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Reflections on 2020: Andy Wilson, Alliance for SoCal Innovation

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Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, sposors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. Today, we have Andy Wilson, Executive Director of the Alliance for SoCal Innovation (www.alliancesocal.org). He previously held C-level roles at Overture Services/Yahoo!,

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Blake Irving, Yahoo!

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Wednesday, February 29, 2012 -- Blake Irving, EVP and CPO, Yahoo! Blake Irving is executive vice president and chief product officer at Yahoo! Irving most recently was a professor at Pepperdine Universitys Graziadio School of Business and Management in Malibu, California. Pepperdine Dean's Executive Leadership Series.

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Walmart: Turning San Diego Into A Key Technology Center

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We have our own A/B testing platform, and my team is responsible for that solution for desktop and native apps, not only for Walmart.com, but also online groceries and the market. We've actually open sourced Test Armada, our open source platform for testing. How did Walmart decide to set up in San Diego? Things have evolved since then.

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Walmart: Turning San Diego Into Its Technology Center

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We have our own A/B testing platform, and my team is responsible for that solution for desktop and native apps, not only for Walmart.com, but also online groceries and the market. We've actually open sourced Test Armada, our open source platform for testing. How did Walmart decide to set up in San Diego? Things have evolved since then.

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Gradient X Snags Exec From OpenX

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Cunninghame was last overseeing and developing marketplace strategy for the OpenX real-time bidding platform, and also had served as Director of Product Management at Yahoo. He was at Overture before it was acquired by Yahoo.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

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Mayer on her first 100 days at Yahoo: ‘This job was tailor-made for me’ 1 day ago. 5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California. The great NorCal vs. SoCal debate is a longstanding, undeniable rivalry between the stereotypical surfer dudes of the south and environmental geeks to the north.

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Ten of Southern California's Top Software Companies

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Southern California is often criticized for having too many startups which only revolve around brand, celebrity, ecommerce, and. We've identified ten of the more technically interesting companies working on software in Southern California, using our unscientific, unproven, and undoubtedly biased informal polling.