socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2009

Pasadena-based venture capital firm California Technology Ventures has staked a developer of a video game software engine, Blade Games , with a $4M investment. Alex Suh of California Technology Ventures was involved in the funding.

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APRIL 4, 2012

Santa Barbara-based CALIENT Technologies has appointed a new Vice President of Engineering, the company said this morning. Miglani to the position, from his existing position as Director of Software Engineering. CALIENT is a developer of photonic switching systems based on 3D MEMs technology. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

San Diego-based 3D Robotics , the developer and supplier of parts and technology for personal unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has raised $5M in funding, from True Ventures and O'Reilly AlphaTech ventures. The firm said Jon Callaghan of True and Bryce Roberts at O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures have joined the company's board. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 21, 2012

Path.To , which operates a service to match up companies with software engineers, interactive designers, and other IT professionals by matching personalities, skills, and social graph, said Tuesday that it has expanded support into the Los Angeles area.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Aliso Viejo-based artificial intelligence software developer BrainChip says it is opening up a new software development center in Hyderabad, India, which it says will provide software and firmware development for its systems-on-a-chip technology.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

Encino-based market research and sampling firm uSamp said today that it has named Carl Trudel as its new Chief Technology Officer. Trudel was most recently CTO of BeachMint, and also served at Ticketmaster as SVP of Software Engineering, in addition to serving at Taleo.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2009

According to Qualcomm, the new subsidiary--Qualcomm Innovation Center--is being spun out to focus on developing open source software which uses Qualcomm's technology. The new subsidiary is being run by Rob Chandhok, Senior Vice President for Software Strategy for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

FloQast, which develops close management software for accountants, said Nayar was most recently Vice President and Head of Technology at ConsumerTrack, and also had served as Vice President of Engineering at GoDaddy, Director of Cloud Architecture at American Apparel, and Director of Software Engineering at Quark Software.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 3, 2012

What do entrepreneurs, mathematicians, software engineers, physicists, physicians, biologists, anatomists, angels, venture capitalists and bankers have in common? Physicists invent the technology. Electrical engineers design and make the hardware. Software engineers write the programs for computers to process the data.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 21, 2019

Propelled by new technologies, new businessmen have been landing in Los Angeles since the invention of the nickelodeon to create a studio that would dominate popular entertainment. Hardware makers have invested billions to improve the technology, and they’d like that money to not go to waste.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

Irvine-based WebVisible , which helps small businesses place online advertising, said this morning it is in a big hiring push, and is immediately looking to hire over 75 employees across sales, IT, software engineering, and product design positions. The firm said it received more than 600 applications from that job fair.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

There''s a gap between the robust, growing technology startups in Los Angeles and the many students graduating from local universities, according to Steven Dietz , who is a venture capitalist at LA''s Upfront Ventures. Steven Dietz: There is very little connection between the schools here and the technology community in the LA area.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Terence Chiu: Indeed Prime is a new product Indeed is building, to attract top software engineers, and connect them with the best, attractive companies hiring software engineers. In fact, it's one of the top five tech hubs, according to technology workers looking for job opportunities. Any advice for job seekers?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Atigeo said it acquired the software plus 60 issued and pending patents covering various aspects of Atigeo's data science technology. The company also said it plans to hire former Atigeo data scientists and software engineers. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Ideally they have experience with your full technology stack, but in some cases, having them learn about best practices will be necessary. As I mention in Symptoms of a Weak Development Team , the number one reason I get calls relates to an old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Strategic Technical Advisor looks at the business and determines what makes sense from a technology perspective in the short-term and longer-terms. As noted in Symptoms of a Weak Development Team , this is a symptom of the old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time.

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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2018

Irvine-based AutoGravity , which provides smartphone-driven car financing tools, has named Jason Bonifay as its new Vice President of Engineering, the company said this morning. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 23, 2015

According to Evite, it has named Evoniuk as the company''s Chief Technology Officer, to oversee the company''s technology strategy, software engineering and enterprise architecture. evite online invitations greeting amgen executive technology' READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What technology research is required? What technologies will we use? What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? How do we need to structure the systems to get ahead and stay ahead of the competition?

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2017

San Diego- and Beijing-based TuSimple , a startup developing autonomous driving technology, says it has received a permit from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to test autonomous driving vehicles on the road. The startup says it hopes to run a test this month taking an autonomous vehicle 420 miles from San Diego to Tucson.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

According to Indeed, the service--specifically targeted at technology talent--will give employers access to a "curated pool" of people, based on coding skills, educaiton, and work experience.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

There's an old adage in software development that I refer to all the time: The first 90% of development takes 90% of the time. I used this when I taught software engineering. The remaining 10%, takes the other 90% of the time. It's currently in beta.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. When you begin to peel back the onion some surprising data presents itself.

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socalTECH

JULY 30, 2018

Galvanize, which is based out of denver but has locations in Austin, Boulder, Denver, New York, Phoenix, San Francisco, and Seattle, said the acquisition and funding will add Los Angeles to its "innovation hubs" technology students, alumni, entrepreneurs, startups and established companies.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2013

No questions being asked ( 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder ) And the #1 reason I get calls relates to an old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time. It is extremely hard to be a adept at all of the technologies involved in a startup. Technical Leader.

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Xconomy

MAY 21, 2019

Thrun (pictured) says many software engineers working at the raft of companies now developing self-driving vehicles have trained in the technology via Udacity , the educational technology company he. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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socalTECH

APRIL 6, 2015

The two said that MakerSquare will launch its first class on June 29th.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2011

We are targeting small businesses, startups, or anyone who doesn't want to pay the $50 to $100 a month for web conferencing technology. Costin Tuculescu: I cam out of UC Irvine as a software engineer, studying computer science. I ended up building a lot of their technology, but unfortunately, they ran out of funding.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

You've got an interesting team - combination of deep technology, enterprise software, computer gaming, special effects, Hollywood - how did the team come together? Thirdly, at the end of the day, because this is ultimately software, we are building a very large, scalable web system.

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Xconomy

JUNE 14, 2018

New immunotherapy approaches to cancer treatment, and the CRISPR technology for editing genetic material in cells, are among the most sophisticated research strategies scientists are using in their quest to defeat disease. Existing data management systems weren’t tailored for work.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

Cliff Rees: We're a software as a solutions company. We wrote all of the core components of our technology, from the ground up--even our SIP stack, OIP application, session-border, softswitch, and media server--which runs on standards-based, off-the shelf servers. So, we see ourselves as a technology provider.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2016

Zootopia's technical staff--located here in Southern California--included more than 120 software engineers, IT, and other technology professionals, who build a huge body of very advanced, modeling and simulation software, which drove the animation that eventually made it to the big screen. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers. A local tech winner really creates a generational technology opportunity in the way nothing else can. There is much magic going on in this town with both pure tech as well as media tech. San Diego has Qualcomm. Austin has Dell.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

The site looks to be very well executed, where did you get the technology expertise to pull off the site? James Chung: My previous background is in software engineering. I spent six years in e-commerce, developing e-commerce platforms, and am pretty familiar with that.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2019

However, the adjective “electric” was eventually dropped when all the devices in a product category utilized the technology. Software terminology is stubbornly not following a similar evolution. It’s high time we kill the term Software As A Service (SaaS) and call it what it is – software.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Megan Palmer, a fellow and biosecurity researcher at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, hoped DARPA’s program would encourage a more holistic approach to biosafety in a growing field where many people, such as software engineers, might not have thought much about biosafety and security risks.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Currently the firm has 40 full time staff but will be hiring more hardware and software engineers. Anderson says the wave of exciting new products is a move to make drones and overall aerial robotics technology powerful, easier and affordable than ever before.

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