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JANUARY 28, 2010

Just the kind of person I like to meet. :) But I was a bit surprised when he emphasized how hard it had been for them to find a web developer in Los Angeles. My flippant comment was, “If you do a Google search for Los Angeles web developer, you’ll find a LOT of people and firms.” So my flip suggestion was actually not all that helpful.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

A major hack on domain name registrar GoDaddy appears to have taken out a huge number of internet sites -- including local startup Goodreads. GoDaddy hosts millions of domain names, as well as provides web hosting services itself, but it's unclear how many sites were affected by the outage. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 25, 2010

A little known Southern California venture capital investor is benefiting from the IPO of Silicon Valley-based Fabrinet today, after Fabrinet said it has priced its IPO and will list on the New York Stock Exchange. Shea web site. Fabrinet lists Shea Ventures as one of the bigger investors in the firm, with 6.5

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JULY 29, 2010

We've dug through our database of high tech companies, web sites, and startups and found four Southern California companies and web sites looking to cater to that adventure traveler in you. . The site offers up a way to research and book adventure travel, across the globe. . Kijubi [ Profile ].

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MAY 18, 2018

A major, security leak by a Southern California company, which revealed the location of every single mobile phone customer in the United States to within a couple of hundred feet, was exposed on Thursday --raising questions to how cell phone users data is being used and sold by mobile carriers.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2017

An outage at Amazon Web Services is causing major downtime across the cloud this morning, as sites which rely on the cloud storage service have been unable to reliably connect all morning. Such sites as the U.S. S3 is used by many websites for storing data, images, and video. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 9, 2013

I''ve written before about finding Web Development Firms in Los Angeles. How good is the company''s own site? They shouldn''t be showing you that they don''t care at all about looks and content on their own site. But if their site is really gorgeous, that means they are good at design, not necessarily development.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Southern California's top startups showed up in force Friday at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, for the Technology Council of Southern California's annual VentureNet conference. David Sacks, one of the co-founders of PayPal, pitched Geni.com, an online site focused on both family trees and social networking.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Santa Ana-based icanbuy, a developer of real estate related software, is powering a new model home site from the Building Industry Association of Southern California. According to the BIA, it is launching a new Web 2.0 Financial terms and impact of the deal was not disclosed.

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DECEMBER 12, 2012

A new, online coupon software "bookmarklet" called Koupon Kitty --backed by Juvo Capital, the investment firm of Talmadge O'Neill and Harry Tsao--said it launched Wednesday, to help consumers find the best coupon codes for various e-commerce sites.

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AUGUST 27, 2018

However, the company's technology team, Walmart Labs (www.walmartlabs.com)--which said this month that it is planning on major growth in San Diego is responsible for the company's key supply chain technology, online e-commerce site, and much more. The last area my team is responsible for, is what we call our site merchandising tools.

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AUGUST 27, 2018

However, the company's technology team, Walmart Labs (www.walmartlabs.com)--which said this month that it is planning on major growth in San Diego is responsible for the company's key supply chain technology, online e-commerce site, and much more. The last area my team is responsible for, is what we call our site merchandising tools.

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AUGUST 8, 2011

Santa Monica-based Docstoc , the online business documents site headed by Jason Nazar, has quietly been ramping a video content effort at the site.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Los Angeles-based X Prize Foundation said today that it has signed up 22 teams in the firm's Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE, including two Southern California teams. The X PRIZE competition will begin in 2009, with winners awarded in 2010.

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MARCH 21, 2012

Adding another group to the growing list of Southern California startup accelerators and incubators: a new, Orange County incubator, Frost Venture Partners , looks to be gearing up to tackle the "big data" market. The new incubator, headed by Stuart Frost , the founder of DATAllegro , lists five startups in its portfolio of companies.

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MARCH 27, 2012

Los Angeles-based TeleSign , the developer of two-factor, phone authentication services which are used by Internet retailers and web sites to protect against online fraud, has linked with a provider of device identification and fraud prevention serviecs. Financial details of the link between the firms were not disclosed.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Looking for a high tech job in Southern California? Despite the economy, Southern California's high tech job outlook is better than it has ever been, with hundreds of open positions and many companies eagerly seeking high tech talent. Some positions posted to the site recently: Sr.

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JANUARY 12, 2012

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 -- Connecting the WHAT to the WHY in Web Analytics. Todays fast paced businesses rely heavily on real-time insights from web analytics. Yet with these powerful web analytics solutions, few businesses make the connection between WHAT customers are doing online and WHY they are doing it.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

company operates a number of content-focused sites, including LIVESTRONG, eHOW, Cracked, and a domain name registration business, eNOM. positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. Google has set the bar in the technology industry in Silicon Valley, and holds a similar place in Southern California.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

A new, online family tree site has surfaced in Southern California, AppleTree.com , based in Manhattan Beach, which apparently has the involvement of former GoToMyPC founder Klaus Schauser. Schauser, an active angel investor, is listed as a board member of the firm in regulatory filings.

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JUNE 28, 2010

Los Angeles-based HitFix , an online web site focused on entertainment news and information, has raised $1.6M Pikover was founder of Access360 and a co-founder at Xylan and is an active angel investor in the Southern California area. in a new funding round, according to investor the Tech Coast Angels.

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APRIL 18, 2013

Can the web teach you how to play the piano? Quincy Jones --the famed composer and record producer--thinks so, and has co-founded a new company aimed at helping anyone learn to play the piano on their home computer. which users can purchase and learn via the site.

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APRIL 23, 2010

How to Work With a Contract Web Developer How To Bootstrap Your Startup

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

El Segundo-based Fetch Technologies , a firm which develops software for aggregating data from web sites, said Tuesday that it has raised $4.6M The firm's technology is based on research from the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute. in a Series B funding round. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Kevin Federline Search Engine Just saw a post - Sleep with a pop star, get your own branded search engine. talking about Prodeges Search with Kevin Site - [link]. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. in Computer Science.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

For today's Insights and Opinions section, where we feature insights and analysis from the local technology community, we have an article from Jeff Cohn , an entrepreneur and veteran of the angel and VC investment community here in Southern California.

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MARCH 19, 2010

The latest comScore Media Metrix ranking of top growing Internet properties shows that, among Southern California's Internet companies, Gorilla Nation , ProFlowers , and eHarmony saw big gains in their Internet traffic in February. Among other gaining sites were ProFlowers.com, which had a surge of 412 percent in uniques, to 5.3

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JUNE 23, 2010

Microsoft's search engine, Bing , is enhancing its searches for an area of interest to lots of Southern California firms--entertainment and media content. According to Bing, it has released a new version of its site which focuses on music, gaming, movies, and TV.

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JULY 2, 2010

The shift puts the firm closer to the model of competing Twitter ad startup TweetUp, which is also based in Southern California, which puts ads on third party Twitter apps and web sites, instead of on Twitter's own stream. said it has launched a new platform called Ad.ly

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MARCH 20, 2007

Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S.

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OCTOBER 8, 2009

According to Yahoo, as of October 26th, GeoCities sites will no longer appear on the web. The shutdown puts to bed one of Southern California's original Internet success stories. Yahoo had initially said it would shut GeoCities in April.

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MARCH 9, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 9, 2007 Map of VC Investments Found this Map of 2006 VC Investments post. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

said it has raised a $500,000 round of angel financing from a number of Southern California angels, including Jeff Stibel, CEO and Chairman of Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp; John Zdanowski, CFO/co-founder of PixelFish; Alex Kazerani, CEO of EdgeCast; and James Segil, president of EdgeCast. As part of the launch, SendLove.to

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JANUARY 21, 2010

Many commuters and executives who fly between Southern California and Silicon Valley were stymied by a massive shutdown of flights by Southwest Airlines Thursday afternoon, after high winds and heavy rain prompted the airline to cancel travel to and from Burbank, Ontario, Orange County, and San Diego airports.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2009

It's a can't miss opportunity for aspiring entrepreneurs looking to connect with investors in Southern California technology companies. Register for the event at the LAVA web site today! socalTECH is a media sponsor of the LAVA Special Event: Meet the VCs on November 17th.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

The funding is the largest funding in Santa Barbara County in recent history, and among the largest fundings across all of Southern California, with the exception of a couple of late stage biotechnology deals in the past year.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

The angel group also mentioned a web site design as part of its initiatives this year. The TCA is the biggest angel investment group in Southern California, and is among the largest nationally. READ MORE>>.

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