Silicon Valley

NationBuilder, a Downtown L.A. Startup, Explodes onto Scene in Los Angeles Mayoral, City Council 2013 Elections

Also see "Emanuel Pleitez, the Most Amazing Person Who Won't Win the March 5 L.A. Mayoral Primary." By Amanda Lewis Los Angeles mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel isn't using it, but candidates Eric Garcetti and Emanuel Pleitez are. So are five of 12 candidates vying for City Council District 13, and ... More >>

Highland Park America's Hottest Neighborhood For Real Estate

Bet you wish you were in on the pre-recession Flip This House phenomenon now. That's because it turns out that Highland Park, a star of the show, is getting its post-recession due. No, it's not the hippest neighborhood in Los Angeles. But it does top Redfin's list of American "Real Estate Neighbo ... More >>

Gina Keating's New Book About the Rise of Netflix

In Gina Keating's new book, Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs, the story of the rise of Netflix sounds almost as juicy as those in the movies it rents out in those signature red envelopes: Two Silicon Valley tech dreamers turn a DVD-by-mail service into a $3 billion empire. Along ... More >>

5 Dance Shows To See This Week, Including Dancing at a Bus Station

This week's list of dance shows to see includes one that locavores might enjoy and another set in an unlikely corner of Van Nuys.

Silicon Beach: 5 People Making L.A. a New Tech Industry Capital

Los Angeles may be 350 miles south of Silicon Valley, but it's making strides to close the distance between the two in terms of sheer brain power and inventiveness (with a little bit of entertainment thrown in for good measure). Here are five people from our People issue helping to make that happen.

List of Dodger Bidders in the 2012 Sale by Frank McCourt: Wall Street Jerks and Baseball Lovers

Here's the known, and rumored, list 15 of exceedingly rich Wall Street one percenters, fabulously wealthy moguls and hardcore baseball lovers who may -- or may not -- have made secret, non-binding $1 billion bids to buy the Dodgers before the January 23, 2012 deadline expired. 1. Tom Barrack, col ... More >>

Postcard on the Run App: New L.A. Company Will Send a (Scented!) Postcard From Your iPhone or Android for $1.99

Startups is a new column about new companies, big ideas and bold discoveries happening in the L.A. area. The idea was simple: Take all those moments captured on smartphones and make something tangible out of them, fusing the online and the offline world. That's what Josh Brooks set out to do when h ... More >>

Alexandra Wallace: Was UCLA 'Asians in the Library' Video One Big Publicity Stunt?

Co-Ed MagazineThe infamous Alexandra Wallace​Update: Wallace drops out of UCLA, right after school officials announce she will not be punished for her racist rant. Details after the jump. Alexandra Wallace may not be as dumb as she acts. For a UCLA pity admit whose poli-sci career is obviousl ... More >>

Alexia Tsotsis, LA Weekly Alum, Too Snarky for Moviefone/AOL/Huffington: High Five!

FacebookAlexia Tsotsis, scheming up snark like it's her job​So this is what happens when the snark training at Village Voice Media leads to a responsible career at an uncool corporation. It's just as we thought! One receives stern, pent-up (but rose-smelling) letters from the mother ship, advi ... More >>

Save us, WWE and Barbie! Mattel reports a revenue turnaround and sighs with relief

Can Barbie save us from the incredible, persistent 12 percent to 14 percent unemployment that has ravaged Los Angeles city and county?The folks over at Mattel are doing something right -- gobbling up successful stuff like World Wrestling Entertainment. Now, they're reporting a key turnaround in thei ... More >>

Tom Campbell Aims For Barbara Boxer's Senate Seat

​Former Congressman Tom Campbell announced in Los Angeles Thursday that he's pulling out of a crowded Republican slate in California's gubernatorial race to challenge Democrat Barbara Boxer for her U.S. Senate seat. "I initially made the decision to run for governor because I believe that my ... More >>

Pedraza vs. Macintosh: Worms in the Apple

Riled Over California's High-Speed Rail

It sounded like such a good idea. But the highly disruptive routes anger many

Twiistup 6, Day 2: The Next Generation of L.A. Entrepreneurs #WakeUp, Discuss the Power of the Social Web

Jim AldenPaige Craig and AV FloxThe hashtag for Twiistup 6's "Leveraging the Power of the Social Web" panel, moderated by lalawag and Tsavo's Sean Percival, was #wakeup. That's the peril of following a night of hard partying with a full day of serious conversation. Surprisingly, a good crowd gathere ... More >>

Sister City Act: Tom LaBonge, Our Man in the U.K.

Petra Fried at Mayor Sam's Sister City took umbrage today twice -- over City Councilman Tom LaBonge's absence from the council and the fact that he's apparently junketing in Northern England, doubtlessly impressing locals there with his plenipotentiary powers as District Four's man in the U.K. What ... More >>

Techcrunch Crunchup: L.A. Does it in Realtime

SoCal native and the "Golden God of Tech" Michael Arrington was born and raised in Huntington Beach so it came as no surprise that the L.A. contingent was out in full-force at this year's Techcrunch Crunchup Real Time Conference and summer party at the August Capital offices in Palo Alto. There for ... More >>

Terminator Salvation: Save Yourself ...

... from McG's franchise add-on

Whither the Econocalypse? Scenes From L.A. Tech Month

On the precipice of a tech revolution

Whither the Econocalypse? How to Survive the Burst of the Hot Air Bubble Machine via Startonomics

Los Angeles and the Web business both boil down to how well you manage traffic, except in "start-up" culture there are clear-cut metrics or quantitative measures of success that don't involve getting from Hollywood to Long Beach in under 20 minutes. Startonomics' promise of a strategic approach to ... More >>

Hollywood: Damaged on Wall Street, Weak in Prime Time and Ignoring Tina Brown

A world of hurt

Space Race Two: SoCal Loses Fight for Private Space Terminal to New Mexico

State turns instead to manufacturing ships, suits, even diapers

Fabulous Fake Wine

Very pricey bottles of faux wine are pouring in from France and Europe

Shock and Awe

The director of a riveting new Iraq documentary goes looking for answers and finds No End in Sight

The Secret of His Success

Why does a billionaire think Steve Barr is worth $10.5 million?

Four Electric Seconds

Moguls Will Be Moguls at Camp Allen

Shareholders get burned around the Big Media campfire

Lock, Stock & Module

Los Angeles architects are leading the modern prefab pack — again

Kicking the Buckets

Aerospace janitors strike

After Gore, the Deluge

The morning-after line on the candidates

Powerlines

Without vision, the party — well, a Senate majority — perishes

?Quién Es Palestino?

Tainted Thinking

Drug tests: A class ritual

Leisure Copworld

LAPD officers dream of a three-day week

The Last Bad Idea

Market theory demanded deregulation — but the market argued otherwise

Tale of Two Strikes

Why the SEIU caved and the UTU hung tough

The Code of Cordoba

Someone wants to pull the plug on a well-connected firm

The Grapes of L.A.

Winemaking can once again be local

A Pirate’s Life for Me

How Napster restored my faith in the Internet (and why the RIAA can’t take it away)

The Oy of Cybersex

The panic over Web-wanking addiction

Letters

Letters

The Red Sea

How the janitors won their strike

Control Freak-Alt-Delete

Reading the Microsoft Findings of Fact as a riveting novel

Ghostsites

Somebody forgot to take out the garbage on the information superhighway

Future Tense

Today's computer conveniences could be the tools of tomorrow's totalitarianism

Test on Trial

Drug-testing patch is suspect, as is its main proponent

The Living-on-the-Edge Ordinance

This county ordains a living wage for some, instead of for all

The Filmmakers

The Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Turns 5

Free Is a Four-Letter World

Suiting up the open system at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo (Second in a three-part series)

A River Should Run Through It

Repairing downtown, riparianly