When I drill down on that term, you can see why with posts like: Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals Lops A Third Of Company THQ Lays Off 100 Employees, Closes San Diego Office Citrix Cuts 10 Percent; Santa Barbara Hit And it's also interesting to see what geographies are being associated with "Layoffs" more often than others: Layoffs Woodland Hills Layoffs San Diego Layoffs Santa Monica Layoffs Los Angeles I guess this is a sign of the times. The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009

Los Angeles-based MySpace said Thursday that the firm has inked deals with several independent music providers, to distribute their music through MySpace Music . In addition, MySpace Music said the catalog of Wind-up Records will be available through a distribution deal the firm has with Sony Music Entertainment. San Diego-based RoyaltyShare helps track digital royalties for a number of record labels, the firm said it has inked agreements with Nettwerk Music Group, INgrooves, IRIS Distribution, and RoyaltyShare, which will result in adding "several hundred thousand" songs to its catalog.

San Diego- and Honolulu-based Chi.mp has opened up registration for the firm's personalized profile and domain site. chimp domain profile social networking facebook myspace startu The firm said this moring that anyone can now go to its site, and select an available domain name. Chi.mp

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More music moves at MySpace , with a new deal to distribute music from independents. San Diego’s RoyaltyShare , the firm which tracks digital royalties for record labels,  is also part of that deal. Here’s our weekly roundup of recent Southern California technology news: EQAL , the firm behind the YouTube sensation LonelyGirl15, has a new deal with CBS on a new mystery series, Harper’s Island.

San Diego-based Interacasting Corporation , a provider of mobile social networking software, has been acquired by Good Technology, the firms said this morning. Intercasting was backed by Venrock, Avalon, and Masthead; its flagship software is ANTHEM, which connected mobile users to social networking sites like MySpace, and was sold by telecom carriers. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. According to Redwood City-based Good Technology, the acquisition will further expand its device portfolio and enhance the capabilities of its solutions.

Southern California is the home for thousands of technology companies such as MySpace in Los Angeles, Linksys in Orange County, and Qualcomm in San Diego. And what do you find in a high-tech community -- in addition to technology? Events. Lots of Events.

Southern California is the home for thousands of technology companies such as MySpace in Los Angeles, Linksys in Orange County, and Qualcomm in San Diego. And what do you find in a high-tech community -- in addition to technology? Events. Lots of Events.

With so many social networks, and dominant sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and MySpace, how do you fit in, and why is there need for another social networking tool? Rob MySpace--even though I'm a little old for the MySpace genre--is incredibly powerful. You recently moved the headquarters here from Hawaii, can you talk about the decision to move to San Diego? Rob Rob Farrow is one of the co-founders of Chi.mp , a new startup which is getting set to launch a service to allow users to manage their profiles across the many sites on the Internet. The

Here’s in Southern California, that first-rate sophisticated money includes both a good pool of venture investors (not to mention lots of transitory money from Sand Hill Road); lots of technology universities (Caltech, UCLA, USC, UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, Harvey Mudd, etc. and lots of “template successes” over the years (Qualcomm, Broadcom, MySpace, Overture, LowermyBills, Pricegrabber, JAMDAT, Proflowers, and literally hundreds of other Howard Anderson, a venture capitalist at Battery Ventures and a professor at MIT, has an interesting post on GigaOM about 5 Reasons To Move Your Startup Out of Silicon Valley .