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Websense To Move 470 Jobs To Texas

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Another, Vista Equity owned San Diego company--Active Network--recently announced the sale and split of its business products group, which it is merging with another Vista Equity owned company, Lanyon--also based in Texas. websense jobs employment texas layoff' READ MORE>>.

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Communications Via Text Send Only Part Of The Message

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In addition, Twitter adds another 500 million messages per day, with over 160 million daily active users. But most business processes, like negotiating a contract, closing a sale, customer support, or managing employees, are much more complicated than just words. trillion/year for business alone, according to the SnapDesk.

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CyberDefender's Guseinov Steps Down, Firm Chops Staff

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The firm said that Guseinov has been replaced by independent board member Howard Bain as Charman, and that the firm is "actively negotiating" with an interim CEO candidate, Greg Thomas, to step into the CEO role.

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

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I had a sales force when I was at SkyPipeline, selling telecom, networking, and broadband wireless products. We went from $9M in sales to $624M in sales in eighteen months, and sold out at 19x EBITDA. Entrepreneurs need to understand that, although I don't want to be a CEO of their company, ever, I'll be very active.

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Biotech Roundup: Moonshots, Pink Slips, Gilead, Brexit & More

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It combines into one pill the agent sofosbuvir, the active ingredient of Gilead’s blockbuster Sovaldi, and velpatasvir. Shares were down nearly 8 percent in aftermarket trading… Boehringer Ingelheim said it would lay off 724 jobs , mainly in sales, across the U.S.,