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Southern California Technology Jobs Surge

socalTECH

The firm recently opened up a new office in Playa Del Rey, looking to tap into the market of Los Angeles area technical talent, and is also hiring in Irvine, on the heels of a venture funding round. Mangers said that it appears that for companies that have survived the storm of 2009 and the economy, things are looking up.

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Q3 Venture Investments For SoCal Total Around $1.0 Billion

socalTECH

According to an analysis of socalTECH's proprietary database of venture capital deals, venture investors invested slightly more than the $966M in Q3 of 2009, but less than the $1.6 in investments, followed by Retail Products, at $140M, and Software, at $77.8M. billion invested in Q2.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. While he was waiting for the paperwork to be reviewed he moved to Boulder, Colorado and took a job with a local tech company there. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over. I hope that didn’t have a stature of limitation!

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

I regularly do wine tastings here in Los Angeles with some interesting folks I know. We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo.

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Interview with Scott Lahman, GOGII

socalTECH

Scott Lahman is co-founder of Los Angeles-based GOGII (www.gogii.com), the developer of group text messaging application textPlus. We called the company GOGII--literally, our short text code of 60611, which you can looks a little like GOGII. What's special about textPlus, versus other mobile apps looking to do similar things?

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Interview with Rob Reed, MomentFeed

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based MomentFeed (www.momentfeed.com) is looking to sort through that data to help marketers better tap into location based, social networking. Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0. How did the company come about?

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

With Dr. Drapeau's permission, the AeA Los Angeles Council is furnishing this insightful speech below: I'm sure that all of you understand that what I'm going to talk about today is my own informed opinion, and not the official position nor policy of the U.S. government. Army, for example. An interesting anecdote about use of Web 2.0