Internet and consumer mobile industry it's not like writing software for the enterprise.

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Xconomy

JUNE 11, 2018

Rockwell Automation is investing $1 billion in PTC, as the two companies team up to advance their vision of software-driven factories and industrial operations. As of this writing, it was trading at nearly $92 per share, up more than 5 percent from Friday’s closing price. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Meanwhile, this year’s deal count is declining sharply, a sign that venture investors are still writing bigger checks for fewer deals. Software companies continue to attract the most attention from venture investors, with 2,122 companies drawing in roughly $27 billion so far this year and accounting for nearly half of all invested capital.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Tom tells us how he went from running Intuit's Tax Group--which is behind the popular TurboTax tax software--to his own startup, which allows non-technical, business users to create their own business forms and processes. So you ended up here in San Diego because of Intuit? How long has your software been available to customers?

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Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2018

We have entered the era of voice ,” Jim Harris, a management consultant writes on the CTA’s website. The Consumer Technology Association estimates that nearly 44 million voice-enabled assistants will be sold this year in the United States. Unit sales rose 279 percent from 2016 to 2017, according to the association. “We

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

There’s one attribute (coming soon) that I need to have in order to write a check but I don’t believe is vital for success. Examples: There is a company called GreenLink Networks based in San Diego and Philadelphia. When I first met the team in San Diego they had only been working on their software for 5 months.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. We took the recent round, because Jake and I feel very passionately about our social missions, and, about four years ago, we started developing the software to create software. They can go online, and answer questions.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

My advice: write down your passwords in a journal and keep it in a secure location at home, such as a safe. Before you go, update software on all devices. Pop-up messages asking you to update your apps and software can be annoying, but those messages are important reminders.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. Before you think I was a complete nerd, in addition to making money selling software, which I did at 15, 16 years old, I also made money throwing keg parties. If you want a sneak peak on that it’s in the video or transcript.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. And covered we did.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

I'm down here probably three or four days a week on average, and we're trying to be active, and pick off what we think are going to be the best deals here, from Santa Barbara down to San Diego. We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund. What areas you personally are looking at right now?

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

We’re looking forward to Bear’s conversation on the topic of human writing in an age of intelligent machines with Textio CEO Kieran Snyder, a PhD in computational linguistics and cognitive science, at Xconomy Intersect , our upcoming Seattle tech.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

We''ve also had a pretty wide range of check writing in terms of amount. With Los Angeles growing, with San Diego as the hub of telecom and software, with lots of talent that Gerard mentions coming out of the school here; there''s lots of potential. Why not Los Angeles? Why not Silicon Beach?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

This morning's interview is with San Diego-based Kadonk (www.kadonk.com), a startup which is creating project management tools that work with Microsoft Project. We didn't wanted to create new project management software--everyone uses Microsoft Project--but we wanted to make it more collaborative.

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Xconomy

APRIL 14, 2017

“Hey Siri, how’s the weather today?” “OK OK Google, remind me to pay the power bill.” Alexa, tell me a joke!” Bots are eating the world.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Today, San Diego-based Metaplace (www.metaplace.com), which develops virtual world software, is announcing a funding round from Charles River Ventures, Crescendo Ventures, and high profile investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. They're centrally managed, big iron, big servers, and dedicated client software.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

As a company we’ve had a certain amount of experience working with Hollywood, for example writing all the math for six seasons of the television show “Numb3rs” I hadn’t personally been involved—though I have quite a few science friends who’ve helped with movies. Writing Code.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

So when you write in it, you’re doing programming. Yes, there’s certainly a need for some number of software engineers in the world who can write low-level programs in languages like C++ or Java or JavaScript—and can handle the details of loops and declarations. The Wolfram Language is a programming language.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

Last week, San Diego-based Confident Technologies (www.confidenttechnologies.com) announced that it had acquired the assets of Vidoop, and created a company focused on security and authentication of users. The Confident authentication suite of software, which also includes out of band technology.

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Xconomy

JUNE 29, 2016

For those who follow IP law, this is the tension behind the “abstraction test” in copyright and the recent Supreme Court software patent decision in Alice Corp. Normally, Western composers write in keys or scales that alternate whole steps and half steps between notes. He played the line through until shifting to a final D.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 1, 2011

So, one day Yotam and I were driving to San Diego and stuck in traffic and he asked how we could offer musicians the same sort of advertising services that I was used to using in my day job. He also produces and writes for a number of Los Angeles-based artists and he handles all things Rock and Pop. That’s a great thing.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. She just spoke at TED EX in San Diego. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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