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Google Express Expands Into Southern California

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Google said Thursday that it is expanding its Google Express next day delivery service across Southern California, and will offer next day delivery from such stores like Costco, Target, Kohl's, and L'Occitane en Provence. Google Express costs $95 a year, or $10 a month, or a-la-carte delivery for $4.99

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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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LA, and Southern California's Surge In Venture Capital Funds

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Managing Director: Bill Maris (formerly of GV/Google Ventures) Investment interests: Health care investments. Managing Directors: Tx Zhuo and Eva Ho Investment interests: Data, artificial intelligence-enabled technologies, and automation being applied to enterprise software, financial services, marketplace, and digital health.

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Five Startups Revolutionizing Music, In Southern California

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Southern California is the center of the entertainment industry, which not only includes the world of Hollywood, movies and film, and television, but is also the home of the music industry. We've compiled a list of five of the startups that are revolutionizing some part of music, based here in Southern California.

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Google Cloud’s LA region goes online

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Google Cloud’s new region in Los Angeles is now online, the company announced today. This isn’t exactly a surprise, given that Google had previously announced a July launch for the region, but it’s a big step for Google, which now boasts five cloud regions in the United States.

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Google Maps Adds More SoCal Traffic Info

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Search engine giant Google is now pulling more traffic information from local streets around Southern California, saying Tuesday that it has added major traffic arteries and local street data to the firm's Google Maps service. Tags: google maps traffic. READ MORE>>.

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AppOnboard raises $15 million to let Android users try before they buy apps on Google Play

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Based in Los Angeles, AppOnboard sees itself as one of a new breed of LA startup that’s steeping itself in the local ecosystem and trying to be one of the cornerstone’s for a new technology hub in the southern California region. “Google has been a great partner for us,” Zweig says.

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