Friday, March 27, 2015Flywheel Drops Fares In LA, San Diego To $5 Until April 6thOn-demand, taxi app developer Flywheel, which has been in an intense battle with Uber, Lyft, Sidecar and others in the LA market, said this week that it will offer $5, flat rate rides on its service in Los Angeles and San Diego until April 6th. LA and San Diego are two of the five markets that Flywheel is trying to reach out to new customers, along with Seattle, San Jose, and Sacramento. Flywheel said that its offer will get riders from point A to point B without "waiting endlessly and going out (More info...)
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Superior Water Gets Funding From METRIXOrange County-based water disinfection equipment and services company Superior Water Technologies has received a funding round from venture capital investor METRIX Capital Group, the two said Thursday. Size of the equity funding was not disclosed. Superior Water services the municipal water disinfection and treatment industry, including pipeline chemical injection and mixing systems.
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How urRadio Wants To Make You The Radio StationIs the world ready for everyone to be their own, radio DJ--and are there enough people out there who want to broadcast themselves to the world, live, with a music stream? Los Angeles-based startup urRadio (www.urradio.com) thinks so. We spoke with founder and CEO Tyler Francois to hear about his vision for making anyone an Internet radio DJ, and how the team--made up of former Yahoo! Music engineers--is tackling the streaming music space.
What is urRadio?
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Triton Digital Wins MLBAMLos Angeles-based digital audio ad technology provider Triton Digital, which provides technology to insert ad into Internet and streaming radio, reported Thursday that it has signed a deal with MLBAM to deliver and monetize streaming audio advertisements for the MLB. Triton Digital said it will be the exclusive audio ad provider for the Gameday Audio desktop product and the MLB.com At Bat mobile application. Financial impact of the win was not announced.
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Disney Creates Its Own XPRIZEWalt Disney Studios and XPRIZE, the group which runs challenges aimed at spurring solutions to big issues facing society, have teamed up to create a new XPRIZE, called the Create Tomorrowland XPRIIZE Challenge. According to the two, the new challenge invites kids to imagine themselves in the future, reporting on the "one new and amazing invention or innovation they encounter, how it works, and the impact it has on the future." In an interesting switch from the XPRIZE's normal, multi-million doll (More info...)
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textPlus Goes Global With New Texting, Calling AppMarina Del Rey-based text messaging app develotextPlus, which is led by Scott Lahman, is going global, saying Thursday that it has launched a new free test messaging and calling app called Nextplus globally. According to textPlus, the new app allows users to send and receive low- to no-cost calls, texts and multimedia messages from any Wi-Fi-connected device. The company said it is looking to replace the need for traditional, carrier plans with its new app. The new app provides a unique phone nu (More info...)
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