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What Mattered in 2012: Aber Whitcomb, io/LA

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Aber Whitcomb is a partner at startup co-working and incubation community io/LA , CTO of SGN , and former co-founder and CTO of MySpace. We've also invented and patented a new technology called "MasterKey" that allows people to play our games natively on all relevant social and mobile platforms. Or Tapes and CDs?

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LA Billions - Data Warehousing for Ambitious Young Startups

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, February 8, 2012 -- LA Billions - Data Warehousing for Ambitious Young Startups. We are extremely lucky to have a handful of thought leaders in the data warehousing space present about their platforms and also talk about the dramatic growth in the data storage space. See [link] (more)

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ExpenseCloud Acquired By TriNet

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According to TriNet, it will incorporate ExpenseCloud's offering into its client service platform later in 2012. ExpenseCloud's management team, including both co-founder and CEO Eric Sikola and co-founder and CTO Dan Fritcher, will join TriNet as part of the acquisition. Financial terms of the sale have not been announced.

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Miigle Revisited | A SoCal Startup With a Global Mission

Tech Zulu Event

We first interviewed Luc in 2012, just as he was launching the prototype for Miigle. LB: Currently, we are about 75% and that’s really because in this phase we have developed what I think is the most critical aspect of our platform, which is the technology that allows us to truly build our community.

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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

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Michael Kleist: Tradesparq is a B2B trade platform. In 2011, we built our site, and in 2012, last year, we started getting content. Our CTO is mainland Chinese, but was educated here. Fortunately our CTO doesn''t have that problem. What is Tradesparq? We then add things like ratings, and then shipment data.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. Ynon & I first discussed Maker in early 2012. Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO.

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Arterys, GE Healthcare to Roll Out Next-Gen MRI Scans of Heart

Xconomy

Less than five years ago, those GPUs weren’t available from commercial cloud services, says Arterys co-founder and chief technology officer John Axerio-Cilies. “In In 2012, when we started, Amazon had just released the GPUs into the public cloud,” Axerio-Cilies says.