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YouMail Gets New Competition: Google

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Irvine-based startup YouMail has just gotten a new competitor: search engine giant Google, which launched a significantly comparable service to YouMail's voice mail services. However, Alex Quilici, the firm's CEO, told socalTECH that he actually sees something good from the competition. READ MORE>>.

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Pixicle Raising $38,000 To Take Photos To The Big Screen Wirelessly & Introduce GPS Photo Printing

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Pixicle, a photo sharing device that makes it easy for users to view photos with their friends and family on the big screen instead of the frustrating smartphone screen passed around the room has raised $10K of its $38K Indiegogo goal to make photo viewing less strenuous. Any competition? How unique are you from them?

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How YP Is Growing A Giant Tech Team In Glendale

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Where does YP fit in a world dominated by Google and Yelp? With Google, they are obviously the big dog, no matter who you are talking about. Outside of Facebook, Google is the internet. Google has to go through channels like us just to get to an advertiser. The process was nearly flawless. If you look at Yelp''s U.S.

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How I Moved from Counting Calories to Supercharging My Workouts and Massively Improve My Fitness…

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It pushed me harder, it became my own little competition with imaginary people I was riding against and with myself. Except that a simple Google search told me that the right weight was for a man who was 5'10" (ok, ok, 5'9", well, it depends who’s asking) and it said 144–176. On May 31st the competition ended.

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How YP.com Is Growing A Giant Tech Team In Glendale

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Where does YP fit in a world dominated by Google and Yelp? With Google, they are obviously the big dog, no matter who you are talking about. Outside of Facebook, Google is the internet. Google has to go through channels like us just to get to an advertiser. The process was nearly flawless. If you look at Yelp''s U.S.

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What to do When a Tech Giant Decides to Eat Your Lunch

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This happens with Google, too. Every change in the algorithm wipes years of effort off of the traffic numbers of affected companies as anybody hurt by the Google Panda release will tell you. in turn killed Google when it came to search. While Google stopped Facebook in their tracks when they built a social networking company.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.