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Announcing the 2014 socalTECH 50: Southern California's Ones To Watch

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This is our second year of creating our list of the top 50 people to watch in Southern California''s technology industry, and it was NOT an easy task. As we found last year, it''s a tough, unforgiving task to narrow down a list of the folks in Southern California''s technology industry to just fifty to watch. Will Kassoy , AdColony.

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What I Learned In 2014: David Cremin, DFJ Frontier

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Over the last couple of weeks, we''ve been featuring the reflections on the last year from folks in Southern California''s technology industry. Here, David Cremin , a venture capitalist at DFJ Frontier , shares his thoughts on 2014. What was your biggest lesson learned in 2014? You never know what can happen and surprise you!

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Social Reality Raises $25M, Acquires Steel Media

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Los Angeles-based digital advertising technology developer Social Reality said this morning that it has raised $25M, and acquired display and mobile ad company Steel Media. Terms of the Steel Media acquisition were not disclosed, however, the company said Steel Media expected $10M in 2014 revenues. READ MORE>>.

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What I Learned in 2014: Kevin Winston

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My most significant event of 2014 is definitely Silicon Beach Fest, the multi-day tech community fest, which just keeps getting bigger. Silicon Beach Fest 2014 attracted more than 2,000 attendees, with more than 350 speakers, of which more than one third were women. What technologies are you looking at in 2015?

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Demand Media Shuffles Execs

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Santa Monica-based Demand Media has had another shuffle in its executive ranks, saying late Thursday that it has named Brian Pike, currently its Chief Technology Officer, to the role of Chief Operating Officer. Pike had joined Demand Media in November of 2014 from Rubicon Project, where he also served as CTO.

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Glossier just laid off one-third of its corporate employees, mostly in tech

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The cuts, which amount to around one-third of Glossier’s corporate workforce, will primarily impact the company’s technology team. “[W]e W]e are shifting our technology strategy to leverage external partners for parts of our platform that we’re currently maintaining internally,” Weiss wrote in the email announcing the layoffs to staff.

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Digital Family Reunion 2014: Don't Miss This Year's Biggest Holiday Event!

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It''s the season to celebrate the technology and media industry''s success here with the Digital Family Reunion on December 10th at the Skirball Cultural Center. Last year, we had over 700 people at the Digital Family Reunion/1st annual socalTECH 50 event.

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