"...It's more common to find location mashups about the business
         world that have been created by independent developers, not
         the businesses themselves. A "deal map" at
         www.socaltech.com/intelligence/map created with the Google Map
         API, displays the geographic distribution of venture funding..."

"...The Valley job market is taking root this year in several 
         key industries, most prominently engineering, software and 
         technical sectors...."

"...After a roller coaster ride during the last decade, venture capital 
    funding has stabilized in San Diego County.... A total of $1.06 billion 
    was invested in 2006, just a shade higher than the previous year's, and 
    the highest since 2004... The numbers were reported in the MoneyTree 
    survey by the National Venture Capital Association and 
    PricewaterhouseCoopers and from SoCal Tech, a venture tracking
    service...."

"...This year to date, $823 million has gone into companies based in San Diego 
    County, according to SoCal Tech, a Los Angeles-based tracker of venture 
    funding. The total for all of Southern California is $2.57 billion. During 
    the corresponding period of 2005, San Diego companies had raised $578 
    million. Southern California companies raised $1.54 billion...."

"...the Business Journal has searched the greater Valley area for 40 people
    that it could highlight as illustrative of the talented younger generations
    of business professionals... (Benjamin Kuo) single-handedly managed to
    turn (socalTECH.com) into a profitable and growing enterprise..."

"...FOLLOWING THE VC MONEY: Ben Kuo of www.socalTECH.com is publicizing his
    Google Maps/VC funding mash-up. The site lets you see where the venture 
    capital funding dollars are going.."

"...Kuo, the publisher of Westlake Village-based technology 
    website, Socaltech.com likens the malleability of open 
    source technology... "

"...Kuo's site lists 241 tech companies along the Ventura Freeway,
    more than the 134 on the Westside and more than anywhere 
    else in Los Angeles and Orange counties..."

"...Kuo has one of the first yellow pages-style listings of 
    companies in the [Ventura Freeway Corridor] area on his 
    Web site, Socaltech.com.."

"...Kuo also runs socalTECH.com, a Web community for 
    technical people in the L.A. area. The helpful, 
    content-rich site has been in operation for two years,
    attracting job seekers, employers and news hounds 
    looking for the latest developings in the region's high-
    tech economy..."

"...Through word of mouth and search engine links, SocalTECH.com
    and its newsletter have become like Bibles to the investment
    and technology elite, both here and in the Silicon Valley...."

"...Benjamin Kuo: The electrical engineer is uniting the 
    Tech Coast with SocalTech, a comprehensive web site
    about high technology in Southern California..."

"...Von Silicon Valley lernen, heißt siegen lernen. Für alle 
    Beobachter des High-Tech-Business, Marktteilnehmer und
    Gründer lohnt sich ein Abstecher zu "socalTECH". Die Site
    widmet sich ausdrücklich nur einem kleinen Gebiet und 
    Geländestreifen nämlich der "High Technology in Southern 
    California", doch diese Zone hat es in sich. ..."

"...While the Digital Coast Roundtable and the Tech Coast Alliance
    spend months building professional Web sites to highlight
    Southern California's technology companies, Benjamin Kuo 
    has beat them to the punch with his own site dedicated to
    the local high-tech industry... "

"...Last year, an engineer working in the Tech Corridor created a Web site
    to keep tabs on the companies in the. When he began the project as a 
    hobby, Benjamin Kuo said he identified 30 to 40 companies."

   "Since then, he and others who have visited the site have compiled a 
    list of nearly 180 companies in the area..."