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1/25/08 – Los Angeles-based MyMedicalRecords.com, which provides web-based personal health records services, has debuted MMR Pro, which it says is an easy-to-use, low-cost system that enables physicians and other healthcare providers to store paper-based patient medical records in a secure online environment without requiring upfront costs for special hardware or software.
1/25/08 – Gumiyo, a Woodland Hills-based startup that develops e-commerce solutions for mobile devices, will begin enabling consumers of AutoUpLinkUSA, which runs an online inventory service for car dealers, to directly access their online inventory listings through a mobile phone web browser.
Continue reading "Gumiyo Links Up with Auto Inventory Management Firm" »
1/24/08 – Westlake Village-based Row 44 and Southwest Airlines announced this week that it will test Row 44’s service on four of its aircraft this summer. This will make Southwest the first U.S. carrier to test satellite-delivered broadband Internet access on multiple aircraft.
Continue reading "Southwest Airlines to Test Row 44 In-Flight Broadband" »
1/24/08 – Dell has announced that it will begin bundling Culver City-based open source IP telephony company Fonality’s open-source software with its enterprise servers.
1/24/08 – Venture investors poured $3.8 billion into Southern California-based companies last year, according to the Quarterly Venture Capital Report released this week by Dow Jones VentureSource. The total represents 272 deals and a 12 percent growth rate over 2006.
Continue reading "Venture Capital Investment in Region Continues to Grow" »
1/23/08 – Santa Monica-based mobile video and advertising company Transpera and Los Angeles-based online video company Break.com are partnering up to bring Break’s Internet content to mobile phones.
Continue reading "Local Online Video Companies Partner Up" »
1/23/08 – AlwaysOn has unveiled its OnMedia 100 winners, an award that recognizes the top private companies who have made significant strides in the advertising, marketing, and promotion industry. Local winners include Ripe Digital Entertainment, Ripple, Jacked, The Rubicon Project, ThisNext and Transpera.
Continue reading "Local Companies Well Represented in AlwaysOn OnMedia 100" »
1/23/08 – Santa Monica-based Jacked, an online publishing platform designed to operate simultaneously with TV programming, today announced that it has been selected to join Microsoft’s Startup Accelerator Program. The program is designed to connect high-potential startups to an extensive support network that it says provides access to Microsoft people and programs, guidance on future directions, and support to accelerate participants’ success.
Continue reading "Jacked Joins Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program" »
1/22/08 – Spot Runner, the Los Angeles-based Internet-based TV ad agency, has announced the acquisition of GlobeShooter, a network of more than 1,200 independent filmmakers, professional videographers, photographers, producers and production companies.
Continue reading "Spot Runner Acquires Video Producer Network" »
1/22/08 – Irvine-based Integrien, the provider of integrity management solutions for businesses, today unveiled the next version of its flagship software, Alive. Integrien says version 6.0 includes enhanced analytics, scalability for the largest operational environments and a new customizable, role-based GUI, which assists IT operations staff in alleviating complexities associated with maintaining mission critical applications in complex IT environments. The software increases operational efficiency by providing real-time, automated analysis of IT performance data and delivers actionable intelligence for identifying, resolving, and preventing problems, according to Integrien.
Continue reading "Integrien Releases New Version of ‘Alive’ Integrity Management Software" »
1/18/08 – El Segundo-based Ripple, which delivers hyper-local content on flat screen panels in public locations, has announced two big partnerships that expand its network of public interactive screens and its advertising reach. The first is a deal with CBS Outernet, a division of CBS that runs in-store media networks and advertising in grocery stores nationwide. The company has also partnered with SeeSaw Networks, a San Francisco-based media company that offers a digital out-of-home media network advertising portfolio.
Continue reading "Ripple Expands Reach with SeeSaw Networks and CBS" »
1/18/08 – Pasadena-based eSolar, the renewable energy startup that specializes in solar thermal power, has been given the largest grant by Google.org in its initial $26 million disbursement of funds. Back in late November, Google.org, which is Google’s philanthropic arm, announced that eSolar would be part of the first group of companies to receive support.
Continue reading "eSolar Gets $10 Million from Google.org" »
1/18/08 – The Los Angeles Venture Association, or LAVA, held its fifth annual awards dinner last night, where it honored some of the region’s standout companies over the last year, and presented its Lifetime Achievement Award in Venture Capital to IdeaLab CEO Bill Gross.
Continue reading "LAVA Honors IdeaLab’s Gross at Annual Awards Dinner" »
1/17/08 – Xirrus, the Westlake Village-based provider of high-performance, long-range wi-fi products, has been chosen to provide wi-fi connectivity for USENIX—the Advanced Computing Systems Association—conferences and symposiums. The group says these events are meeting grounds for the presentation, discussion and application of technical advances in all aspects of computing systems, covering topics such as network design and implementation, systems administration, network security and electronic voting.
Continue reading "USENIX Selects Xirrus as Wi-Fi Provider for Events" »
1/17/08 – Los Angeles-based 60Frames Entertainment, a producer and syndicator of online content that was recently started and incubated by United Talent Agency and Los Angeles-based Spot Runner, has launched its first line up of programming. The company says it first programs include one called “Cockpit,” a comedy series developed by the group that created the popular online series “Prom Queen” for Michael Eisner’s Vuguru, and “Erik the Librarian Mysteries,” which is written and directed by TV writer Brent Forrester of “The Office.”
1/16/08 – Westwood-based mobile virtual network operator, or MVNO, Helio, today officially released its long-anticipated Mysto phone. The device is an ultra-thin slider phone that features a large, reflective mirror-like screen, and electrostatic keys that make the device shiver when pressed, according to Helio.
Continue reading "Helio Officially Releases Mysto Phone; Includes New GPS Search" »
1/16/08 – Los Angeles-based Placely, a new online travel networking startup that enables travelers to share information and to stay connected while traveling, announced today that it has launched a new free feature. Called the TripKit, the company says it allows users to enter a travel itinerary and immediately receive relevant data to make the travel experience more informative and pleasurable.
Continue reading "Placely Launches TripKit Travel and Social Networking Service" »
1/16/08 – Los Angeles-based The Rubicon Project, a startup online marketing and advertising firm, has hired Bob Bennett, the former senior vice president of product development at Ticketmaster, as vice president of product and engineering. The company says Bennett will oversee all aspects of product development and the technology team.
1/15/08 – Irvine-based Fisker Automotive, a startup that is working on a range of environmentally friendly sports cars, has secured a second round of funding, from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Fisker is a joint venture of Quantum Fuel Systems and Fisker Coachbuild that was launched in September, 2007. The firms did not disclose the funding amount.
Continue reading "Fisker Automotive Gets Backing from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers" »
1/15/08 – Westlake Village-based Inphi, which designs and develops integrated circuits for processing high-speed digital data in computing and communications systems, today announced that John S. Edmunds has been appointed as its CFO. The company says that Edmunds will assume responsibility for its global financial strategy, planning and reporting, and will report directly to Young Sohn, Inphi’s president and CEO.
1/15/08 – Oversee.net, the downtown Los Angeles-based online media company that runs domain and online marketing services businesses, announced today that it has executed a definitive agreement with private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners for an investment of $150 million. The firms did not disclose specific terms, but said that the transaction is expected to close by the end of January.
1/14/08 – ExerciseTV, the Los Angeles-based on-demand content network dedicated to fitness and sports training programming and founded by Jake Steinfeld of Body by Jake, has partnered with thePlatform, a white-label broadband video publishing company. ExerciseTV says the partnership will allow it to grow and expand the video offerings on its fitness destination web site.
Continue reading "ExerciseTV Partners to Expand OnDemand Offerings" »
1/14/08 – The Automotive X PRIZE, a competition run by the Santa Monica-based XPRIZE Foundation, and designed as a competition to find viable, super-efficient vehicles, has announced that it will release a request for proposal to U.S. cities interested in hosting a stage of its upcoming city-to-city race. The announcement coincides with the North American International Auto Show’s press and industry preview days this week, where Automotive X PRIZE says it will showcase the innovations of its early entrants at its booth.
Continue reading "Automotive X PRIZE Moving to Next Stage at 2008 Detroit Auto Show" »
1/14/08 – Los Angeles-based security software developer CyberDefender has announced that it will release a beta of its safeSEARCH Toolbar v2.0 at the end of this month. The company says it will be available for download beginning January 30 at beta.cyberdefender.com.
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1/11/08 – The 5th Annual Los Angeles County Technology Week is coming up during the last week of the month—January 28-31, 2008.
Continue reading "Sally Ride to Headline 5th Annual Los Angeles Tech Week" »
1/11/08 – MusicIP, the Monrovia-based digital music discovery and recommendations web site, today announced that it has partnered with LyricFind, a provider of lyric search and display services. MusicIP says the partnership will enhance MusicIP’s MyDJ and MusicDNS products to now include lyrical information, allowing music fans to seamlessly and quickly access their digital music.
Continue reading "MusicIP Partners with LyricFind to Expand Music Offerings" »
1/11/08 – Culver City-based Fonality, the open-source IP telephony company, has garnered Technology Marketing Corporation’s Internet Telephony Magazine’s Product of the Year award for 2007 for the third year in a row.
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1/10/08 – Interneer, the Culver City-based web application software developer, has announced that Frank Perna Jr. has been elected to its board of directors. Perna joins board members Jim Collins, the renowned entrepreneur and businessman, and Michael Edell, managing partner of Groundwork Equity, who also serves as Interneer’s CEO.
1/10/08 – Boingo Wireless, the Santa Monica-based wi-fi hotspot network operator, and Irvine’s Broadcom Corporation have partnered up to enable wireless network connections for wi-fi phone users. Broadcom manufactures semiconductors for both wired and wireless communications devices.
Continue reading "Boingo Wireless Enters Into Partnership with Broadcom" »
1/10/08 – Break.com, the Los Angeles-based Internet video entertainment company, has announced a partnership with Verizon Wireless to bring Break’s original content to Verizon’s V CAST Video service.
Continue reading "Break.com to Bring Video Content to Verizon Wireless Customers" »
1/9/08 – Pasadena-based Evolution Robotics Retail, a division of robotic technology company Evolution Robotics, has made a new version of its LaneHawk Visual Scanner solution available for the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system. LaneHawk is designed to prevent bottom-of-basket losses at retail locations. According to the company, this type of inventory loss accounts for 0.1 percent of front-end sales, which equates to ten dollars per lane, per day in a typical store.
Continue reading "Evolution Robotics Retail Releases New Version of Visual Scanner" »
1/9/08 – Marina Del Rey-based DevZuz, a developer of delivery platforms that link enterprise businesses to application development projects and processes, has been acquired by Exist Global, a software engineering services firm headquartered in the Philippines.
1/9/08 – Xirrus, the Westlake Village-based provider of high-performance, long-range wi-fi products, has announced that it has deployed a wi-fi network solution for Santa Barbara-based Occam Networks, a manufacturer of broadband access solutions for service providers of voice, video, and data services. Xirrus says its network provides high performance coverage at Occam’s new 47,000 square foot headquarters, supporting more than 130 employees and corporate visitors using voice and data on laptops and PDAs.
Continue reading "Xirrus Provides Wi-Fi Solution for Occam Networks’ New Headquarters" »
1/8/08 – Woodland Hills-based search marketing firm ReachLocal today announced that it has become an authorized reseller of Google’s AdWords advertising program.
Continue reading "ReachLocal Becomes Google Authorized Reseller" »
1/7/08 – Los Angeles-based Geni.com, the highly-touted genealogy web site, has launched two new major features that it says add to the collaborative nature of the service. Geni has been wildly popular since its launch last January, reaching the 5 million user profiles milestone within seven months.
Continue reading "Geni Bids to Become ‘Digital Scrapbook’ for Families" »
1/7/08 – One of the more interesting stories coming out of CES from companies in the Los Angeles area is Pasadena-based Evolution Robotics, which today unveiled what it says is a system that allows robots to be aware of their environments and perform tasks with autonomy. The system is called NorthStar 2.0, and at its debut at the CES show, the company is touting the system as “a new era of ‘super smart’ robots for the consumer market.”
Continue reading "Evolution Robotics Debuts Breakthrough Technology at CES" »
1/7/08 – Manhattan Beach-based TechForward, which provides consumer electronics trade-in plans, has used this week’s CES show as a platform to unveil a wide-ranging enhancement to its service line which it says is designed to help retailers, product manufacturers, and consumers overcome obstacles to more frequent upgrade purchasing of popular consumer electronics.
Continue reading "TechForward to Accelerate Upgrade Cycle for Consumer Electronics" »
1/4/08 – Oversee.net, the Downtown Los Angeles-based online media company that runs domain and online marketing services businesses, has acquired Moniker, a provider of domain name registration, domain asset management and monetization services.
Continue reading "Oversee.net Acquires Second Domain Services Company" »
1/4/08 – Pasadena-based Evolution Robotics, the provider of robotic technologies for consumer products, today announced that the Korean Institute of Industrial Technology has licensed its ViPR robotic visual pattern recognition technology for incorporation into the Institute’s national robot platform Software Development Kit.
Continue reading "Evolution Robotics Licenses Technology to Korean Institute" »
1/3/08 – El Segundo-based Axiotron is now officially shipping its Modbook Mac-based notebook computer. The highly anticipated and long-delayed notebook is the first Apple-authorized Mac tablet computer.
Continue reading "Axiotron Ships Modbook Mac-Based Tablet" »
1/3/08 – Twistbox Entertainment, a mobile entertainment company based in Sherman Oaks, has announced that it has agreed to merge with Mandalay Media, Inc. The companies say that pursuant to the proposed merger, Twistbox will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mandalay, and the shareholders of Twistbox will receive shares of common stock in Mandalay.
Continue reading "Mobile Entertainment Company Twistbox Entertainment Announces Merger" »
1/2/08 – Westlake Village-based Inphi, which designs and develops integrated circuits for processing high-speed digital data in computing and communications systems, announced today that Ron Torten has been appointed as vice president of worldwide sales. The company says Torten will report directly to Inphi’s president and CEO, and will assume responsibility for the company’s entire sales group, including an extensive network of direct and independent sales organizations, manufacturer’s representatives and distributors in North America, Europe and Asia.
Continue reading "Inphi Corporation Selects Vice President of Worldwide Sales" »
12/28/07 – Hawthorne-based SpaceX, the developer of space launch vehicles, has announced the completion of the Systems Requirements Review, or SRR, for what will be the third demonstration of the company’s Falcon 9/Dragon spacecraft under NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services, or COTS, program. The company says that NASA representatives attended the event, which was held on the first day of regular business operations at SpaceX’s new headquarters in Hawthorne. The company previously operated out of El Segundo.
Continue reading "SpaceX Completes NASA Review for Berthing at International Space Station" »
12/27/07 – Santa Monica-based Trilogy Studios, the videogame and virtual world development startup, has appointed video game industry veteran and former Sony PlayStation and Sega chief Bernard Stolar to its board of advisors.
12/21/07 – Big Stage, the Pasadena-based startup that offers a 3D avatar creation tool, announced this week that Chuck Huebner, former head of worldwide studios at Activision, has been hired as president and CEO. Big Stage unveiled its technology earlier this week. In a nutshell, it allows users to easily create and integrate a life-like 3D avatar of themselves into media like famous movie scenes, TV shows and video games.
12/21/07 – The Technology Council of Southern California has issued its call for nominations for its fourteenth annual Technology Industry Awards. The honors are presented to individuals and companies that the Council determines have “made extraordinary contributions to the growth of Southern California as a center for technological innovation.” Nominations must be received by January 18, according to the Council. The awards will be presented on February 28 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
12/20/07 – Santa Monica-based Goodreads, a social networking web site where users discuss books, has announced that it has raised a round of funding from angel investors, including James Currier, founder of Ooga Labs, and Tickle.com. The company has not disclosed the amount raised.
12/20/07 – Los Angeles-based Language Weaver, developer of software for automatic language translation, has announced further expansion of its roster of language modules with the addition of another five bi-directional language modules.
Continue reading "Language Weaver Expands Translation Capabilities with Five New Language Pairs" »
12/19/07 – Pasadena-based Big Stage, which offers a 3D avatar creation technology, has made its official debut. The company says its proprietary technology allows users to create and integrate a 3D avatar of themselves into media like famous movie scenes, TV shows, video games, music videos, virtual worlds and still images. The service will be available to the public in the second quarter of 2008.
12/19/07 – PeopleJam, the Los Angeles-based “purposeful living” video and social networking web site, says it is now showcasing videos and expert commentary on health during the holiday season. The company says the content is being offered through its partnership with Stream4 Media, which provides high-quality, personality-driven video for the web and handheld devices.
Continue reading "PeopleJam Touts Expert Advice and Videos on Heath During the Holidays" »
12/18/07 – Helio, the Westwood-based mobile virtual network operator, or MVNO, continued its active rollout of new service features with the launch of its Helio Player PC software. The service lets members manage their personal collection of music, videos and pictures on their PCs, then transfer to and from their Helio devices.
Continue reading "Helio Launches Mobile Media Transfer Service" »
12/18/07 – Sherman Oaks-based online video animation startup Fix8 today unveiled premium software, which it says is now available for download. Along with the release of the software, the company launched its new web site featuring what it says is a simplified software download process with fun new videos and avatars.
Continue reading "Fix8 Unveils Premium Webcam Animation Software; Launches New Web Site" »
12/17/07 – Los Angeles-based Juice Wireless, the mobile device-based social networking service, has closed its third round of funding, raising $6 million. The round was led by 21Ventures, which joins Qualcomm and Citizen’s Communications as investors.
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12/14/07 – Los Angeles-based EdgeCast Networks, which has created a rich media content delivery network, has announced the closing of a $6 million series B financing round led by Steamboat Ventures, the venture capital firm affiliated with Disney. The company also announced that Scott Hilleboe, senior principal of Steamboat Ventures, and Jeffrey Stibel, president of Website Pros, will join EdgeCast’s board of directors.
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12/14/07 – Los Angeles-based online video streaming web site Stickam has announced that it has begun creating applications utilizing Google’s OpenSocial APIs, allowing OpenSocial-enabled platforms to integrate Stickam’s technology.
12/14/07 – Passenger, the Los Angeles-based provider of on-demand software that creates private brand communities for company collaboration with customers, has been awarded the 2007 Innovator Award for Emerging Media by the Summit International Awards. The group says it recognized Passenger as an innovator in bringing new technology advancements and methodologies to the social media space and helping to set the pace for the emerging media movement through its work with big name brands like ABC Studios.
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12/13/07 – Westwood-based mobile virtual network operator, or MVNO, Helio has announced that it has partnered with YouTube to bring what it calls the most comprehensive YouTube experience currently offered on mobile to its subscribers.
Continue reading "Helio Launches Enhanced Mobile YouTube Experience" »
12/13/07 – New Enterprise Associates, or NEA, today announced that it has completed an investment in Manhattan Beach-based TechForward, which provides consumer electronics trade-in plans. TechForward says it will use the funds to advance its Guaranteed Buyback product within the consumer electronics marketplace by partnering with retailers and manufacturers. The firms did not reveal the amount of the investment.
12/13/07 – Santa Monica-based Mahalo, the “human edited” search engine started by serial tech entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, this week released a series of new features at the Le Web 3 conference in Paris. The company says that the new features, dubbed “Mahalo Social,” allow users to collaborate in building trusted search results with friends.
Continue reading "Mahalo Releases Social Search Features; Reaches 25,000 Pages Milestone" »
12/11/07 – Agoura Hills-based ClipBlast, the web video search and navigation platform, today announced the release of ClipBlast Version 3.0. The new release includes a major enhancement of ClipBlast’s video search platform, with improvements that provide a richer, easier and more relevant experience for advertisers and content providers, according to ClipBlast.
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12/10/07 – Santa Monica-based Teleflip, the startup that offers a service where email and text messages can be received on any mobile phone from any computer, has launched a texting and email service for telecommunications provider Qwest Communications. The new Qwest-branded service allows customers to receive and reply to email from any text-messaging-capable wireless phone without subscribing to data plans or upgrading to smartphones. The service is enabled through an exclusive deal between the companies.
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12/10/07 – Los Angeles-based Break.com, the Internet video entertainment company, today announced the appointment of Andrew Budkofsky as senior vice president of sales. The company says that Budkofsky will be responsible for accelerating sales, client services and overall business development for the website.
12/10/07 – Once in a while we will make mention of a new feature on StartUp Beat, and the new StartUp Beat job board is particularly noteworthy. The board is expressly for technology startups in the greater Los Angeles area looking to hire, along with job seekers seeking the challenge and excitement of joining a startup. As an introductory offer, we’re offering job postings at half the $20 price for the first 30 days. Just use promo code “STARTUP1” to post your job openings for only $10 for 30 days. We'll accept positings for positions based in Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, or Santa Barbara counties, and parts of San Bernardino and Riverside counties that can be considered part of the greater Los Angeles area.
Check it out by either clicking on the orange job box on the left hand side of every StartUp Beat page, or by visiting startupbeat.jobamatic.com.
12/7/07 – Los Angeles-based Studio 4 Networks, which produces lifestyle and educational programming delivered on-demand over cable TV, satellite and the Internet, today reported a 37 percent increase in usage per available household of its television-based video-on-demand programming during Q3. The company says that the adoption increase was for its existing cable distribution systems, and did not include on-demand cable homes available through a new distribution agreement that just commenced through Charter Communications.
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12/6/07 – Santa Monica-based Transpera, a recently launched mobile video company, today announced the availability of what it calls “Peek” pre-roll video advertising. The service purports to be a solution to the problem of advertising on mobile video given the short viewing time of most clips.
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12/6/07 – A new “green” shopping web site has launched out of Santa Monica, just in time for the holiday shopping season. EVO.com, which has been in development for some time now, claims to have the “widest selection of green gift items on the web.”
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12/5/07 – Santa Monica-based Social Project, formerly called TagWorld, has rolled out the first components of the Flux social media distribution platform for publishing partners. Flux is the result of a partnership inked earlier this year with Viacom and MTV, and enables media companies and content-focused bloggers to virally distribute content and create connected online communities, while retaining ownership and branding controls, according to Social Project.
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12/4/07 – Encino-based Bid4Spots, the online auction of radio advertising time, today announced the upcoming launch of a new feature, called SpotFill, which will enable advertisers to supplement their auction results by picking up remaining spots in their target markets after the close of an auction. For stations that don’t sell all of their inventory in the site's weekly auction, Bid4Spots says SpotFill, which is set to debut December 20th, offers another opportunity to win business and sell last-minute airtime that otherwise would have gone unsold.
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12/3/07 – Westwood-based mobile virtual network operator Helio, and QD3 Entertainment, an independent producer and aggregator of urban content for multi-platform distribution, have partnered to launch a QD3-branded mobile channel as part of Helio’s new Music Mix premium video package. The companies say the service will feature streaming music-related video content, including performances, artist interviews, music news and videos.
11/29/07 – Los Angeles-based Language Weaver, developer of software for automatic language translation, and across Systems GmbH, a provider of corporate translation management systems, have announced the joint development of a specially-priced, bundled software package that will support German/English translation of documents in industrial manufacturing. The companies say the translation management software bundle can deliver translation productivity increases for companies operating in mechanical engineering, construction, automotive manufacturing and plant construction industries.
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11/28/07 – Irvine-based Integrien, the provider of integrity management solutions for businesses, today announced that it will release a new set of algorithms that it says will drive future versions of its flagship IT intelligence solution offering, called Alive.
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11/27/07 – Westlake Village-based Xirrus, the provider of high-performance, long-range wi-fi products, has made available the first of what it says is a series of free wi-fi gadgets for Windows Vista. “Gadgets” are mini-applications that run on the Vista desktop and provide easy access to commonly used information and tools. Xirrus’s Wi-Fi Monitor gadget provides “at a glance” access to information about wi-fi adapters, connections, and the surrounding environment. The company says it is intended for both IT managers and end users deploying and operating wi-fi in their networks.
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11/26/07 – Tarzana-based DigiContractor, which developed the industry’s first photo measuring software, has released a new version of its iPhotoMEASURE software. The company says this version includes several new features, like multiple depth capability for 3-D dimensioning.
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11/26/07 – LeadPoint, the Los Angeles-based online leads exchange marketplace, has partnered with Debt.com to power the site’s lead generation platform.
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11/21/07 – Manhattan Beach-based Metabeam, developer of home entertainment technologies for movie studios, digital content creators and digital artists, announced today that it will join the NetBlender Blend/In developer partnership program to create network-enabled modules for DoStudio MX, the industry-first visual authoring tool for HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs.
11/20/07 – DomainSponsor, the domain monetization business of Los Angeles-based Oversee.net, today announced that John Battelle, the best selling author and founder of Federated Media, and Peter Hillary, son of Sir Edmond Hillary and adventurer, will be keynote speakers at the company’s second annual DOMAINfest Global event in January.
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11/19/07 – Desktop Factory, a Pasadena-based IdeaLab startup that develops lower-cost desktop 3D printers, has announced that it has been selected as a winner of a 2007 ‘Best of What’s New’ award from Popular Science magazine in the ‘Home Tech’ category.
11/19/2007 – Santa Monica-based wi-fi hotspot network operator Boingo Wireless has signed a roaming agreement with Golden Telecom, the leading provider of integrated communication and Internet services in Russia. Through the agreement, Boingo will add Golden’s wi-fi network, which it claims is the largest metropolitan wireless network in the world, to the Boingo Roaming System for customers.
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11/16/07 – Marina Del Rey-based BiggerBoat.com, a search and discovery engine for entertainment, has launched an interactive vertical advertising network. The company says the BiggerBoat Entertainment Advertising Network will reach more than 15 million monthly unique users across a network of entertainment web sites. BiggerBoat will use its proprietary AdMatch targeting platform to automatically place an advertisement next to and within the movies, music, TV shows, video games, and celebrity information that best resonates with the brand’s image, according to the company.
11/16/07 – The Santa Monica-based X PRIZE Foundation has named Arianna Huffington and Will Wright to its board of trustees. X PRIZE creates and manages prizes focused on using technology to solve challenges in areas like space, travel and genomics. Until recently, its best known project was its $10 million Ansari X PRIZE, which resulted in the world’s first private vehicle to fly into space twice within two weeks. Over the summer, the Foundation announced the launch of the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE, focused on landing a privately-built explorer on the Moon. X PRIZE has also launched the $10 million Archon X PRIZE for genomics.
11/15/07 – Westlake Village-based Xirrus, the provider of high-performance, long-range wi-fi products, has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University to develop advanced wi-fi applications, to test its new high capacity 802.11n capable Wi-Fi Array, and to deploy a large quantity of Xirrus 802.11abgn Wi-Fi Arrays on the university’s campus as part of its campus-wide upgrade project.
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11/15/07 – Ripple, the El Segundo-based startup which delivers hyper-local content on flat screen panels in public locations, today announced the addition of Briggs Ferguson to its board of directors, and John Richards and T.S. Ramakrishnan to its advisory board.
11/14/07 – ClipBlast!, the Agoura Hills-based web video search and navigation platform, has announced the launch of Live Video Indexing, which it says is an extension of its patent-pending Video Web Intelligent Index technology. The company made the announcement at the Streaming Media West show in San Jose.
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11/14/07 – Panache, the Encino-based online advertising delivery company, has partnered with Los Angeles-based online ad firm Gorilla Nation to provide the firm with Panache’s patent-pending in-video advertising-delivery technology.
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11/13/07 – El Segundo-based Ripple, which delivers hyper-local content on flat screen panels in public locations, has signed an agreement with Borders bookstores to launch an in-store television network called “Borders TV” in the retailer’s superstores nationwide. The companies say that under the agreement, Ripple will feature original video content from Borders, until now only available on the web, in conjunction with Ripple’s geographically-targeted lifestyle content.
11/13/07 – Hollywood-based FastCall411, the local pay-per-call listing and search company, has introduced FastCall411 Mobile, a wireless version of the FastCall411 platform. The company says FastCall411 Mobile will formally debut tomorrow at the Mobile Marketing Forum at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel.
11/13/07 – Los Angeles-based Oversee.net, an online media company that runs domain and online marketing services businesses, today released a new publisher management system for its DomainSponsor subsidiary. The company says that the new tools offered demonstrate a fundamental rethinking of the domain professional’s experience from a usability perspective. It also says the new system includes back-end improvements that have increased the system’s speed and performance.
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11/9/07 – According to several sources, South Korea’s SK Telecom has decided to inject $70 million into Westwood-based mobile virtual network operator, or MVNO, Helio. The company was a joint investment by SK Telecom and Internet service provider EarthLink on equal terms, but with EarthLink bowing out of further funding in the venture, this infusion effectively gives SK Telecom management rights.
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11/8/07 – Break.com, the Los Angeles-based Internet video entertainment company, has announced the addition of two new features to it site-a recommendation engine for user-generated content and a new customizable embedded video player.
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11/8/07 – Pasadena-based X1 Technologies, a provider of enterprise and desktop search solutions, has entered into a reseller partnership with Sherman Oaks-based Globanet Consulting Services, an email message archiving solutions firm. The companies say that Globanet will now offer X1 enterprise search products as part of its technology solutions for email management.
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11/7/07 – Irvine-based Integrien, the provider of integrity management solutions for businesses, has appointed Dale Quayle to the position of executive vice president, sales and field operations. The company says Quayle is a seasoned sales executive with more than 25 years experience in driving strategic direction and sales growth for enterprise software companies. His resume includes a stint with Hewlett-Packard and Jonathan Engineered Solutions.
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11/7/07 – Manhattan Beach-based Metabeam, developer of home entertainment technologies for movie studios, digital content creators and digital artists, has debuted a new service that allows producers to unite their DVD content with online content. Called SimpleROM.com, the company says it provides a natural pathway for viewers to connect to more content.
11/6/07 – Specific Media, an Irvine-based online advertising network, has closed a series B financing round from Francisco Partners of up to $100 million, with access to further resources as necessary, according to the company.
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11/6/07 – Docstoc, a Beverly Hills-based company that provides an online community-based library of professional documents, forms, templates, presentations and spreadsheets, has opened in public beta. The company says that users can find and share any document and organize and access their files with online storage for access anytime, anywhere.
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11/6/07 – Los Angeles-based online video web site Revver, one of the first video sharing services to include advertising for content creators and sharers, has launched Revver.com 2.0. The latest version of the web site incorporates a more intuitive user interface with new community tools, along with additional opportunities for advertisers, according to Revver.
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11/5/07 – Santa Monica-based wi-fi hotspot network operator Boingo Wireless has announced the acquisition of seven airport wi-fi networks from Sprint. The company says that operations in all seven airports have already been successfully converted to Boingo.
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11/5/07 – Fonality, the CulverCity-based open-source IP telephony company, announced today that it has acquired Insightful Solutions, a leading hosted CRM solution provider and a SugarCRM Gold partner for the Australia, New Zealand and Asia Pacific regions. The company says the acquisition is consistent with its goal of creating the industry’s first phone system that unifies both telephony and customer relationship management for small and medium-sized businesses.
11/2/07 – Gumiyo, the Woodland Hills-based startup that develops e-commerce solutions for mobile devices, has closed its second venture funding round and named entrepreneur Yuri Pikover to its board of directors.
11/1/07 – Santa Monica-based wi-fi hotspot network operator Boingo Wireless today announced a partnership with Thailand’s True Corporation, a wi-fi hotspot operator. With more than 4,000 hotspots in Bangkok and surrounding provinces, Boingo says the roaming agreement represents an extension of Boingo’s Asian roaming network to more than 23,000 total hotspot locations.
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10/31/07 – FastCall411, a Hollywood-based local pay-per-call listing and search company, has announced the availability of its “FastCall” and “TryAnother” applications via an API, as part of a new partner recruitment program.
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10/31/07 – Demand Media, the Santa Monica-based social media and domain holding company, has debuted a user advertising program for its .TV domain and social networking service.
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10/30/07 – Pasadena-based Entretech, the business development organization supporting high technology companies throughout greater Los Angeles, today publicly invited local technology companies to apply for its Fifth Annual Entrepreneurship Awards. Offered in partnership with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Entretech says the Entrepreneurship Awards will again honor the region’s top emerging technology companies that “exemplify the best in entrepreneurial spirit and skills.” The deadline to apply is November 29, according to Entretech.
10/30/07 – Tarzana-based DigiContractor, maker of the iPhotoMeasure digital photo-based measuring software, has announced that it is offering the use of its innovative technology free to victims of the Southern California wildfires.
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10/29/07 – EarthLink, the Atlanta-based Internet service provider and one of the primary investors in Westwood-based mobile virtual network operator, or MVNO, Helio, posted a third-quarter loss that was driven in large part by its investment in Helio. Quarterly reports from public companies EarthLink and Helio’s other investor SK Telecom provide a window into Helio’s financial position. EarthLink’s report revealed a $41.9 million loss from Helio, with the MVNO’s revenue at $51.7 million for the quarter with a net loss of $92.3 million.
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10/26/07 – Los Angeles-based greentech vehicle company Venture Vehicles is on track to roll out two versions of its three-wheel alternative energy vehicle in early 2009. The company made the announcement this week at the Dow Jones Alternative Energy Innovations conference in Redwood City.
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10/26/07 – Southern California’s healthy quarterly venture capital investment is continuing at a steady clip, according to a report released this week by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. For Southern California as a whole, the firms say that venture investment deals valued at almost $784 million closed in Q3. Los Angeles County’s share was $342 million, second to San Diego County, with $359 million, and ahead of Orange County, which reported $83 million in venture funding in the quarter.
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10/25/07 – Pasadena-based Evolution Robotics, the provider of robotic technologies for consumer products, and Hong Kong’s Wowwee Limited, a manufacturer of high-tech consumer robotic and entertainment products, today announced a joint agreement to launch a new category of entertainment robots, functional robots and robotic toys. The companies say that at least three products are planned for release in 2009, with additional products under development.
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10/25/07 – The Technology Council of Southern California has announced that Santa Barbara-based RightScale was voted “Best of Show” at the VentureNet 2007 conference, held earlier this month. RightScale was selected from 13 startup and early-stage tech companies that presented at the event. The award was chosen by a select group of investors who reviewed the companies against five specific criteria, according to the Technology Council.
10/24/07 – Los Angeles-based Language Weaver, developer of software for automatic language translation, today announced it has retained Emmanuel Tonnelier as sales director for southern Europe. The company says he will also drive additional sales and marketing penetration in the Middle East and Africa for the company.
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10/24/07 – WiSpry, the Irvine-based fabless semiconductor company that develops low-cost, high-performance radio frequency micro-electro-mechanical systems for the wireless industry, today debuted its newest product family of MEMS tunable digital capacitors. The company says these products integrate low power CMOS control and voltage generation logic with an array of tunable RF-MEMS digital capacitors to provide customers with an ultra linear, digitally programmable solution on a single silicon die.
10/23/07 – A group of local businesses and trade organizations are hosting a conference this week focused on the startup community in the Los Angeles area. The gathering, called StartupLA, will feature speakers Joel Ordesky, CEO of ExecTec; former Apprentice winner Kelly Perdew; and serial entrepreneur and current CEO of Mahalo.com Jason Calacanis.
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10/23/07 – Santa Barbara-based Sonos, developer of wireless multi-room music systems, today released the newest version of its system software, which includes plug-and-play support for the Napster music subscription service and the Best Buy Digital Music Store.
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10/22/07 – Los Angeles-based Juice Wireless, the mobile device-based social networking service, has announced that it will offer its JuiceCaster service free to users of San Francisco-based Ojeez.com, a business-oriented social community for entrepreneurs. Ojeez says it has more than 16,000 members.
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10/22/07 – Fonality, the CulverCity-based open-source IP telephony company, announced today that trixbox Pro, the company’s channel-focused Internet telephony PBX system, has been downloaded 10,000 times since its release in August. The company also announced new price tiers for the product that Fonality says makes the system up to 50 percent more affordable for large deployments.
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10/19/07 – Santa Monica-based wi-fi hotspot network operator Boingo Wireless, has announced that Boingo Mobile, the company’s wi-fi service for mobile devices, is now available for selected Nokia phones. The companies say that selected Nokia handsets and Internet tablets can automatically connect to Boingo’s network around the world.
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10/18/07 – Zag, the Santa Monica-based online auto sales company, has announced that it will partner with San Francisco-based Vast.com, which runs a vertical online auto sales service, to create a new used car search solution. Zag says it is integrating the Vast.com platform to attract used car shoppers with a better experience and convert them to buyers for Zag’s premium dealers.
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10/17/07 – Irvine-based Axiom Microdevices, which develops fully-integrated complementary metal oxide semiconductor, or CMOS, power amplifiers for cell phones, has announced that it shipped more than one million power amplifiers in the months of August and September. The company says this increase in monthly volume puts it on track to ship a total of 10 million units of its quad-band GPRS CMOS power amplifiers by the end of 2007. Multiple handsets containing Axiom Microdevices’ product now are shipping in Europe and Asia, according to Axiom, which shipped its first million units earlier this summer.
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10/17/07 – Pasadena-based EI Solutions, the systems integration arm of Energy Innovations, today announced that it will begin constructing a 1 megawatt solar electricity system for The West County Wastewater District’s main wastewater treatment plant in Richmond, Calif., later this year. EI Solutions says the system is being funded and built under a power purchase agreement with Solar Power Partners, who will own and operate the system while providing the plant with clean energy at a fixed price.
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10/16/07 – Westlake Village-based Xirrus, the provider of high-performance, long-range wi-fi products, has received a “Gold Star, Silver Star and Bright Star Mobile Star” award from MobileVillage, a market development and news service about mobile technology.
10/16/07 – Santa Monica-based social networking web site Reunion.com today announced the appointment of Cornell McGee as CMO. The company says that in this capacity, McGee will be responsible for overseeing all functions of Reunion.com’s marketing and business development, and a focus on aggressive customer acquisition for the site.
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10/16/07 – Sherman Oaks-based online video animation company Fix8 has raised $3 million in a round lead by Vickers Financial Group. The company provides interactive media tools for user-generated content, allowing users to create animation and add to videos and other content. has raised $3 million in a round lead by .The company provides interactive media tools for user-generated content, allowing users to create animation and add to videos and other content.
10/15/07 – Los Angeles-based VIMBY has announced the official launch of its community-based online video site. VIMBY, which is an acronym for “Video In My Backyard,” is focused on the 18-34 year-old demographic, and produces original, first-run programming focused on topics like action sports, cars, music, nightlife, fashion, art, alternative subcultures, travel and more.
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10/15/07 – Frost & Sullivan, the international consulting and business analysis firm, has selected Newbury Park-based EdenTree Technologies as the recipient of the 2007 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Customer Value Enhancement in the world lab test and measurement market.
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10/12/07 – Leads360, the Los Angeles-based provider of on-demand customer acquisition and lead management solutions, today announced that it has raised $3.25 million in series A financing from Rustic Canyon Partners. Leads360 says it will use the funding to accelerate growth and expand into new lead categories, ramp its sales and marketing efforts, and accelerate ongoing product development.
10/12/07 – El Segundo-based Ripple, which delivers hyper-local content on flat screen panels in public locations, has partnered with Burbank-based CenterStaging Corp., which runs a 150,000 square foot twelve-stage rehearsal center for the music industry, to provide specially produced CenterStaging video content from its Rehearsals.com web site to Ripple’s interactive digital network.
10/11/07 – Monrovia-based FastSoft, developer of Internet data transfer acceleration products, has announced that XOS Technologies, a technology provider for collegiate and professional sports teams, has selected the FastSoft Aria Internet acceleration device for its online service. Specifically, the companies say Aria will be a component of XOS Coaching solutions, which makes the acquisition, management and distribution of digital video to coaches of sports teams more efficient.
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10/11/07 – Los Angeles-based Spot Runner, the Internet-based TV ad agency, has won the Web Marketing Association’s annual WebAward for “Best Advertising Website.” Spot Runner is the only company to have received the award for two consecutive years. The distinction is the top honor in the WebAwards’ Advertising category, given to only one company a year. This year, there were 28 other finalists in the category.
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10/10/07 – Oracle has announced that it has agreed to acquire Irvine-based LogicalApps, a provider of embedded governance software for enterprises that delivers out-of-the-box automated enterprise application controls in the areas of access, setup and transaction monitoring.
10/10/07 – Los Angeles-based LeadPoint, an online leads exchange marketplace, has launched an education leads service that it says allows online and campus-based educational institutions to purchase leads submitted by students that have the highest likelihood of matching each school’s target student profile.
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10/9/07 – Westlake Village-based Xirrus, the provider of high-performance, long-range wi-fi products, has announced the availability of an embedded spectrum analyzer in its Wi-Fi Arrays product for easier wi-fi network connectivity management.
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10/9/07 – ReachLocal, a Woodland Hills-based search marketing firm, announced today it has secured $55.2 million in series D funding. The round was led by Rho Ventures, and also included Galleon Crossover Fund and VantagePoint Venture Partners.
10/8/07 – Beverly Hills-based The Tornante Company’s new media studio Vuguru today announced that it has signed two international distribution agreements for its Prom Queen and Prom Queen: Summer Heat series. The studio says the first, with French company Cyber-Group Animation, is for distribution of both series dubbed in French for wireless mobile, broadband, TV and home video. The second, according to the company, is a deal with Japan-based Rights Entertainment to produce a localized version of Prom Queen and its sequel in Japanese.
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10/8/07 – Newly-formed online marketing and advertising firm The Rubicon Project has officially launched the beta version of its online advertising “self-serve” web site. The Los Angeles-based startup says its offering enables web sites to optimize for 300 ad networks in one place.
10/5/07 – Fonality, the CulverCity-based open-source IP telephony company, has announced that it has signed partnership agreements with solution providers in France, Poland, Italy and the UK to resell and support its trixbox Pro phone system. France’s CNSI, Poland’s Halo2, Italy’s Wildix, and the United Kingdom’s V4VoIP, VCOMM, and VoIPon are among the first to sign-up for Fonality’s partner program, according to the company.
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10/5/07 – Pasadena-based EI Solutions, the systems integration arm of Energy Innovations, has been chosen by Sony Pictures Entertainment to construct a pilot solar electricity system at the studio’s Culver City headquarters. The installation will be part of an expansion project underway at the historic studio lot.
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10/4/07 – Santa Monica-based Transpera, the mobile video company, has announced that Rob DeMillo and Jody Stark have been hired as CTO and vice president of business development, respectively. Transpera says DeMillo will be responsible for the technology and operational aspects of the company and serve as the technical liaison to mobile operators globally. Stark will oversee the company’s strategic partnerships with online video publishers, according to the company.
10/4/07 – In more online video news, Break.com, the Los Angeles-based Internet video entertainment company, and Encino-based advertising delivery-platform pioneer Panache have partnered to deliver a new ad environment for Break.com advertisers and viewers. The companies say that advertisers and advertising agencies are already using the platform to engage with Break.com’s 17 million viewers.
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10/4/07 – Los Angeles-based The Rubicon Project, a startup online marketing and advertising firm, has secured $4 million in series A funding from Clearstone Venture Partners and an additional $2 million in venture debt through Square1Bank.
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-FastCall411 selects capacity provider – Hollywood-based FastCall411, which debuted its local search service last week at DEMOfall 07, has selected San Diego’s Telanetix as a voice-over-IP capacity provider for its services. More on the deal can be found here: FastCall411 Selects Telanetix's AccessLine Phone Service to Improve Local Business Search Options
-Helio to debut new phone? – With all the recent speculation and bad news for Westwood-based mobile virtual network operator Helio, including layoffs and the failure of fellow MVNOs Amp’d Mobile and Disney Mobile, word has hit the mobile phone blogs that Helio is getting set to release a new device, apparently called the “Mysto.” Innovative devices have been a strong point for Helio, and may ultimately lead the company to success in the mobile market. Here is SlashGear’s (brief) write-up about the Mysto: Helio Mysto replaces popular Drift cellphone
10/3/07 – Low.com, a consumer financial portal solutions firm and subsidiary of Los Angeles-based online marketing and domain name solutions company Oversee.net, has launched a new client interface called LeadMatch.com, which it describes as a self-serve lead portal dedicated to the broker and loan officer community. The company says LeadMatch builds on its technology and expertise as a “top five” lead generator to match brokers and individual loan officers with qualified consumers looking for mortgage loans.
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10/3/07 – Los Angeles-based ThisNext.com, a Los Angeles-based social product discovery and recommendation web site, has announced the hiring of Scott Morrow as president and newest board member. The company says a key focus for Morrow will be brand strategy, consumer experience, and developing sales and distribution channels.
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10/3/07 – Westlake Village-based Xirrus, the provider of high-performance, long-range wi-fi products, announced today that Envision Schools, a non-profit charter management organization located in the San Francisco Bay area, has selected Xirrus Wi-Fi Arrays for wi-fi coverage across each of its four high school campuses.
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10/2/07 – The Santa Monica-based X PRIZE Foundation has made a seven-year, $300 million commitment to action in the areas of education, energy and climate change, poverty alleviation and global health. The announcement was made at the 2007 Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York City last week.
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10/2/07 – Los Angeles-based Language Weaver, developer of software for automatic language translation, has signed a marketing, workflow integration and reseller agreement with Cambridge, Mass.-based Linguistic Systems.
10/2/07 – Juice Wireless, a Los Angeles-based mobile phone social networking service, has announced that it has integrated its JuiceCaster service with Ikena Web, a video enhancement service from San Mateo-based digital video technology firm MotionDSP. JuiceCaster says that using the Ikena Web service, mobile phone videos uploaded to its service will be dramatically enhanced with MotionDSP’s patent-pending automatic video enhancement tools.
10/1/07 – Language Weaver, the Los Angeles-based developer of software for automatic language translation, says it has expanded its automated translation technology to include linguistics information and syntax rules in its statistical translation techniques. To help achieve this goal, the company has announced the hiring of David Savignac, Ph.D., as senior director of lexicography to head up the effort, the goal of which is to add less commonly taught languages to Language Weaver’s roster of automated translation modules. Savignac recently concluded a career of more than 30 years with the National Security Agency, where he had been founder and director of the Center for Applied Machine Translation.
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10/1/07 – Los Angeles-based security software developer CyberDefender has launched new security suites with around-the-clock phone and remote support, as well as 2 gigabytes of online backup.
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9/28/07 – CircleUp, the Newport Beach-based provider of a service that helps users organize email and instant messages, has launched an application on Facebook. The company says its service can now be added to any Facebook user’s profile.
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9/28/07 – The Walt Disney Internet Group announced yesterday that it is closing its Disney-branded mobile virtual network operator service, or MVNO. The move could have a big impact on Los Angeles-based MVNO startup Helio, as the closing of Disney Mobile leaves Helio as the only large stand-alone data-focused MVNO.
9/28/07 – Tarzana-based DigiContractor, maker of the iPhotoMeasure photo-measuring software, announced this week that it has raised a total of $400K in funding over the past two years, including an undisclosed amount recently that CEO and founder Paul Minor says will allow it to launch a new version of the software.
9/27/07 – Santa Monica-based Zag, an online auto sales company, has raised $13.5 million in funding, led by Capricorn Investment Group. The company says that since launching in 2005, it has now raised over $46 million in equity capital and additional acquisition debt of $21 million, for a combined total of $67 million.
9/27/07 – LeisureLink, the Pasadena-based online travel marketing firm, has announced the hiring of John Hoang as vice president of finance. The announcement follows the closing of an $8 million round of funding for the company from Clearstone Venture Partners, Group RCI and Mission Ventures.
9/27/07 – Westlake Village-based Xirrus, the provider of high-performance, long-range wi-fi products, continued its string of rollouts this week with the announcement that Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta, Georgia, has deployed Xirrus Wi-Fi Arrays throughout its classroom areas to support the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. The Church has been serving as a remote campus for the Seminary for over a year.
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9/26/07 – Various sources are reporting that Demand Media, the Santa Monica-based social media and domain holding company, has raised a whopping $100 million in series C funding led by Goldman Sachs.
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9/26/07 – Los Angeles-based PeopleJam has announced the beta launch of its new “purposeful living” video and social networking site at the DEMO07 conference in San Diego.
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9/25/07 – ClipBlast!, the Agoura Hills-based web video search and navigation platform, unveiled its new ClipBlast! Video Widget at the DEMOfall show yesterday.
9/25/07 – Hollywood-based FastCall411 has unveiled its local search product at DEMOfall07 in San Diego. The company says it has reinvented the consumer directory using patent-pending technology that includes artificial intelligence, voice-over-IP, open source Asterisk and parallel dialing.
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9/25/07 – El Segundo-based Siderean Software, a provider of relational navigation solutions, today announced the appointment of Reza M. Kazemipour as chief revenue officer.
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9/24/07 – Network World Events and Executive Forums has officially revealed the participants for its DEMOfall 07 show, the second of the bi-annual conferences based around startups debuting their new products and services.
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9/24/07 – Los Angeles-based Stickam.com, a video streaming web site, has announced the establishment of cross-promotional ties with several major radio stations. The company says the stations include 97.1 Free FM and 95.5 KLOS FM in Los Angeles; KMEL 106 FM, STAR 101.3 and Channel 104.9 in San Francisco; KUBE 93 and The Monkey 104.9 in Seattle; and Power 105.1 in New York, enabling each to stream a number of their exclusive events, performances and interviews on Stickam.com.
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9/21/07 – Westwood-based Helio, the mobile virtual network operator backed by Atlanta-based EarthLink and South Korea’s SK Telecom, will get further investment up to $270 million from the Korean firm.
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9/21/07 – FastCall411, a Hollywood-based local pay-per-call listing and search company, announced this week it has appointed Gordon Henry, Milton Olin and Mark Canon to its advisory board. The company will unveil its local search product next week at the DEMOfall 07 show in San Diego.
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9/20/07 – Los Angeles-based Ripe Digital Entertainment has announced that it will bring programming from its three unique online networks, RipeTV, OctaneTV, and FlowTV, to Joost, the UK-based Internet television service.
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9/20/07 – Fonality, the CulverCity-based open-source IP telephony company, has announced that more than 2,500 customers with 53,000 phones in 50 countries have adopted its award winning business phone system, PBXtra, using it to place more than 130 million voice-over-IP and traditional calls. PBXtra is Fonality’s professional phone system offering that is designed to be purchased, installed and managed by non-technical professionals.
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9/19/07 – Westlake Village-based Row 44 and Alaska Airlines have announced plans to launch inflight wireless Internet service. Row 44’s satellite-based broadband connectivity will be tested by the airline on a Boeing 737 aircraft in spring 2008 and, contingent upon a positive outcome of the trial, Alaska Airlines says it plans to eventually equip its entire 114-aircraft fleet.
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9/19/07 – Los Angeles-based security software developer CyberDefender has partnered with Quatrro, an India-based business process outsourcing solution provider. The companies say the partnership will enable CyberDefender to ensure a high level of support for customers experiencing technical issues with their security software.
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9/19/07 – Xirrus, the Westlake Village-based provider of high-performance, long-range wi-fi products, has announced that Connexus, an online marketing firm, has selected the wi-fi provider for its company-wide wi-fi deployment. Xirrus says the initial deployment at Connexus’ offices in Mountain View, Calif. is complete, with the wi-fi rollout continuing at its El Segundo and New York locations. The companies say the Xirrus solution is replacing a thin access point and controller set up that provided limited performance and connectivity for Connexus’ mobile workers throughout their office areas and conference rooms.
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9/18/07 – Bid4Spots, the Encino-based online auction of radio ad time, says it held its first auction in the United Kingdom last Thursday, marking the official launch of the company’s international business.
9/18/07 – The team at Santa Monica-based TagWorld has announced that the company will now be called Social Project, and has partnered with Viacom and MTV to power a new, yet-to-be launched social media project, called Flux.
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9/18/07 – WiSpry, the Irvine-based fabless semiconductor company that develops low-cost, high-performance radio frequency micro-electro-mechanical systems for the wireless industry, has announced the appointment of Mark Becker as CFO. Becker brings over 20 years experience in the semiconductor industry to the company.
