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Sixty-four Southern California Firms On Technology Fast 500

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Earlier this week, Deloitte released its latest list of the top 500 growing technology companies, in its 2012 Technology Fast 500. The full list follows: 13 EdgeCast Networks 21406% Santa Monica Alex Kazerani 15 Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 381 Life Technologies Corporation 195% Carlsbad Gregory T. Frost, Ph.D.

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Managed By Q Expands To Los Angeles

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Managed by Q , which provides what it calls an "operating system for offices"--managing everything from cleaning, supply restocking, IT troubleshooting, and even helping to assemble furniture for companies--said it has expanded into Los Angeles, attracted by its thriving technology scene. READ MORE>>.

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CODA Opens 'Experience Center' in LA

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Los Angeles-based CODA Holdings , the developer of electric vehicles, said Thursday that it has opened up a new "Experience Center" at the Westfield Century City Shopping Center. The new retail location is just down the street from Tesla Motors Los Angeles showroom on Santa Monica Boulevard.

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GRP Announces $200 Million Fund. Rebrands as Upfront Ventures

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Second, we are announcing officially that we are moving our offices from Century City to Santa Monica. But in Los Angeles, Santa Monica is akin to SoMa in San Francisco, Cambridge in the Boston area or Flatiron / Union Square in NYC. We have long wanted to move but wanted to wait for the perfect space.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. But we have a great city for building technology companies. You can find very talented technology executives. But we do have great technology developers. Get over it.

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Gil Elbaz On Factual's New Warchest

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Last night, Santa Monica-based Factual (www.factual.com), the data provider and data tools firm, announced a big, $25M funding round from Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. That require lots of cleaning an de-duping technology in order to use those billions of source records, and put them into a nice place database.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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An innovator in technology, especially monetization. ” To me, LA will always be a creative hub for TV, film, music, video games and now technology. not near the beach): Factual, founded by Gil Elbaz who built AdSense [Century City]. Still, I kind like the name, well, um, … Santa Monica.

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