Monday, February 6, 2012Startups Move Into New EvoNexus San Diego IncubatorA group of startups have moved into a new, downtown San Diego startup incubator run by CommNexus, as that group's EvoNexus incubator expands into a second site. The incubation effort--which has been running in North San Diego at the University Towne Centre since 2009--said the new space includes 15,000 square foot, and initially includes twelve companies. Those twelve companies include Antengo, BigSho, Chatmeter, Fashioning Change, Saambaa, SwoopThat, TapChow, TapHunter, UgliApps, Voluware, Xpen (More info...)
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LAUNCH Conference Prize Money Hits $151KThe prize money for Jason Calacanis' LAUNCH Festival technology conference has hit $151,000, after early stage venture investor Venture51 agreed to invest $51,000 in the winner of the conference's "Best in Show" award. Calacanis--who is the CEO of local startup Mahalo, and also host of This Week In Startups--has been promoting his LAUNCH conference since a widely publicized fallout with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington over their jointly produced TechCrunch50. Venture51 is an inestor in Los (More info...)
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OK Go Super Bowl Video Illustrates Collision Between Content, TechnologyWhat do you get when you mix the desert around Mojave, two months in a Van Nuys warehouse, an MIT engineer, and a band which has risen to prominence as a YouTube phenomenon? Not a tech startup, but one of the more intriguing ads debuted during the Super Bowl on Sunday. OK Go, whose combination of music, Rube Goldberg, and technology have made it a favorite among technology geeks, debuted its video for new single Needing/Getting as part of an ad push by sponsor Chevrolet during the Super Bowl. Th (More info...)
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Goodreads Connects To Facebook TimelineLos Angeles-based book community website Goodreads has connected the service to Facebook Timeline, Facebook's new feature which lets users look back what they were doing at any time. According to Goodreads, users can now get information about what books they've read each month and year through Facebook timeline, as well as statistics like how many books you read, how many pages read, and other tracking. Goodreads said the new Timeline support can is available immediately. Goodreads offers up a s (More info...)
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New Owner Looks To Sell Tsavo Media, Sees Yahoo Penalty FeesThe new owner of former Los Angeles startup Tsavo Media, Canadian-firm Cyberplex, said today that it is looking for "strategic alternatives" for the unit of the firm, after a fiasco involving Yahoo's traffic quality reporting system. Cyberplex said that Tsavo Media was informed that it will be required to pay Yahoo approximately $4.8 million, due to Yahoo's indication that Tsavo was sending it "low quality" traffic. Cyberplex said it had recently learned from Yahoo that--despite prior, positive (More info...)
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Honda, Volkswagen Spots Among Hulu Top Super Bowl CommercialsLos Angeles-based Hulu announced today that the most liked ads from yesterday's Super Bowl XLVI so far are Honda's "Matthew's Day Off" and Volkswagen's "The Bark Side" and "The Dog Strikes Back" advertisement--at least, according to Facebook "Likes" on the site. Hulu has been featuring the Super Bowl commercials as its Hulu AdZone section on the site, where it had been posting commercials as they aired on the Super Bowl yesterday.
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j2 Global Buys Landslide TechnologiesLos Angeles-based j2 Global, the provider of Internet fax, hosted email, online backup, and other services, is expanding its offerings this morning, saying that it has acquired Landslide Technologies. Landslide is a Boston-based company developing customer relationship management software for small and mid-sized businesses. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. J2 said the acquisition will expand its cloud-based services, adding a customer relationship management (CRM) system in (More info...)
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Broadcom Launches Microwave Communications ChipIrvine-based Broadcom said this morning that it has shipped a new, wireless chip, a new single-chip microwave outdoor unit (ODU). According to Broadcom, its new chip combines the functionality of what previously took 10 off-the-shelf chips. The new system-on-a-chip product is aimed at microwave backhaul, which are used for transmitting data from cell sites to core networks. Broadcom said that the microwave backhaul market is expected to exceed $6B, and more than 3 million microwave unit shipment (More info...)
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