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What Mattered in 2012: Kevin Winston, Digital LA

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Kevin Winston , is the organizer of Digital LA , the popular and widely attended networking organization for the Los Angeles startup, web, movie, music, marketing, and social media community. We'll head back to the beach on the first week of summer for a week-long Silicon Beach Fest in Santa Monica June 2013.

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Top Ten infoChachkie Entries Of 2012 – The Year Of Syndication

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In 2012,I added video from my UC Santa Barbara speakers, including Mark Templeon, CEO of Citrix; Kerri Pollard, President of Commission Junction; and Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus. Top Ten Syndicated infoChachkie Entries Of 2012. The following entries generated the most pageviews outside of infoChachkie during 2012.

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What Mattered in 2012: Aber Whitcomb, io/LA

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It's worth mentioning that the largest and most complex pieces of technology ever created has proven itself useful in 2012--the Large Hadron Collider or LHC. Aside from the theoretical stuff, 2012 has been a year of disruption in many areas of technology. Media and Entertainment has seen more barriers to entry being broken down.

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Report: MySpace Raising $50M For Music Domination

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A report this morning from Business Insider says that Irvine-based Specific Media , the parent company of MySpace , is seeking to raised $50M to turn MySpace into a "Spotify killer". The report says that Specific Media is hoping to re-launch MySpace as a competitor to both Pandora and Spotify, two popular streaming music services.

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What Mattered in 2012: Erik Rannala of MuckerLab

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Today, we're featuring Erik Rannala , founder of MuckerLab , the startup accelerator focused on incubation stage Internet, software, services, and media businesses here in LA. What are the technologies, companies, or things we ought to watch in 2013? What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year?

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Southern California Startups Raise More Than $598.4M In VC In Q4

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The investments were a drop from Q4 of 2012, $711.8M in the quarter and social media darling Snapchat raised $50.0M. Los Angeles led the region with $309.79M in total investments for Q4 of 2013, with San Diego ($145.0M) and Orange County ($143.6M) with nearly the same venture investment toal. was invested in the region.

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What Mattered in 2012: Howard Marks, StartEngine

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2012 has been a remarkably interesting year in terms of developments in technology. I think we're going to see a real shakeup in how people view social media. What are the technologies, companies, or things we ought to watch in 2013? It was a big year for us. I don't even know where to start. Finally, Google.