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Catching Up With Mike Giardello, President of Innovate Pasadena

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Pasadena has a long history as a center of the technology and innovation world�all the way back to first American experiments with rocket launches in 1936�Southern California's first foray into the rocket business (sorry, SpaceX)--through the Internet boom with Idealab, to today.

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The next big restaurant chain may not own any kitchens

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If investors at some of the biggest technology companies are right, the next big restaurant chain could have no kitchens of its own. If anyone is aware of the massive market potential for leveraging on-demand services, it’s Kalanick. On-demand food startup Sprig is shutting down today. They just have to enable it.

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Ten Of The Top Tech Companies For Employees In LA

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Demand Media. Demand Media consistently popped up near number one in the list of "companies to work for" from our readers. company operates a number of content-focused sites, including LIVESTRONG, eHOW, Cracked, and a domain name registration business, eNOM. The firm, based in Pasadena, has dozens of. The now-public.

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Interview with Buck Jordan, Miso Robotics

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It runs our proprietary technology, and it's a platform that people can plug into. Crowdfunding allows everyday people the opportunity to help transform technology, and be part of that transformation. The demand is there. We're also at Caliburger in Pasadena, at Dodger Stadium, and Chase Field. What is Miso Robotics?

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Docstoc's Jason Nazar Talks About DocStore

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Recently, Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com) launched a new marketplace on its site, for anyone interested in selling professional documents. What kind of documents do you envision people offering through the site? There is a huge demand from people, who have gone there to buy products. A year ago, we were around 3.5

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Interview with Tim Cadogan, OpenX

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One of the firms poised to take advantage of that growth is Pasadena-based OpenX (www.openx.org), which develops one of the most widely used ad serving solutions available. For a big company, that might be through their own sales force, and for a smaller company it might be a small team which is operating the site themselves.

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Interview with Cliff Rees, XCast Labs

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round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and Frontera Capital for a voice-over-IP service, and we thought we'd talk with Cliff Rees, the firm's CEO, to understand how the firm is different from those many providers. The technology is really what sets us apart from our competitors, who are mostly resellers of someone else's technology.

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