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KnuEdge, Backed By $100M, Launches Voice Recognition Software

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San Diego-based KnuEdge , a startup which was founded by former NASA administrator Dan Goldin, said this morning that it has unveiled its voice recognition and authentication technology--which it has developed with $100M in funding. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. Let's start with an overview of the fund. We closed our fund in August of 2008. What do you invest in?

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Is WebEx “Dead Man Walking?”

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This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. One of the companies that just announced $10 million in funding was a company I had never heard of called Huddle. “Huddle helps businesses connect, share and work better together.

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Off To SXSW, Our Schedule, And A Special Thanks

Tech Zulu Event

The time has come for us to say goodbye SoCal (temporarily of course) and HELLO Austin! is the leading live video site on the Web, enabling users to create real-time connections with others around the world. is funded by: Y Combinator, Alsop Louie Partners and Draper Associates. Headquartered in San Francisco, Justin.tv

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Interview with Peter Lee, Baroda Ventures

socalTECH

Peter Lee: Baroda Ventures is David Bohnett's--the founder of Geocities'--personal investment fund. He was basically active investing until 2004 and 2005, and then started getting much more involved in the non-profit space. You mention the firms who aren't as active--and with funds going away, not yet raising money, etc.--where

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. Last week I was having coffee with an ex engineering student of mine now on his second startup (and for a change it wasn’t a Web 2.0 I Be specific. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

Most of these bots don’t obey robots.txt , that means you can’t even block them applying Web standards ( learn how to block rogue bots ). Their developers are just too fucking lazy to understand such protocols that every respected service on the Web (search engines…) obeys. ″, “somebot/2.0″,