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Southern California's Billion Dollar Startup Trio: SpaceX, Snapchat, Beats

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Think Silicon Valley has a lock on billion dollar startups? A recent analysis by the Wall Street Journal uncovers a surprising number of Southern California startups in the billion dollar valuation -- led by Hawthorne-based SpaceX , with a $4.8 Along with SpaceX, Southern California includes Snapchat ($2.0 READ MORE>>.

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Half Lives. Social Media. And Snapchat Stories.

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Eventually Twitter acquiesced and started putting Tweets that you missed “while you were away.” As a technology prognosticator, watching Twitter and Facebook grow up was a real pleasure. And Snapchat has changed the game and in ways that I think the community doesn’t even quite understand yet. Think about that.

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Introducing Snapstorms.com. Why, oh, why Snapchat?

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For the past few months I’ve been doing nearly daily “Snapstorms” or short videos with startup advice released on Snapchat. Among the most comical things to me in the past few years is just how much it annoys some people that I use Snapchat. I remember the same disdain from people when I started blogging or using Twitter.

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Report: No Snapchat Series On Quibi

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Los Angeles-based mobile streaming video startup Quibi will not be launching a series about Venice, Californi-based Snapchat , according to a report from Variety. Quibi had said last year at SXSW that it would film a series based on the script "Frat Boy Genius" by Elissa Karasik.

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Snapchat's Spectacles And Another, Untold, LA Startup Story

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Venice-based Snapchat 's newest product--Snap-recording sunglasses--is the result of the work of another, Los Angeles startup--Vergence Labs--which was quietly acquired by Snapchat back in 2014. READ MORE>>.

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Snapchat Hit By Spam Attack

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Snapchat , the hot Venice-based startup which lets users send self-destructing photos to each other, has been hit by a spam attack, the firm said this morning. Snapchat said that it believes an individual created multiple accounts and sent snaps to Snapchatters with public accounts. READ MORE>>.

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The Long Economic Case for Snapchat

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Yesterday I wrote a primer on how to use Snapchat for my peer group of “over 30” people who don’t yet “get” Snapchat. Today I want to talk briefly about why I believe Snapchat is an important media company. Snapchat is performing off the hook on all fronts.

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