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GoodSearch Gets Patent

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Los Angeles-based GoodSearch.com , the online search engine which shares its advertising revenues with charities, said Tuesday that it has received a patent on its technology. According to the firm, it has received patent number 7,769,738 from the U.S. Patent and Trademark office. READ MORE>>.

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How urRadio Wants To Make You The Radio Station

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We spoke with founder and CEO Tyler Francois to hear about his vision for making anyone an Internet radio DJ, and how the team--made up of former Yahoo! Tyler Francois: We have a fairly lean team right now, eight full time developers, three of whom previously worked for other, streaming music services, including Yahoo! What is urRadio?

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Marissa Mayer Yahoo’s New CEO

Tech Zulu Event

Marissa Mayer has started work at Yahoo! Her appointment is expected to spice things up at Yahoo, once a top internet and media firm. She is expected to champion for new products and advance its web technology. This might revive Yahoo’s leading properties like Yahoo! Mail ,Yahoo! Search, Yahoo!

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

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Prior to Tilofy, I had technical positions at Yahoo, Microsoft, and Samsung, ranging from development, to program management, to senior technology person on Samsung''s smart TV platform. Our mission is to organize all of the world''s real time location information. My degree is from USC in big data.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. When you begin to peel back the onion some surprising data presents itself.

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TYLT Labs' New Seed Fund And The Promise Of Silicon Beach

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Anyone can talk a good game, and put together a proforma that looks great, and there are lots of great looking ideas, and people can even all have filed a provisional patent. Plus, there are companies like Yahoo, Google, and others who have set up shop here. We''re really looking for that first and foremost. Why not Los Angeles?

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ConTraps Part II – Contract Traps Entrepreneurs Should Avoid At All Costs

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BDCs often ask to “private label” or “white label” a smaller company’s technology. This generally involves the BDC selling the startup’s technology under the BDC’s brand. Do not allow your adVenture’s technology to be buried in the bowels of another company’s product, without reasonable attribution. Do Not Give up Branding.