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Bizzy Connects With Foursquare

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Bizzy , the social recommendations site owned by Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , reported today that it has connected its mobile apps directly with the popular Foursquare check in service. ReachLocal launched its social business recommendation site in November of last year. READ MORE>>.

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

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Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. There weren’t enough details to know whether Corduro was trying to build a mobile payments company like Zong or a retail merchant processing solution like Square.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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There is no region in the country that comes close to having the sheer number of angels & VCs that Silicon Valley has as well as the dollars that flow into the region (40% of all dollars, PwC Moneytree report ). In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. And of course you have Hollywood.