Startup FitnessKeeper , the parent company of the RunKeeper smartphone app, has raised $1.11 million and will use the money to build out its nine-person operation and dive into the highly competitive world of now-fashionable mobile fitness applications. The RunKeeper iPhone app uses GPS locating to track your distance, time, elevation, pace and path on a map and has caught the eye of several major investors since the company was founded two years ago, primarily because it has kept up with rapidly developing technologies

“It was almost out of fear of being left behind” said director Richard Kelly of his reasons for joining Twitter at last night's Power of the Tweet Poolside Chat for the L.A.

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April is a great month. Besides spring settling in, flowering plants, and gearing up to head out to the beaches, there is something else about April to get very, very , very excited about: Grilled Cheese Month .

Our friends over at LaTaco.com have finally put up their brackets for Taco Madness 2010. They have whittled it down to 32 of the best tacos in LA and seeded them into 4 regional brackets. WOW! This is actually pretty impressive.

By Michael Reinstein It’s official.  “Everyone” is becoming a Twitter addict. The fast-growing micro-blogging platform has suddenly hit the mainstream. When you have a variety of Congressman utilizing the platform during the recent Presidential Address to Congress as a means to communicate LIVE and in “real time” with their constituents, and you have Joy Behar, [...]

Evri , a company using semantic technology to deliver real-time search results around news, just announced that it has acquired another semantic-focused startup, Radar Networks , and its flagship product Twine. Evri chief executive Will Hunsinger said Twine’s technology, including the in-development revamp dubbed “T2,” will be incorporated into Evri.