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Silicon Beach Report May 24: Justice Department Launches Cryptocurrency Probe

L.A. Business Journal

Justice Department investigates cryptocurrency and price manipulation; PeerStreet passes $1 billion mark in real estate loans; UCLA Magnify looks for tech and life science startups.

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Southern California needs to find its hub for it to develop its own tech ecosystem

TechCrunch LA

Recognizing the tens of billions of dollars that the Southern Californian region leaves on the table, because it hasn’t taken its rightful place in the American technology industry, a new group called the Alliance for Southern California Innovation has just released a report to analyze how SoCal can work to assume its pole position.

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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

socalTECH

That includes Notre Dame, Oregon, UCLA, and others. For example, we're the official mobile app of UCLA, even though behind the scenes is actually Hopscotch. The platform approach we took allows teams and companies and venues to access the best functionality, at a subcription price, rather than a custom development price.

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Thanks to our sponsors!

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Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch - February 24th - UCLA. Contact Scott Herson for an overview, pricing and information at herson@joyent.com or 949-861-1069. Stubbs Alderton Markiles, LLP (www.biztechlaw.com). Technology.

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Makers Making The Sci-Fi Tricorder A Reality With VOXearch

socalTECH

Unfortunately, those providers decided the gold leads were expensive, and decided to use a Chinese vendor which would provide them at half price. Mann, to his credit, with his multi-billion dollar foundation, he offered to find out what was going on, offering $100 million to UCLA to find out what was going on. We expect to win.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Over the past decade we’ve had high-profile exits at many companies that pioneered monetization techniques now used across the web including Commission Junction, Value Click, ShopZilla, Price Grabber, LowerMyBills and a newer breed including Invoca, Burstly, Shift, Rubicon Project, Gravity, Convertro, Retention Science and so forth.