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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

socalTECH

In 2011, we built our site, and in 2012, last year, we started getting content. Now, we''re looking at Southern California because there''s lots of talent in the area of design, and we also want to start targeting enterprises here who want to start sourcing products in Asia. Michael Kleist: We started in 2010.

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Dude, Akanda Is Tying The Cloud Together Like A Rug

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In 2012 the company rolled out Inktank, an innovative open source storage solution based on Ceph’s distributed file system, which was subsequently sold to Red Hat for $175 million. To update Marc Andreessen’s widely publicized quote from 2011, “OpenStack Software Defined Networks (SDNs) are eating the world.”

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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

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Meet the Graduates: · Connectifier, which connects recruiters to potential job candidates, consists of 4 ex-Google employees and local angel investor, Terrence Yang, has dubbed Connectifier one of the best startups of 2012. YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7

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Catch #Mindshare50 Talks Live on TechZulu

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Bushnell is currently co-founder and chief game designer for Anti-Aging Games. He can also spin fire while balancing on a circus ball and whistlin – but not just any whistling, eric finished in the top 10 at the world’s whistling competition in Louisburg, North Carolina. and the Chuck E Cheese’s Pizza-Time Theater chain. Interview).

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Interview with Woolas Hsieh and Dina Lozofsky, Solarmer Energy

socalTECH

We're doing our development in El Monte, and we think we'll be operational by the beginning of next year, and full scale by the end of 2010, with product launch in 2011. That makes solar panels as a product not competitive at all, if you removed government subsidies. We hopefully will have our first production year in 2011.

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After “Hubris” and Its HCV Collapse, Can Vertex Avoid Same Mistakes?

Xconomy

Five years ago, in November 2011, a company from Princeton, NJ, called Pharmasset shared news that would have an impact on millions of people around the world with hepatitis C. But the drugs aren’t cures, and competition looms. It bought Pharmasset in November 2011 for $11 billion and continued PSI-7977’s stellar run of clinical data.

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Collect, Organize, and Share on LoveIt | Interview with Ron LaPierre Co-Founder & CEO

Tech Zulu Event

We started building LoveIt at the beginning of 2012. We did some informal research toward the end of 2011 when the “pinning” phenomenon emerged because we found it very interesting. When we discussed the feedback we saw an opportunity to use our backgrounds in search and discovery to help us stand out from the competition.