socalTECH

JULY 30, 2019

The ArtCenter College of Design , based in Pasadena, and social networking and 3D avatar site IMVU announced on Tuesday that the two have launched a new "studio partnership", which will let students in a course design their own, 3D experience in the IMVU world.

Pasadena

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 24, 2020

To accomplish those, and other launches like them, the company is also setting up a new launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. “Not only do we have a second launch site, but we have an anchor customer. So from a scheduling conflict perspective, we expect the fewest conflicts of any site out there.”

Sites

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 17, 2019

Like the other launch sites at Cape Canaveral, Launch Complex 16, where Relativity expects to be launching its first rockets by 2020, has a storied history in the U.S. From the site, Relativity will be able to launch its first designed rocket, the Terran 1, which is the only fully 3D-printed rocket in the world.

Sites

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2021

Online dating sites usually fail because online dating usually fails. This business suffers from what Paul Graham calls the ‘chicken and the egg problem‘ – no one wants to use a dating site with only a few users. Social networking” is really the new term for dating, with mega-sites like Facebook , and the hyperlocal site Foursquare.

Sites

L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 19, 2021

Automotive technology company RepairSmith has raised $42 million in Series B funding for its on-site repair platform.

Platform

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

And the most logical one seemed to be “eyeballs” or number of unique monthly users finding their way to the site or registering for the service. And yet, users rave about the service, and spend long durations of time on the site. Once we had what we thought was the answer, in allowing for display advertising on these sites.

Metrics

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

What are some good examples of similar sites? Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective? Is the whole site SSL/HTTPS, only the login process, or something in between? Does the site need to throttle potential malicious activity? How will you differentiate from these? How much availability?

Development

TechEmpower

JULY 2, 2013

The results web site has been improved with test-type and hardware-type navigation, allowing you to share links to a specific results chart, such as Round 6, Fortunes on EC2. The results web site now includes a "framework overhead" chart inspired by comments from Hacker News user goodwink.

Framework

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Laguna Beach-based Edgemesh says it has upgraded its product Edgemesh Server product line to specifically help e-commerce customers before the holiday rush. The company said its product now offers up a new image optimization feature, which helps decrease image download sizes by 39%.

Commerce

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2019

Shane Bernstein: We're looking at things from a lot of different sites, and using big data to process them. That includes hundreds of thousands of sites on the web today. That lets us compare and contrast users across individual sites, and help rank the talent pool accordingly, and rank them subjectively.

Sites

TechEmpower

MAY 2, 2013

We felt they did not add tremendous value to the site. However, the “Stripped” implementation of Django, which still uses MySQL, performs slightly better than the new Django-Postgres test. We’ve dropped the line charts in this round. We have not yet received the pull request with.NET tests.

Framework

TechEmpower

MAY 28, 2020

Round 19 introduces two new features in the results web site: Composite scores and a hardware environment score we're calling the TechEmpower Performance Rating (TPR). We continuously run the benchmark suite , and each full run now takes approximately 111 hours (4.6 days) to execute the current suite of 2,625 tests. Composite scores and TPR.

Framework

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 1, 2018

Peter Thiel’s vague idea to do something about Gawker, the site that had outed him as gay in 2007, was concretized into conspiracy on April 6, 2011. This is an excerpt from Ryan Holiday’s new book Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue, available now. It began unremarkably, when Thiel traveled […].

Ideas

Berkonomics

APRIL 5, 2018

Each night’s backup would be carefully marked and the rotated between offsite and on-site locations in a series of steps so that backups of a day, two days, a week and a month were all available both on site and off site. As was each subsequent backup, on-site and offsite. Big OUCH!

Sites

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Speculation that Musk would move to Texas picked up after Tesla picked and started construction on a site near Austin for a factory that will build its Cybertruck and the Model 3 and Model Y. His other privately held company, SpaceX, is planning a launch site in Boca Chica, Texas.

SpaceX

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

And retail sites are not alone; all sites will silently lose visitors who are made to wait. If your web application is a blog or a news site, a reverse proxy can act as a bandage to cover a wide set of performance problems inherent in the back-end system. However, most web applications are not blogs or news sites.

Web

socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2019

The onetime social networking site, founded in Los Angeles, is now owned by Meredith Corporation and is still active as an online music discovery site. However, the site has quite a bit less music now, after the site accidentally lost all of the music uploaded to the site uploaded between 2003 and 2015.

Social Network

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Fake Site - you can have what looks to be a real site, even take "orders" but not actually have anything able to run it. We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites. WordPress is pretty easy to hack. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage.

Technical Review

TechEmpower

APRIL 22, 2013

With that breadth we decided to move the project''s results to a stand-alone site separate from this blog. Speaking of pull requests, we received tests for several additional frameworks since Round 2 and we have posted Round 3. Thanks to those contributions, the number of tests has grown to over 50. View Round 3 results now.

Framework

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Los Angeles-based StartEngine , the equity crowdfunding site led by serial entrepreneur Howard Marks, told its supporters on Friday that it is planning to launch a new, equity crowdfunding effort: for itself.

Equity

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Mov, launched just a few weeks ago, is more than a rebranded eBay or NBA auction site. For example, Pat Connaughton’s Jersey made $2,164 on Mov versus $560 on the NBA auction site. “We send it as is,” he said. “We We want to make it a really special experience for the fans.”.

Startup

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 17, 2018

The company intends to build a manufacturing facility on an 18-acre site at Berth 240 and use waterways to transport the massive rocket. The mayor of Los Angeles confirmed earlier reports that SpaceX will build its largest rocket, the BFR, at the Port of Los Angeles. SpaceX says the BFR is simply too big to be transported by roads.

Los Angeles

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Newport Beach-based startup OnSite Waste Technologies , which is developing counter-top, on-site medical waste sterilization products, says it has signed on a supplier of products for the senior living industry. The company said that Direct Supply, based in Milwaukee, is offering the company's OnSite TE-5000 product to its customers.

Technology

socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2019

Los Angeles-based eTailPet , a new startup which helps pet store owners create online e-commerce sites, has received a round of seed funding, the company said this week. The seed funding was worth $800K, and led by Moonshots Capital, and also included individual angels from the pet industry.

Seed Funding

socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2018

Pictured: rescue units searching in the vicinity of what was the Cantin residence in Montecito, site of a known missing person and a number of fatalities. The maps are detailed enough that fire and rescue units can be seen searching houses for victims of the debris and mud flow. READ MORE>>.

Google

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2021

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. Local businesses won’t use a site until it has a critical mass of users.

Startup

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 30, 2020

SpaceX is said to be in talks with local government officials about setting up a new rocket factory in the Port of Los Angeles, a location that would give it easy access to the ocean for transporting its next-generation Starship and Super Heavy launch vehicles to its coastal launchpad sites in Florida.

SpaceX

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 29, 2021

“When the stations went down we really couldn’t get anyone on site because most of the issues were communication issues, vandalism, firmware updates or swapping out a part — all things that were not electrical,” Terry said. It was here that she spotted a gap in the EV charging market.

Incubator

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 3, 2023

HACLA, which provides affordable housing to more than 19,000 low-income families across Los Angeles, was added to LockBit’s dark web leak site on December 31. The listing, seen by TechCrunch, claims that LockBit has stolen 15 terabytes of data from the housing agency.

Los Angeles

TechCrunch LA

MAY 15, 2018

“We’ll have 1,000 cell sites up and operating on the global standard,” McAdam said on the cable network. . “We bought 36 million miles of fiber so we can have big pipes feeding the cells. We will have hundreds of megahertz of bandwidth to deliver the whole suite of services of 5G,” McAdam said.

Los Angeles

TechEmpower

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Assess the Company's Website: The company's own site provides a clue to its dedication to aesthetics and content. However, an overly attractive site could indicate a leaning towards design over development. Avoid them.

Software Development

TechCrunch LA

JULY 15, 2021

Then on January 1, 2020, the state of California made it dramatically easier to add extra housing units to single-family home sites. Pricing starts at $190,000, but the average project cost across all sizes is around $230,000, Geary said, inclusive of permits and site work. All have kitchens and living space.

Los Angeles

socalTECH

JULY 6, 2021

Clean energy developer Arevon Asset Management has installed what it says is one of the largest energy storage sites in the United States in Saticoy, California. According to Arevon, the energy stored on the site can power Oxnard for four hours, or all of Ventura County for thirty minutes.

Ventura

L.A. Business Journal

APRIL 21, 2020

a downtown water treatment technology business, has moved its corporate headquarters to the company's manufacturing site in McKinney, Texas. OriginClear Inc.,

Sites

Tech.Co

JANUARY 26, 2024

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Company

TechCrunch LA

JULY 10, 2019

” Citing a Bloomberg report, the site explains automakers may have had the worst first half for new-vehicle retail sales since 2013. Some startups are attempting to reinvent car ownership rather than car buying. Don’t buy, lease. My favorite car blog Jalopnik said it best: “Cars Sales Could Be Heading Straight Into the Toilet.”

Services

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.

Web