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Ten of Southern California's Top Software Companies

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marketing, and not enough of the traditional, software-and-algorithm intensive startups you'd expect to see in Silicon Valley. We've identified ten of the more technically interesting companies working on software in Southern California, using our unscientific, unproven, and undoubtedly biased informal polling.

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Yahoo Deal With Microsoft May Hit Overture

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In a major deal, search portal provider Yahoo and software giant Microsoft said that the two companies are in a deal where Yahoo will replace its own search engine technology with that of Microsoft--with potentially huge repercussions to Yahoo's Southern California search engine marketing operations.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click. Bill had previously created a packaged software company called Knowledge Adventure the produced children’s educational software.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Another important web 2.0 Why You Should Write.

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