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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 had a soft launch to test our new identity protection & identity management features to complement our core people search service in 2020. 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. Harrison earned a B.A.S.

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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. We're now 100 percent a software company, delivering our software to financial services companies across the world. What does ZestFinance do? READ MORE>>.

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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. Agarwal (Director of Technology Services) > Adrian Farley (Deputy Director of Procurement, DGS) ABOUT TERI TAKAI: Ms. Click to register ) Ms.

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

SoCal Delicious

Up until now linking, syndication, and shared comment services have been used to connect the dots on distributed conversations but the practical usefulness of these approaches has been reached in many cases. This is something that Google is attempting to do with its Wave format and remains an approach to watch.

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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.