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CrowdStrike Sets New CIO

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Black was previously CIO of Kratos Defense and Security, and also had served at Cymer and Mindspeed Technologies. CrowdStrike said Black will focus on infrastructure expansion of its platform. Irvine-based security software developer CrowdStrike announced this morning that it has named Colin Black as its new Chief Information Officer.

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

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Previous backers include Sequoia Capital, SilverLake, Dragoneer and Ant Group, among others. and plans to use its new capital in part to continue to grow there and globally. 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.

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Gradient X Snags Exec From OpenX

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Gradient X , the online mobile marketing and advertising technology developer backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, Crosscut Ventures, Founder Collective, Double M Capital, Baroda Ventures, Siemer Ventures, and others, has snapped up some talent from OpenX with its latest hire. He was at Overture before it was acquired by Yahoo.

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Fliptu Gets $1.2M For Social Aggregation Tools

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The startup--led by Jeremy Gocke--said the funding came from Scout Ventures, Rick Dalzell (former Amazon CIO), Rich Heise (early Groupon investor), Hivers & Strivers, Kelly Perdew, and other angels. tool aggregation social gocke jeremy startup funding seed capital venture fliptu' READ MORE>>.

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

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That allows companies to reuse their existing capital, get full control over where their data resides, and where their performance is very deterministic, day in and day you, because you''re not sharing it with any other tenant on the public cloud. CIOs are wondering if they should jump in, wait for production, or wait for things to mature.

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How Cloudvirga Wants To Disrupt The Slow, Antiquated Mortgage Industry

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in funding, from Dallas Capital, Upfront Ventures, and Tribeca Angels. So, instead of just dealing with the consumer experience, we decided to tackle the problem head on and build an entire platform, and intelligent mortgage platform. The platform that lenders are using today they just can't leverage. What is cloudvirga?

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Interview with David Loo, CEO and Founder of Perspectium

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Perspectium recently raised a funding round from TVC Capital. I was a principal engineer facilitating the integration and connectivity of the ServiceNow platform into these other systems. Loo--who was the very first employee at ServiceNow--explains what that means, and why companies use the startup's software. What is Perspectium?

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