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JULY 23, 2009

Technology from Los Angeles-based Total Immersion , a developer of "augmented reality" products--is showing up in a new Mattel toy line, based on Twentieth Century Fox's action adventure film "Avatar." Financial impact of the deal to Total Immersion was not disclosed.

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JANUARY 15, 2013

MySpace , the online social networking site which is now owned by Specific Media, has finally rolled out its new, Justin Timberlake-inspired web design, in conjunction with the release of a new single from Timberlake and JAY Z. READ MORE>>.

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Design Web Design Social Network Press 159

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

VIZIO said it is launching three new, full HD 3d televisions in 42", 47", and 55" screen sizes, initially online and later this month at retailers. VIZIO is tapping Beverly Hills-based RealD for its 3D technology. No financial details of the licensing deal were disclosed by either firm. READ MORE>>.

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Beverly Hills Screening Web Sites 157

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JANUARY 20, 2011

In recent years, one of the more common ways to share information, conduct training, or pitch your company to other has been through online, web-based webinar and conferencing. Costin Tuculescu: Freebinar.com is a completely free alternative for web conferencing and webinar users. It's not a freemium model.

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Tech Coast Angels Web Screening Pasadena Angels 178

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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Web Entrepreneur Software Review Google 98

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

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. We've also invented and patented a new technology called "MasterKey" that allows people to play our games natively on all relevant social and mobile platforms.

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Technical Review Southern California Incubator High Tech 223

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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. What does Confident Technologies do? The Confident authentication suite of software, which also includes out of band technology.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

TVSync’s parent company Voible , has provided fingerprint protection technology to most major movie studios and TV networks since 2005. Their VDNA technology helps protect and manage content rights for works that may be pirated and uploaded illegally by automatically identifying that content, tracking it and taking it down.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The intersection of entertainment and technology has been a long time coming. Those who are more involved in traditional entertainment are seeing a major shift online which is why an additional one-day seminar was created to coincide with Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood as a partnership called, Idea to Screen. This is true offline too.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

As early technology pioneers with over 13 years of entrepreneurial experience behind them, what they really saw was an opportunity for expansion into a new digital product line for kids that encouraged learning on multi-platforms. But his timing was too early for technology. Back when video was a tiny patch on the screen.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

We went out on the Android and Blackberry, and as we were going out to market, we realized that we could use that consumer launch as a proving ground for our technology, and leverage that to the B2B market. When I joined the company, I found an amazing technology platform and analytics capability. We're really headed for three screens.

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Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

According to Oblong, its new software, Rumpus, is a visual collaboration application aimed at the web conferencing market. Oblong says its new software provides simultaneous access to shared screens fro m meeting participants, with such features as shared cursors, annotation, and emojis for signaling sentiment.

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Tool Screening Software Web 133

socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2010

Santa Monica-based Jacked , a developer of second-screen, companion applications for TV broadcasts, has been acquired by Roundbox , a New Jersey-based developer of mobile broadcast software. Roundbox said it would integrate Jacked's technology into its products. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Monica Statistics Screening Content 124

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

John laid into a well-honed thesis on why the social web needed a “Page Rank” equivalent for people. I almost don’t want to tell you because I love the product and would love for them to stay under the radar screen from investors. 12:45 Describe the structural, cyclical trends you’re seeing in technology.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup 303

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JANUARY 8, 2013

Broadcom announced digital and web television, home gateway technology, 5G WiFi ecosystem expansion, and automotive Ethernet products, with what it calls a game changer of a chip aimed at HDTV market. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Neville Spiteri: We are a digital media startup, building a next generation studio that it is focusing on creating entertainment and web media, that scales to tens of hundreds of thousands of people, and potentially millions around the world. We see the web having untapped potential for creating its own medium for artistic expression.

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Cloud Computing Web Entertainment Media 208

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NOVEMBER 6, 2012

We're also working with technology companies , but sixty to seventy percent of our business is still around the SMBs. It's fascinating to see how quickly the SMB adapts to next generation technology products. If you have a really good product, which addresses the cost problem and technology problem, you can go into mass adoption.

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Mobile Marketing Customer Custom 219

InfoChachkie

JULY 25, 2012

RingRevenue's unique technology allows online and offline advertisers and publishers to consistently increase revenues from mobile, print, search and email campaigns by tracking the phone calls generated by such ads. Our technology helps to establish, optimize, and monetize your mobile marketing opportunities.

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Netflix Blogging Mobile Advertising 191

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

But for a second let’s try something different and blame the technology. Last fall, Mingly released their first product last fall to help users manage their endless webs of connections. Some screen shots of Mingly’s products including a) Mingly for Web’s dashboard and b) Ming’s contact snapshots : .

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Web Social Network Email Networking 74

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

Do you screen all of the documents on the marketplace, or how does that work? Jason Nazar: We screen the profiles, but we don't screen the content. We want to make sure the marketplace is for professional content, so we screen to make sure the seller is a professional or small business owner, or a startup or entrepreneur.

Technical Review 171

Technical Review Rustic Canyon Screening Startup 171

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 29, 2012

As early technology pioneers with over 13 years of entrepreneurial experience behind them, what they really saw was an opportunity for expansion into a new digital product line for kids that encouraged learning on multi-platforms. But his timing was too early for technology. Back when video was a tiny patch on the screen.

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Screening eBook Content Ideas 65

socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2009

Los Angeles-based Total Immersion , a developer of technology for inserting interactive video into a live camera feed, said Monday that it has inked a deal with baseball trading firm Topps to create "3D" baseball trading cards. Total Immersion's technology projects interactive video and graphics, overlaid on top of live, web-cam images.

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Screening Los Angeles Venture Capital Web 100

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world.

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Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The mythology of StoryBots, is that they are these little creature who live behind our screens. On the web, parents can upload photos of themselves, family members, and friends, and put them into a video alongside the StoryBots, in classic kids songs. They're available on StoryBots, and on YouTube as well.

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Content Startup Screening Education 224

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

But there's more to the city than what's on the big screen. Others of note are: OmniByte Technology , which provides mobile, web, and automation solutions and services for field service organizations; Protosthetics , a company that uses 3D printers to print prosthetics; Myriad Mobile , a software company that develops mobile apps; and.

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Screening Mobile Entrepreneur Startup 70

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MARCH 2, 2012

We were really passionate about technology, and had been doing lots of conceptual stuff, but always wanted to create a product. You need to be able to make landing pages that work on every single type of layout, every screen and tablet size, and so on, and we think we've done a great job with that.

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Mobile Startup Advertising Sites 249

socalTECH

JULY 25, 2012

Edward Park: My background is screen printing and production. My previous company did production runs for small clothing lines, promos, and trade show giveaways, and one of the things we realized it's such a volume industry, and the technology of screen printing has been around for 10,000 years, developed by the Egyptians and the Chinese.

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Startup Commerce Web 2.0 Screening 174

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

As we draw closer to the end of 2016, it is important that we take a moment to look back and reflect on all of the ways technology has inspired us, and transformed the way we live and do work. Here are the top five ways technology has impacted us this year. The Device-Agnostic Customer Experience. percent of digital buyers in the U.S.

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Artificial Inteligence Screening Google Customer 106

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Most of these investors are members of Angel groups that have a rigorous filtering and screening process, to select the top 3% and most fundable proposals. That’s why this item is so important, and is probably the biggest stumbling block I see in getting through the initial Angel screening. Get your Internet domain name and website.

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Angel Screening Summary Startup 104

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Brad on blogging.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I’m just not sure you can build a great technology firm outside of Bay Area.&#. In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. But we do have great technology developers. That sets us up nicely for the next phase of the web. I live in the city of Santa Monica.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

socalTECH

JULY 11, 2014

Now, a new, Los Angeles team--led by Josh Meyers --is tapping a team of experience LA technology vets to take what is a diamond in the rough, and polish it up, to bring the deal site to the next level. Josh Meyers: Slickdeals is the web''s largest deal sharing community. Talk about Slickdeals and what it is all about?

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Content Yahoo Los Angeles Sites 212

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Super-angel investors are a new category of investors (like Mike Maples Jr. ), closer to venture capitalists, who are perceived to be more sophisticated, insightful, or well-connected in the startup community, particularly with respect to technology companies in Silicon Valley and other technology centers (also called micro-VCs).

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Entrepreneur Startup Web Equity 109

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2009

YouMail offers a voice mail service which allows cell phone users to preview their voicemail messages in email or on the web, convert those voicemails to text, and provide personalized phone greetings to callers, depending on who is calling. All of those features are key features of YouMail's service.

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Google Competition Tech Coast Angels Technical Review 100

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OCTOBER 30, 2008

We're always interested in how technology is influencing the business of Hollywood, and recently ran across Los Angeles-based Scripped. Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 Sunil Rajaraman: We provide free, web-based screenwriting software to aspiring writers and professionals in the community.

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Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138