Tuesday, April 12, 2016Fandango Rolling Out Movie Ticketing Bot For FacebookLos Angeles-based movie ticketing site Fandango has jumped on the Facebook bot bandwagon, saying Tuesday at Facebook's F8 conference that it will be launching its own, Fandango bot, which will book movie tickets via Facebook Messenger. Fandango said its bot will provide access to movie information, trailers, show times, advance ticketing, and more from mobile devices. The new bot will roll out sometime in May. Facebook said Tuesday at F8 that it had opened up a program called Bots for Messenger, (More info...)
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XPRIZE Foundation Names New CEOLos Angeles-based
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Compellon Raises $6.7MRancho Santa Margarita-based Compellon, a developer of data analytics software, has raised $6.7M in a Series A funding. The funding was led by Kairos Ventures, which invested $3M in the first tranche of the Series A funding. Compellon said Kairos Ventures has committed an overall $5M in investments in the company. Compellon, which is led by Ken Charhut, said the funding will go towards growing engineering and sales. James Demetriades of Kairos (former founder of SeeBeyond) joins the company's bo (More info...)
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Ticketmaster To Sell Tickets Via FacebookWest Hollywood-based Ticketmaster is getting set to start selling tickets directly within Facebook by the end of the month, according to reports. The company said the move will provide a more seamless purchase experience, and ultimately sell more tickets, particularly around events.
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Enevate Names Qualcomm Vet Altman To Advisory BoardIrvine-based Lithium-ion battery developer Enevate announced this morning that it has named Steve Altman, former Qualcomm President and Vice Chairman, to its advisory board. Enevate said that Altman had been at Qualcomm since 1989, and served as General Counsel, President of Qualcomm Technology Licensing (QTL), President of Qualcomm and Vice Chairman. Enevate specifically said that Altman was responsible for developing the Intellectual Property (IP) licensing strategy around CDMA. Enevate is ven (More info...)
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Zadara Expands To Object StorageIrvine-based cloud storage provider Zadara Storage said today that it has added new, object storage services to its offerings. According to Zadara Storage, its new ZIOS Intelligent Object Store lets its users store objects using the same infrastructure as its block and file storage services. Zadara says the new service is S3/Swift compatible. Swift is the object storage interface which is part of OpenStack, and Amazon's S3 offers up its own object storage service. Pricing on the new service was (More info...)
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Green Dot Names Three Board DirectorsPasadena-based Green Dot says it has named three, new, independent directors to its board of directors late Monday. According to Green Dot, it has named J. Chris Brewster, Rajeev V. Date and William I. Jacobs, with non-independent director Samuel Altman--president of Y Combinator--stepping down from the board. Green Dot says it now has ten directors of the company, with nine independent directors. Brewster was previously CFO of Cardtronics; Date is the founder of venture investment firm Fenway S (More info...)
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Mojix Expands In Latin AmericaLos Angeles-based RFID systems developer Mojix said it is expanding in Latin America, saying it now has more than 150 services and solution engineers in South America, with plans to further expand in the region. According to Mojix, the expansion comes as a result of steady demand for its RFID tracking solutions in Latin America.
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