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Silicon Beach Report Jan 23: Esports One Raises $3 Million to Help Viewers Make Sense of E-sports Competitions

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Esports One raises $3 million to help viewers make sense of e-sports competitions; Snapchat to let users share content on other social networks; and Boring Co. pitches Culver City Council on tunneling plan.

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TechZulu Tech Crawl | Culver City Edition!

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TZ Tech Crawl is back this month and heading to Culver City! Come take a tour of some of the hottest LA Tech companies located in Culver City! Why not stop by for a quick beer, game, snack or just say hi at one of the many Culver City tech companies from 6pm to 10:30pm? Starting Point. Jefferson Blvd).

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IBM Backs New $5M AI XPRIZE

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IBM and XPRIZE , the Culver City organization which runs major challenges to advance technology and help apply innovation to solving some of the world's biggest challenges, have announced a new IBM Watson AI PRIZE. The new prize will be awarded in 2020, and rules for the new competition will be announced in May. READ MORE>>.

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BlankSpaces Renews Faith In Coworking

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The coworking space now has plenty of competition (ROC in Santa Monica, Nextspace @ Amplify, NextSpace Culver City, IO/LA, Coloft), but it appears there are enough entrepreneurs and others with an interest in coworking and temporary space that multiple providers are needed to support the community.

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Catching Up With Eli Portnoy, Sense360

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For this morning's interview, we had a chat with Eli Portnoy , the CEO and founder of Culver City-based Sense360 (www.sense360.com), That competitiveness is driving companies to make better decisions. Eli Portnoy: It's both highly competitive, and not well served by data, and it had become a market share war.

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Makers Making The Sci-Fi Tricorder A Reality With VOXearch

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A number of teams have recently been looking to turn that vision into reality, as a result of the Qualcomm Tricorder Prize , a $10M competition being run by the X Prize Foundation to create a real life Tricorder. That''s essentially how the Tricoder competition was formed--it''s time for this to happen. It was announced in the 90''s.

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Fonality: More Than A Business Phone System, with David Scult

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In an intensely competitive area, how do you differentiate yourself and grow a company? Editor''s note: we''re cross posting this on our Texas site, as Fonality is split between Culver City and Plano, Texas. We spoke with David Scult , the company''s CEO, to learn more about what the company is doing nowdays.

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