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Announcing The Socaltech 50: Southern California's Up-and-Comers

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So, without further ado, here''s the list of this year''s 2013 Socaltech 50 : Basil Abifaker , Transaction Wireless (San Diego, digital gift cards). Josh Brooks , OnTheRunTech.com dba Post Cards On The Run (Los Angeles, mobile apps). Sean Callahan , SlimSurveys (San Diego, mobile apps).

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How Yapert Puts All Your Interests In One Mobile App, With Phil Kelly

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How do you keep up with everything that''s happening with your favorite interests, brands, and personalities on your mobile phone? Yapert raised a funding round a few weeks ago from the Tech Coast Angels, Desert Angeles, and Pasadena Angels for its mobile apps, which consolidates news and information about your favorite interests.

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Interview with Steve Poizner, Alliance for Southern California Innovation

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My last company got acquired by Qualcomm, and Qualcomm wanted me to move to San Diego to run their emerging business portfolio. I then became and EIR at UC San Diego, and joined EvoNexus, the not-for-profit incubator run by the Irvine Company. I did that for a couple of years, which got me and my wife down to SoCal.

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Has Technology Made Election Polls More Accurate? Not Yet

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The USC/Los Angeles Times Daybreaker poll, which had shown Trump leading for months, put the Republican 3 points ahead on the morning of the election, according to the newspaper’s recap published today. But on Election Eve, NBC News reported that Clinton held a stable 6-point lead over Donald Trump.

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Decoding The Science Behind The Laughs, With Daniel Altman of Laffster

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Those investors included a company called Paradigm, which is a big talent agency, Howard Lindzon in San Diego, and up north Greylock and Adam Nash. Recently, USC's film school started a comedic content major. It looks like you're using a mobile-first approach to getting your technology out there?

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New Leader at Intel Capital Adjusts Strategy as Global Summit Opens

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The recent funding deals that Intel Capital laid out in San Diego Monday, on the first day of its 17th annual global summit, also reflect the strategic thinking of Wendell Brooks, who took the helm at Intel Capital about a year ago as longtime president Arvind Sodhani retired.

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Interview with Marc Averitt and Sharon Stevenson, Okapi Ventures

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We're starting to see some very innovative product ideas out of places like Caltech, USC, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, and the like. Marc Averitt: We're focused on a lot of areas in technology, including mobile applications. Things such as payment technologies, mobile apps in the financial sector, mobile security.

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