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Interview with Steve Poizner, Alliance for Southern California Innovation

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Steve Poizner: The Alliance is a new nonprofit, whose mission it is to bring together a lot of the amazing, unique assets of Southern California. We are devoted to the mission of supercharging Southern California's technology ecosystem, and help it emerge as a world class technology hub by 2025.

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AWS Opens New Los Angeles Zone

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According to AWS, the new zone will provide very low latency (single-digit millisecond) access to application access from Los Angeles and other locations in Southern California. READ MORE>>.

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Tech and Entertainment Have a Home in Silicon Beach

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Malibu and Beverly Hills have long been hot neighborhoods for entertainment execs. As the line blurs between tech and entertainment, and as Silicon Valley seeks synergy with L.A.’s One after another, tech and entertainment companies – and hybrids of the two – have taken root here. Here, prices can climb higher.

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Survios president and co-founder Nathan Burba is joining us at TechCrunch Sessions: AR/VR

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Electronauts is an impressive title from the California VR studio that also developed the addictive first-person shooter, Raw Data. Formed in 2013 by a trio of University of Southern California students, Survios is among the most compelling VR studios around. Back in 2016, the company raised $50 million in a round led by MGM.

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Insights: 2030 May Be The Year They'll Take Your Driver's License Away

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For today''s Insights and Opinions section, we are featuring a post from Jonathan Handel , a Los Angeles entertainment/technology attorney, who imagines one day when driver''s licenses will be obsolete (thanks to Google and Uber). Have some insights or advice to share with Southern California''s high tech commmunity?

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Uniregistry Rolls Out.game Domain

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The company said that it already has pre-registered a large number of.game domains from major brands, including.game domains for all of Blizzard Entertainment's games (Warcraft, Starcraft, Hearthstone, Diablo, etc)., Activision (Call of Duty), Take-Two Interactive (Grand Theft Auto), and many others. The company is charging $318.88/year

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Silicon Beach At USC | TZ Hooks You Up With 10 Free Tickets!

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The conference will feature rising leaders in entertainment, technology, new media platforms, entrepreneurship and investment. WHO : Presenters will also discuss the unique advantages of launching new initiatives in Southern California. Pricing is as follows: Current university Students: $20. Silicon Beach @ USC.

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