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Close5: eBay's San Diego Move Into The Mobile, Local Market

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In the last few years, Southern California has been a key market in launching mobile applications and services, due to a huge, mobile-savvy consumer population. So, it''s no surprise that the area--specifically, San Diego--was chosen for the pilot launch of a new service from eBay, called Close5 (www.close5.com), Why San Diego?

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Ten Of The Top Tech Companies For Employees In LA

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Who are the top tech companies to work for in Los Angeles? Readers in San Diego, Orange County, Ventura County, and elsewhere, please comment or send us your comments!). company operates a number of content-focused sites, including LIVESTRONG, eHOW, Cracked, and a domain name registration business, eNOM. Demand Media.

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Interview with Marc Friedmann, SciVee

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For people who haven't visited SciVee, what's the site about? Marc Friedmann: SciVee serves the STM - Science, Technical, Medical - market. One is software, which is very much like software-as-a-service, where we deliver that software to publications and conferences, to enable rich media on their sites.

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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

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In the rush toward the daily deals space, it seems like there is at least one, new, daily deals site created every day. It's an incredibly crowded industry, which not only includes giants like Groupon and LivingSocial, but countless smaller sites, newspapers, and others all looking for a piece of the action. What is Deal Current?

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How Dealstruck Is Using Crowdfunding To Power Loans For Small Businesses

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The San Diego firm is headed by Ethan Senturia , who sat down with us to tell us how Dealstruck is trying to help build small businesses and jobs--and also tells us a bit about what it''s like to come from a family full of very successful, and high profile entrepreneurs, and how that has influenced his experience as an entrepreneur himself.

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Interview with Kian Saneii, Independa

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One of the areas that startups and healthcare investors have turned their attention to in recent years, is leveraging the many advances in technology--wireless, smart phones, software, and more--and applying those to the health area. That division was focused on implementing core technology for the wireless industry.

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Pawn Shops Finally Go Digital, Helping Underbanked Find Quick Cash

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When we started PawnGuru , we knew that financial tech could be harnessed to work effectively for low-income and underbanked consumers. It’s also due to the relative lack of technological expertise in the industry, which has fairly low margins and not a lot to invest in innovation. fail to benefit from fintech.

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