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Driving User Engagement With FEM's Video Recommendations

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Rachel Payne , the CEO and one of the co-founders of FEM, is a veteran of Google, and is taking her experience there and applying it into the video recommendations and engagement area. Rachel Payne: I was working at Google for about eight years, most recently in global strategic alliances. What is FEM? My other cofounder has a Ph.D.

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Ten Of The Top Tech Companies For Employees In LA

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company operates a number of content-focused sites, including LIVESTRONG, eHOW, Cracked, and a domain name registration business, eNOM. positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. Google has set the bar in the technology industry in Silicon Valley, and holds a similar place in Southern California.

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Los Angeles Tech Launched - Hot List

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This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. One of the more interesting new features is that the site now takes into account social signals. I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community.

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

Tech Zulu Event

philosophie has worked with some of the world’s biggest names: Google, Nissan, Nintendo, UCLA, and more. Fun Fact: Walk into their Venice-based office and you’ll find a giant giraffe (dubbed their co-founder’s “spirit animal”) stuffed in their version of a startup treehouse. Social Media: Snapchat.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

NAME Google. The southern migration is taking place as companies like Google. The narrow, 3-mile strip of land that runs from Santa Monica through Venice, and is now stretching down to Playa Vista, has been dubbed "Silicon Beach" due to the heavy concentration of Internet companies and executives there. VENICE RISING.

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Interview with Gordon Gould, SmartyPants Vitamins

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Yes, we have a physical product and a crossover, but it's not just slapping a web site on a consumer products good. We live in Venice, and our back house is sort of our operations center. We're learning more about how Google Shopping works, and looking to dominate there. That's not how we think about it. Gordon Gould: Yes.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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” I guess my point, Derek, was this: To be a CEO, you go out and you recruit somebody, and you recruit someone from Google, Yahoo, Facebook or the startup around the corner, and you say to them, “I know you’re on a career track, I know you’re earning x and I can’t pay you x , but come join me. Ridesharing.

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