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HireRight Acquires UK Firm

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Irvine-based HireRight , a provider of on-demand employment screening and drug screening services, announced today that it has acquired Powerchex Limited , a pre-employment screening firm based in the United Kingdom. Powerchex provides pre-empoyment screening to companies in the UK, and was founded in 2005.

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TVSync’s Open API Uses Video and Audio Recognition Across All Four Screens

Tech Zulu Event

TVSync’s parent company Voible , has provided fingerprint protection technology to most major movie studios and TV networks since 2005. The platform allows users to sync content and commands across all four screens — the smartphone, tablet/pad, computer and TV. It is essentially a super large screen pad. What does that mean?

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Stamps.com Completes Market Test

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The firm said it shipped more than 70 million PhotoStamps to customers since 2005. The USPS later reactivated the market test after Stamps.com implemented better screening of images. READ MORE>>.

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Why A Cellular Carrier Did Not Buy Skype - Watching A Big Dumb Company Fail In Real Time

InfoChachkie

billion caused me to recall an awkward meeting I had in 2005 with a particularly clueless group of cellular executives. Cool stuff for circa 2005, unless you were an idiot working for a cellular carrier. The recent purchase of Skype by Microsoft for $8.5 Their utter stupidity is a bit disheartening, but highly instructional.

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Ostendo Raising Funds to Advance Virtual Reality Display Technology

Xconomy

Ostendo Technologies, a Carlsbad, CA-based company founded in 2005 to advance curved screens and other innovative display technologies, has raised $41.8 million of a new financing round intended to bring in $62.8 million, according to a recent regulatory filing.

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StoryBots And The Future of Learning,With Gregg Spiridellis, JibJab

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The mythology of StoryBots, is that they are these little creature who live behind our screens. Those printables, ironically, get kids off of their computer and from in front of a screen, and instead let them sit at a kitchen table with crayons. Gregg Spiridellis: We were producing viral video hits in 2005.

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Mentors-Plus-Capital Programs – Intense Incubation

Startup Professionals Musings

At VT KnowledgeWorks we screen prospective clients for their Market opportunity, for the Magic that they offer to their prospective customers, and for the Moxie displayed by the start-up team. Paul Graham built the mold at Y Combinator , which he founded back in 2005. The entry screenings are tough.