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Global Village Concerns Gets Debt Funding For E-commerce Platform

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San Diego-based Global Village Concerns , which provides an online service which helps school with their branding and marketing--via online e-commerce shops with branded merchandise and gear--has raised ar round of debt funding. The funding came from Agility Capital, a provider of venture debt to startups and other high tech companies.

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Amazon Opening High Tech Grocery Store In Woodland Hills

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Amazon is getting set to open up a brand new, high-tech grocery store-- Amazon Fresh --in Woodland Hills, the first in what the e-commerce giant hopes will be a new segment of the grocery industry.

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Report: Snapchat Turns Down $3 Billion Offer From Facebook

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According to the WSJ--citing "people briefed on the matter"--Snapchat turned down the offer after Chinese e-commerce firm Tencent offered to lead an investment valuing the company at $4 billion.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3

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Local Hardware Companies Out In Force At CES

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Who says that Southern California's high tech industry is all about Hollywood and e-commerce? and Gigabit DOCSIS products, and more; Irvine-based Vizio announced new HDTVs, smartphones, tablets, and Windows 8 PCs; and Viewsonic , based in Walnut, showed off its new high resolution touch displays.

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Insights and Opinions: Social Media Goes Medieval

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For today's Insights and Opinions piece, we have an article from social media strategist Drew Mehl, who talks about why social media is so important in today's high tech world: Humans are wired as social creatures. Particularly with respect to conducting commerce. We thrive on interaction with each other.

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California Tech Exports Down In 2009

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According to the Trade in the Cyberstates 2010 report released by the TechAmerica Foundation, however, California still had the most number of high-tech exports of any state--$41.3M. as a whole exported $188 billion in high tech goods in 2009, according to the report. billion) and computers and peripherals ($9.7