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Hack4LA Looks To Help Local Communities, Government

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Can your software skills help make your local community a better place? This Hackathon--sponsored by such companies as Google, Scopely, ESRI, Factual, LA Makerspace, AT&T and others--is being held in Boyle Heights on June 1st and 2nd. Could doing some coding over a weekend help improve your local government?

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Microsoft Donates $1M To Local Education Effort

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A Los Angeles area school is the beneficiary of what software giant Microsoft says is its single largest technology donation, ever, to a school. Microsoft said Wednesday that it is donating more than $1 million in a grant to purchase new software and hardware, to the Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez Learning Center.