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With a $10.2M Boost, YourMechanic Aims At Mobility Fleet Market

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Every month, there’s news of another partnership among carmakers like GM and tech companies such as Uber, as they vie for dominant roles in a transportation future where individual car ownership may largely give way to rides-on-demand from fleets of autonomous and tech-enabled vehicles.

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PaeDae Ups Ante On Software Recruiting, Dangles Chance At Spaceflight

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Things definitely look to be heating up in the software recruiting world, at least, if you judge the latest offer from a local startup to find local recruits for software developers. READ MORE>>.

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Bonfire Ventures Launches $60M Venture Capital Fund

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Accoding to Bonfire, it invests in early stage startups with a software-based product and a business buyer, and will make seed state investments with a typical initial check size of $1M, with initial investments as low as $250,000 and as high as $1.5M. READ MORE>>.

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Twitter Shuts TweetDeck

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Those in the Southern California high tech ecosystem might remember the bidding battle that Pasadena-based Ubermedia had with Twitter over Twitter client software firm Tweetdeck a couple of years ago. So long, third party Twitter apps? The shutdown also will remove support for Facebook integration in TweetDeck.

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What Mattered in 2012: Erik Rannala of MuckerLab

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For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. Today, we're featuring Erik Rannala , founder of MuckerLab , the startup accelerator focused on incubation stage Internet, software, services, and media businesses here in LA.

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Events.com: Creating A New Events Management Software Giant, with Gregg Parise

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Is the world ready for another event management software provider? Gregg Parise What we are doing, is we are going into the event management software space, and doing it through a platform technology. What is Events.com all about? Essentially, what we are doing is creating a two sided marketplace.

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What Mattered in 2012: Howard Marks, StartEngine

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For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. Definitely Software as a Service (SAAS). We are going to see a real explosion in companies offering software for a subscription price. Oh man this is going to be big.