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Meetrix Gets Patent

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Los Angeles-based Meetrix , a developer of an online virtual conference room service, said today that it has granted a patent by the U.S. According to the USPTO, the patent covers a technique to allow standard telephone users to audio conference with video conferencing participants over IP networks. Dye and Thomas A.

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Freebinar Looks To Fill Webcasting Hole Left By DimDim

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Bolstering Freebinar's efforts is new funding from the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels. Freebinar told socalTECH today that it is looking to help users of Dimdim, which was just acquired by Salesforce.com and stopped allowing new user signups this week. READ MORE>>.

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Spooky thought: Where would we be without our supporters?

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Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. The 7th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference, Exhibit & Workshops. Most Informative Chip Technology Conference of the Year! SoCal IP Law Group LLP - IP Counselors For Technology Companies. Safire Partners (www.safirepartners.com).

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Thank you to our sponsors and advertisers

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Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. The 7th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference, Exhibit & Workshops (www.SoCconference.com) - November 4 & 5, 2009 - Radisson Hotel Newport Beach. The Most Informative Chip Technology Conference of the Year! Startups Made Simple. Advertisers.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

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You own the IP you create. Yet you can run a conference and mint money. If it’s well run, people readily pay for conferences and sponsors readily pay to become platinum, gold or silver sponsors. Tech blogs can theoretically scale, tech conferences are pure service businesses. But How Do Service Businesses Grow?

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Interview with Cliff Rees, XCast Labs

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It seems that every week, a new, Voice-over-IP provider firm surfaces in the market, either providing PBX services, voicemail, or other similar services. Los Angeles-based XCast Labs (www.xcastlabs.com) announced earlier this month that it has raised a $2.7M Cliff Rees: We're a software as a solutions company.

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What to do About that Chip on Your Shoulder?

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I was at a conference 18 monts ago or so. Well – he had this awesome platform that was super technical – great IP. He has tried to go down the angel route, too. So [prominent angel] said ‘no’ and was a dick. Here’s a story. I met an entrepreneur. He sought me out in the hallways. Get over it.

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