10 of the 44 venture-backed companies currently filed to go public are from Southern California, according to an analysis today from the Wall Street Journal. venture-backed companies currently filed for an IPO, with 10 from Southern California and 13 from Silicon Valley. MORE >>

Magazine’s “Inc 500″ list is it helps to identify all of those big, private companies — who, in another world, might have been public. It’s interesting to note the large number of Southern California firms with very big revenue numbers who are private — in fact, if you sort the Inc. Company. MORE >>

things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California. For anyone from California, you know there are vast differences between the northern and southern parts of the state – so vast in fact that, to us, they could just as easily stand alone as two separate states. MYTH 5: The SoCal crowd is better looking. MORE >>

am very proud to have finished the race and now be apart of an elite crew of crazy waterman who make the journey each year and make the sport look so easy. Running is fairly easy to do in Southern California over 365 days per year and there are very few times that the weather was a factor limiting my training. Why do I do it? MORE >>

A conference being held this week by the OpenStack cloud software group has surfaced what looks to be a surge in cloud-based companies in Southern California, including a number of startups. southern california cloud computing openstack clouds software startupREAD MORE>>. MORE >>