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Flinja Launches At DEMO

socalTECH

The firm showed off its service at the DEMO conference today, saying that its service is now available at both USC and UCLA, and will soon launch at Stanford. Flinja was co-founded by Victor Young, Rebecca Bahr, and Calvin Shen, and was part of the Summer 2012 class from Howard Marks' StartEngine effort.

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Walmart: Turning San Diego Into A Key Technology Center

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However, the company's technology team, Walmart Labs (www.walmartlabs.com)--which said this month that it is planning on major growth in San Diego is responsible for the company's key supply chain technology, online e-commerce site, and much more. The last area my team is responsible for, is what we call our site merchandising tools.

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Walmart: Turning San Diego Into Its Technology Center

socalTECH

However, the company's technology team, Walmart Labs (www.walmartlabs.com)--which said this month that it is planning on major growth in San Diego is responsible for the company's key supply chain technology, online e-commerce site, and much more. The last area my team is responsible for, is what we call our site merchandising tools.

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How Businesses Can Find Scalable Ethernet Services in Southern California

Southern California Edison Blog

And, since 2012, just six counties in SoCal have seen their gross domestic product increase from $992 billion to $1.26 These companies often have offshoots that offer other local services, such as dedicated internet access for enterprises , Ethernet, Wavelength, Cell Site Backhaul and SONET services. trillion. ¹.

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Zite | Your Personalized Magazine

Tech Zulu Event

It started as basic as signing up for a newsletter from your favorite site to customizing a profile to display particular topics. I recently got the chance to catchup with Zite’s CEO Mark Johnson during this year’s South By Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, TX. Then we took a giant leap with social media integration.

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. Instead of doing guest posts on TechCrunch or speaking at startup conferences, Tracy became a regular contributor on wedding and women’s lifestyle blogs. How’s that for an ex painter? She’s infectious.”

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How to Talk to a Journalist When You Only Have 30 Seconds

Tech Zulu Event

In order to prepare for TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 I reviewed company bios via the official site and read taglines that said “cool” rather than what the company does. To start, let’s take a peek inside my train of thinking while I was preparing what I would report on for Tech Crunch Disrupt 2012. 1 Pre Planning.

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