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SoCal's Next Big Online Publisher: Breitbart.com?

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Southern California is already establishing a reputation as the home of one of the biggest online publishers, Demand Media. However, what will Southern California's next big, online publishing empire be? Breitbart.com runs the site Big Government , which broke the story of U.S. READ MORE>>.

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Announcing The Socaltech 50: Southern California's Up-and-Comers

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We''re proud to announce the Socaltech 50 , our list of the 50, up-and-coming people in Southern California''s technology ecosystem. Internap , PricewaterhouseCoopers , Demand Media , Stubbs, Alderton & Markiles LLP , Oracle , Cresa Partners , UK Trade & Investment , PIXT , and many others.

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Swell Energy’s new deal in New York shows how the company plans to spend the $450 million it’s raising

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The New York virtual power plant differs from other initiatives from Swell in that it provides available capacity to specific distribution circuits on the grid to reduce customer demand on circuits during network overload periods, according to a Swell spokesperson.

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San Diego Startups Band Together For Job Fair

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The group said that the event will feature Michael Robertson (MP3, Linspire, Gizmo5) and Joe Kraus (Excite, Jotspot, Google Ventures). SweetLabs said the event is aimed at showing product managers, designers, developers and other "technology superstars" how much is happening in the San Diego area.

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An LA-led, public-private partnership pitches a $150B green infrastructure package to Congress

TechCrunch LA

As the nation’s second-largest metropolitan area, boasting an over $1 trillion economy, decisions made in the city can have broad economic and social implications that ripple far beyond the Southern California region. Revenues for these companies have dropped precipitously as consumer-facing demand has fallen off a cliff.

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DFR2013: Over 700 Celebrate The socalTECH 50 At The Skirball Center

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In one of Southern California''s biggest holiday events of the year, over 700 people joined us last night at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles to celebrate the region''s rising stars, the socalTECH 50. party skirball event dfr2013 entrepreneurship feature entrepreneur awards socaltech50' READ MORE>>.

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LA’s consumer goods rental service, Joymode, sells to the NYC retail investment firm, XRC Labs

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. “Part of the thesis was that by making things available for rental, people would want to do more stuff,” said Fernandez, but what happened was that consumers needed additional reasons to use the company’s service, and there weren’t enough events to drive demand.

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