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Sweep Eyes Nationalwide Electric Scooter Maintenance, Logistics

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Santa Monica-based Sweep , a startup which is focused on cleanup and maintenance of the many scooters from Bird, Lime, Spin, and others, said this week it's looking to create a nationwide network of e-scooter logistics hubs. Sweep says it already has operations in Long Beach, Denver, Detroit, Washinton, D.C., READ MORE>>.

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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

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The crux of it is we help buyers user their network to verify suppliers, primarily in Asia and China, where we started. It''s a social network for world trade, kind of a combo between Alibaba and LinkedIn. It''s also a dog-eat-dog world over there with the competition. We then add things like ratings, and then shipment data.

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How FreeConferenceCall.com Made Audio Conferencing Free

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FreeConferenceCall.com is a Long Beach company which was founded by David Erickson. They really didn''t want to have to be competitive and share their exchange rates with those companies. Wireless networks are a bill-and-keep network, but you can''t just decide you want to send Verizon a couple of hundred minutes and not pay.