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High profile entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, CEO of Los Angeles-based Mahalo , emailed an impassioned note to his mailing list Thursday, which he also posted to his personal blog, detailing how one of the firm's employees has just been sentenced to 48 months in jail for computer hacking. According to the FBI indictment, the employee, John Scheifer, infected 250,000 computers with malware to create a "botnet"--a network of hacked computers used to steal account data.
The Technology Council of Southern California and TechEmpower are happy to announce the launch of: Southern California Tech Central This is a community of people in Southern California who have come together to help find and organize the best content from blogs, news sources and other web sites all around technology in So Cal. The goal is [.]. Tags: Hardware Internet Marketing Media/Entertainment Newsletter Sales Software Startups Venture Capital Video Games.
Thursday, April 2, 2009 -- iPhone Programming. SDSIC. Come see an iPhone application developed from scratch, live and in action, showing every major step along the way. YouÂ?ll learn how to use the iPhone OS SDK, how to use Xcode to write Objective-C code, how to use Interface Builder to lay out your user-interface, how to use the Debugger, and even how to download your completed application to a iPhone or iPod Touch.
It's interesting to see how the Internet continues to create new marketplaces for what are otherwise inefficient businesses. An area we've been seeing a lot of companies attacking recently is tutoring and homework help. One of the firms looking to make its market in the area is Altadena-based Student of Fortune (www.studentoffortune.com). We talked with Sean McCleese, CEO and Founder of the firm, about what it offers, and how it's looking to stand out from the many other tutoring sites out there
Office leases are one of companies’ largest expenses, and if your whole team is working from home with no clear end in sight, you may be wondering what to do about your lease.
Rob Farrow is one of the co-founders of Chi.mp , a new startup which is getting set to launch a service to allow users to manage their profiles across the many sites on the Internet. The firm recently relocated its headquarters from Hawaii, and we talked with Rob about why someone might need the service, how it's different from the scores of social networking sites on the web, and what problem it's trying to solve.
Carlsbad-based Adjix announced this morning that the firm is looking to help users monetize the popular Twitter micro-blogging service. Adjix said that it is creating a "new ad format" which will allow text ads to be embedded within Twitter "tweets." The new service allows users to select short text ads as part of their 140 messages on the Twitter service, appending the advertising and a URL at the end of a user's update.
San Diego-based Adventrx Pharmaceuticals , which was developing pharmaceuticals to improve existing cancer treatments, said late Friday that it will discontinue "substantially all" of its development activities and business operations. The firm said it has reduced its workforce to five employees, while it looks for a "strategic transaction" or financing.
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San Diego-based Adventrx Pharmaceuticals , which was developing pharmaceuticals to improve existing cancer treatments, said late Friday that it will discontinue "substantially all" of its development activities and business operations. The firm said it has reduced its workforce to five employees, while it looks for a "strategic transaction" or financing.
San Diego-based Quidel , a developer of diagnostic tests for the healthcare industry, said Tuesday that it has cut approximately 10 percent of its work force, or 31 employees, in a corporate restructuring. According to Quidel, it made the cuts in order to "gain operational efficiences and reduce costs." Quidel disclosed that the cuts included two senior-level positions, an elimination of its annual cash incentives, and efforts to reduce discretionary spending for the remainder of the year.
Beverly Hills-based Baroda Ventures , an early stage venture capital fund, has hired on Peter Lee as a new Partner at the firm. Lee joins the firm from Prism Ventures. Lee has also served at Clearstone Venture Partners, Fortis Partners, Goldpocket Interactive, and McKinsey & Co. According to Lee, his last day at Prism Ventures will be Monday. Baroda Ventures is the venture capital firm run by Geocities founder David Bohnett; the firm's investments have included LowerMyBills, Stamps.com, Unit
Los Angeles-based Steamboat Ventures has set its sights on the celebrity web space, and is the lead investor in a new round of funding for Fanzter , which operates the celebrity products site Coolspotters.com. According to Connecticut-based Fanzter, Steamboat's Dan Beldy joins the firm's board of directors. Coolspotters is a web site which highlights which products celebrities are buying and wearing.
Aliso Viejo-based SiliconSystems , a manufacturer of flash-based disk drives, announced Tuesday that the firm's products have been selected by a manufacturer of single-board computers. SiliconSystems said that VersaLogic Corp. has slected the firm's SiliconDrive Blade for a new, single board computer targeted at the military, aerospace, and medical equipment manufacturing market.
Santa Monica-based Docstoc , the venture funded web-document sharing firm run by Jason Nazar, has connected the firm's document sharing service with Facebook and Twitter updates. The new features allow users to automatically post a link in the Facebook social networking site or the Twitter micro-blogging service with any upload or download of a document.
Agoura Hills-based ISWest , a provider of high speed Internet access, colocation, and server hosting, and Los Angeles-based IT outsourcing firm Cal Net, said Thursday that the firms have expanded an alliance to help clients move servers off-site to save money on managing their IT. Details of the expanded partnership were not disclosed. The firms said they have been working together for the last 8 years.
San Dieog-based PURE Bioscience , a developer of an antimicrobial disinfectant, said Wednesday that it has licensed a distributor for its products in India. According to PURE Bioscience, the firm's products will be distributed under the brand name Enviroguard through Global Endeavor and its Indian subsidiary, Pure-Enviro Biotech, Pvt. Ltd. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Pasadena-based LeisureLink has closed on $6.2M in a first tranche of additional funding for the travel firm, the company disclosed today. LeisureLink, which provides a distribution and booking service for specialty lodging, said the round was led by Mission Ventures and Clearstone Venture Partners, and also included participation from its other insiders.
San Diego-based Advantar Laboratories , a provider of contract laboratory services to the drug development industry, has signed an agreement with UK-based firm NextPharma Technologies, a pharmaceutical product development, contract manufacturing, and outsourcing service. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to NextPharma, Advantar will provide it with finish services including lyophilization, packaging, labeling, storage and shipment of clinical materials to clinical sites.
Los Angeles-based AdventureLink , the new adventure travel booking site run by Kelly Tompkins, announced this morning that it has acquired a competitor, Adventure Central. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. According to AdventureLink, the all-stock deal also included a new investment from Allegis Capital. Amount of that funding was not released.
Santa Monica-based Topspin Media , the online music startup of former Yahoo Music GM Ian Rogers, said today that the firm has inked a deal with Berkleemusic.com, the online continuing education division of the Berklee College of Music, to partner on a set of online music courses. According to Topspin, the two will work together to develop online music courses designed to teach artists, managers and labels on effective use of Topspin's platform.
Los Angeles-based private equity firm Vicente Capital Partners announced today that the firm has held a final close on its Growth Equity Fund, bringing the total commitment to the fund to $165M. The firm said that new capital commitments came from Credit Suisse and the State of Connecticut. Vicente Capital had announced the new funding in October with $150M in commitments.
San Diego-based Optimer Pharmaceuticals , a biopharmaceutical company focused on antibiotics, said Thursday that it has raised $32.9M in a registered direct offering from institutional investors. Those investors were not disclosed. The firm said it will sell 2,794,700 newly issued shares of its common stock at a purchase price of $10.00 per share. Optimer has two lead products, a antibiotic in phase 3 trials for Clostridium difficile infection, and an antibiotic for treating 'travelers' diarrhea
Santa Monica-based Image Metrics , a venture-funded developer of facial animation software, announced Tuesday that the firm has signed on a UK-based studio as a client. According to Image Metrics, Double Negative is a beta client for the firm's facial animation technology, and will use the firm's "self-service" offering to use Image Metrics' facial animation process in-house.
Arcadia-based Siimpel Corporation , which is developing MEMs-based components for mobile cameras, announced Monday afternoon that the firm has raised an additional round of investment from LG Innotek. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. Siimpel develops MEMs modules which are used to design higher quality, mobile phone cameras. LG Innotek is a Korean developer of camera components, modules, and related products.
Calabasas-based Emergent Game Technologies , the software developer behind the popular Gamebryo game engine, said today that it has launched a new product focused on rapid prototyping and development of game titles. According to the firm, its new title--Gamebryo Lightspeed--will allow developers to create games on any console or PC platform. The firm said that the new software can create titles "in any genre" for Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, PC, and downloadable titles.
Los Angeles-based GoTV Networks has launched a new mobile, social networking application focused on sharing pictures, videos, and text with their friends and family. The firm launched its new product-- LiveFromYou --Tuesday, saying that the new service will automatically organize pictures, videos, and media, and share that media with widgets loaded on Facebook or MySpace.
Lake Forest-based Western Digital Corp. said this morning that it has acquired Aliso Viejo-based SiliconSystems , a manufacturer of solid state disk drives, in a deal worth $65M in cash. According to Western Digital, SiliconSystems will added to the firm as a new division. Michael Hajeck, founder and CEO of SiliconSystems, will become Senior Vice President and General Manager of WD's newly formed Solid State Storage Business.
Yesterday, Pasadena-based LeisureLink (www.leisurelink.com) announced a $6.2M funding round for the firm's travel booking service. We caught up with Eric Hovanec, the firm's CEO, and Steve Reich, the firm's SVP of Sales, to hear more about the funding. For those who haven't seen LeisureLink before, explain how your service works? Eric Hovanec: We're a distribution and revenue platform for specialty lodging providers, including vacation rentals, condominium hotels--anything that isn't a hotel.
Marina Del Rey-based ActionAllStars.com , which develops virtual worlds for kids from six to 14 years old, said this morning that it has linked up with Candystand.com , an online gaming and entertainment site. According to the firms, ActionAllStars.com's sports entertainment will be available directly from Candystand.com's web site. The deal includes access to Action Allstar's sports games from the National Basketball Assocation (NBA) and Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLB).
Dan Yomtobian is CEO and founder of Sherman Oaks-based Scour (www.scour.com), a meta-search engine which adds social features such as voting and comments to Internet search. Scour is an offshoot of a PPC advertising firm, ABCSearch, which was also founded by Dan. We talked with Dan to learn more about Scour, how it started, what he's hoping to do with it, plus learn more about the firm's hiring plans.
Los Angeles-based RotoHog , a developer of fantasy sports games, has inked a deal with Fox Sports on a Spanish-language, fantasy sports game focused on the 2009 Major League Baseball season. RotoHog, which is set to announce the deal tomorrow, said that the partnership with Fox Sports En Espanol will make its fantasy game available to subscribers in 25 countries in North and South America and the Caribbean.
For our Insights and Opinions section today, we are featuring a podcast from Andrew Warner founder of Mixergy, which runs a popular series of technology networking events in Los Angeles. Andrew has recently been interviewing interesting entrepreneurs and thought leaders, and recently interviewed Brian Johnson , the founder of eteamz, Zaadz, and Philospher's Notes.
Santa Barbara-based Make It Work , which operates an in-home, computer and electronics help service, said Friday that it has signed a multi-year contract to host a radio show on KNX 1070. According to Make It Work, the show will be hosted by Jeremy Anticouni, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of the firm, along with radio talent Tim Conway, Jr.
San Diego-based NexAira , a venture-backed developer of 3G/4g wireless data products, said this morning that it has added two telecom vets to its board of directors. NexAira said that former president and acting CEO of Novatel Wireless, Brad Weinert, and the previous CEO of Radiant Communications, Jim Grey, have joined the firm's board of directors.
Aliso Viejo-based Enclarity is announcing today that it has raised $5.5M in a Series C funding round. The round came from Bain Capital Ventures and Ignition Partners. According to Enclarity, the funding will go towards further research and development. Enclarity develops healthcare information systems which help keep databases up to date, including information about physicians and their practices.
Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , the online advertising optimization software firm headed by Frank Addante, released new traffic and customer numbers Monday, saying that the company is now serving up ads for 8 of the top 15 newspaper publishers in the U.S. The company's publishing customers include MediaNews, Gannett, and Freedom Interactive, among others.
Aliso Viejo-based Buy.com is looking to convince consumers that buying stuff online is greener for the planet than driving to your local store: and is backing it up with an academic study. Buy.com provided data to a team at Carnegie Mellon University, which churned through that information to reach the conclusion that shopping online uses 35 percent less energy and carbon dioxide emissions, than traditional retail shopping.
Pasadena-based X1 Technologies , a developer of enterprise search software, announced Monday that the firm has tapped Singapore firm Shepard Pte Ltd as a partner. X1 said that Shepard will represent the firm's Enterprise Search Solutions in Singapore and elsewhere in South Asia. X1's search software is being used for enterprise search and electronic discovery services.
Burbank-based Take180.com announced Tuesday that the firm has officially launched a web site which looks to create original web series based on audience participation. The site--which is owned by The Walt Disney Company--said it has created three web series called "My Date," "I READ MORE>>. Tags: take180 fanlib fiction video content disney walt.
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