Dear readers: we will not be sending out our daily emails next week, and posting on the news portion of our site will be light. But, before everyone goes on break, a little light entertainment (or torture, as it may be…). And, Happy Holidays to all of you! Twas the night before the IPO (with [...]
comScore just released their Top 50 web rankings for November, and several Southern California companies made the rankings. Among the top sites, Fox Interactive Media (including MySpace.com) was number 5; at number 22, was Gorilla Nation; Shopzilla–undoubtedly boosted by the holiday shopping season–was at number 26; Yellowpages.com — out of Pasadena — was number 29; [...]
There’s a fascinating article this morning from the Wall Street Journal, reporting that NBC is shipping its writing work overseas to writers unaffiliated with the Writers Guild of America. It looks like Hollywood is yet another industry (on top of software, radiology, and investment banking) which is looking — in thanks to the WGA strike [...]
For anyone who has been making the rounds of the holiday parties and networking events, one of the things you hear quite a bit now is people bragging about their traffic numbers. Just today, Funny or Die — the video site from comedy star Will Ferrell — reported that it had “surpassed 50 million views” [...]
Colin Stewart, a blogger over at the Orange County Register, commented today on the buyout of Irvine-based U-Nav by Atheros, mentioning that the deal values the firm at roughly $1M per employee — roughly par for the course as M&A deals go. While the professionals mostly concern themselves over multiples of revenue a company sells [...]
It’s always interesting to me to see the kind of technology being developed at local universities, which ends up channeled into (usually) obscure defense and government projects, but which could potentially be spectacular commercial applications. For example, I ran into a small USC spinoff a few months ago, Sentinal AVE, which develops software which can [...]
I have recently been filling out “secondary security” questions from various online financial providers, and have been quite disturbed to find that lots (if not all) of the questions I’ve been asked have been the exact same information I’ve been asked to post to social networking sites like Facebook. For example: What high school did [...]
Square 1 Bank, a banking firm which primarily serves the entrepreneurial and venture capital market, announced Monday that it has expanded into the Los Angeles area with a new office. The move is the latest by a number of service providers to staff up in Los Angeles. In the last few months, I’ve run across [...]
The Los Angeles Times just posted a great article on the technology industry here: L.A. tech party scene heats up. Well, it’s been heating up for awhile, but it’s good to see the rest of the world starting to notice (again)… From the article: Venture capital fuels a boom in the Southland. Entrepreneurs, bloggers and [...]
Atticus Wagner at the Tech Coast Angels let me know last week that the Tech Coast Angels is now taking applications for their Fast Pitch event coming up in January. For entrepreneurs who aren’t familiar with what a “fast pitch” is, it is a very short, 60 second “elevator pitch” on your company. The idea [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
