Friday, March 8, 2013NetDNA Targets Asian Content Delivery Network ServicesLos Angeles-based content delivery network operator NetDNA is ramping up its efforts to provide CDN services in Asia, the company said Friday. NetDNA said it will provide accelerated traffic through its Singapore point-of-presence, for a flat $10 per month for existing customers of its MaxCDN service. NetDNA said its flat rate compares to the "hundreds or tens of thousands" of dollars that competitive CDNs charge for per-megabit acceleration. NetDNA said its content delivery network services sta (More info...)
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How Frost Venture Partners Is Incubating The Big Data Future
Stuart Frost is head of Frost Venture Partners (www.frostvp.com), and the founder of DatAllegro, which he started in Orange County and eventually sold to Microsoft for $275M in 2008. DatAllegro was one of the first companies in what is now the "big data" industry, and helped to pioneer the entire segment. Now, Frost has set up shop buildling out a whole series of companies in the industry, and we caught up with him to learn more about the companies (Predixion Software, Cirro, Lineage, Kumo, et (More info...)
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Fandango Debuts New Movie Buzz Indicator
Los Angeles-based movie ticketing site Fandango is debuting a new tool to predict interest in upcoming weekend movies, which it calls "Fanticipation". According to the company, the new tool measures moviegoer excitement and helps to predict the films that fans will be most interested at the weekend box office.
According to Fandango, the new tool takes into account online and mobile traffic around upcoming movies; social media engagement and interactions; and advance ticket sales--all gather (More info...)
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UberMedia Launches iOS Advertising ToolUberMedia, the Pasadena-based startup developing third party, Twitter clients and other mobile apps, said yesterday that it has launched a new mobile ad campaign product called Appvertise. The Idealab startup said the app lets developers create and run rich media, mobile banner ads to drive traffic to their app's download page and increase download for their iOS application. UberMedia said the online ads will run across its network of iOS apps, which it says now reaches over 2 billion monthly un (More info...)
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Teledyne Wins $350M NASA ContractThousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies, the diversified electronics, instrumentation, aerospace and defense firm, reported Thursday that its subsidiary, Teledyne Brown Engineering, has won a $350M NASA Engineering contract. Teledyne said it was one of three contractors selected as part of a NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, Engineering Solutions and Prototyping (ESP) contract. Teledyne said it will provide space systems design and development, hardware integration and testing, bench testing (More info...)
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