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Snap accelerator names its latest cohort

TechCrunch LA

and international cities like London, Mexico City, Seoul and Vilnius are building professional social networks for black professionals and blue collar workers, fashion labels, educational tools in augmented reality, kids entertainment, and an interactive entertainment production company.

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MakerSquare Opens Coding School In LA

socalTECH

angeles camp code software education school hackreactor reactor hack makersquare' San Francisco-based Hack Reactor acquired MakerSquare in January. San Francisco-based Hack Reactor acquired MakerSquare in January. Hack Reactor said that MakerSquare has three founders who are University of Southern California graduates. READ MORE>>.

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Content, Commerce, and Cosmetics: A Look At IPSY's Subscription Business

socalTECH

Los Angeles�as the center of the entertainment industry�has begun to adopt a new role as the center of online video in recent years�and has also with the e-commerce industry and expertise here from the technology industry. Before that, I was heading up global consumer marketing for entertainment, sports, and video at Yahoo.

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Interview with Scott Grimes, Stackin

socalTECH

There are lots of others trying to put content on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Tiktok, which is more about entertainment around social media. Finance is often not relevant to people, and we decided you need a better access point to finance, and do it at scale, using technology, data, and things like machine learning.

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How You Should Start a Business Before the Bubble

Startup Professionals Musings

In the entrepreneur world, most of the energy I see is focused on the current opportunity bubbles, now including anything mobile, the new sharing economy (Uber, Airbnb), or yet another social media app (Snapchat, WhatsApp). The current rate of technology change, as well as customer cultural change, is unprecedented.

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Move Over Kim Kardashian | Sophia, The Robot Is The New It Girl

Tech Zulu Event

Hanson Robotics uses a combination of Alphabet’s Google chrome voice recognition technology and other tools for speech processing. So eat your hearts out, ladies, the older she gets the better looking she probably will be as new technology upgrades her physique! It’s a good opportunity for me to learn a lot about people.”.

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MakerSquare Wants to Teach You to Become a Developer in Weeks

Tech Zulu Event

With the growing need for Software Engineers at technology, entertainment and media companies in the Los Angeles area, Hack Reactor, which has three founders who are University of Southern California graduates, identified fertile ground for MakerSquare to educate, train and mentor technologists in Southern California.