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Color's SoCal Connection: Peter Pham

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Palo Alto-based Color , the new Silicon Valley startup developing mobile photo sharing and social networking software which appears to have gained unprecedented attention from the press this week at its launch, has a Southern California connection. The firm's SoCal connection? READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Technology Jobs Surge

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Anyone looking for signs that the economy is turning around, might want to look at what appears to be happening in Southern California's technology jobs market.

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Writing Your Press Releases

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Friday, November 14, 2008 -- "Writing Your Press Releases" SDSIC. If you're writing your press releases like it was still 1994, you're not maximizing the value of this tool in this Internet-centric age. Discover how to write for the 3 audiences that delivered-by-Internet releases can reach: media, search engines, and direct-to-public.

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Reflections On 2017: Anna Barber, Techstars LA

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During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. In 2006 she sat next to a woman on an airplane who became her business partner in her next startup, Scribble Press.

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Car Sharing Firm Zipcar Heading To Los Angeles

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Zipcar has been inviting the press to an event tomorrow with L.A. GetAround, another venture backed peer-to-peer car rental service, already has a Southern California beachhead in San Diego. City Council President Eric Garcetti, to mark its entry into Los Angeles, the 16th market covered by the company.

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Viddy Thrown Into Turmoil As O'Brien Loses CEO Post

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Viddy had been one of the Southern California startups playing the "hottest startup of the hour" game, calling itself the "next Instagram", inking celebrity deals with Snoop Dogg, Justin Bieber, Will Smith, and parading across the technology press with its boasts of being the next thing in mobile and social.

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Have you fallen into the buggy whip trap?

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late 1960’s (yes, I know, a long time ago), there were 31 phonograph record manufacturing plants in Southern California alone. Record plants were noisy, dirty places, using chemicals I can only imagine now rest somewhere in the ocean, to electroplate the “stampers” and press the records. First, in the. A more modern example.