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AnyMeeting Dangles Kindle Fire To Spur Reviews, Tweets

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Huntington Beach-based AnyMeeting is looking to spur more reviews of its app in the Google Apps Marketplace, saying this week that it will enter any of its customers reviewing its app in the marketplace into a contest for a new Kindle Fire. AnyMeting, which is headed by Costin Tuculescu, offers up free web meeting software for users.

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Bestcovery.com Rolls Out Web Widget

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Santa Monica-based Bestcovery.com , an online expert review and ranking site headed by former Pricegrabber.com co-founder and CEO, Kamran Pourzanjani, said today that it has rolled out a new widget which will allow web publishers to display its content. Bestcovery launched in November of last year. READ MORE>>.

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5th Kind Scores Private Equity Investment

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5th Kind, a developer of workflow management software for Hollywood studios, has scored an investment from private equity investor HCAP Partners. Size of the investment was not announced. According to HCAP, the investment capital will go to fund growth initiatives for 5th Kind.

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Irvine's Alteryx At Center Of Massive Consumer Data Leak Of 120M

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Irvine-based data analytics software developer Alteryx is at the center of a massive, consumer data leak which was revealed this week , which has revealed a stunning depth of information on 120 million American households. The breach is a stunning reversal of fortune for Alteryx, which had been riding high this year due to its IPO.

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Insights: How The Subscription Economy is Changing Business

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Resources from server space and database storage to sophisticated software are all available on demand to anyone with little more than a Web connection and a credit card. Less than a decade ago, a company needed to invest heavily in infrastructure and software, and recruit the (continued.). READ MORE>>.

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Vizio Co-Star: Going, Going, Gone!

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Apparently, the company just sold out of its pre-orders of the device, in less than 12 hours, due to a huge rush on the device. The Co-Star plugs into any HDTV, and allows users to run web apps, browse the web, and stream video, using Google TV as its software. VIZIO announced the device in June.

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CapLinked Hit By Amazon Downtime

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Manhattan Beach-based CapLinked , which operates a software service to help companies communicate with investors, is one of the firms caught by the widespread Amazon EC2 downtime today. CapLinked said in its blog that its site is temporarily unavailable due to Amazon's hosting service issues. READ MORE>>.