Xconomy

MAY 18, 2018

We can all agree that 2017 was a brutal year for cybersecurity. Verizon’s Data Breach Investigation Report identified passwords as the root cause of more than 81 percent of breaches in 2016 – an 18 percent increase from the previous year. And, it’s a safe guess that this year, the percentage will grow.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Redlands-based Esri , the developer of mapping and geographical information systems (GIS) software, reported this week that it will be powering a new platform for the United Nations, to help report on progress for sustainable development goals.

Statistics 113

Statistics Report Platform Software 113

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2016

StatMuse develops natural language search software and a social interface, which helps fans push out statistics about their favorite teams; the company currently has a deal with the NBA to offer up its service to fans of the league. The round came from Techstars, The Walt Disney Company, Allen & Co.,

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Los Angeles-based venture investment firm Greycroft Partners is one of the backers in a $2.25M funding round for Chartable , an online service which provides statistics for podcast downloads.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

in a funding for sports statistics and information provider SportMEDIA Technology Corp. provides graphics, statistics, and video enhancement for sports broadcasts. Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Vicente Capital Partners has invested $12.5M SportsMEDIA said today. Vicente Capital's investment was led by Jay Ferguson.

Capital 150

Capital Funding Statistics Venture Capital 150

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 7, 2010

I’ve recently seen several tweets from software development companies looking for talent. And I’ve heard from several people looking for Startup Software Developers. Anyone also have the sense (or even better some actual statistics) that suggest that this is true?

Southern California 150

Southern California CTO Hire Technology Statistics 150

Berkonomics

JULY 9, 2020

A good dashboard of relevant real time information is now available for most any business, often created by computer software from data derived from monitoring real time tasks within the business. And with the rise of modern technology-driven businesses, the same is true of management in the business world.

Metrics 156

Metrics Software Review Statistics Technical Review 156

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. Tags: jacked roundbox merger acquisition television content software. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

Santa Monica 124

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Berkonomics

JULY 12, 2018

The book was written to describe in simple terms the use of statistical analysis to remove bottlenecks in a manufacturing environment. I have used that book’s lessons to teach process improvement to many types of businesses, including software development, supply chain management and retail fulfillment.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2010

Pasadena-based OpenX , which develops open source, ad serving software, said Tuesday that it has launched a new version of its software. Among updates to the software, the firm said that software now provides better statistics on advertising, more streamlined install and upgrades, and a new wizard for generating advertising tags.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Irvine-based Integrien , a developer of IT performance analytics software, announced this morning that it has received another patent on its technology. Jeske is a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Statistics as UC Riverside. Tags: integrien patent software analytics. The patent is U.S. Jeske as inventors. READ MORE>>.

Patents 133

Patents Riverside Clearstone Statistics 133

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , which supplies ad optimization software to web publishers, announced today that it has released a new version of its VANTAGE Firefox browser plug-in, which helps provide its publishers with revenue and impressoin statistics and other information. READ MORE>>.

Tool 145

Tool Clearstone Statistics Screening 145

socalTECH

AUGUST 26, 2010

San Diego-based IntraStage , a developer of quality management software for companies who design and manufacture electronic products, including statistical process control (SPC) and other testing and data analytics tools, has raised a round of angel funding. Other investors were not disclosed.

Angel 140

Angel Tech Coast Angels Funding CIO 140

socalTECH

APRIL 17, 2015

billion invested--again thanks to SpaceX--then Software, with $316.95M in deals. venture capital quarterly pricewaterhousecoopers moneytree southern california angeles orange county diego investment statistics' The Los Angeles area saw a total of $1.476 billion in Q1 deals--including that giant round for SpaceX--San Diego saw $270.1M

Southern California 100

Southern California Orange County SpaceX San Diego 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2012

end-of-the-year coverage, we've run through our web statistics and figured out which were the. Ten of Southern California's Top Software Companies - Also in November, we published. another "Top Ten" list, listing out some of Southern California's top software focused. As part of our. an article was accessed on our publication.

Southern California 211

Southern California Thousand Oaks Incubator SpaceX 211

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2010

Los Angeles-based Language Weaver , the University of Southern California spinout which provides statistical machine translation software, has been acquired by UK-based SDL. According to SDL, it has signed an agreement to acquire Language Weaver for $42.5M in cash, in a deal which is expected to complete by July 28th.

Tech Coast Angels 157

Tech Coast Angels Southern California Statistics Acquisition 157

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2023

Nearly $50 billion is being spent annually on direct mail, according to statistics , and the amount has been increasing each year. Some consider direct mail very expensive or dead as a lead-generation tool. Yet it is more alive than ever before. Cold calling.

Marketing 114

Marketing Invest Social Media SEM 114

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

With the latest advances in software technology, it’s no longer cost-prohibitive for business entrepreneurs, who can’t yet afford a human resources department, to take advantage of analytics tools. Almost any startup can start with Excel, and move to open-source data analysis tools, including Python or RStudio.

Tool 121

Tool Statistics Entrepreneur Metrics 121

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Appetize (point of sale terminals and software) and DoorStat (visitors statistics and demographics using vision recognition) are aimed at operations. Three of the companies�SidePrize, Swish Analytics and Juke�are focused on fantasy sports. What was the biggest takeaway of the evening?

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Bureau of Labor Statistics , more than 1.3 Those of us who keep tabs on the tech world hear a lot about the challenges of hiring and retaining IT talent. According to a forecast by the U.S.

Training 79

Training Statistics Education Examples 79

socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

It''s much like a sales team might use software to find leads. That''s the quantitative analysis of statistics to find players. But, we believe that the process doesn''t work at the high school level, because those statistics are not reliable. We''re enabling those coaches to connect to one another and find athletes.

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Coach USC Statistics Startup 252

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The founders cite statistics indicating that 73 percent of African Americans and 72% of Latinx consumers over 13 years-old identify as gamers. We’re building software for an urban, multicultural audience that continues to lead and influence culture — not just in the U.S. but around the world,” said Rogers, in a statement.

Chief Technology Officer 116

Chief Technology Officer Netflix Los Angeles Entertainment 116

Tech.Co

JULY 29, 2020

Only about 29% of workers had the option to work from home between 2017 and 2018, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Working From Home Best Practice. Needless to say, that number has shifted drastically over the past few months.

Google 158

Google Blogging Journal News 158

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Nearly $50 billion is being spent annually on direct mail, according to statistics , and the amount has been increasing each year. Some consider direct mail very expensive or dead as a lead-generation tool. Yet it is more alive than ever before. Cold calling.

Customer 146

Customer Custom Marketing Startup 146

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Software Secretaries. Software coding was initially considered "woman's work," as it involved typing the commands onto punchcards, which was akin to taking dictation via a typewriter. Like all important social movements, the change begins with you. Did you know the first computer programmer was a woman?

Company 100

Company Companies Santa Barbara Education 100

Xconomy

OCTOBER 10, 2017

They all attend historically black universities, and their invitation into the Silicon Valley investment world is part of a new initiative to change the statistics about African-Americans in the tech industry. Only about one percent of investment professionals at VC firms are black, according to.

Venture Capital 67

Venture Capital Statistics Mentor Invest 67

socalTECH

JULY 10, 2017

Tim Grace , who co-founded San Diego-based PointPredictive with Frank McKenna and Joe Jackson, is a startup veteran, who sold BasePoint Analytics to CoreLogic in 2009, and is a former executive from HNC Software. Tim Grace: We all get our started at HNC Software in San Diego. What is PointPredictive?

Artificial Inteligence 124

Artificial Inteligence Software Review San Diego .Net 124

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

San Diego-based ID Analytics , a developer of software used by financial institutions and other companies to detect identity fraud, said this morning that it has launched a new, public service called MyIDScore.com , to help consumers figure out their risk for identity fraud.

Services 100

Services Mission Ventures Statistics San Diego 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

These technology solutions allow large companies to utilize software products to source, screen and select hiring candidates. Companies can now customize complex algorithms to find the exact candidate through the power of cutting edge software. Here are four ways that big data is affecting the hiring process. Faster Hiring Process.

Software Review 40

Software Review Statistics Technical Review Screening 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

You’re not born into being a world-class software developer. James Gillmore in the comments section offers these words to Fred Wilson, “I’d say this highly statistical evidence doesn’t counter your original stance.&# James’s overall point isn’t wrong. I like surveys. I prefer some data to no data.

Startup 289

Startup Statistics Study Entrepreneur 289

Berkonomics

AUGUST 15, 2013

A good dashboard of relevant real time information is now available for most any business, often created by computer software from data derived from monitoring real time tasks within the business. And with the rise of modern technology-driven businesses, the same is true of management in the business world.

Metrics 184

Metrics Software Review Statistics Technical Review 184

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

With the latest advances in software technology, it’s no longer cost-prohibitive for business entrepreneurs, who can’t yet afford a human resources department, to take advantage of analytics tools. Almost any startup can start with Excel, and move to open-source data analysis tools, including Python or RStudio.

Metrics 98

Metrics Tool Statistics Entrepreneur 98

socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2013

That's the idea behind Rexter (www.rexter.com), which recently raised seed funding to ramp up its software to put "LinkedIn on steroids". You might be familiar with software like ACT or Goldmine, but what's interesting about those systems, is they've not fallen by the wayside. What exactly is Rexter?

Networking 178

Networking Startup Software eHarmony 178

Berkonomics

JUNE 24, 2011

The book was written to describe in simple terms the use of statistical analysis to remove bottlenecks in a manufacturing environment. I have used that book’s lessons to teach process improvement to many types of businesses, including software development, supply chain management and retail fulfillment.

Resource 179

Resource Statistics Software Development Email 179

InfoChachkie

JUNE 16, 2016

Statistics. Gain enough of an understanding of statistics that you can quantify risks and the probabilities of potential outcomes. Contrary to conventional wisdom, success as a millennial entrepreneur does not require that you become proficient in writing commercial-quality software code. Pstat 173 Risk Theory.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Class Course Writing 100

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 29, 2011

The lack of exits in the last few years has certainly impacted this statistic, as venture capitalists have been forced to continue investing in some portfolio companies beyond their expected exits. SECTOR: Software, Energy, Bio Or Bust. Do The Math. Do The Math.

Venture Capital 233

Venture Capital Funding Capital Technical Review 233

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 24, 2015

If you are looking for a data miner and analyst with a background in computer science, business and statistics all at a graduate level, you are going to be incredibly disappointed. The so called “machine learning” that you are hearing so much about is really just simple statistics that any college student could perform for you.

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