Wednesday, October 3, 2012Technology, Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows For NationBuilderWhat happens when technology startups and the nation's political machine collide? Strange results, it seems--at least for one local Los Angeles startup, NationBuilder. A report from the Wall Street Journal says that the firm--founded by Democrats, but which supplies it online services to anyone--has run into issues with Democratic groups after they found it was supplying its online software to Republican candidates. NationBuilder's services are open to any nonprofit, political candidate, politic (More info...)
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Hulu Plans Presidential Debate CoverageOnline video streaming site Hulu said this afternoon that it will be covering live coverage of tonight's presidential debate, from ABC, Fox and The Wall Street Journal, including both pre- and post-debate content. In addition, Hulu said it will include post-debate coverage from NBC News and the New York Times, and Spanish language content from Azteca America on Hulu Latino. Hulu said all of the various live streams of the coverage will be available on its live streams lounge; the first coverage (More info...)
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Tapiture Is A Pinterest For GuysAnyone with the slightest interest in the world of social Internet services nowadays has by now heard of Pinterest, the online site which allows users to "pin" and comments on their favorite photos from across the web. Pinterest is one of the latest services to sweep the Internet world in terms of popularity, particularly with women. However, how about similar services aimed at the male demographic? It turns out there's (at least) one, just spun out into a new company by a local Venice, Californ (More info...)
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Ahead of Debate, USC Project Uses Twitter To Measure Political SentimentA new project out of the University of Southern California is looking to help people visualize public sentiment towards the 2012 United States presidential candidates, by analyzing Twitter. According to the school, its new real-time sentiment analysis project analyzes public sentiment towards President Obama and Mitt Romney, by analyzing the emotion of tweets--figuring out if those Tweets are positive, negative, neutral or otherwise--and using it to figure out, in real-time, how the public is re (More info...)
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Flinja Launches At DEMOFlinja, the startup developing an online marketplace for freelance college students and alumni, has launched to the wider world, after graduating from the StartEngine startup accelerator in Los Angeles. The firm showed off its service at the DEMO conference today, saying that its service is now available at both USC and UCLA, and will soon launch at Stanford. Flinja was co-founded by Victor Young, Rebecca Bahr, and Calvin Shen, and was part of the Summer 2012 class from Howard Marks' StartEngine (More info...)
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Adigami Takes On Digital Marketing AnalyticsNewport Beach-based Adigami, which develops digital media analytics tools, said today that it has launched a new product to help users do cross-channel marketing analytics. The firm said the cloud-based service helps users create reports which connect with a variety of search engines, ad servers, bid management systems, and social media networks. The new startup is headed by Cyrus Ghalambor. The firm said its solution provides affordable data integration tools for digital marketers via a univers (More info...)
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Lindzon Gets Exit At LifelockProlific San Diego angel investor Howard Lindzon, who runs StockTwits, has scored a big exit at one of his portfolio companies, LifeLock, after the firm had its IPO this morning. Lindzon said it was an early angel investor in the company, and made his investment in 2006 at "well under a $10M valuation". Lindzon said he sold half his shares on SecondMarket in 2010. LifeLock has its IPO this morning, pricing at $9 per share and giving it a valuation of around $900M. Tempe, Arizona-based LifeLock p (More info...)
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Mogreet Officially Launches Mobile API ServiceVenice-based Mogreet officially announced its new application programming interface (API) services this morning, saying it will provide APIs will let developers deliver MMS, SMS, video, in-app messaging, as well as access mobile user lookup services. Mogreet's new APIs make it much easier for application developers to send MMS services, at a cost of only $0.01 per MMS message sent. In addition to sending MMS messages, the APIs also include a way to transcode images, videos, and audios in the app (More info...)
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ACTV8.me Wins WSOPBeverly Hills-based ACTV8.me, a developer of mobile, interactive applications for the television and entertainment market, announced today that it has linked with Caesars Interactive Entertainment, to produce an application for the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Financial details of the win were not disclosed. The firm said it has created a "second-screen" experience for the WSOP telecasts on ESPN. The app currently runs on the iPhone or iPad, and the company said an Android version will follow i (More info...)
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Qualcomm Technologies Links With Oracle On Java for M2MSan Diego-based Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, said that it has linked with Oracle to bring the popular Java programming language to its machine-to-machine (M2M) chipsets. The two said they are working to bring Oracle Java ME Embedded 3.2 to ATI's QSC6270-Turbo chipset. Those chips are used for M2M applications with embedded cellular capability. The two said the support will allow developers with little mobile experience to write and execute Java applications (More info...)
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ESET Fixes Android VulnerabilitySan Diego-based security software provider ESET said today that it has released a new, free app to fix a vulnerability of Android devices. ESET said its new app, ESET USSD Control, removes and prevents a flaw in certain Android-based smartphones, which could potentially wipe all of a user's data. ESET said the flaw is present in certain devices running Android 4.1.x or lower, and makes it possible for criminals to take over a device using a text message or QR code. ESET said the app is available (More info...)
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