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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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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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Local Startup Takes New Twist On Employee Morale, Sets Up Fight Club

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Instead, the executives over at Culver City-based Fonality decided on something different: a full blown, mixed-martial arts (MMA) tournament between its employees. Most companies, when they're looking to raise company morale, might set up a company picnic, Friday night beer bash, or maybe go on a ski trip.

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M-GO's Take On The Digital Entertainment Streaming Market, with John Batter

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Culver City-based M-GO (www.mgo.com) thinks so, with its own twist on providing content to consumers. I personally come from DreamWorks, and was President of Production previous to taking the opportunity to come run M-GO. The second piece, is you asked about Netflix, and we''re really not competitive with Netflix at all.

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Interview with Eli Portnoy, ThinkNear

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Towards the end of last month, Culver City-based ThinkNear (www.thinknear.com) announced a seed round of funding for its location-based mobile advertising service, with notable inclusion of such firms as IA Ventures, Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and others. How are you doing things differently?

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