Hollar No More, As Five Below Rebrands Site
socalTECH
JULY 2, 2020
Los Angeles-based, low-cost e-commerce products site Hollar is no more, and will be swallowed up by new owner Five Below , six months after the acquisition of Hollar by Five Below.
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Pasadena's ArtCenter College Of Design, 3D Avatar Site IMVU Team
socalTECH
JULY 30, 2019
The ArtCenter College of Design , based in Pasadena, and social networking and 3D avatar site IMVU announced on Tuesday that the two have launched a new "studio partnership", which will let students in a course design their own, 3D experience in the IMVU world.
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Relativity Space gains new customer in Iridium and new launch site at Vandenberg
TechCrunch LA
JUNE 24, 2020
To accomplish those, and other launches like them, the company is also setting up a new launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. “Not only do we have a second launch site, but we have an anchor customer. So from a scheduling conflict perspective, we expect the fewest conflicts of any site out there.”
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Dreaming of Mars, the startup Relativity Space gets its first launch site on Earth
TechCrunch LA
JANUARY 17, 2019
Like the other launch sites at Cape Canaveral, Launch Complex 16, where Relativity expects to be launching its first rockets by 2020, has a storied history in the U.S. From the site, Relativity will be able to launch its first designed rocket, the Terran 1, which is the only fully 3D-printed rocket in the world.
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6 Reasons Starting Another Dating Site May Be Tough
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 6, 2021
Online dating sites usually fail because online dating usually fails. This business suffers from what Paul Graham calls the ‘chicken and the egg problem‘ – no one wants to use a dating site with only a few users. Social networking” is really the new term for dating, with mega-sites like Facebook , and the hyperlocal site Foursquare.
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Six ways to make your site-app-product go viral.
Berkonomics
APRIL 8, 2021
Not every new game-related site is a Steam, and surely not every social network is a Facebook. The post Six ways to make your site-app-product go viral. It doesn’t happen by accident. And not every texting application is a Twitter. A story of an app from nowhere to near dominance. Here is my list. First: Planning.
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Have you heard? Eyeballs aren’t everything.
Berkonomics
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
And the most logical one seemed to be “eyeballs” or number of unique monthly users finding their way to the site or registering for the service. And yet, users rave about the service, and spend long durations of time on the site. Once we had what we thought was the answer, in allowing for display advertising on these sites.
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Frameworks Round 6
TechEmpower
JULY 2, 2013
The results web site has been improved with test-type and hardware-type navigation, allowing you to share links to a specific results chart, such as Round 6, Fortunes on EC2. The results web site now includes a "framework overhead" chart inspired by comments from Hacker News user goodwink.
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Edgemesh Aims At E-Commerce Sites
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
Laguna Beach-based Edgemesh says it has upgraded its product Edgemesh Server product line to specifically help e-commerce customers before the holiday rush. The company said its product now offers up a new image optimization feature, which helps decrease image download sizes by 39%.
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113 How Rolebot Wants To Eliminate The Resume, With Shane Bernstein
socalTECH
APRIL 24, 2019
Shane Bernstein: We're looking at things from a lot of different sites, and using big data to process them. That includes hundreds of thousands of sites on the web today. That lets us compare and contrast users across individual sites, and help rank the talent pool accordingly, and rank them subjectively.
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240 Framework Benchmarks Round 18
TechEmpower
JULY 9, 2019
The results web site now includes a dark theme, because dark themes are the new hotness. Nikolay Kim ( @fafhrd91 ) explained the tactics used by Actix to acheive record performance on the Fortunes test. Other updates. Round 18 now includes just over two hundred test implementations (which we call "frameworks" for simplicity).
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Frameworks Round 4
TechEmpower
MAY 2, 2013
We felt they did not add tremendous value to the site. However, the “Stripped” implementation of Django, which still uses MySQL, performs slightly better than the new Django-Postgres test. We’ve dropped the line charts in this round. We have not yet received the pull request with.NET tests.
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Framework Benchmarks Round 19
TechEmpower
MAY 28, 2020
Round 19 introduces two new features in the results web site: Composite scores and a hardware environment score we're calling the TechEmpower Performance Rating (TPR). We continuously run the benchmark suite , and each full run now takes approximately 111 hours (4.6 days) to execute the current suite of 2,625 tests. Composite scores and TPR.
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The dinner that destroyed Gawker
TechCrunch LA
MARCH 1, 2018
Peter Thiel’s vague idea to do something about Gawker, the site that had outed him as gay in 2007, was concretized into conspiracy on April 6, 2011. This is an excerpt from Ryan Holiday’s new book Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue, available now. It began unremarkably, when Thiel traveled […].
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252 Insurance is always too expensive – until it’s needed.
Berkonomics
APRIL 5, 2018
Each night’s backup would be carefully marked and the rotated between offsite and on-site locations in a series of steps so that backups of a day, two days, a week and a month were all available both on site and off site. As was each subsequent backup, on-site and offsite. Big OUCH!
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Elon Musk moved to Texas
TechCrunch LA
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Speculation that Musk would move to Texas picked up after Tesla picked and started construction on a site near Austin for a factory that will build its Cybertruck and the Model 3 and Model Y. His other privately held company, SpaceX, is planning a launch site in Boca Chica, Texas.
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Myspace Accidentally Loses 12 Years Of Music
socalTECH
MARCH 18, 2019
The onetime social networking site, founded in Los Angeles, is now owned by Meredith Corporation and is still active as an online music discovery site. However, the site has quite a bit less music now, after the site accidentally lost all of the music uploaded to the site uploaded between 2003 and 2015.
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166 Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder
SoCal CTO
FEBRUARY 13, 2013
Fake Site - you can have what looks to be a real site, even take "orders" but not actually have anything able to run it. We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites. WordPress is pretty easy to hack. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage.
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Frameworks Round 3
TechEmpower
APRIL 22, 2013
With that breadth we decided to move the project''s results to a stand-alone site separate from this blog. Speaking of pull requests, we received tests for several additional frameworks since Round 2 and we have posted Round 3. Thanks to those contributions, the number of tests has grown to over 50. View Round 3 results now.
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509 StartEngine Plans New Equity Crowdfunding Campaign, For Itself
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 15, 2017
Los Angeles-based StartEngine , the equity crowdfunding site led by serial entrepreneur Howard Marks, told its supporters on Friday that it is planning to launch a new, equity crowdfunding effort: for itself.
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Mov gives you a chance to win your favorite athlete’s game day attire — sweat, tears and all
TechCrunch LA
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Mov, launched just a few weeks ago, is more than a rebranded eBay or NBA auction site. For example, Pat Connaughton’s Jersey made $2,164 on Mov versus $560 on the NBA auction site. “We send it as is,” he said. “We We want to make it a really special experience for the fans.”.
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SpaceX to build its massive BFR in Los Angeles
TechCrunch LA
APRIL 17, 2018
The company intends to build a manufacturing facility on an 18-acre site at Berth 240 and use waterways to transport the massive rocket. The mayor of Los Angeles confirmed earlier reports that SpaceX will build its largest rocket, the BFR, at the Port of Los Angeles. SpaceX says the BFR is simply too big to be transported by roads.
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274 TeleSign Acquisition By BICS Closes, Deal Value Rises To $335M
socalTECH
OCTOBER 31, 2017
TeleSign's cloud-based communications services are used by many, major online service providers and e-commerce sites for authentication users, using phone and other methods. TeleSign will continue to be run by CEO Aled Miles. According to BICS, TeleSign will continue to operate independently as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company.
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290 OnSite Waste Technologies Signs Supplier To Senior Living Industry
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Newport Beach-based startup OnSite Waste Technologies , which is developing counter-top, on-site medical waste sterilization products, says it has signed on a supplier of products for the senior living industry. The company said that Direct Supply, based in Milwaukee, is offering the company's OnSite TE-5000 product to its customers.
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eTailPet Finds $800K Seed Funding
socalTECH
APRIL 4, 2019
Los Angeles-based eTailPet , a new startup which helps pet store owners create online e-commerce sites, has received a round of seed funding, the company said this week. The seed funding was worth $800K, and led by Moonshots Capital, and also included individual angels from the pet industry.
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Google Releases High Resolution Montecito Disaster Satellite Map
socalTECH
JANUARY 18, 2018
Pictured: rescue units searching in the vicinity of what was the Cantin residence in Montecito, site of a known missing person and a number of fatalities. The maps are detailed enough that fire and rescue units can be seen searching houses for victims of the debris and mud flow. READ MORE>>.
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8 Challenges For Startups With A Neighborhood Focus
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 30, 2021
At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. Local businesses won’t use a site until it has a critical mass of users.
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SpaceX reportedly looking to build Starship rockets at Port of LA
TechCrunch LA
JANUARY 30, 2020
SpaceX is said to be in talks with local government officials about setting up a new rocket factory in the Port of Los Angeles, a location that would give it easy access to the ocean for transporting its next-generation Starship and Super Heavy launch vehicles to its coastal launchpad sites in Florida.
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ChargerHelp raises $2.75M to keep EV chargers working
TechCrunch LA
MARCH 29, 2021
“When the stations went down we really couldn’t get anyone on site because most of the issues were communication issues, vandalism, firmware updates or swapping out a part — all things that were not electrical,” Terry said. It was here that she spotted a gap in the EV charging market.
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Hackers claim ransomware attack on Los Angeles housing authority
TechCrunch LA
JANUARY 3, 2023
HACLA, which provides affordable housing to more than 19,000 low-income families across Los Angeles, was added to LockBit’s dark web leak site on December 31. The listing, seen by TechCrunch, claims that LockBit has stolen 15 terabytes of data from the housing agency.
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Verizon names Los Angeles as the second of four cities to receive 5G rollout before 2019
TechCrunch LA
MAY 15, 2018
“We’ll have 1,000 cell sites up and operating on the global standard,” McAdam said on the cable network. . “We bought 36 million miles of fiber so we can have big pipes feeding the cells. We will have hundreds of megahertz of bandwidth to deliver the whole suite of services of 5G,” McAdam said.
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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024
TechEmpower
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Assess the Company's Website: The company's own site provides a clue to its dedication to aesthetics and content. However, an overly attractive site could indicate a leaning towards design over development. Avoid them.
Abodu raises $20M to build prefabricated backyard homes
TechCrunch LA
JULY 15, 2021
Then on January 1, 2020, the state of California made it dramatically easier to add extra housing units to single-family home sites. Pricing starts at $190,000, but the average project cost across all sizes is around $230,000, Geary said, inclusive of permits and site work. All have kitchens and living space.
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Framework Benchmarks Round 17
TechEmpower
OCTOBER 30, 2018
The results web site is a bit wider in response to feedback. We are also considering adding an attribute to indicate and filter test implementations using traditional database connections versus those using pipelining. Other updates. Round 17 is now measuring 179 frameworks. New languages such as F# are now represented. In the works.
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6 Reasons Your Business Needs A Web Presence To Start
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 27, 2021
In fact, you need to have at least a prototype web site published several weeks before you expect anyone to find yours, since it takes that amount of time for the web search engine “spiders” to find you and index your content. There are many practical reasons for going to work early on your web site. Viral marketing needs a website.
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139 Energy Developer Deploys Major Battery Storage Project In Ventura County
socalTECH
JULY 6, 2021
Clean energy developer Arevon Asset Management has installed what it says is one of the largest energy storage sites in the United States in Saticoy, California. According to Arevon, the energy stored on the site can power Oxnard for four hours, or all of Ventura County for thirty minutes.
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OriginClear Moves HQ to Texas From DTLA
L.A. Business Journal
APRIL 21, 2020
a downtown water treatment technology business, has moved its corporate headquarters to the company's manufacturing site in McKinney, Texas. OriginClear Inc.,
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Company Offering $10K for a 30 Day Phone Detox, Apply Now
Tech.Co
JANUARY 26, 2024
How to Enter Contest and Win $10,0000 To enter the contest, simply head over to Siggi’s site, read the contest information, and then click on the “Enter the contest” button located at the bottom of the contest page. Or appear as if you're in another country? Get a huge 86% off Surfshark with this special tech.co
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The future of car ownership: Cars-as-a-service
TechCrunch LA
JULY 10, 2019
” Citing a Bloomberg report, the site explains automakers may have had the worst first half for new-vehicle retail sales since 2013. Some startups are attempting to reinvent car ownership rather than car buying. Don’t buy, lease. My favorite car blog Jalopnik said it best: “Cars Sales Could Be Heading Straight Into the Toilet.”
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HauteLook Hacked, Millions Of Account Details Leaked By Hackers
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
The personal account details of nearly 28 million users of HauteLook , the private sales site founded in Los Angeles and now owned by Nordstrom , have been hacked and have just shown up for sale on the "dark web" , according to security researchers.
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7 Ways Your Marketing Needs To Meet Today’s Customers
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 22, 2021
It works best through effective use of social media, mobile apps, societal initiatives, becoming an influencer, and providing a modern easily-found web site with credible customer-focused content. Participate in the top social media sites for maximum impact. Inbound marketing data is more easily measured for ROI.
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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
Ethan had pointed out to me that merchants were being barraged by “deal site” wanting to drive customers in the door but they didn’t have great tools to manage their customers. I think it’s a beautifully designed site and product. I told him that this had been a big theme for me for some time.
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5 Startup Funding Models That Depend On The Consumer
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 19, 2022
This model facilitates donations to charities and creative projects, and has been around for a long time via sites such as GoFundMe. This model been popular in many countries for years, where banks loans are not available, via sites such as LendingClub and Kiva. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co
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10 Steps To A New Venture That Can Change The World
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 25, 2020
The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( 200 on Wikipedia ), or another dating site/app ( over 1500 in the USA ). As a startup advisor in this age of the entrepreneur, I see many more startups, but innovation is still hard to find.
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