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Google Cloud opens its Las Vegas region

TechCrunch LA

Google Cloud today announced the official opening of its Las Vegas data center region. With this, Google Cloud now operates four regions in the western U.S., with Las Vegas complementing Google Cloud’s existing data centers in Los Angeles, Calif.; The Dalles, Ore. and its recently opened Salt Lake City, Utah region.

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Reflections on 2020: Harrison Tang, Spokeo

socalTECH

We successfully pivoted to a flexible workplace in 2020, which includes transitioning our 70-member Customer Care team to work from home in less than a week. Furthermore, I believe that the digital identity landscape will change from todays duopoly of Google and Facebook to a more decentralized and self-sovereign future.

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How ZestFinance Is Using Machine Learning to Reshape Lending, with Jay Budzik

socalTECH

Jay Budzik: ZestFinance was founded in 2009, by Douglas Merrill, the former CIO at Google, in order to make fair and transparent credit available to everyone. How are you able to convince your customers your machine learning tools are making the right predictions in those cases? What does ZestFinance do? READ MORE>>.

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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. Before starting the company, I held engineering roles at Google and Meetup. Founder and investor dollars go much further here in Cleveland.

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Are we creating a vibrant future for California?

AeA Los Angeles Council

Great California companies like Google, Hewlett Packard, Apple, Sun Microsystems and hundreds more like them are transforming the way people live, work and communicate. “California is the birthplace of the information technology revolution and the home of the companies that are creating the future course of our information rich society.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

Both Sides of the Table

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

SoCal Delicious

This is something that Google is attempting to do with its Wave format and remains an approach to watch. They also come in many different types from syndication formats like RSS and Atom to custom API streams. which has already been adopted by Facebook, MySpace, Windows Live, and Opera and many others with Google and Yahoo!

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