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Belkin Buys Linksys From Cisco

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Linksys , the Irvine-based manufacturer of network switches, wireless routers, and other products, has just been sold to Playa Vista-based Belkin , bringing the firm's corporate ownership back to Southern California. Financial terms of the deal were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Digital Family Reunion Honors Belkin Founder Chet Pipkin

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The Founder and CEO of Belkin International , Chet has achieved what to most entrepreneurs remains an elusive buzzword: ubiquity. Belkin International is a private, LA-based corporation with yearly revenues of more than $1 billion. So how have Chet and Belkin remained largely undetected by the Silicon Beach spotlight?

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Linksys Adds Wireless Router, Range Extenders

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Irvine-based networking product developer Linksys said this morning that it has released a network router, along with other products for its WRT product family. Those range extenders help extend a customer''s Wi-Fi network throughout their homes, filling in dead spots or weak wireless signals. READ MORE>>.

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Linksys Ships New High Gain Wi-Fi Antennas

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Irvine-based Linksys , the unit of Belkin which develops home and business networking equipment, said today that it has launched a new, high gain antenna for Wi-Fi networks. The company said its new, dual-band, omni-directional antennas help provide roughly 2 times the performance over stock antennas on most wireless routers.

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How Phyn Is Bringing The World Of High Tech To Water Conservation, With Ryan Kim

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We talked with Ryan Kim , the company's CEO, to learn more about the company, how it spun out of Belkin's WeMo efforts, and how water usage is a huge area ripe for innovation. Ryan Kim: The problem we're trying to help solve really has to do with the looming water crisis. Tell us the story on how Phyn spun out of Belkin?

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Silicon Beach Fest: Catching Up With Kevin Winston

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Kevin is also well known as the organizer of the Digital LA networking group (digitalla.net), which hosts dozens and dozens of events in Silicon Beach every year (Editor''s note: socalTECH.com is a media sponsor of the event). We have Chet Pipkin, talking about Belkin. What''s new with Silicon Beach Fest this year? It goes both ways.

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What I Learned in 2014: Kevin Winston

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Our last (belated) one is from Kevin Winston , the founder of Digital LA , the big networking group which helps to connect Silicon Beach through an extensive lineup of events. Over the last couple of weeks, we''ve featured a number of reflections on the year from movers and shakers in the local high tech community. I like events.