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San Diego Meets the Xconomists: When Social Media is Not Enough

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and chat rooms on Bulletin Board Systems to Yahoo message boards, LinkedIn, Myspace, Twitter, and Instagram. Nowadays, Facebook is the most popular social networking site in the world , with more than 2 billion monthly active users. In San Diego, this higher order of social networking becomes apparent.

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StockTwits Hires Two

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San Diego- and New York-based StockTwits , the online social media site focused on stocks and finance, announced today that it has hired two VPs. StockTwits is headed by Howard Lindzon, and opened up its San Diego office last year, where Lindzon is based. READ MORE>>.

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New StockTwits CEO Looks to Expand Share of Investor Community

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If you do a Google search for AAPL, the stock ticker for Apple, the top search results are typically Yahoo Finance, Twitter, Google Finance—and StockTwits, a social media communications platform for Wall Street traders and active retail investors.

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Los Angeles Tech Launched - Hot List

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Interview with Howard Lindzon, StockTwits

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He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. We've just added a layer on top of all the social networks particular to finance.

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How ScoreStream Is Crowdsourcing Its Way Into High School Sports Media

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In the world of sports, getting high school sports scores have always been an issue for local media, such as newspapers and television stations. And then we signed a deal with Gannett to power scores to their newspapers and TV and websites, and we also signed a deal with Yahoo's Rivals.

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How SportStream Is Crowdsourcing Its Way Into High School Sports Media

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In the world of sports, getting high school sports scores have always been an issue for local media, such as newspapers and television stations. And then we signed a deal with Gannett to power scores to their newspapers and TV and websites, and we also signed a deal with Yahoo's Rivals.

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