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Pingo Solar Aiming Comparison Shopping Tool At Solar Consumers

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A new, Los Angeles startup, Pingo Solar --backed by technology veterans Jerry Slavonia, Kang Ahn, and others--said it is about to launch a new service to provide more transparency to the solar industry. Not sure if you're getting the best price on your new solar power system?

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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Los Angeles. And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. But we have a great city for building technology companies. You can find very talented technology executives. But we do have great technology developers.

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Internet Brands Brisco: Deal Will Allow More Focus On Long Term Growth

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Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago.

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Zag Gets Investment From USAA

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Los Angeles-based Zag , the online car buying software firm headed by former CarsDirect CEO Scott Painter, has scored an investment from financial services firm USAA , USAA disclosed Thursday. Zag develops technology which allows members of groups like USAA to fully configure and purchase cars, through car buying programs.

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Sponsor post: Discount to tomorrow's DFR, and win a ticket to digiday:APPS

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In association with some of the regions top trade associations/social networking groups and industry hosts, DFR '09 promises to be the largest holiday party of the season and help weave our various communities of interest into the larger collective family of professionals working in and around the technology industry.

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Interview with Jose daVeiga, KlickSports

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Los Angeles-based KlickSports (www.klicksports.com) recently rolled out the firm's live sports prediction web site and game, looking to harness the enthusiasm of sports fans for their favorite sports and teams. The underpinning of the technology is much more complex than that, of course, and we've been building this for awhile.

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Interview with Greg Brogger, SharesPost

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Greg Brogger: Where we're starting today, is angel investors and founders--the senior management team of the company. We co-founded Zag together, and I was the COO of CarsDirect. We put together a group of angels we'd worked with in the past, put some money to work, and prototyped some companies.

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