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Google Cloud opens its Las Vegas region

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with Las Vegas complementing Google Cloud’s existing data centers in Los Angeles, Calif.; “Cloud technologies enable two important outcomes for us,” said James Alvarez, CIO of Aristocrat. Google Cloud today announced the official opening of its Las Vegas data center region. The Dalles, Ore.

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

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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. billion of purchases made through the Klarna platform. in markets such as New York and Los Angeles. Klara is now live with 24 of the top 100 U.S.

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Fliptu Gets $1.2M For Social Aggregation Tools

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Los Angeles-based Fliptu , the developer of social aggregation tools for music and entertainment brands, has raised $1.2M 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.

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

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CIOs are wondering if they should jump in, wait for production, or wait for things to mature. That allow enterprise CIOs to jump into OpenStack head first. What is pushing those CIOs to consider private clouds? We''re really excited to see the storage platform grow pretty substantially.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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Los Angeles. It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. TechCoast Angels backed GreenDot should be a major IPO this year. People either love it our hate it.

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

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Los Angeles. There are no $600 million funds in Los Angeles. In Los Angeles you have large industries in garment industry, defense, games (both physical like Mattel and virtual like Activision) and music. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company, ZestCash in LA.