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Armorway Applies Game Theory To Real Life

socalTECH

According to the company, its software uses on-site cameras, historical crime records, social media, geolocation information, flight schedules, crowd movement patterns and real-time incident reporting for planning out patrols for USC, the Coast Guard, the Air Marshal service, and others.

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Has Technology Made Election Polls More Accurate? Not Yet

Xconomy

Statistical models, simulations, social media outreach, and the capacity to analyze big data sets—you’d think by now that technology would have delivered election forecasts that more reliably predicted Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential race.

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Interview with Scot Richardson, Laughstub

socalTECH

Really, what it does is it allows a small venue--anyone with less than 500 seats--to handle everything from admissions, to reporting, to reporting, to accounting, to marketing, and customer relationships. million comedy fans through our social media email list, we we think we can see the same in the music industry.

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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!

Tech Zulu Event

. “Let us come together and celebrate…” The mashup theme was reflected in the SBF programming, which included panels highlighting accelerators, VCs, startups, developers, movies, TV, music, web content, art, fashion, social good, surf & skate, and more. Social Good panel. Student Pitch Fest. B each Games.

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Coincident.TV Is “CREATE”-ing Second Screen Transmedia Producers Out Of Everyone [Beta Invites]

Tech Zulu Event

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. It has been reported by Google that 77% of viewers use a companion device while watching TV.

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140conf Live From The LA Music Box Theater

Tech Zulu Event

Carlos R (@CarlosHernandez) - Social media educator & co-creator of Social Media for the Uncomfortable. Ciaran Blumenfeld (@momfluential) - Owner Francie Pants & Producer Momfluential Media. Clinton Schaff (@clintschaff) - USC Online Communities Industry Faculty. Christopher Boucher (@princeboucher).

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

Both Sides of the Table

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. There is no region in the country that comes close to having the sheer number of angels & VCs that Silicon Valley has as well as the dollars that flow into the region (40% of all dollars, PwC Moneytree report ). Funding is different outside of Silicon Valley.