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APRIL 8, 2021

In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit a milestone in the development of a new technology for generating power from nuclear fusion. Vulcan, Venrock, NEA, Wellcome Trust, Google, and the Kuwait Investment Authority are all backers.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

While Los Angeles city officials way back in 2003 asked its manufacturers and suppliers to stop using the terminology, they did not require it. What’s wild is that these terms ever existed in the first place and are just now being addressed. So perhaps it’s no wonder why some tech companies struggle to retain Black employees.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Los Angeles-based on-demand, storage service Clutter is expanding into the moving business, saying on Wednesday that it will start offering up in-city moving services. Clutter currently offers up its moving services in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, New York, , and New Jersey.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

Air travelers going to and from Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego during the holidays are benefiting from a promotion today announced by Google and Virgin America. Tags: virgin america angeles wifi access wireless.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

WeWork , the co-working space operator which has a significant presence across Southern California, with nineteen locations in the Los Angeles area plus a location in San Diego, has acquired Teem , a software startup backed by active LA venture investor Greycroft Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

Yahoo has operations in Santa Monica, San Diego, and Burbank, which among them show a few dozen job openings. Mayer comes from Google, which offers up its Los Angeles employees such benefits as free food, a climbing wall, and and outdoor movie theater. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

The round include Sequoia Capital, Greylock Discovery Fund, Battery Ventures, Formation 8, Advance/Newhouse Investment Partnership an affiliate of Conde Nast, along with Google Ventures, Founders Fund Angel, Menlo Ventures, SV Angel, i/o Ventures and other angels. The firm's technology operations are in Palo Alto.

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

Los Angeles received $260.0M in San Diego, and $141.4M The largest deals for Los Angeles were Coda Automotive in Santa Monica, which raised $40.375M, KYTHERA Biopharmaceuticals in Calabasas, which raised $37.425M, and JustFabulous in El Segundo, which raised $33.1M. was invested in the region.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Who are the top tech companies to work for in Los Angeles? popped up consistently in an informal (and highly non-scientific poll) of a number of readers, executive recruiters, and others in the Los Angeles area, who cited growth, brand, profitability, and other factors in their suggestions to us of the top companies.

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APRIL 19, 2012

In terms of dollars, San Diego led the region with $357.0M in investments across 21 deals, boosted significantly by a $139M investment in Sapphire Energy ; Los Angeles was second with $$317.8M The amount was also more than in Q4 of 2011, when $780.0M was invested in the region. in 48 deals; Orange County had $249.3M

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APRIL 14, 2011

Locally, the report totaled $201.28M in deals in the Los Angeles area, $191.89M in the Orange County area, and $100.0M in San Diego. Although dollars were up, the number of deals (736 nationally in Q1 vs. 827 deals last year) was the lowest in a single quarter since Q3 of 2009.

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JULY 18, 2017

A look at the companies who are private, backed by venture capital, and are valued at more than $1 billion across Southern California -- from San Diego to Los Angeles to Santa Barbara -- is an interesting contrast in the wide range of types of technology companies across the region. Crowdstrike (www.crowdstrike.com).

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JUNE 29, 2010

Boone Pickens; Aptera Motors , in Carlsbad, which has funding from Google and Idealab; and Phoenix MC , based in Ontario. Car makers are not the only firms in Southern California playing a role in the alternative vehicle market. A number of companies providing systems and infrastructure for the industry are also here.

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JULY 7, 2010

Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Confident Technologies / Curtis Staker / San Diego - Staker is the former President of Websense, and has pulled together an experienced team with a depth of experience from the firm.

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JULY 29, 2010

But, just as the Valley climbed out of much worse ditches (nothing was worse than the slow-motion, dot-com meltdown of 2000-03, yet out of its ashes came a new bull market for tech and a Google IPO in 2004. Read the rest of Where are the Social Media IPOs? in our Insights and Opinions section. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

I’ve had this conversation with several communities such as in San Diego where I believe there are way more qualified and talented engineers than available local capital to support them. Actually, there is tons of wealth in San Diego but it isn’t organized well to support them. San Diego has Qualcomm.

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APRIL 8, 2014

Why start an investment firm in Los Angeles? Gerard Casale: We both have lived here, and worked here, not only as professionals, but as angel investors and startup guys for over twenty years, going on 24 or 25 years now. Plus, there are companies like Yahoo, Google, and others who have set up shop here.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Google. SIGNIFICANCE PASSING-MENTION. --> Tech Titans Hit the Beach As Silicon Valley moguls go on a home-buying spree in Los Angeles, theyre reshaping the real-estate landscape. Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area.

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JANUARY 23, 2018

We started offering this in Los Angeles, and have since expanded to Orange County and San Diego. We are planning to expand to Texas at the end of January, San Francisco soon after, and Denver, Colorado on March 1. The company just raised $15M more in a Series B. Where is the company now in terms of the service?

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JUNE 3, 2010

Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Competitors: SmashWords , Google Books.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

In the case of Los Angeles-based Laffster (www.laffster.com), you apply software algorithms, science, and research to figure it all out. Those investors included a company called Paradigm, which is a big talent agency, Howard Lindzon in San Diego, and up north Greylock and Adam Nash.

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AUGUST 20, 2015

offerings, EAT Club also delivers lunch options from a variety of popular restaurants such as Bay Cities Italian Deli & Bakery , home to one of the “ 10 Best Sandwiches in Los Angeles ” Gracias Madre , one of LA’s 8 Best Vegan Restaurants That Would Make Bourdain Eat His Words , Cafe Gratitude , Fundamental LA and Fat Sal’s.

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MARCH 31, 2014

It''s about as complicated as Google Adwords. It wouldn''t be covered in the Los Angeles Times, and not by the San Diego papers. It''s designed for business people. It''s not a programming tool, even though it uses a lot of big data. It''s an easy to use, simple package, and not complicated.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It's another big week for startup launches, this time in San Diego at DEMOfall. One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites.

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DECEMBER 1, 2011

I’ve been working in the online advertising business for about 13 years handling everything from affiliate programs and banner ad campaigns, to search engine optimization and Google Adwords. I was the second employee at a startup affiliate network called Affiliate Fuel here in Los Angeles, handling business development.

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AUGUST 28, 2012

Clash of the Titans: Google joins Apple, Microsoft in announcing new tablets (and more). Google Plus. I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. Aiming to head off Apple, Microsoft shows off Xbox SmartGlass mobile app and Xbox dashboard update.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

As a Democracy Fellow, Gregory researches the political psychology of organizations like Google and the Obama Administration, and their relation to the distinctive attitudes of Generation Y. Efren divides his time between San Diego, Los Angeles and tech events around the US. Valerie Michaels.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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APRIL 14, 2014

Being able to explain what it is, what are mission is, how we differentiate from other technical startups, and also doing it in Los Angeles when I’m going up to San Francisco fairly often and certainly a lot of technical big data startups out there. We’re starting to see Google Glass and other interactive personal devices.

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