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MARCH 13, 2014

Nest--now owned by Google--develops high tech thermostats which automatically adjust to optimize a home''s temperature for users, and can also be remotely monitored and adjusted. insteon home automation electronics nest labs google' READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

In the first time that President Barack Obama has paid a special visit to the epicenter of Southern California''s high tech industry, the President spoke for over an hour to an audience of entrepreneurs at Cross Campus , the Santa Monica coworking space, touching on topics around providing an infrastructure for the next generation of entrepreneurs.

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APRIL 10, 2019

Former Los Angeles-based online real estate startup REX has shifted its headquarters to Texas, after the move of its CEO to Austin, in a loss to Southern California's growing high tech startup community--although the company says it still has a team of 50 in Woodland Hills, and that it expects to continue to grow its team in that location.

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JANUARY 29, 2018

The fund was founded by longtime Southern California technology investors Jim Andelman and Mark Mullen, who are joined by Leah Volger, formerly of Google and Santander InnoVentures. Los Angeles-based Bonfire Ventures said this morning that it has officially launched with its first fund, a new $60M fund aimed at early stage startups.

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MARCH 28, 2013

The comedy pilot, which is set in the "land of Silicon Valley start-ups", is actually being filmed at ROC Santa Monica, the real-life, startup coworking space which recently opened in Google's old Santa Monica offices. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 23, 2013

Because of that, the local high tech industry here has welcomed any and all new capital. Elbaz is best known as being the co-founder of Applied Semantics, which he sold with his co-founders to Google before the Google IPO; Applied Semantics product became Google AdSense, which powers much of the revenues over at the Internet giant.

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APRIL 23, 2013

Because of that, the local high tech industry here has welcomed any and all new capital. Elbaz is best known as being the co-founder of Applied Semantics, which he sold with his co-founders to Google before the Google IPO; Applied Semantics product became Google AdSense, which powers much of the revenues over at the Internet giant.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

In what looks to be an unprecedented surge in high profile, high value exits for high tech companies in Southern California, there have now been six big exits in the region over the last month worth over $100M. Those exits--worth more than a collected $3.8

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JULY 11, 2013

The move is at least the second, biofuels company pulled out of Southern California by Colorado, which--along with states like Texas--has been very aggressive in courting high tech startups from Southern California. READ MORE>>. cool planet biofuels biosystems cleantech relocation colorado economic gevo'

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FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Albeit the second fiddle to its well known uncle up north, Silicon Valley with a number of high-tech success stories to lay claim such as Google, Paypal, and Logitech, the Silicon Beach market is a fervor of action from all sides of the start up equation.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. Facebook became so dominant in social, not even Google could touch them. Analyzing massive quantities of data used to be something only Google did. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 20, 2009

Southern California's high tech news and companies. source for executive talent -- serving emerging growth company clients in the high. tech, new media, entertainment and consumer industries. startups from around the globe to grace the stage in front of Valley VCs, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce, Vmware and more.

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JUNE 20, 2014

For today''s Insights and Opinions section, we are featuring a post from Jonathan Handel , a Los Angeles entertainment/technology attorney, who imagines one day when driver''s licenses will be obsolete (thanks to Google and Uber). In other words, Google is engineering all of us right out of the driver''s seat. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 21, 2010

Last week, we announced our end-of-the-year project, which was to collect and share the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. I also think it will be a big year for Google. See more insights from the Southern California high tech community in our continued series tomorrow!

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JULY 6, 2011

Separately, Santa Monica-based Factual , along with local high tech firms MyLife , Google 's local office, AT&T Interactive/YP.com , Amplio , Hipswap. and MerchEngines , said they are running a job fair later this month to attract new employees.

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DECEMBER 26, 2012

For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. Finally, Google. Google continues to shape our futures. See more insights from the Southern California high tech community in our continued series this whole week!

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JULY 7, 2010

socalTECH.com has mined its proprietary database of high tech companies and entrepreneurs and identified just a few of the repeat entrepreneurs to watch in the region. Elbaz sold Applied Semantics to Google in 2003, for pre-IPO stock, reaping first round investors more than a 100x return on their investment.

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JULY 27, 2020

We caught up with Nick--who is a veteran of the area's high tech industry, most recently serving as CEO of Velocify--to get the latest on MomentFeed, which provides services to multi-brand, location businesses. Oftentimes that will be Google, sometimes that will be Apple, sometimes it will be another network.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. Furthermore, I believe that the digital identity landscape will change from todays duopoly of Google and Facebook to a more decentralized and self-sovereign future.

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DECEMBER 27, 2010

All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. Examples: After successful sales of their prior companies to Google, Ryan and Chad Steelberg are back with BAT, while Gil Elbaz is making big news with Factual. More are on their way. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks. Today, we have Nick Hedges, CEO of MomentFeed (www.momentfeed.com). You will be able to get to all of these posts on our 2020 reflections here.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Steve is helping to spearhead the efforts of TechLA Internships (techla.internships.com), an online site which lists local internships at high tech companies for college students. We often run into students who say: I have an internship opportunity with Google, Microsoft, or IBM--why should I look at a startup?

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

features an interface powered by Google TV, and delivers both the web and streaming. Did we miss your favorite electronic device, widget, or gizmo from a local high tech company? Have an HDTV, and wish you could browse the web or stream content from the Internet? The CoStar. entertainment through a touchpad remote.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

The company went from a venture backed high tech startup to an IPO as a publicly traded firm, and over its time has battled the perception of being a "content farm", suffered through Google and its Panda update, and now has emerged as a major content partner for Google, via YouTube.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

One of the most frequent questions from high tech startups is: where''s my exit? That''s true of many Southern California ad-tech companies. Google and Yahoo aren''t going to buy them, AOL has already made its bet, and your only real path to an exit is an IPO for any kind of liquidity. Their only option is an IPO.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

This morning's contribution is from Krisztina 'Z' Holly host of the The Art of Manufacturing podcast and founder of MAKE IT IN LA (www.makeitinla.org), which supports connecting local manufacturers and high tech companies. In automation news, Google's Deep Mind AI taught itself to walk last summer.

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JUNE 6, 2011

Although Los Angeles has become a hub for the high tech startup world, Surprisingly, one of the things which hasn't happened in the Los Angeles area is any huge, successful venture acceleration programs. Some examples of those who we have worked very closely with are Ron Garrett, who was the lead engineer on Google AdWords.

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