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Walmart: Turning San Diego Into A Key Technology Center

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I had work for Yahoo for nine years, and at the time, they had an office in Carlsbad. The started looking at the Carlsbad group of engineers, who were working at Yahoo, in order to jump start something in Southern California. I was an engineering leader at the time, and I had a few meetings with Walmart when I was working at Yahoo.

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Walmart: Turning San Diego Into Its Technology Center

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I had work for Yahoo for nine years, and at the time, they had an office in Carlsbad. The started looking at the Carlsbad group of engineers, who were working at Yahoo, in order to jump start something in Southern California. I was an engineering leader at the time, and I had a few meetings with Walmart when I was working at Yahoo.

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Ten of Southern California's Top Software Companies

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The company has a stellar set of expert advisors in machine learning, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence--in addition to a highly technical team--which it is applying to the problem. Commercial API Programs at Yahoo, in addition to running engineering teams at Overture Services and Amazon.com.

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