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Mahalo Retools As Educational Content Apps Provider

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Remember Santa Monica-based Mahalo , the startup headed by Jason Calacanis and backed by such investors as Sequoia Capital? In a recent blog post, Calacanis said that the firm has now seen more than 950,000 downloads of its apps and 200M videos on YouTube, in the last six months.

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Calacanis: Yahoo Should Buy Mahalo For $150M

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How much is Santa Monica-based Mahalo worth? According to Jason Calacanis , in a blog post, $75M to $150M. Calacanis said his firm--plus fellow instructional videos site Howcast--are the "only two brands.really attacking the free education space." READ MORE>>.

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4 Reasons to Use a Local Managed Network Services Provider

Southern California Edison Blog

Edison Carrier Solutions (ECS) takes a vested interest in improving network capacity and reliability across enterprises, government agencies, carriers, education institutions, and media creators across Southern California.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. I guess Santa Monica is officially “Silicon Beach” in the local people’s minds. Still, I kind like the name, well, um, … Santa Monica. I hate Silicon Whatever.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. Higher education. I suppose I could have skipped the whole rest of the blog post and just posted that. It’s funny but recently I was at the CornerstoneOnDemand conference in Santa Monica.

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Exploring A Brave New World Of Domain Names, With Rightside

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To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media.

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Intro to the LA Startup Scene

Tech Zulu Event

The presentation is meant to give an unbiased overview of how to get involved in the tech community; what blogs to read, who to follow on Twitter, who the angel investors are, what areas in LA are home to the most startups and what resources there are to further educate yourself.