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XPRIZE Awards $15M In Global Learning Competition

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Marina Del Rey-based XPRIZE , the organization led by Dr. Peter H.

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Guardian Circle Taps Your Social Network For Help In A Crisis

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Marina Del Rey-based Guardian Circle says it has the app for you--a new app which lets you connect with your own personal network of family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and others, who can get you out of a bind. 911--to provide help. The app was created by startup veterans Mark Jeffrey and Chris Hayes.

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XPRIZE Launches MOONBOTS Challenge

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XPRIZE , the Marina Del Rey-based organization that is known for running competitions to spur innovation solutions to some of the world's biggest problems, has launched a new effort called the MOONBOTS Challenge.

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X Prize's Diamandis Ties Together Space Mining, Virgin Galactic

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Peter H. (..)

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Reflections on 2016: Kevin Winston, Digital LA

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This morning, we have Kevin Winston of Digital LA (www.digitalla.net), the organization which is LA's largest digital networking group and which is behind the Silicon Beach Fest, the first and largest tech, startup and entertainment conference in LA. You'll be able to see all the many 2016 reflections here as they are posted.

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

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Steve is now in charge of Marina Del Rey-based TeleSign (www.telesign.com), which has quietly become a huge force in providing authentication services to nearly every major Internet service out there. There are so many people in this organization who have worked together before, and we all have an excellent working relationship.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 3.0: Internet advertising is good. No, it’s bad. Oh wait… it IS good!

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I think it is evidenced by the fact that many people from our team went on to be very successful; some are successful entrepreneurs, some are holding very high level executive positions at successful companies and some started non-profit/charity organizations. I’m proud of all of them. We had fun; worked hard and played hard.