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Norwest VC Eyes Waves of Change in A.I., Marketing, Cloud for 2019

Xconomy

Scott Beechuk, a partner at Norwest Venture Partners , is one of the tech industry observers invited by Xconomy to look back at the technology developments of 2018, and also forecast some trends he expects to see in 2019. Palo Alto, CA-based Norwest weathers the uncertainties of technology and the economy with an investing strategy.

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Cloudera, Hortonworks Plan To Merge As $5.2B Cloud Data Platform

Xconomy

Cloudera and Hortonworks, two large, publicly traded companies that compete to offer Web-based data storage and analytics, announced plans today to merge into a combined entity they value at $5.2 The goal of the combined entity is to provide a leading data platform. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Copps: Key Ingredient As A.I. Permeates Daily Life is Building Trust

Xconomy

companies such as Brainspace and Hypergiant Sensory Sciences, the pace of adoption will only accelerate in 2019. One way to build that trust is efforts like Tim Berners-Lee’s “Contract for the Web,” he adds. As part of Xconomy’s series of year-end posts , we asked Copps (pictured above) to reflect on.

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New Year to Bring New Data Security Threats, Cyber Investor Warns

Xconomy

So, you might imagine that his outlook on data protection for 2019 would be more optimistic than in past years, because businesses now take advantage of a broad choice of security services to protect themselves. Bob Ackerman is one of the venture capitalists whose funding has long fed the growth of the burgeoning cybersecurity industry.

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FAANG, Public Trust, Valuations, in 2019: The Read from Menlo Ventures

Xconomy

The market caps of some of the most successful tech titans reach as high as $1 trillion. Yet in 2018, perceptions about these dominant companies often reflected uneasiness and doubt—and for some, so did their stock performance.

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A VC’s Take: Global Volatility Hurts U.S. Venture Ecosystem

Xconomy

As Xconomy’s editors looked back at the year just passed, we asked technology leaders to comment on the trends they’d observed in 2018, and the developments they expected in 2019.

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Autonomic CEO Gavin Sherry on Mobility, China, and Data Privacy

Xconomy

But looking back from the viewpoint of 2019, it’s worth considering whether the really pivotal, world-changing advances in transportation have not already been launched. It came in relatively quick steps: —The first time a person with a smartphone stepped into a car, that vehicle became, by proxy, a connected device with GPS.

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