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Social Media Faking It – Cheaper Than You May Think, But Still Not Worth It

InfoChachkie

How much will social media fame cost you in 2014? He noted that, " Throughout the year I review my Twitter followers looking for bots, accounts that have been abandoned, or that are tweeting links with viruses and I remove them. Not surprisingly, Steve''s tagline for his PR firm is "Content Is The Currency Of The Social Web."

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Joey Flores On Earbits' Life, Death, and Resurrection

socalTECH

That's the fascinating story behind Los Angeles-based Earbits (www.earbits.com), which offers up a mobile music streaming service focused on discovering both new and talent. understand you actually had shutdown the service, and that the company was essentially at the brink of death? Joey, thanks for the time today.

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13 Ecosystem Builders That Are Boosting Startup Growth

Tech.Co

BlackTech Week was created in 2014, and in four short years, they’ve gained over 2700 participants, 150 speakers, and 3 pitch competitions. BlackTech Week was created by the leadership team from Code Fever to accelerate and support the innovation of black communities through training, networks and funding. “ Memphis, TN).

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AOL Owned CrunchBase Pulls Plug on People+ Startup

Tech Zulu Event

Check out a sample demo of their Google Glass product, due to arrive in 2014 (well, it was due to arrive then). CrunchBase, a self stated free service, (with a publicly filed creative commons license which iterates the “free” usage of their data) is open source, but only on a conditional basis. .

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Xconomy Special Report: 12 San Diego Tech Startup to Watch in 2017

Xconomy

View the Slideshow A little more than a year ago, amid a resurgence in San Diego’s software sector, Xconomy identified a baker’s dozen of local tech companies to watch in 2016. I met with Seed San Diego partners Taner Halicioglu and Eric Gasser, who also reviewed the companies and provided their feedback.

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Predictive Analytics is a Goldmine for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Traditional business intelligence (and data mining) software does a very good job of showing you where you’ve been. The challenge is to increase response rates and propagate a single view of the customer, by integrating customer data from multiple Web and social media interactions. Predictive advertisement targeting.

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Profitability Helps San Diego Lender Step Out from Industry Cloud

Xconomy

The company became a Wall Street darling when it raised $1 billion-plus through its 2014 IPO, and now claims to have deployed roughly $19 billion in loans since inception. The top-five industries it serves are special trades, general contractors, medical, business services, and trucking. Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.