This morning, the UCLA Anderson Forecast–one of the many economic forecasting efforts run by economists, which attempt to predict the direction of the economy–released a report which says that we’re in a bipolar economy–one which is both growing, yet where the unemployment rate continues to remain at double digits. The premise is — the stimulus [...]
We’ve now implemented comments site-wide, if anyone cares to comment on our main news stream. Comments are below the fold under the stories. The first positive side effect is we’re now featuring your tweets and comments elsewhere on the web which link to our stories on each story page.
For anyone wondering, we’ve implemented Disqus (a third party commenting system) on this blog; we’re also looking at adding this to our mainstream news pages, depending on how things work out (I’d be interested in opinions…). Let me know if you have any issues.
Jared Reitzen, founder of mobileStorm has a new way to show his dedication to his company: a tattoo of the company’s logo on his ankle.
This morning, we published the results of an extensive study of the impact of venture capital companies on Southern California in terms of exit values, finding that exits from VC-backed firms between 1995 and 2009 generated an astounding $48 billion (billion with a capital B) in value. The study, which was conducted by Jon Funk [...]
Jason Nazar, CEO of Docstoc–and organizer of the Startups Uncensored series of events in Santa Monica for entrepreneurs–has a new project up his sleeve: giving away money (or help, or other assistance) to charities or other worthy causes for every day, the next 30 days. Jason says: I thought about doing something around my health/family [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
