socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

Los Angeles-based Catchpoint , a new web monitoring service headed by former DoubleClick executive Mehdi Daoudi, reports that yesterday's downtime of e-commerce site Amazon.com lasted for three hours. to monitor web sites for customers. Tags: downtime ecommerce uptime monitoring amazon catchpoint.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2011

ShareSquare said that the new link allows marketers creating QR codes using its service to link directly to a "Buy" module for Amazon, which allows those marketers to directly link to purchases on the popular e-commerce site.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 25, 2014

Amazon''s Founder, Jeff Bezos has had an incredible entrepreneurial career. Not satisfied with conquering the online retail world, Amazon then productized access to its infrastructure, ushering in the era of the public cloud. 2014 marked the 20th anniversary of Amazon''s founding. Know When To Throw Away The Rule Book.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Los Angeles-based location data provider Factual said Wednesday evening that it has made its Places data available in the AWS Data Exchange, a new service rolled out by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to allow its customers access to third party data via the cloud. Factual's data includes such data as business locations and hours.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2009

Two Southern Californians are in the running for $10,000 for their entries into a user generated advertising effort from e-commerce site Amazon.com. According to Amazon.com, it has selected five finalists to compete for the $10,000 in Amazon gift card, plus a trip to a film festival in New York City. READ MORE>>.

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Los Angeles Advertising Commerce Sites 140

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

From the start, Amazon had an audacious goal – to sell virtually every book online. Before launching Amazon, Jeff consulted with several publishing experts, none of whom appreciated the Internet’s eventual ubiquity. The very creation of Amazon was the result of a leap of faith. Add Up Lots Of Little Advantages.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Not only has he become the richest man in the world again, leapfrogging a certain Mr Musk, but it has also been revealed that Amazon has quietly acquired ecommerce platform Selz. So, what does this mean for Amazon, Selz, Shopify and, more importantly, millions of small retailers? The Amazon/Selz Acquisition.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Torrance-based Swagbucks.com , an online site which allows users to earn virtual currency or other rewards from taking actions online, has now given away $15M in prizes since its launch in 2008. The site--which is headed by Scott Dudelson--also said it is on track to have $25M in revenues this year. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Zadara said it will ship its own storage equipment to a company's own site, where data can be restored and brought back online; the company also offers up cloud-based storage options, which uses Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and others, for storage. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2011

For some reason, I haven’t heard much about the next generation of the Internet ( Web 3.0 ) lately, which probably means it isn’t happening as fast as everyone predicted. I suspect the real challenge is not the semantic web technology , but new attractive business models from smart entrepreneurs. are appearing. are appearing.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2015

Irvine-based cloud-based storage service provider Zadara reported Tuesday that it has signed up online shopping site Gilt as a customer. Zadara said that Gilt has deployed its storage-as-a-service with Amazon Web Services, rather than expanding a current on-premise HP 3PAR storage array.

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2014

Los Angeles-based Cloud Takes , an online project collaboration site focused on feature films, post production, and other content work, has been acquired by Technicolor. Cloud Takes'' software was used to manage digital assets, track project progress, and more, and ran on Amazon Web Services. READ MORE>>.

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Hollywood Content Web Software Development 153

socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2014

According to Zadara, it has teamed up with managed services provider RightBrain Networks to move over 800,000,000 image files to Amazon Web Services using its technology, for Realty Data Company, which provides land surveys, titles, and other documents for the real estate industry. Financial details of the win was not announced.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2010

Can you believe all the talk these days about Web 3.0? I’ve been doing some research to assess how much of it is reality, since I have to admit that I seem to have missed the clues to the transition to Web 2.0, After some work, I’m still convinced that much of the Web 3.0 Examples include SendOutCards, Google, and Amazon.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 21, 2015

Zadara said the expansion comes via both Amazon Web Services and Equinix, through a Frankfurt location. Irvine-based Zadara Storage , which offers up enterprise storage-as-a-service, said Tuesday that it has expanded into Germany, with the addition a new location.

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socalTECH

JULY 2, 2012

It was a rough weekend for the cloud, with an outage over at Amazon Web Services disrupting access to such popular services as LinkedIn, Instagram, and many others. Not to mention, a leap second bug throwing off sites like Reddit and others Sunday.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2013

DreamHost , the Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud services provider, said Tuesday that it has debuted its DreamObjects public cloud storage service into general availability, aiming the service at application storage, Web site backup, content storage, disaster recovery, as well as personal backups.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 30, 2010

Back in January of 2008 we learned that Amazon invested $4MM in the close out site Woot. Today Woot announced that they will be acquired by Amazon and become independent subsidiary of Amazon. BREAKING: Woot to become independent subsidiary of Amazon! link] less than a minute ago via web woot.com woot. .

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2010

Carlsbad-based Epics3 , a new startup focused on photo sharing through Twitter, Facebook, and other web sites, said today that it has launched its services. The new company, headed by Joe Moreno, said it will allow users to post photos to the web, and that it will share advertising revenue with users when people view their photos.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Much effort and study has been expended to determine how a web site can better convert its visitors to paying customers. The entire shareware industry was built on this principle, and more than a few contemporary businesses from Hulu.com to Amazon use this technique to great effect. Sites like ww1.novarad.net

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2014

Pasadena-based Wallaby , the developer of mobile apps to help consumers pick the best credit card to use for a purchase, said today that it has launched both a new, Google Chrome web browser extension, as well as an updated, iPhone application. Wallaby is led by Matthew Goldman. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Amazon KINDLE eBook edition of BASIC BERKONOMICS (9.99). Amazon KINDLE eBook edition of BERKONOMICS ($9.95). Amazon KINDLE eBook edition of ADVANCED BERKONOMICS ($9.99). You may purchase any combination of Dave’s books once you click onto the web site using the links above, or by going to www.berkus.com.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Amazon lists one requirement in the stunning request for proposals it issued Thursday, which invites cities across North America to compete to host a second corporate headquarters for the tech and commerce giant. A stable and business-friendly environment and tax structure will be “high-priority considerations.”

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Paramount Commerce Sites Technology 73

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Luckily, some of the folks at TechEmpower just posted Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application. It’s well documented that response time has significant business impact: An ecommerce site that makes $100,000 per day could lose up to $2.5 Google told us back in 2010 that site speed was important for SEO.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

However, I saw that the people building traditional products were still not familiar with the social web. For example, some of my biggest competitors--such as Flintstones vitamins--have been around for 40 years, have virtually no web presence, and a PageRank of 2. We feel we've build, from the ground up, an internet brand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The Internet is a business for transporting web services. With the widespread popularity of social media, I now see many businesses looking at niche market interest groups, such as sites for travelers, hunters, cancer support, and crafts. Online, the same concept has been implemented by Amazon and Alibaba.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

We build web and mobile applications, and we've been doing so for a little over fifteen years. Anyone who has been around the web development block is going to tell you that they select technologies with some balance between coolness and pragmatism. A site with a million users is much easier to manage today than it was in 2000.

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socalTECH

JULY 5, 2011

For today's interview, we spoke with Los Angeles-based Swagbucks (www.swagbucks.com), an online site which allows users to earn virtual currency in exchange for searching the Internet, as well as other activities. They'd promote the site to their constituents and supporters, to raise money for the company, and we'd share it back with them.

Startup 266

Startup Sites Web Entertainment 266

socalTECH

JULY 11, 2011

AmazonLocal , the daily deals site run by Amazon.com, has quietly launched in the Los Angeles area, as the firm starts a national expansion of its daily deals effort. According to AmazonLocal's web site, it now is offering deals in Long Beach, Los Angeles, Inland Empire, and on the Westside/South Bay. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2014

What we do, is we build them private, cloud infrastructure, and make it available in an easy to consume web portal. However, when they went to build out a second, disaster recovery site, they figure out that they had been there and done that, and didn''t want to build another one--they decided to outsource it.

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TechEmpower

APRIL 30, 2013

You are viewing the first round of web application framework benchmarks. Check out the new stand-alone framework benchmarks site if you are interested in the latest and most accurate data. Among the many factors to consider when choosing a web development framework, raw performance is easy to objectively measure. Web servers.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

(Editor's note: we're crossposting a version of this interview between our Rocky Mountain site, techrockies.com, and our Southern California site, socalTECH.com). We move transactional mail between web applications and end users. Jim Franklin: Web developers are good at building web applications. What is Sendgrid?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2014

If you''re a brand or retailer, needing to get online, there are a lot of things to deal with to run your e-commerce business smoothly--everything from your e-commerce site itself, to taking photos of your products, packing and shipping, to digital marketing. Everyone is now pretty much selling direct on apparel sites now.

Commerce 203

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Offering one more social media site (over 200 already exist on Wikipedia) probably won’t work. Use open-source e-commerce and website software, including web-chat software and PayPal, rather than building expensive customized solutions. Every new business has unexpected pivots and adjustments, and outsourcing is easier to manage.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

According to Marten, “We enable companies to run, within their own firewall, a cloud that behaves exactly like the public clouds, exactly like Amazon. The most typical use case is a scalable web service. You can manage across AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Eucalyptus, for instance.”. A good example is the shoemaker Puma.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Platform Resource 212

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2019

Now, if your web site is not clear and clean, or you don’t have a chat robot for a product question online, you may be abandoned as providing poor customer service, just as certainly as having to wait in a long product exchange line after the holidays. Even small businesses can now easily be global in scope, and available 24x7 online.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

“The Ruin stirs, and the Five Realms rumble,” a now-archived web announcement read on Thursday morning. Kindle Worlds was an attempt at this, but it ultimately did not seem to be profitable, and Amazon shut it down.”. By 2008, FanLib was sold to Disney , which shut the site down soon after.

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