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CoreLogic Buys UK's eTech Solutions

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eTech was founded in 2005. According to CoreLogic, more than 50 percent of the UK's property appraisals go through eTech's platform. Irvine-based property information provider CoreLogic announced this morning that it has acquired eTech Solutions Limited , a UK-based provider of mobile surveying and workflow management software.

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Reflections on 2019: Brett Brewer, Crosscut Ventures

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This was a big year for Crosscut because were finally delivering on our promise of implementing a full-scale investing platform after 11+ years in business. Growing our practice from 3 original partners who would meet at coffee shops into a full institutional investing platform is a constant evolution. in 2005 for $680M.

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uSamp Reports Growth

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The company also said that it is planning to double its investment in its technology platform. Lavin and Dusig's last firm, goZing, was successfully sold to Greenfield Online in 2005. uSamp is venture backed by DFJ Frontier, Greycroft Partners, OpenView Venture Partners, and Webtigo.

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EA Mobile Targets Amazon's Kindle

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Los Angeles-based EA Mobile , the mobile game publishing arm of Electronic Arts, has set its sights on a new platform for its mobile games: Amazon's Kindle. EA Mobile came out of EA's acquisition of Los Angeles based Jamdat in 2005. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Howard Marks, Gamzee

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Their view was that HTML5 would allow them to replace the notion of having to download a Facebook App into your phone or tablet, and release them from the idea that they have to have nine different apps on different platforms, and have to maintain all of them. Right now, those Facebook apps only work on the web.

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Why I’ve Shifted More Attention to Facebook

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I signed up for Facebook before many – in 2005 – when I first moved back to the US. And I noticed how many comments his posts generated and I thought that would be a very useful platform for me. Others had very few connections and they used it to share personal information. I was always more the latter.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. Platform cloud players like Salesforce.com provide compute resources so that third parties can build applications that integrate with its core product. These are very different.