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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

A new website, ElectroMotive , which recently launched here in Los Angeles, is hoping that its site might convince more people to switch to electric cars. The site--created by he 11th Hour Project and Insight Campaigns--says it is aimed helping Angelenos browse, learn, and "fall in love with the next generation of cars."

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APRIL 17, 2019

According to Bloom Energy--whose fuel cells convert such sources of energy as natural gas into electricity, as an alternative to more traditional power grid use--The Alhambra will use its fuel cells to generate electricity on site at The Alhambra's campus, in order to lower CO2 emissions compared to the local electric grid.

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DECEMBER 12, 2013

Los Angeles-based online movie information and ticketing site Fandango said Thursday that it is continuing its efforts at creating original content for the service, with the second season launch of its series "Fandango Frontrunners". The series, hosted by Dave Karger, interviews with stars, directors, producers, and others.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. For people who haven't heard of ExtraBux, what is the site all about? Noah, thanks for the interview.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

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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MARCH 19, 2012

We thought we'd get the pitch from Tim Sae Koo , the founder of the company, on how he took the idea from his business class at USC and turned it into a company, which is now part of one of the local startup accelerators in town, StartEngine. Is it worth my time to explore and click through to the site? What is HypeMarks all about?

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

GM said it initially will have 60 initial vehicles at more than 24 sites throughout the city. and Grand, as well as four cars around USC's University Gateway Apartments. A current map of Maven locations open on Friday shows the company currently has cars clustered around a tight set of blocks between 4th St. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Pictures on projects submitted to the site. According to Amazon.com, its new business-- Amazon Studios --will award a total of $2.7 million in awards through monthly and annual prizes to top scripts and test movies submitted to the company's new online business. In addition, the firm said it has a first-look deal with Warner Bros.

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JANUARY 24, 2013

The firm--co-founded and headed by UCLA Visiting Scholar Jon Friedman--has created an online site which lets hardware designers tap into the data sheets, symbols, components, and footprints of electronic components, for free, either by downloading or by connecting a Dropbox account.

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OCTOBER 3, 2012

The firm showed off its service at the DEMO conference today, saying that its service is now available at both USC and UCLA, and will soon launch at Stanford. Flinja was co-founded by Victor Young, Rebecca Bahr, and Calvin Shen, and was part of the Summer 2012 class from Howard Marks' StartEngine effort.

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MAY 13, 2016

CENIC (Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California) runs the California Research and Education Network (CalREN) , which connects such institutions as Caltech, UCLA, USC, Cal State LA, and the Los Angeles Community Colleges, as well as K-20 students and educators.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The site''s current offers in Los Angeles include Dodgers, Angels, LA Kings, USC Trojans, and other discounted sports tickets, in addition to concerts and theater events. Kanner is a veteran of the sports market. ScoreBig.com''s other investors include Bain Capital Ventures and U.S.

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JUNE 22, 2010

Stroome said the site provides a place where journalists, filmmakers, musicians, students, sports enthusiasts, travelers, activists, and bloggers can upload, edit, and remix video through their web browser. Stroome was founded by Nonny de La Pena and Tom Grasty, both of whom are graduate students at USC's Annenberg School of Journalism.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Big Stage--which was a spinout of technology developed at USC--allowed users to upload several photographs of themselves into software, which then automatically converted those photographs into a realistic avatar. Those avatars could be used in virtual worlds, video clips, video games, and for social networking sites.

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APRIL 30, 2014

In order to support all of these teams, there are several on-campus startup competitions every year, from the Silicon Beach USC competition to the New Venture Seed Competition, with prize funds to help build the companies. The University of Southern California is home to many innovative students and companies.

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JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. Tom Grasty: Essentially, we started off as a graduate school project at USC. A few months later, we won the USC New Venture Competition.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Steve is helping to spearhead the efforts of TechLA Internships (techla.internships.com), an online site which lists local internships at high tech companies for college students. However, for students at USC, UCLA, and Caltech, that just doesn''t exist. Here, if you look at a school like USC, it''s just a long way from Santa Monica.

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DECEMBER 11, 2008

Pasadena-based Big Stage Entertainment , which develops 3D avatar technology, said today that it has partnered with video game company GGL Global Gaming, to provide free game content on its web site. According to Big Stage, the deal will allow users on the site to insert the firm's 3D avatars into game photos and videos. READ MORE>>

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APRIL 4, 2013

We''re not the company which tells athletes to jump on our site, and we''ll spam you to schools and find you a place. When we arrived at USC, we began to talk about how we struggled during the recruiting process. We think of it as a Match.com for sports, and helping athletes to get out there and find the right school.

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MAY 25, 2012

One, is the discovery of awesome content, two is a place to store and publicize that awesome content, and three is being able to save your usernames and passwords to literally any site on the web, and automatically log you into those sites. Why does the world need another social sharing site?

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APRIL 21, 2009

The new content deal also came in conjunction with new features which allow users to add their own, custom backgrounds into BigStage's site. Big Stage is a spinout of technology from USC, originally developed for the CIA.

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JULY 22, 2014

We spent a morning talking about the transition from being an engineer to being an entrepreneur, having the distinction of being the first digital health startup to emerge from USC Viterbi’s Startup Garage , and drilling down to what really matters in all of our entrepreneurial efforts – listening to consumers. This was run out of USC?

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

Recently, USC's film school started a comedic content major. As you can see in the LA landscape, there are already a tremendous number of YouTube channels, sites like FunnyOrDie, and CollegeHumor. So, we started to create ways of categorizing and classifying comedic content. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 14, 2011

My co-founder is Nasi Peretz, who is CTO of West Side Rentals, another LA company, and who also ran properties at USC for the business school and law school. The problem with one of those is, as a venue, you can build a beautiful website, and click to buy tickets--and you're on a completely different, branded site.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Some days I respond to questions asked by folks like yourself, the press, or an entity doing a case study, i.e. Citrix, RIM, USC. I'd rather invest time investing in social media to drive traffic to our site. CTM and USC, staff of Citrix Online, TCA members, and now you! Love the minis! I consider it INVALUABLE!

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APRIL 1, 2013

Mike Tringe earned his BA in History and Science from Harvard, and his MFA in Film Production from USC. He’s worked as an English and Film teacher at the American School of Tangier, and has also assistant taught film production at USC. Sara Akhteh received her BA in Film Theory from UCSC and her MFA from USC in Production.

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DECEMBER 14, 2012

As a designer, I can post a mission, and you can check out my portfolio of work, which is then completed and hosted on the site. You provide payment when the mission is complete, and the payment is handled through the site. I went to USC, and was doing grad school and my MBA when I met Atish.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

We teach people how to make web series and video for the web, and specifically for sites like YouTube, and independent networks like Flip and Dailymotion. We teach through video tutorials, with courses around specific sites, like how to make content for FunnyorDie, taught by one of the staff writers from FunnyOrDie.

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MARCH 26, 2012

There is no other site that helps you connect with people and also finds those with things in common. We met at USC, and we had traveled a lot with study abroad programs. Aigerim Duiseneyeva: We met with Idealab through a USC Marshall competition. It's great for networking, and for developing friendships.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

I was just judging the USC gaming hackathon. USC is producing lots of very talented game professionals, and so is UCLA. We've got a schedule and calendar on our site with details. There are some very talented students who have a vision, and have been interested in participating. Howard Marks: Absolutely.

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MARCH 24, 2010

The store allows in-page transactions, and never redirects them to another site, keeping them captive and leveraging impulse buys. Brandon Hance: I was actually a student athlete, a quarterback at USC, and was on a couple of the national teams. There are lots of custom merchandise sites out there--how do you compete?

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MAY 11, 2011

We're the only site that is specialized in people over the age of 35 in that area. How did you end up starting the site? Out of over every ten people who see the site, one or two are really gravitate or are attached to it. We actually wrote the business plan in a business plan class at USC. What does Anti-AgingGames do?

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AUGUST 7, 2014

We''ll do things like retouch photos for sites like HauteLook, which is now owned by Nordstrom, and Gilt Groupe. We''ll also fill in product descriptions, filling in the copy you see associated with products on those sites. I had worked a year in investment banking, and Jasper was out of USC.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Sherry Gunther: MyMiniPeeps.com is a unique, online community for kids ages 6-13, which is both a social networking community as well as a game site. It's unique, in that it encompasses the concept that the kids are empowered to run the community, instead of just hanging out and visiting it like most sites.

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MAY 15, 2009

Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?"

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Our continuing relationship with USC is precious in that regard. We've been able to harvest lots of scientific advances from Kevin Knight (editor's note: founder and Chief Scientist, and a researcher at USC's Information Sciences Institute), which we've been able to include in our business. We've been able to achieve that.

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OCTOBER 2, 2015

What we set up to do on the site was to set everything up in advance, so if you wanted to go to a specific restaurant, all you do is post a restaurant date and time and see if any girl is interested. I had gone on dating sites, I was on Jdate awhile back ,and ran into similar problems. I wanted to date faster.

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