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Mogreet Targets Hispanic Market

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Los Angeles-based Mogreet , the provider of a mobile video marketing product which is headed by James Citron, said yesterday that it has been targeting the Hispanic market with its services, and now counts a number of large customers in that category. The firm said Entravision Communications and impreMedia, two large Hispanic media firms, as customers of the company.

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Deep analytics become more relevant in daily life

Technology Council

By Greg Sikes If you have watched TV in the last two years, or walked through an airport, you have likely seen an IBM Smarter Planet advertisement. At the core of this message is the idea that the world is becoming more Instrumented, Interconnected, and Intelligent. Just take a look around your house, or at [.].

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Gridtest Systems Gets Seeded

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Los Angeles-based Gridtest Systems , a developer of measurement tools for the electric vehicle (EV) market, said this morning that it has raised a seed round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels. Financial terms of the investment were not announced. Gridtest Systems develops testing tools aimed at the R&D labs of major EV charging system manufacturers and product suppliers.

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Startup Equinox

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, March 21, 2012 -- Startup Equinox. The University of Southern California is becoming a hot bed of innovation and entrepreneurial energy, but ideas and energy often don't translate to startups. It takes a diverse team to create a successful startup. Enter Startup Equinox. On March 21, 2012, we will bring together entrepreneurs with diverse backgrounds at USC  marketing, design, engineering, negotiation, fund raising, etc. - to meet, break down barriers between programs, and collabora

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Can You Ask for Office Rent Relief? How to Manage Your Lease During COVID-19

Office leases are one of companies’ largest expenses, and if your whole team is working from home with no clear end in sight, you may be wondering what to do about your lease.

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Active Network Powers San Diego Parks and Recreation

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Active Network , the San Diego provider of software-as-a-service for recreation and registration management, said today that it has partnered with its hometown, the City of San Diego, to help the city manage its park and recreation assets. Active Network said the city is automating everything from facility reservations, park permitting, payment processing, and e-commerce with its products, replacing a paper based system.

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7 Tools of Entrepreneurial Awesomeness

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As part of the UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, Emmy Award winner Seth Epstein and current Founder and CEO of SocialStay , described seven practical, hands-on techniques entrepreneurs can use to enhance their overall awesomeness. Seth’s comments were particularly intriguing, as he attended UCSB but departed school before graduating in order to start a successful clothing company.

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How to Gauge Business Potential for Your Invention

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m often approached by people who claim to have invented the next big thing, and ask me how much it’s worth, or complain that they can’t find an investor who will fund it. The honest answer is that ideas and new technologies are worth nothing, outside the context of a specific entrepreneur and a specific business plan that meets a market need for a fair price.

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Virgin Galactic Signs 500th Customer

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Mojave-based Virgin Galactic , the commercial spaceflight firm backed by Sir Richard Branson, has signed its 500th customer: actor and angel investor Ashton Kutcher. The company--which has yet to launch its first customer into space--has been developing a custom spaceship designed to send "space tourists" into space from a commercial spaceport in New Mexico.

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FindTheBest Takes On Car Classifieds

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Looking to take on the classifieds market, FindTheBest , the online comparisons site run by former DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Connor, said today that it has launched a new "cars for sale" tool. The Santa Barbara startup said the entry into the classified market allows users to shop for cars by type, make, model, year, mileage, and color. The new functionality applies the easy filtering and sorting tools developed by FindTheBest.com to help users find local used autos.

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Factual Partners with EMC Greenplum

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Los Angeles-based Factual has inked a partnership with EMC, as part of EMC's new Grenplus Chorus toolset for data scientist collaboration. According to Factual, its data is available through the Greenplum corus platfor, which will allow data scientists to use data from Factual as part of their own, existing data. Factual operates an online data service, targeted at application developers, to retrieve live data on business locations, restaurants, and other verticals.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Adds Volunteer Management

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Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , the developer of software-as-a-service for human resources and talent management, announced a new product today, to help both companies and nonprofits to manage volunteers. The firm said its new Cornerstone Volunteer Management solution will be integrated into its learning, performance, and talent management software suite.

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Dog Vacay Announces Funding Round

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Santa Monica-based Dog Vacay , the online person-to-person marketplace for dog boarding, has formally announced new investors in the firm, who are joining in its $1M seed funding round. The company--which had already disclosed the investment round in an interview with socalTECH earlier this month--said investors in the seed funding were First Round Capital , Ben Ling , Brian Lee , Ted Rheingold , Tom McInerney, Dennis Phelps , Thomas Ryan , Quest Venture Partners and Baroda Ventures.

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WD Ships Portable 2TB Hard Drive

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Irvine-based disk drive maker Western Digital said today that it has shipped a 2TB, portable hard drive, which it says is the first portable drive with that amount of capacity. The new drive, part of its My Passport line of portable hard drives, is aimed at consumers. The firm now offers portable hard drives ranging from 500GB to 2TB. The new drive uses a USB 3.0 interface, and costs $249.99.

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Aggregage Inks Vertical Site Deal With Sales Group

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Los Angeles-based Aggregage , the online content aggregation and publishing startup headed by Robert Flynn, has announced a deal with professional society The Sales Association , to run a targeted vertical site called SalesProCentral aimed at sales and business development professionals. Aggregage has developed software which automatically aggregates and curate content from bloggers and sites, creating content relevant to different verticals.

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Sonos Rolls New Mac, PC Apps

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Santa Barbara-based Sonos , the developer of easy to use, wireless, whole-house music systems, said this morning that it has updated its controller apps for the Mac and PC. The software--which is a free upgrade to all of its current customers--includes new features to let users control music from a "mini controller" app, a way to control volume across rooms with a single volume control; expanded language support; and better Android support.

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Broadcom Set To Acquired Broadlight, Says Report

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Irvine-based Broadcom is getting set to announced a $200M acquisition of Israeli communications chip developer Broadlight , according to multiple reports this morning. Broadlight is based in Herzliya, Israel, and develops fiber optic communications chips. The firm is venture backed by Benchmark Capital, Israel Seed Partners, Star Ventures, Delta Ventures, Azure Capital Partners, Cipio Ventures, and Motorola Ventures, along with Broadcom itself, plus strategic investors Telllabs and Siemens Ventu

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