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HelloTech Expands Tech Support Service To San Diego

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Los Angeles-based HelloTech , the on-demand, in-home technical services company founded by serial entrepreneur and tech investor Richard Wolpert, said it is expanding into San Diego, and has begun offering up its services in the city. The company now offers up its services in Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego.

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Two Local Tech, Investment Executives Named In College Fraud Investigation

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Two people associated with Southern California's high tech investment and startup industry have been named as part of the far reaching investigation into a college admissions scandal , which named Hollywood actresses, CEOs, coaches at USC, UCLA, and UCSD, as well as many others. According to a complaint filed by the U.S.

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Applied Proteomics Raises $22.5M

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San Diego-based Applied Proteomics , which is developing personalized medicine applications, said today that it has raised $22.5M in a Series B funding, and moved its headquarters to San Diego. Daniel Hillis of Applied Minds, and who is also a professor at USC's Keck School of Medicine.

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Announcing The Socaltech 50: Southern California's Up-and-Comers

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So, without further ado, here''s the list of this year''s 2013 Socaltech 50 : Basil Abifaker , Transaction Wireless (San Diego, digital gift cards). Sean Callahan , SlimSurveys (San Diego, mobile apps). Steven Cox , TakeLessons (San Diego, marketplace). Melani Gordon , Taphunter (San Diego, mobile apps).

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HP Selects UCSB, UCSD, USC Profs For Funding

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According to HP, among the sixty professors were Dr. Amin Vahdat of the University of California, San Diego; Dr. John Bowers at the University of California, Santa Barbara; and Dr. Gerard Medioni and Dr. Alan E. Willner at the University of Southern California.

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Ventura County Area College Explores New Engineering Program

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Unlike Los Angeles, San Diego, and Orange County--all of which have a number of schools with an engineering focus--and even Santa Barbara, which has benefited greatly from having a strong engineering program at UCSB--Ventura County does not have a major engineering school.

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Car Sharing Firm Zipcar Heading To Los Angeles

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GetAround, another venture backed peer-to-peer car rental service, already has a Southern California beachhead in San Diego. It also looks as if ZipCar apparently has been quitely running programs on the USC and UCLA campuses, limited to faculty, staff, and students.