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Emergent Game Technologies Links With Video Game Competition

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Calabasas-based Emergent Game Technologies , maker of the Gamebryo LightSpeed video game development engine, reports that the firm is providing support to a computer game design competition in London. Abertay's "Dare to be Digital" competition is an international competition which includes game design teams from all over the world.

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LA tech industry mourns Kobe Bryant

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The Los Angeles startup community is joining the rest of the world in mourning the death of NBA superstar, entrepreneur and investor Kobe Bryant who was killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, Calif., shortly before 10 a.m. Together with Shaquille O’Neal, Bryant helped make the Lakers the dominant team in the NBA in the early 2000s.

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DTS Launches Android Connected, Whole Home Audio System With Phorus Buy

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Calabasas-based audio processing technology firm DTS is expanding into the Internet-connected, whole home audio market today, saying that it has released an Android-based, whole home audio system. The new system looks to be direct competition for Santa Barbara-based Sonos, and its own wireless, whole home audio systems.

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Local Firms Rank In Deloitte Fast 500

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Other highly ranking firms were Carlsbad-based Genoptix , with 3,451% growth; Marina del Rey-based Awareness Technologies , ranked #42, with 3,317% growth; San Diego's Entropic Communications , with 3027% growth, and Calabasas-based BlackLine Systems , ranked at #61, 2,063% five year growth.

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Getting To The Next Level In Cloud Storage, With IDrive

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Cloud storage is a competitive market, with dozens of cloud storage providers hoping to gain a big chunk of the market. IDrive/Pro SoftNet is based in Calabasas. We recently launched Idrive Sync, which performs better than Dropbox, and is very competitive in pricing. We spoke with Raghu Kulkarni CEO/Founder of Pro Softnet Corp.

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How GridTest Is Helping To Build The Next Electric Car, With Neal Roche

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The clean technology sector is infamous for taking a big toll on startups--requiring large investments, risky technology propositions, steep international competition, and fickle government policies. How do you create a business around the still-emerging market of electric vehicles and avoid those issues?

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Interview with Vic Alston, Ixia

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To do that, we spoke with Vic Alston , the CEO of Calabasas-based Ixia (www.ixiacom.com), a publicly traded maker of network testing equipment and software. But we also have to make sure we're competitive in our existing markets. Do you feel like acquisitions at your stage very important to making growth happen?