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Verimatrix Snags Motorola Vet As CTO

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San Diego-based Verimatrix has snagged a Motorola vet as its new Chief Technology Officer, the firm said today. The firm said it has named Petr Peterka, formerly a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the CTO's office at Motorola's Home and Networks Mobility Team to the position.

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Interview with Bong Koh, LifeCrowd

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Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based LifeCrowd (www.lifecrowd.com) unveiled its service to help connect people with real life activities. The firm is initially focusing on the Los Angeles market, and connecting people with fun, interesting classes, activities, and more in the local area.

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San Diego’s KnuEdge, Stealthy Since 2005, Unveils Neural Tech

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After operating in the shadows for the past 11 years, a San Diego neural technology company founded by former NASA administrator Dan Goldin is stepping into the light to introduce two commercial products intended to advance the frontier of human-machine interaction.

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Peeking Into Your Neighbor's Remodel, With Porch's Founders

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Co-founder and CEO Matt Ehrlichman and CTO and co-founder Eric Schleicher sat down to talk to us about the new startup, which is split between San Diego and Seattle. Matt sold his last startup, Thriva, to Active Network, and was part of the team that build up Active Network until its successful IPO in 2011.

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Decoding Signal From Noise For Wall Street, With Bitvore

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I got involved with talking to CTOs at large, Fortune 500 companies, introducing them to what this system could provide, and figuring out if they have this capability. One of the folks was the CTO of an investment bank in New York, who immediately saw what we did, and said he had a problem he wanted us to approach.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

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It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. Investors: Matrix (Dana Stadler, who was the CTO of PayPal). It’s hard to get people to get out their credit card and with the youth demographic many of them don’t have credit cards. 15mm in Series A. OpenCandy.

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Interview with Jason Howe, CEO of Awarepoint

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San Diego-based Awarepoint (www.awarepoint.com) is a developer of systems for tracking hospital assets, patients, and doctors, using RFID tags. The difference in what we're doing, is we're an active sensor network. We are really focused on the active RFID tagging area. Congrats on funding. Explain what your products do?

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