Just a quick note for our venture database subscribers: we’ve added filtering of companies by industry on our alphabetical listings of local companies, and we’ve fixed a longstanding search bug related to subarea searches. For those of you who haven’t yet signed on to our venture database, socalTECH’s database of venture capital deals, local companies, [...]
For an otherwise, sort half-vacation day that Monday was, nothing topped the strange saga of the case of the cloned press release. Basically, a press release(credited to a new firm “HD AmeriTV”) showed up on one of the marginal “free PR release” services, and was picked up by a bunch of venture capital blogs. However, [...]
We’ve recently posted an article on some good advice for entrepreneurs just starting out on their ventures, from Scott Edward Walker. The article, Tips On Starting A Venture, talks about incorporation, stock and vesting, and other tips which new entrepreneurs ought to be thinking about. By the way, if anyone is interested in contributing their [...]
This is completely off topic, but found this (not so) amusing: It looks like the personal injury lawyers (or their search engine marketing firms) are a bit faster than Target in updating their “aqua dots” keywords. (for those who haven’t been following it, the Aqua Dots toys were just recalled, because they metabolize into the [...]
As most longtime readers of socalTECH know, we often give away free tickets to events, and offer discounted rates to conferences. Next week, there is the Opportunity Green conference at UCLA, and I thought I’d pass on a discount offer from the organizers to the event, which will cover green technology/cleantech. The event is co-sponsored [...]
Being neither in Silicon Valley, nor on “Main Street,” I’m always fascinated by the delays between the launch of technology and the adoption of that technology by what I like to think of as “Main Street”–people who are not in the technology industry, not in Silicon Valley, or otherwise in the immediate influence of technology [...]
I’ve been recently playing around with Facebook and Twitter, and — although extremely fascinating from an entertainment standpoint– I’m wondering if all this “communication” is just contributing to an already, immensely information overloaded world. It’s bad enough with the hundreds of emails I get every day (not including the spam); do I really need a [...]
As the Writer’s Guild strike continues, one of the issues which has been coming up ishow writers might get paid for content which is re-broadcast on the Internet. Apparently, writers are unhappy that they receive no residuals when shows are re-broadcast on the Internet. Interestingly enough, the whole issue of clearances for new media is [...]
Here’s the biggest robot I’ve ever met: I spent some time at lunch talking with the folks working on TerraMax, one of the entries into DARPA’s Urban Challenge race over the weekend. I’ll be running an interview in a few days. The robot is built on a Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR) truck — built [...]
The biggest story today in the region is the Writer’s Guild strike, yet the vast majority of technology firms here —even in the Los Angeles area—have very little to do with Hollywood and entertainment. Looking over the companies we cover on a regular basis, I can only find one or two companies (who provide technology [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
