Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2018

Any year-end review of technology news must also include reports on Russian hacking of the 2016 election campaign, and the manipulation of social media channels to spread false and divisive political messages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2016

Digital marketing is the cost-effective place to start, utilizing the internet, mobile phones, display advertising, and other digital mediums. It is search engines, web content, blogs, social media, e-mail direct, on one of many mobile-phone approaches? Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 06/08/2016.

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Xconomy

MAY 25, 2018

A few years before the presidential election of 2016, with all its Wikileaks, Russian disinformation campaigns, and phony Facebook links, San Diego’s Mitek Systems (NASDAQ: MITK made a strategic decision to expand into identity verification technology. Funny how things work out.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

That expanded into a 10-city tour in 2015, and a world tour in Europe and Asia in 2016, Pinnell says. Its first mission was to launch a Bay Area VR festival to showcase works in the new immersive art forms. It was a pivotal year when. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

So in February of 2016, he decided to refocus his San Francisco startup on the small, but unexpectedly profitable aspect of his service that could operate in the black. Like many tech entrepreneurs, Sean Behr had a young business that was popular with consumers, but was also losing money.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2018

Much attention was focused this past year on the impact of social media on the 2016 presidential election, as reports emerged about the use of these platforms by entities linked with Russia to spread false, misleading, or inflammatory political messages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2016

Today’s customers want to be mobile and location sensitive. Make sure you website is mobile-friendly, totally user-friendly, includes a blog and provides for customers review and feedback. Include mobile-app support and new social-media channels. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 03/16/2016.

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Xconomy

JUNE 21, 2016

Award winners from San Diego and other regions are now eligible for consideration for the national Entrepreneur Of The Year 2016 program. San Diego-based GreatCall is a mobile virtual network operator targeting the 65+ market with mobile phones, health apps, medical alert devices, and other technology for active and independent living.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Per the latest study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic has grown 18-fold over the past 5 years, reaching 7.2 exabytes per month at the end of 2016, of which half was video. Use internal collaboration platforms, then extend to online customers through your website, blogs, and social media.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2017

That’s a sharp contrast to 2016, when uncertainty and doubt about the economy and presidential election clouded U.S. Improving economic fundamentals are stoking the IPO pipeline in the United States and elsewhere, according to a report issued Tuesday by the global consultant and accounting firm EY. billion in the United States.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2016

. — Nick Denton (@nicknotned) March 1, 2016. However, as of today, Instant Articles become available to anybody with a Facebook page and a blog. This is a key opportunity for small blogs and publications to get ahead of the game and really understand how best to use the new product.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 18, 2016

As much of the world has shifted to mobile, smartphones are an important way to reach consumers. However, this year many brands still won’t deliver a full mobile experience, which is to say that, in 2016, many retailers still won’t have apps. Sixty eight percent spent less than $1 million on mobile developments in 2014.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

Ford Blakely, who was previously a business and financial consultant with LECG, founded Zingle in 2009 with a stand-alone device for restaurants, coffee shops, and other service businesses that enabled customers to use mobile text messaging for their take-out orders. Zingle (@ZingleMe) July 14, 2016.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2016

So, going by the traditional schedule, the 2016 iPhone would have been a major refresh, perhaps helping to reverse this year’s slowdown in sales of iOS devices. And what does this portend for the future of mobile interfaces? Redesigned iPhones typically come out in even-numbered years. So, what’s going on inside Apple?

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium said its business grew by 60 percent in the first half of 2016, but the company did not disclose specifics about its revenue. “We It’s about defining your data across the Web and now mobile.”. We have a market-leading tag management platform that is the on-ramp to a marketing-led customer management platform,” Lunsford said.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

View the Slideshow A little more than a year ago, amid a resurgence in San Diego’s software sector, Xconomy identified a baker’s dozen of local tech companies to watch in 2016. The results were so encouraging, we’re doing it again. Webroot withheld terms of the deal.).

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 26, 2018

s data privacy regulator fined Facebook $645,000 for violations that allowed political marketing firm Cambridge Analytica and other outside companies to extract 87 million Facebook profiles worldwide without adequate user knowledge or consent. The purpose of the U.K.’s

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2017

We’ve just passed a year full of news about the role of technology companies in U.S. elections, democracy, free speech, fairness in hiring, sexual harassment, privacy, data security, and the future job market for humans in the age of robots and artificial intelligence.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB ) shares gained nearly 3 percent Tuesday, and ticked up further in after-hours trading following the release of a third quarter earnings report that showed some strengths as well as shortfalls. election campaigns.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). Calls are changing but not dying. Much more data in the full post.

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Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2018

Unit sales rose 279 percent from 2016 to 2017, according to the association. “We Users can instruct these devices to order takeout, give the weather forecast, or turn on or off various Internet-connected devices. We have entered the era of voice ,” Jim Harris, a management consultant writes on the CTA’s website.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB ) has been under pressure to cleanse its pages of fake news since the discovery that Russian-backed agents using false identities tried to sway voters by spreading false and divisive messages during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The company has since purged hundreds of accounts linked to foreign entities.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Market observers may be awaiting their disclosures as eagerly as political junkies longing to learn the findings of Robert Mueller’s investigation of President Trump’s 2016 campaign. Now, it seems, those three cliffhanger endings may arrive in the same time frame early next year, and the.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 19, 2018

The national origins of tech devices and services wasn’t a front-burner question—at least for the general public—until the issue came up at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in May on Russia’s suspected hacking of the 2016 presidential election. Leaders of six U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

Our announcement today that we’ve raised $27 million from many of the industry’s most significant players including WPP (the world’s largest advertising agency), AwesomenessTV (owned by DreamWorks & Hearst) and Verizon (the largest mobile phone company in the US who has announced a major initiative to serve mobile video).

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2019

In late 2017, a federal watchdog unit assigned a working group to keep an eye on cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, and to sound an alert if those alternate currencies showed signs of becoming a risk to the stability of the US financial system.

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Xconomy

JUNE 19, 2018

The Web-based system monitors the laptops, smartphones, and other mobile devices connected to its clients’ networks. CrowdStrike’s Series E financing round was led by General. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 23, 2018

presidential election in 2016. For example, advertisers will have to unmask their identities and reveal who’s funding their ads, Facebook civic engagement team member Samidh Chakrabarti wrote in a blog post. Company CEO Mark Zuckerberg had already announced Friday. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

JULY 17, 2018

Selling a new Web-connected thermostat or other wired gizmo to consumers without a plan to deliver the necessary security patches is not only bad business—it’s unethical. So is failing to challenge a law or tech company rule that governs work on technology products, if that rule causes unjustifiable harms to people or the environment.

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Xconomy

JUNE 4, 2019

That awareness began with probes of arguably manipulative campaign messages that, during the 2016 presidential election, targeted millions of users whose profiles Facebook (NASDAQ: Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

What’s really needed, this group believes, is a society-wide mobilization of labor, technology, and innovation —the only precedent in American history being World War II.

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Xconomy

MAY 14, 2019

CrowdStrike , the cybersecurity company that identified the two Russian government-linked hacker groups that invaded the Democratic National Committee (DNC)’s network during the 2016 presidential campaign, filed publicly for an initial public offering on Tuesday.

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Xconomy

JULY 18, 2018

If top European leaders faced a testy President Donald Trump in a series of meetings this summer, imagine the mood when the president of the European Commission arrives at the White House next Wednesday.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

But that method was losing reliability due to lower response rates, as well as the movement toward mobile phones. News stories on the fluctuating leanings of the electorate used to cite surveys by traditional pollsters such as Gallup, which routinely relied on phone calls to landlines.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Statistical models, simulations, social media outreach, and the capacity to analyze big data sets—you’d think by now that technology would have delivered election forecasts that more reliably predicted Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential race. Further research may refine the method, they say.

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Xconomy

JUNE 24, 2019

To hear some people talk, you’d think the age of bipartisan action in Congress was a lost phenomenon of the distant past. But it’s not so, at least when it comes to certain issues. And no one knows it better than the big Silicon Valley tech companies that are the recent targets of proposed bipartisan bills.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

But anyone observing the 2016 election knows by now that the mere victory of a candidate carries no guarantee that even a part of a party platform will be realized—particularly parts that involve funding allocations.

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