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Steve Huff is an Editor and Reporter at dot.LA. Steve was previously managing editor for The Metaverse Post and before that deputy digital editor for Maxim magazine. He has written for Inside Hook, Observer and New York Mag. Steve is the author of two official tie-ins books for AMC’s hit “Breaking Bad” prequel, “Better Call Saul.” He’s also a classically-trained tenor and has performed with opera companies and orchestras all over the Eastern U.S. He lives in the greater Boston metro area with his wife, educator Dr. Dana Huff.
Snapchatters frustrated with login issues began flooding social media with complaints early Tuesday.
Users were tweeting about the issue around 6 am PT, noting that Snapchat was freezing for some while others were automatically logged out — if they could access the app at all. The problems were reflected on uptime monitoring sites like Down Detector and Services Down. Both sites showed significant spikes in outage complaints beginning in the early morning and lasting past noon Pacific Time.
The majority of reports focused on logging in. Santa Monica-based Snap’s support account tweeted about 90 minutes after the problems first surfaced that they were “aware of an issue preventing some Snapchatters from logging in” and asked users to “Hang tight, we are looking into it and working on a fix!”
The outage, unusual for the relatively reliable service, was prolonged and widespread enough to get traction on Twitter. In a survey released by ToolTester.com in September 2021, Snapchat was no. 10 among the top 30 most outage-prone sites, according to data from DownDetector.com — and problems were usually related to sending and receiving messages. The social site most often flagged by Down Detector was Discord, Instagram was no.3.
About four hours after acknowledging the login issues, Snapchat Support tweeted that the problem had been fixed.
dot.LA reached out to Snapchat for more information about the outage and will update if the company responds.
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Steve Huff is an Editor and Reporter at dot.LA. Steve was previously managing editor for The Metaverse Post and before that deputy digital editor for Maxim magazine. He has written for Inside Hook, Observer and New York Mag. Steve is the author of two official tie-ins books for AMC’s hit “Breaking Bad” prequel, “Better Call Saul.” He’s also a classically-trained tenor and has performed with opera companies and orchestras all over the Eastern U.S. He lives in the greater Boston metro area with his wife, educator Dr. Dana Huff.
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This Week in ‘Raises’: Kneron Gains $48M, Loop Lands $40M
11:14 AM | October 07, 2022
Modified by Joshua Letona
San Diego-based Kneron, a developer of application-specific integrated circuits designed to offer AI-based tools raised fresh capital to create the next generation of innovative edge AI chips, while Loop Global will allocate its new funding to continue expanding operations across the U.S.
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Kneron, a San Diego-based AI company, raised $48 million in a Series B funding round led by Horizons Ventures.
Loop Global Inc., an El-Segundo-based provider of EV charging stations raised a $40 million Series A-1 funding round co-led by Fifth Wall Climate and Agility Ventures.
San Diego-based developer of voice analytics Clearspeed raised a $27 million Series C financing round co-led by Ian McKinnon, founder of Sandia Holdings, LLC and Thomas O’Malley Jr., founder of PilotRock Investments.
Los Angeles-based health care startup that helps patients get cost-effective medical assistance, Renee, raised an $8.2 million seed round. Investors include AARP, Quiet Capital, Tau Ventures, Mucker Capital, Fika Ventures, SaaS Ventures, Global Founders Capital and Citylight Ventures.
Yummers, a San Diego-based pet food startup, raised a $6.3 million seed round led by L Catterton.
Los Angeles-based augmented reality platform Fabric, raised $4 million in fresh funding led by Sapir Venture Partners.
Raises is dot.LA’s weekly feature highlighting venture capital funding news across Southern California’s tech and startup ecosystem. Please send fundraising news to Decerry Donato (decerrydonato@dot.la).
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PCH Driven: Director Jason Wise Talks Wine, Documentaries, and His New Indie Streaming Service SOMMTV
03:01 PM | September 30, 2022
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Jason Wise may still consider himself a little kid, but the 33-year-old filmmaker is building an IMDB page that rivals colleagues twice his age.
As the director behind SOMM, SOMM2, SOMM3, and the upcoming SOMM4, Wise has made a career producing award-winning documentary films that peer deep into the wine industry in Southern California and around the world.
On this episode of the PCH Driven podcast, he talks about life growing up in Cleveland as a horrible student, filmmaking, Los Angeles and his latest entrepreneurial endeavor: A streaming service called SOMMTV that features–what else?–documentaries about wine.
The conversation covers some serious ground, but the themes of wine and film work to anchor the discussion, and Wise dispenses bits of sage filmmaking advice.
“With a documentary you can just start filming right now,” he says. “That’s how SOMM came about. I got tossed into that world during the frustration of trying to make a different film, and I just started filming it, because no one could stop me because I was paying for it myself. That’s the thing with docs,” or “The good thing about SOMM is that you can explain it in one sentence: ‘The hardest test in the world is about wine, and you’ve never heard about it.’”
…Or at least maybe you hadn’t before he made his first film. Now with three SOMM documentaries under his belt, Wise is nearing completion of “SOMM4: Cup of Salvation,” which examines the history of wine’s relationship with religion. Wise says it’s “a wild film,” that spans multiple countries, the Vatican and even an active warzone. As he puts it, the idea is to show that “wine is about every subject,” rather than “every subject is about wine.”
For Wise, the transition to launching his own streaming service came out of his frustration with existing platforms holding too much power over the value of the content he produces.
“Do we want Netflix to tell us what our projects are worth or do we want the audience to do that?” he asks.
But unlike giants in the space, SOMMTV has adopted a gradual approach of just adding small bits of content as they develop. Without the need to license 500 or 1,000 hours of programming, Wise has been able to basically bootstrap SOMMTV and provide short form content and other more experimental offerings that typically get passed over by the Hulus and Disneys of the world.
So far, he says, the experiment is working, and now Wise is looking to raise some serious capital to keep up with the voracious appetites of his subscribers.
“Send those VCs my way,” Wise jokes.
Subscribe to PCH Driven on Apple, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart, Google or wherever you get your podcasts.
dot.LA reporter David Shultz contributed to this report.
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