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Finding the fakes and frauds

David Weir of San Francisco’s 7×7 magazine interviewed “Bloomberg West” hosts Emily Chang and Cory Johnson about how the new tech news show will differ from other coverage of the industry.

Weir writes, “Johnson, who in the past covered the tech sector on the west coast for CNBC, TheStreet.com and Time, said there’s something new about the current proliferation of startups in San Francisco. ‘It feels a lot different from the dot.com era. The cost of starting a company has shrunk because of innovations in the cloud, social media and mobile computing. You don’t need as much money or as many people to start a million-dollar company these days. You can start one for $10,000 or less.’

“From his time as a portfolio manager at Kinsford Capital and an analyst at Cannell Capital LLC, Johnson says he learned how to ferrett out ‘fakes and frauds’ from the real deal, and that he will continue to do this type of investigative work on the new Bloomberg West program.

“Chang, meanwhile, intends to make use of her background covering global trends in technology, including some of the ‘untold stories’ from her time in China. Those include that country’s social media — Tencent, RenRen, Qzone — as well as the problem of censorship, and the exclusion of U.S. companies from a market that inow numbers some 450 million Internet users and 300 million smartphone owners.”