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Shaking the MoneyTree

SoCal Tech Calendar

Moderators: Randy Churchill, Director, Emerging Company Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers; Current Confirmed Panelists: Bruce Hallett, Miramar Venture Partners; David Travers, Rustic Canyon Partners; Jordan Posell, CFO, Total Beauty Media; Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures. See [link] (more).

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Factual Launches Geo-Coded Business Dataset

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Elbaz was founder of Applied Semantics, which was acquired by pre-IPO Google for its AdSense technology, which became Google AdSense.

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Factual Gains Funding, Names Investors

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Factual is developing an online platform which allows anyone to share and mash open data.

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Factual Partners With Newsweek

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Southern California Venture Totals Drop in Q4

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Most sectors saw drops in investment during the year, with the exception of few--including a couple of sectors where Southern California has a significant presence, in Clean Technology and Media & Entertainment. Media & Entertainment also saw an increase, up 3 percent to $2.0 billion in 277 deals. billion and 407 deals in 2008.

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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!

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TechCrunch, Forbes, PandoDaily, and other national and local media covered the fest, centered in Santa Monica and Venice at venues with views of the beach on picture-perfect sunny days. Panels were based at hubs including Leadership, Branding / Advertising, Social Media, Entrepreneurs, Community and more. Highlights. B each Games.