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UCSD, Google Study Finds Many Online Hacking Services Are Frauds

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A new, academic study--conducted by UC San Diego and Google --has jumped into the world of "hacking for profit", running a study on hacking-for-hire services and their charges and success in hacking into a set of Google Gmail accounts. The study , published by UCSD, found that--for the most part-- most hacking services are scams.

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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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Vision Assistance Startup Aira Inking Deals With UCSD, Retail Stores

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In recent weeks Aira announced that its accessibility service would be available at no cost to those who need it while at UC San Diego, in about 5,000 AT&T stores, and at all Wegmans grocery stores. The Rochester, NY-based grocery chain has 97 stores in six East Coast states.

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Interview with Jonathan Simkin, SwoopThat

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The two main programmers also graduated in May of 2010 from Harvey Mudd College, and the fourth person on our team recently graduated from UCSD law school. Back to the service itself-- you've got lots of competition in the space, how are you going to get above that noise? Jonathan Simkin: We're all recent graduates.

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Interview with Aaron Crayford, Rippol

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Recently, San Diego-based Rippol (www.rippol.com) launched its web site, a service which uses social networking to help people find and discover interesting videos related to their interests. Before that, I was a student researcher as San Diego Sate University and a UCSD student. Aaron, thanks for the interview.

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Version 0.9. What Do You Think?

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If you’re in LA and looking for somebody to do project-based marketing jobs – Jacqui’s your lady (not to mention a fellow UCSD alum!). We wanted to stay true to our roots, which were in retail and financial services, both industries in which we invest heavily, albeit almost exclusively where there is a technology core.

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Interview with Marc Friedmann, SciVee

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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. What's the story behind the company--I understand this started at UCSD? We provide rich media to the STM market. Can you describe how that works?

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