TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 24, 2019

Google, of course, is interested in bringing these workloads to its cloud and it has made a concerted effort to bring the Hollywood studios to its Cloud Platform. That includes the launch of its Los Angeles cloud region last year, as well as its acquisition of the Zync cloud renderer back in 2014.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

As we know, long gone are the days of experiencing SXSW Interactive with just 9,000 other tech entrepreneurs and business brights – with 30,000 registrants in 2013 and the final numbers for 2014 still in the works. Savannah Peterson – Shapeaways , the social platform for 3D printing.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

SGI-DNA said it has created a fully automated gene synthesis platform, which includes an instrument that converts digitized DNA code to biological entities. SGI-DNA spun out of San Diego's Synthetic Genomics in March, and was founded in 2014. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 26, 2018

But beyond this focus on entertainment, it’s worth noting that this new region now also gives every company that bets on the Google Cloud platform a second West Coast option besides its Oregon region. That’s not what Google is focusing on today, though.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2020

PCH) announced on Wednesday that it has acquired both alcohol delivery and logistics platform Saucey , as well as cannabis delivery and retail software developer Emjay. Saucey was launched in 2014, and says it now serves 22 U.S. A new, Los Angeles-based operating and holding company, Pacific Consolidated Holdings Group Inc.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 28, 2018

This week, both Microsoft and Google made moves to woo Hollywood to their cloud computing platforms in the latest act of the unfolding drama over who will win the multi-billion dollar business of the entertainment industry as it moves to the cloud. in Los Angeles. in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

MARCH 23, 2017

Playa Vista-based virtual reality content developer SPACES announced on Wednesday that it has added Ian Richter, the former EVP of franchise and emerging platform development at Legendary Entertainment, and Joe Garlington, formerly of Walt Disney Imagineering, to its advisory board. Boost VC, Colopl VR Fund, GREE Inc.,

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 26, 2022

W]e are shifting our technology strategy to leverage external partners for parts of our platform that we’re currently maintaining internally,” Weiss wrote in the email announcing the layoffs to staff. The cuts, which amount to around one-third of Glossier’s corporate workforce, will primarily impact the company’s technology team. “[W]e

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The merger is the first step of what’s a planned rollup strategy for PCH (also the nickname for the highway that runs along the California Coast), which aims to be the leading vertically integrated vice platform focusing on e-commerce, delivery logistics, and cross industry behavioral insights.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Zweig was one of the architects behind the success of AdColony, a startup which sold to Opera Software in 2014 for $350 million. “With its patented app demo technology and tools, users will now be able to experience their apps and games on-demand and without an install across various platforms, starting with Google.”.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Los Angeles-based The Mobile Majority , which develops a mobile ad platform that helps companies create, serve, track, analyze, target and analyze advertising, says it has just hit a $50M run rate, as of November 2014.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Marlin Equity has acquired LiveOps Cloud Platform , the companies said today, in a deal which will split LiveOps into two different companies. The two parts of LiveOps have been run separately since 2014. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. LiveOps is based in Austin, Texas.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Founded in 2014 by CEO Adam Markowitz, Portfolium sells academic institutions access to what it calls its ePortfolio network, which, along with hosting student portfolios, also offers student assessments and job matching services. Students at schools that subscribe use the platform for free.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2016

The startup--founded by Dan Altmann and Eric Posen--says it is enabling the creation of mobile-first content for Snapchat and other social network platforms. The funding was led by Third Wave Digital and Allen DeBevoise and also included Disney and Luminari Capital. Allen Debevoise and Daniel Leff of Luminari will join the company's board.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The challenge a lot of those businesses have, is likely have built their sites and are using a lot of different software-as-a-service platforms. Maybe they might be using a platform like Shopify to sell their products and power their website, and they might use Facebook for advertising, and maybe they're using paid search with Google.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2022

Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. In startups, and even corporate environments, I see the spread of collaborative social platforms such as Slack and Trello. Virtually every collaboration platform and mainline business process today has a cloud-based deployment option. In the U.S.,

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Santa Monica-based secure messaging app provider TigerText , which is led by Brad Brooks, said yesterday that its annual sales grew more than 300 percent in 2014, and also doubled the size of its staff. TigerText did say that more than 500 million messages per month are now being sent using its platform.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

“Whether it be a passion for an obscure manga or your favorite football team, Kik has shown an incredible ability to provide a platform for new friendships to be forged through your mobile phone.” Whisper’s last round was a $36 million Series C back in 2014.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego startup Sensemetrics is applying that technology to the industrial Internet-of-things sector (IIoT), selling access to its cloud platform to the world’s largest mining companies and government agencies monitoring major infrastructure, such as dams. CEO Matt Meehan says Sensemetrics.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Created in 2014 and acquired by Dentsu in 2019, MuteSix was recommended to TechCrunch by Rhoda Ullmann, VP Consumer at Sense, a Boston-based startup building a home energy monitor. “They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. It only happens when the margins get tight.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Financial details of the arrangement were not disclosed, however, THQ said it expects the new title to be released in its fiscal 2014, on console and PC platforms. Agoura Hills-based videogames firm THQ said this morning that it has linked with gaming developer Crytek , to develop its next title in its Homefront franchise.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 4, 2013

The space will be that platform for entrepreneurs in the wearable industry to engage, learn and connect with the global Wearable Technology ecosystem. It aims to provide an innovation platform to foster the blend of technology, art and humanity. “ Wearable World is the answer to the call for a united community voice.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Build platform services that provide more value to our startups than just money (putting our fees into our ecosystem and not just our pockets). Platform Services – And I haven’t announced it before but we’ve also beefed up our platform services quite a bit. You can follow Hamet on Twitter here.

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StartUp Beat

JUNE 22, 2018

That’s a large part of why he decided to create LawMaker.io , which bills itself as a revolutionary platform that gives those in the U.S. Touting itself as a “free lobby for the lobbyless,” Thakkar said its a platform that could very much change the face of U.S. ” Lawmaker.io

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased about 10 percent, from 280 out of 100,000 adults in the 2014 Startup Activity Index, to 310 out of 100,000 adults in the 2015 Index. 275 IPOs were completed in 2014, topping the 2013 total of 222 by more than 23%. The elements include communications, mobile platforms, and location-based services.

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Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2017

San Diego-based TakeLessons set out nine years ago to create a Web-based platform that helped match music students with qualified instructors. The company’s last VC round in early 2014 raised $7 million. Since then, TakeLessons has raised a total of $20 million in venture capital, and expanded into new markets and services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Use of collaborative and other social media platforms. In startups, and even corporate environments, I see the spread of collaborative social platforms such as Slack and Trello. Virtually every collaboration platform and mainline business process today has a cloud-based deployment option. In the U.S.,

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socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2019

Pledgeling has built a technology platform that makes it super easy to integrate charity into their customer experience, and, as we say, grow through giving. In October of 2014, my wife and I were about to have our first child, and I am thinking to myself, I am going to take a month off and be a great dad.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2014

We decided to solve this by building an equity crowdfunding platform to help thousands of startups raise the capital they need. What was your biggest lesson learned in 2014? Not only did they have to work 24/7 to build their startup, but they also had to invest the same effort in raising capital.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2016

SaaS – or Software as a Service – platforms are all the rage. Quintype thinks that digital publishing – which relies on platforms such as wordpress, drupal and other CMS platforms – has been stuck in the dark ages. Here are four that are blazing trails right now: Quintype.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2014

How much will social media fame cost you in 2014? Each social media platform enforces rules which punish fakers. Thus, in 2014, accrue your social media status the old-fashioned way - earn it. A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. At $6,800, it is probably cheaper than you thought. The Downside.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2016

And I noticed how many comments his posts generated and I thought that would be a very useful platform for me. By 2014 my wife had set up private groups for our families so the kiddie photos mostly get shared there and it’s easy to mentally separate the private FB sharing in a groups from more public sharing.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2014

Unfortunately, many of these professionals are doing so with a desktop mindset more akin to 2004 than 2014. These platforms, including Invoca''s , provide advertisers with sophisticated quality controls and bulletproof tracking which makes these concerns a legacy of the desktop era.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The company, which started in 2014, now has over 40 employees. Mike Whitmire: We put the first version of our software out in 2014, and got a couple of beta clients. The very first product we built got us into Amplify, but we ended up scrapping that entire platform. What are you working on?

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The project now features 230 framework implementations (of our JSON serialization test) and includes new entrants on platforms as diverse as Kotlin and Qt. An upside of this environment diversity is visibility into the ways various frameworks and platforms work with the myriad variables of cores, clock speed, and virtualization technologies.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Nanxi Liu: In 2010, an industry report came out that predicted that digital signage was going to be a $4 billion market in 2014. What''s a unique part of what we do, that no other competitor does, is that we''re built as an open platform. That means third party developers can create apps on top of our platform.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 14, 2024

Instead of offering one primary grant opportunity, the platform lets entrepreneurs search through an assortment of listings, and filter the results with various criteria such as deadlines and funding amounts. The non-profit has given out a total of $130,000 since the origin of its Foundation grant in 2014.

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