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Why A Cellular Carrier Did Not Buy Skype - Watching A Big Dumb Company Fail In Real Time

InfoChachkie

billion caused me to recall an awkward meeting I had in 2005 with a particularly clueless group of cellular executives. Cool stuff for circa 2005, unless you were an idiot working for a cellular carrier. Nearly seven years later, this cellular carrier has still not incorporated IP telephony into their services.

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

socalTECH

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world.

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Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

socalTECH

Last week, San Diego-based Confident Technologies (www.confidenttechnologies.com) announced that it had acquired the assets of Vidoop, and created a company focused on security and authentication of users. What does Confident Technologies do? The Confident authentication suite of software, which also includes out of band technology.

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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

socalTECH

What we specialize in, is the way we deliver this content in a seamless way, in high quality, with the latest technology available. These large mobile carriers have audiences, but something they dont have content services to attract and retain subscribers to a mobile network. We build products and services tied to mobile carriers.

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Interview with Quinn Curtis, BrightCloud

socalTECH

Last week, San Diego-based provider of web content classification and security services developer BrightCloud was acquired by Webroot , and we thought it would be a great opportunity to talk to founder Quinn Curtis about how the acquisition of his firm came about. Quinn is now VP of Hosted Security Services at Webroot (www.webroot.com).

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. He was raised and educated in London. He has written several books on intellectual property law.

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Interview: Venture Capitalists On Pitching

socalTECH

Richard Yen: The first thing I look for, is something unique in the product or service--not a me-too. One thing I like to look for is some barrier to entry, whether that is technology, or partners, or great entrepreneurs who understand the space. Defensibility is also big--we're not interested in the me-too's without some unique IP.