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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1/3/08 – El Segundo-based Axiotron is now officially shipping
