socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2010

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the venture-backed developer of cloud computing management software backed by Benchmark Capital and Index Ventures, said yesterday that it has launched a new product specifically focused on grid processing. Pricing on the new product was not announced. READ MORE>>.

S3 140

S3 EC2 Product Cloud Computing 140

socalTECH

MARCH 25, 2013

Current CEO Dru Borden will become Senior Vice President Planning and Development, and will remain on the company's board of directors. The company originally started as a provider of API-based cloud storage (ala Amazon S3) but in recent years has been focused on the enterprise area. READ MORE>>.

CIO 138

CIO Windward S3 Mission Ventures 138

socalTECH

MAY 6, 2013

As part of that ramping of its efforts, the company said Friday that is expanding its hiring efforts in Los Angeles--with such positions as software development, marketing and business development, and other titles--as it looks to continue to grow out its staff. The company said it increased its staff by a third last year. READ MORE>>.

Services 150

Services S3 Los Angeles Software Development 150

socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Publishers can come and snap valuable data into our website, to augment end user's experience, and developers can help user our data and our API to build more innovative applications, and to be more productive because of the significant availability of this trusted data. That makes the lives of developers difficult. Is this similar?

Startup 190

Startup Google S3 Platform 190

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

What’s astonishing and few other than those who lived it as startups (I launched my second startup in this era) realize is how profound of an impact that rise of Amazon AWS (S3 & EC2) had on the startup market. The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5 million and my A Round in 2005 was only $500,000 (and that’s all I ever raised).

Venture Capital 328

Venture Capital Invest Seed Funding Startup 328

socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2009

Nirvanix is a developer of storage-as-a-service, allowing companies to store data on its servers via an application programming interface (API), instead of buying and managing their own data storage. The venture-backed firm competes against Amazon's S3 storage services. READ MORE>>.

Sales 100

Sales S3 San Diego Networking 100

socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2015

Favor , a on-demand, mobile delivery app developer, said today that it will be expanding into San Diego in the coming months, thanks to a new, $13M funding round.

San Diego 100

San Diego S3 Draper Incubator 100

socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2009

ElephantDrive is a developer of software used for online backup and restore; the firm uses a combination of its own storage and Amazon S3's storage service for its back end data storage. Netgear said the new service will allow users of its data storage devices to backup and recover data from any Web browser and any Internet location.

S3 100

S3 SoCalTech Web Los Angeles 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

They started by offering cloud storage (S3) on a super cheap, pay-as-you consume basis. Amazon allowed 22-year-old tech developers to launch companies without even raising capital. They came from a different perspective. They have the mass retailer mentality of “stack ‘em high and sell ‘em cheap.&#

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Current round: $8.1mm in Series C by S3 Ventures (lead), Adams Capital Mgmt, Triangle Peak Partners. Developer of Appsaurus , a mobile app recommendation engine. Founded in 1999 in Austin, Texas. Brought in new CEO, Russ Reeder in 2008. Competitors: SmashWords , Google Books. Competition: Pingg, MyPunchbowl, TinyPrints , PaperlessPost.

Venture Capital 214

Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It launched open API’s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn’t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do so. Twitter seems to have become a bit allergic to third-party developers (or maybe vice-versa). Social Networking Will Split Into Layers.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. It launched open API’s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn’t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do so.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

One of many topics that were in discussion was the new development process of games. Josh Yguado says, “For us the development cycle never stops. Once the game gets released to the public, that’s when you add developers. Because every week, every month you are adding new content, new versions to the game, tweaking levels…”.

Lootcrate 80

Lootcrate S3 Education Activision 80

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

The REACH event will bring together some of gaming’s most influential thinkers, creators, and developers who will guide us through their vision of the next evolution of gaming. At G4, Scot served as VP of Program Editorial and Internet, and developed, Produced, and Hosted G4TV.COM, the network’s interactive talk show.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Level 1 & 2 Burden is still on the developers, you still have infrastructure. Interestingly it was same developers in both companies. It's funny.

Platform 150

Platform EC2 Java S3 150