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Tribune forms Silicon Valley digital venture, hires Shashi Seth
Underscoring that technology increasingly will drive the success of traditional media outlets, Tribune Co. is planting a flag in Silicon Valley and has hired a former top Yahoo executive to lead the company's digital ventures. Shashi Seth, who has...
Tags: Media Industry, New Products, Tribune Company, Economy, Business and Finance, Peter Liguori
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Immigration: A wider better welcome mat
As an immigrant and an engineer, I know the magnetic pull that the United States exerts on anyone who dreams of a career in science. From the time I watched NASA technicians on television during the first lunar landing in 1969, I resolved to get the...
Tags: Politics, Students, Business, Colleges and Universities, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Where My Dogs At: A social network for man and man's best friend
Where My Dogs At is a new social networking app angled at dog lovers and their four-legged friends looking for local dog-friendly places to go and people to meet. Think Facebook for Fido, with a "Yelp for dogs" approach, built around a location-based...
Tags: Sociology, Social Media, Animals, Culture, Business
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Yahoo seeks turnaround with $1.1-billion deal to buy Tumblr
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Marissa Mayer is attempting a bold — and risky — strategy to turn around the struggling Internet giant with the $1.1-billion acquisition of Tumblr, a trendy social blogging service popular...
Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, France, Sociology, Computer Hardware, Business
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Female tech entrepreneurs flourish in L.A.
It seemed like a typical dinner party for the well-heeled set: eight women, some dressed in stilettos and skinny jeans, gabbing over glasses of wine and endive spears with goat cheese at a lavish Hollywood Hills home. But amid the Kate Middleton...
Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, Business, Sales, Apple iPhone, Pet Services
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Venture capital funding for Southern California firms falls 42%
Southern California is a hotbed of young and innovative companies, but you wouldn't know it by following the money. Venture capital funding, the lifeblood of start-ups, has fallen sharply in the region this year, according to a report released Thursday....Tags: Finance, Economy, Business and Finance
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Some California employers eagerly await immigration reform bill
Central Valley farmers, Southern California bankers and Silicon Valley executives have all struggled to find workers — and they say an outdated immigration policy has been to blame. They're all hoping that a bipartisan group of U.S. senators...
Tags: Politics, Career and Workplace, George W. Bush, Migration, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Silicon Beach Spotlight: Epoxy announces $2 million in funding
Epoxy, a Venice start-up that creates software tools to help professional video producers better distribute and market their online videos, announced that it has received $2 million in funding. The seed funding, led by venture capitalist Mark Suster...
Tags: Services and Shopping, YouTube, Science and Technology, Television, Video Supplies and Services
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10 tech companies to watch in 2013
If you love tech and the business of tech, then 2013 should be a very interesting year. We’ll find out whether Marissa Mayer can keep the momentum going at Yahoo and whether the Web dinosaurs Myspace and Digg can successfully reinvent themselves....
Tags: Sociology, Computer Hardware, Culture, Arts and Culture, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Who's messing with whose jobs?
Gov. Jerry Brown ought to cut his Texas brother, Rick Perry, a little slack. Texas Gov. Perry arrived in the Golden State this week trolling for California businesses he could poach and carry home with him in his saddlebags. His trip here comes on the...
Tags: Politics, School Examinations, Rick Perry, Jerry Brown, Business
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Start-up spotlight: Book open appointment times with MyTime
Booking appointments is one of life's pesky hassles. Your favorite restaurant never seems to pick up the phone and doesn't use OpenTable, your massage therapist prefers calls but your hair stylist prefers texts, your yoga studio uses its own online...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Amazon.com Inc., Business, Media Industry, The Home Depot
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Viddy drops CEO Brett O'Brien, denies turning down Twitter offer
Viddy, a Los Angeles startup that has been described as the Instagram of video, has fired chief executive Brett O'Brien and is now looking for his replacement. The 42-million-member mobile video social network said O'Brien, who co-founded the company...
Tags: Sociology, Social Media, Culture, Arts and Culture, Justin Bieber
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