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Interview with Steve Poizner, Alliance for Southern California Innovation

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Steve Poizner: The Alliance is a new nonprofit, whose mission it is to bring together a lot of the amazing, unique assets of Southern California. We are devoted to the mission of supercharging Southern California's technology ecosystem, and help it emerge as a world class technology hub by 2025.

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Two Socal Firms Make Windows Azure Accelerator Program

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Two, Southern California companies are on the list of the next class for Microsoft's startup accelerator, the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure , according to Microsoft Monday. The startup accelerator is running the program in Seattle. READ MORE>>.

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What Mattered in 2012: Erik Rannala of MuckerLab

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For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. The biggest trend in the last twelve months is the rapid consolidation of major technology platforms across the board (social, cloud, mobile, video, communications, e-book, etc.)

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Atom Tickets In Big Expansion

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Los Angeles-based mobile movie ticketing provider Atom Tickets , which is led by Ameesh Paleja, said on Monday that it has expanded its mobile movie ticketing platform to Dallas, Houston, Miami, Tampa, Orlando, Kansas City, Charlotte and Raleigh. The new markets are in addition to Los Angeles/Southern California, Atlanta and Nashville.

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Social Media School

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This is the beginners class. We will teach you how to maximize Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader, Pinterest, Evernote, Tumblr and all emerging platforms in your personal and professional life. We will teach you how to manage the information through one platform and distribute it via the same channels. Laptop is required.

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Reflections on 2019: Brett Brewer, Crosscut Ventures

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This was a big year for Crosscut because were finally delivering on our promise of implementing a full-scale investing platform after 11+ years in business. Growing our practice from 3 original partners who would meet at coffee shops into a full institutional investing platform is a constant evolution.

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Reflections on 2017: Michael Terpin, Transform Group International

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During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. This morning, we have a contribution from Michael Terpin , the CEO of Transform Group International and Chairman of BitAngels.