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Make It Work Swizzles Pricing

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Santa Barbara-based Make It Work , the on site technical support and computer repair service headed by Eric Greenspan, said Monday that it has switched its services to a new fixed-price, per-service model. The shift is a significant one for the firm, which previously offered up it services for an hourly service charge to its customers.

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Bestofmedia Buys Computing.net

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Culver City-based Bestofmedia Group, publisher of gadget and electronics blog site Tom's Guide, has acquired Computing.net, a provider of high tech information and technical support. Bestofmedia Group is backed by Index Ventures with $35M in funding; the firm's other publications also include Tom's Hardware and Tom's Games.

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HelloTech Gets $12.5M

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in a new funding round. The funding was led by Madrona Venture Group, and also included Upfront Ventures, CrossCut Venturs, and Accel partners. HelloTech said it will use the funding to aggressively expand its tech support service. As part of the funding, Len Jordan of Madrona Venture Group joins the company's board.

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HelloTech: On Demand, In-Home Tech Support Via College Students Near You

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Almost everyone of a technical bent in the technology industry is familiar with that old routine: your parents, your friends, and your neighbors inevitably calls you for free technical support. However, almost no one really wants to be that technical support person. Why in home technical support?

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Interview with Cliff Rees, XCast Labs

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round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and Frontera Capital for a voice-over-IP service, and we thought we'd talk with Cliff Rees, the firm's CEO, to understand how the firm is different from those many providers. Los Angeles-based XCast Labs (www.xcastlabs.com) announced earlier this month that it has raised a $2.7M

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

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As for 2010, it’s shaping up to be a year of general improvement in the business and technology industries hard hit by recession, the impact of which has seemed to hold back new investment and experimentation in social technologies, many of which are funded by staff participation from Internet firms.

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