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Invoca's Offices Taken Over By 20,000 Honey Bees

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In one of those strange moments to come out of the high tech world still in a pandemic, Santa Barbara-based Invoca--with its workers all temporarily working from home like the rest of the world apparently was taken over by 20,000 bees while people were away, according to the company.

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Indeed Targets Tech Talent In Los Angeles

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Online job search site Indeed is taking aim at Southern California's high tech market, with the launch of its Indeed Prime in the market. According to Indeed, the service--specifically targeted at technology talent--will give employers access to a "curated pool" of people, based on coding skills, educaiton, and work experience.

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Report: Tech Layoffs At Highest Level In Three Years

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You may not see it here in Southern California's high tech sector--which has been booming, due to a surge of startup and accelerator activity--but apparently, the technology sector has seen its highest level of layoffs in three years, according to a report today. Image courtesy Bigstock.com READ MORE>>.

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Reflections on 2020: Nick Hedges, MomentFeed

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Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. It's been a tough year for many due to the pandemic; how have you or your company adapted to the business environment? ,p> We'll be posting these throughout the next two weeks.

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Four SoCal Startups That Thrived Despite--or Because Of--Economic Downturns

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There has been a lot of worry recently in the high tech industry and from venture investors about "headwinds" in the technology market, particularly with valuations of "unicorn" companies dropping, investors shying away from investing in rounds, and even employees looking for safer jobs. billion. >.

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8 Tactics To Make You A Fearless Business Innovator

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As a potential investor, I always think of the high rate of failure of disruptive technologies, due to the longer learning curve of customers, infrastructure change consistently required, and higher marketing costs. Technology is great, but high-tech major-step-forward solutions are not the answer to all our change challenges.

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Q3 Venture Investments For SoCal Total Around $1.0 Billion

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Q3 has traditionally been a slower, venture funding quarter in Southern California, due to summer vacations and a slower work schedule for both high tech companies and venture firms during the summer months. in investments, followed by Retail Products, at $140M, and Software, at $77.8M. billion invested in Q2.