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Fintech giant Klarna raises $639M at a $45.6B valuation amid ‘massive momentum’ in the US

TechCrunch LA

Overall, Klarna is live in 20 markets, has more than 90 million global active users and more than 2 million transactions a day conducted on its platform. Eric Munson, founder and CIO of Adit Ventures, said his firm believes the “best is yet to come as Klarna multiplies their addressable market through global expansion.” .

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Reflections on 2020: Harrison Tang, Spokeo

socalTECH

Technologies such as multi-factor authentication, identity and access management, and fraud mitigation will see accelerated growth as more activities go digital. He started Spokeo with his college roommates Mike Daly (CTO) and Eric Liang (CIO) in 2006 in his parents basement. Harrison Tang is the CEO and Co-founder of Spokeo.

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

socalTECH

My CIO had been ex-CIO at Herbalife, and was an EVP of Software for Disney. Entrepreneurs need to understand that, although I don't want to be a CEO of their company, ever, I'll be very active. It was really the same business, but with less capital. As a result, I really saw Visalus as a technology company. bkuo READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Jeff Kukowski, SecureAuth

socalTECH

When a credential is stolen, you want to know if they show up at your front door, and what might you want to with an account if it looks like it's being used by a cyber criminal known to be associated with malicious activity on the Internet? You might remember Quest Software and Vinny Smith.

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Why Millennials Are Moving to Downtown Cleveland

Tech.Co

Currently, I am the cofounder and CIO of Remesh , which is an AI platform that understands and engages groups of people in conversation in real time. What’s your role in your ecosystem? Aaron: I am Cleveland native, but have also spent time living in San Francisco, New York, India, London, and Paris. Aaron: I agree.

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Are we creating a vibrant future for California?

AeA Los Angeles Council

The AeA Los Angeles Council is proud to announce a FREE EVENT on July 11th, 2008 , to provide our local technology community with the opportunity to meet the newly-appointed State of California Cabinet-level Chief Information Officer (CIO), Teresa (Teri) Takai. Click to register ) Ms. billion dollars over 11 years.

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Taming The Enterprise Texting Tiger, With TigerText's Brad Brooks

socalTECH

We''ve done things like integrating TigerText into Active Directory, which supports real time updates of your directory and tens of thousands of users. One of my friends, the CIO of a large healthcare system, did a study with Verizon of their facility, and found that there were 3 million SMS messages sent in a month.

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