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Australian Startups Invade Southern California

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In what appears to be an unprecedented surge of Australian companies setting up shop in Southern California's Silicon Beach, a surprising number of Australian startups have set up operations in Southern California over the last year. Bombd (www.bombd.com) - social networking apps.

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Color's SoCal Connection: Peter Pham

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Palo Alto-based Color , the new Silicon Valley startup developing mobile photo sharing and social networking software which appears to have gained unprecedented attention from the press this week at its launch, has a Southern California connection. The firm's SoCal connection? READ MORE>>.

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Entrepreneur's Brilliant Companies List Pinpoint SoCal Startups

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At least six, Southern California companies -- Nimble , ParkMe , Quarterly , Beachmint , Chromatik , and Dollar Shave Club -- have been named as one of Entrepreneur Magazine's 100 Brilliant Companies list today, a healthy share of the publication's annual look at the best ideas, hottest industries, and innovators.

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Twitter Networks are Different than Social Networks

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They “don’t care what people ate for lunch.&# They’re fine on their existing social networks, which these days mostly means they’re happy with Facebook. Traditional social networks are more restricted to people whom I already know and information and updates are less discoverable.

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Facebook IPO Hits Markets Today: Will It Spur SoCal IPO Activity?

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As Mountain View-based social networking site Facebook hits the market today, in what is the largest tech initial public offering in history, one question is if it will spur what has, so far, been a lackluster IPO market for Southern California technology firms. In comparison, Facebook's IPO today will raise $18.4

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Will Facebook's IPO Unbottle Southern California's Pipeline?

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Southern California has not had a major, venture backed, technology IPO since May of last year, when Active Network hit the market; it has only one IPO on the calendar this year so far, for Thousand Oaks-based Ceres, expected next week--despite a number of companies who appear to be perpetually in registration, awaiting a turn in the markets.

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Social Networking and Business Value

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Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Can social networking be a money-maker for companies?