Why driving innovation in Southern California — and the rest of the nation — is important. I’ve seen, over the years, a certain provincialism and bias apparent in some folks in the technology blog world, who seem to think the only innovation comes from Silicon Valley. I’m not going to rehash the arguments, but, needless [...]
Interesting numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. They just released their monthly employment numbers, and the only bright spot in employment, year over year in Los Angeles has been the Information sector. (More analysis from the BLS here).
I’m not much one for tattoos, but why it is we’ve run across the third high tech-meets tattoo story in the last month?!? (See: Darwin Dimensions, a developer of 3D avatar technology, powers a tattoo preview site).
For those trying to keep track — seems like every list I’ve seen is incomplete — here are the IPO filings I’m aware of in Southern California: Demand Media (Santa Monica) – rumored, not yet filed RealD (Los Angeles) Green Dot (Pasadena) Genmark Diagnostics (Pasadena) Fallbrook Technologies (San Diego) GameFly (Los Angeles) ReachLocal (Woodland Hills) [...]
This afternoon, Launchpad LA — the business mentoring effort in Los Angeles which is being spearheaded by Mark Suster — just announced its list of participants for its second class (Launchpad LA v 2.0). The mentoring group includes pretty much a who’s who in Los Angeles in technology entrepreneurship and startups. Here’s further details on [...]
TED is going everywhere. That’s the message from TED’s Lara Stein at TEDxUSC, the second showing of USC’s own independently owned TED event. TED–which is now being held in Long Beach, and is known for its very exclusive, invite-only atmosphere, and thoughtful thinkers–apparently is gearing up big time for independent events. According to TED’s Lara [...]
Ah darn, Boingo wasn’t serious about its offer to give a million Wi-Fi minutes to a user that tattooed the firm’s logo somewhere on their body. (The hazards of real-time Internet coverage, illustrated…)
In what seems to be the beginning of trend for Los Angeles Internet companies, Boingo Wireless just said today that it will give away a million hours of free Wi-Fi on its network of hot spots, to any user which gets a tattoo of the firm’s logo. That’s the second Los Angeles area company offering [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
