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Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

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We also assumed over 50 pending patents, from ten different patent families. There's the 25 million credit card numbers lost by Ticketmaster to fraud or TJ Maxx with 40 million credit card compromised. It sounds like a lot of this might be aimed at financial customers? Curtis Staker: It's certainly financial customers.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

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The city has, however, quietly been home to some of the most successful online companies to date, including CitySearch (sold to Ticketmaster for $260 million in 1998), Overture (acquired by Yahoo for $2 billion in 2003), eHarmony and LowerMyBills (bought by Experian for $330 million in 2005). Register Now! Be extra productive. Learn more.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

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We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. StrongMail’s software ensures reliable and timely delivery of their critical customer communications. Some ideas lasted months, others lasted hours.

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