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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Acquisition. Just this year, Q2 investments in SoCal and New England were virtually the same, with $838 million and $843 million invested respectively, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers MoneyTree Report. billion for its endowment in 2011 alone. Editor’s picks. Featured stories. Cloud services. Cloud storage.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million.