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Phocas Sets CFO

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Irvine-based Phocas Software, a developer of data analytics software for the manufacturing, distribution, and retail business market, says it has named Dave Boorman as its new Chief Financial Officer. The company said Boorman was most recently CFO for Network Ten, and also served at Seven West Media.

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Netflix employees stage a trans solidarity walkout, pose list of demands

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Netflix employees staged a walkout yesterday in response to the company’s handling of a Dave Chappelle special that premiered on October 5. They want Netflix to address a list of demands in the categories of content investment, employee relations and safety, and harm reduction. Netflix is an incredible, life changing company.

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LeisureLink Acquired By VacationRoost

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LeisureLink was venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners and Mission Ventures, and also had received a strategic investment from Wyndham Worldwide. The company was led by Tom Lamb. software engine booking marketplace rental vacation vacationroost acquisition merger leisurelink' READ MORE>>.

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Backed by LG, AmazeVR is hoping to resurrect virtual reality’s consumer dreams

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Over the past five years, virtual reality was the latest new thing to make or break fortunes, and the founding team behind the Korean company AmazeVR are the latest would-be dream-makers to take their turn spinning the wheel for Hollywood fortunes. There are significant economic reasons for companies to persist.

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CapLinked Adds Investors To Series A

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The firm said it has brought its Series A up to $2.1M, and added new investors Conversion Capital, Inflection Ventures, The Artesian Group, Chris Harris (software engineering manager at Google), and Lee Essener (founder of AccessDNA). The firm earlier had announced investments from. READ MORE>>.

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Codesmith Raised $1.1 Million Funding Round Lead by Test Prep CEO

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And one well-known coding bootcamp has made an effort to focus on engineering thanks to a huge investment from a Malibu CEO. The investment will help to add more online classes to their already impressive offerings. “Codesmith, the leading advanced software engineering school in the US is announcing a $1.1m

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SaaS Is Dead, Long Live Software

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It’s high time we kill the term Software As A Service (SaaS) and call it what it is – software. Even Salesforce abandoned it’s silly “No Software” tagline, after the company had to explain in 2015 that it meant, “No legacy software, just cloud software.”. You’re not a SaaS company, you’re a software company.

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