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Steve Poizner Boots Up New Southern California Tech Nonprofit

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Steve Poizner , the former California gubernatorial candidate and former founder of SnapTrack (which he sold to San Diego's Qualcomm), says he has created a new group called the Alliance for Southern California Innovation , which will focus on further developing Southern California's entrepreneurial ecosystem. READ MORE>>.

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Initiative to Boost SoCal’s Startup Scene Teams With GV Founder

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A Silicon Valley entrepreneur has set out to boost the startup ecosystem in San Diego and the rest of Southern California—and he already has scored a coup by partnering with Bill Maris, the founder and former CEO of Google Ventures, now known as GV. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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To Win Amazon’s HQ2, Incentives Are Nice, But Talent Is Required

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Economic development officials are justifiably salivating at the once-in-a-generation opportunity to attract what is arguably the 21st century’s most important company, and up to 50,000 high-paying technology jobs. A stable and business-friendly environment and tax structure will be “high-priority considerations.”

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Ten Of The Top Tech Companies For Employees In LA

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Readers in San Diego, Orange County, Ventura County, and elsewhere, please comment or send us your comments!). NastyGal is just one of a number of fashion-meets-technology startups to emerge in Los Angeles, which. across its many businesses, and has a surprising number of technology related jobs. Rubicon Project.

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Breg Partners With Redox to Improve Tracking of Orthotic Devices

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Managing medical device inventory is paramount at healthcare organizations that help patients come back from injuries, many of which do not keep their entire stock of orthotic and prosthetic products on site. We are delighted to include their services as part of our orthopedic practice management solutions we provide to our customers.”.

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Interview with Sherry Gunther, Masher Media

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Are you using your own technology for the virtual world, or are you leveraging technology from others? Sherry Gunther: We're using existing technology. But, the platforms themselves exist, which makes the job quite a bit less risk in terms of the development process on the technology side. It's never about technology.

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