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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. The new batch of startups coming from across the U.S.

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MakerSquare Opens Coding School In LA

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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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Los Angeles’s Secret to Startup Success

Tech.Co

For three years now, Cornerstone OnDemand has been using this conference to celebrate the successes of local startups and to look to the future of technology. The most important point is to reinvest in your people and communities by hosting events and educational sessions. Tech Summit is a great example. Don’t stop with just one.

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Interview with Scott Grimes, Stackin

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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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Digest 5/23-30: Snapchat’s $1.8B Raise, March Capital’s $240M Fund, Victorious $25M Series B

LATechDigest

Here’s what’s new in LA’s tech space: SNAPCHAT Raises $1.8B Students & Educators — Win $25k in THE MAYOR’S CUP ( link ). Thnx for sharing ur experience w/us @acrowder33 @VNTANAlive @CrossCampusLA @InnovatPasadena #technology #startup pic.twitter.com/W3j07hqzNt. Series F ( link ).

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

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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. We continue to engage with them around the products we feature each month. So it's all about content and community.

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