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What You Missed On Your Holiday Vacation, SoCal Technology Edition

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Solarflare ($22M, San Diego, high speed networking). Southern California's Most Popular Tech Stories. LaunchpadLA Opens Up Spring Applications. Broadcom Powering New Mac Wireless. Surf Air Gets First Aircraft. Ignyta ($6M, San Diego, personalized medicine). Independa ($5M, San Diego, software for senior independence).

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

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In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. The best “MCNs” are in fact building strong technology businesses with rapid growth and strong, defensible assets. Not so fast.

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TZ & GR Present REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming

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TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. Before G4, Scot founded All Games Network (AGN).

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

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TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. Before G4, Scot founded All Games Network (AGN). Date : Thursday, October 24, 2013. Time : 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM.

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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

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What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We serve up four to five percent of the global Internet on our network. We're in the domain of hiring relatively technical people, gearheads.

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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

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People said this about Ring (which went from startup to selling to Amazon > $1 billion in around 5 years), Facebook, YouTube, Airbnb, Uber, Twitter, Instagram and many other great behemoths of the technology industry. Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! You don’t “Bing” information or “Hulu and chill.” Not really.

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Top Tips for Streaming Services: Cutting the Cord the Smart Way

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Hulu/Hulu Plus. Hulu offers current shows ASAP. Pay to Watch: If you didn’t already know, paying a few bucks more a month will get you Hulu Plus without (hardly any) commercials. Hidden Content: Hulu has some content that can only be viewed with a qualifying cable subscription. Price: $15 per month.

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