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

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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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Interview with Steve Poizner, Alliance for Southern California Innovation

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Steve Poizner: The Alliance is a new nonprofit, whose mission it is to bring together a lot of the amazing, unique assets of Southern California. We are devoted to the mission of supercharging Southern California's technology ecosystem, and help it emerge as a world class technology hub by 2025.

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Takl Expands On-Demand App Into SoCal

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Takl , which operates a mobile app-driven service to connect users with on-demand home services such as lawn care, house cleaning, home repair, and more, has launched into Southern California. READ MORE>>.

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TrueCar Jumps In IPO As Socal Tech Exits Continue

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Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the online new car pricing and buying site, jumped in its IPO Friday morning, trading up 16 percent in early trading this morning. The company--the second technology company to have an IPO this year from Southern California--was trading around $10.47 per share late last night. READ MORE>>.

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FTD Files Chapter 11: Long, Complex Path Through SoCal's Tech Industry

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In long, complicated path that wound through Southern California's high tech industry, flower delivery network operator FTD has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. FTD acquired San Diego's ProFlowers in 2014, paying $430M for the online flower and gift delivery service. United Online was acquired by B. READ MORE>>.

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TiE SoCal

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010 -- TiE SoCal Event. A networking hour and dinner are included in the price of the tickets. Featuring Mr. Ryan Rieches and Mr. Karan Khanna. Ryan Rieches, CEO of RiechesBaird; Karan Khanna is currently the Director of Kindle Publishing at Amazon.Com. See https://www.123signup.com/servlet/SignUpMember?PG=1521728182300andP=1521728191159996300andInfo.

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Pandora IPO Benefits Socal Investors

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Champagne glasses must be clinking for a few, lucky Southern California investors and executives this morning, as the IPO of Oakland-based Pandora Media had a rousing welcome on Wall Street. Wednesday during morning trading, after pricing at $16.00 estimated pricing range from last week. at the time of this article.