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DivShot Acquired By Google

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Los Angeles-based Divshot , which had offered up hosting of static web pages for web developers, has been acquired by Google , and will join Gogole's Firebase software development team. Divshot says it will shut down all of its products and services as of Monday, December 14th, 2015. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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What Mattered in 2012: Aber Whitcomb, io/LA

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It's worth mentioning that the largest and most complex pieces of technology ever created has proven itself useful in 2012--the Large Hadron Collider or LHC. Aside from the theoretical stuff, 2012 has been a year of disruption in many areas of technology. Facebook became so dominant in social, not even Google could touch them.

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What Mattered in 2012: Howard Marks, StartEngine

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I think that the biggest news for StartEngine this year is our productivity. 2012 has been a remarkably interesting year in terms of developments in technology. Finally, Google. Google continues to shape our futures. Howard Marks is co-founder of Activision , and head of Los Angeles-based startup accelerator StartEngine.

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Big tech companies are looking at Hollywood as the next stage in their play for the cloud

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This week, both Microsoft and Google made moves to woo Hollywood to their cloud computing platforms in the latest act of the unfolding drama over who will win the multi-billion dollar business of the entertainment industry as it moves to the cloud. in Los Angeles.

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Google Wants to Disrupt Home Automation with $3.2 Billion Nest Acquisition

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Google has acquired smart home appliance company, Nest Labs for $3.2 Google’s acquisition of Nest gives the the co-founders an early exit and resources to up their hardware game. Google EnergySense. Nest is not Google’s first hardware acquisition. ” Nest and Google are not new to each other.

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Google Cleaning Out Their Closets

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Google has from late last year embarked on an in-house cleaning project. The giant search engine is set to end less used products or combining a number of them into more resourceful ones. In November 2011, Google’s spring clean saw a number of services shut down like Knol, Friend Connect and Google Wave.

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Interview with Jon Waterman, Founder and CEO of Ad.net

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Jon Waterman: We envision ourselves today as a marketplace outside Google and Bing. Our core competency, historically, has been in the pay-to-click space, but we've focused completely outside of Google and outside of Bing. Talk about the market, when you say you're outside Google and Bing, explain what that means?