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Don’t go on a phishing trip!

Berkonomics

Dave’s note: Our guest author this week is Kevin McDonald, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Alvaka Networks, a network services and security firm in Irvine, California. Anthem Blue Cross for example could be a phishing loser. Use email clients or services with pre-delivery scanning.

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Zag: 50,000 Cars Sold

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Zag's technology provides a level of customization and detail on "fleet" style, pre-negotiated sales of autos, down to the accessory level; the firm has deals with USAA, Capital One, Overstock.com, AAA groups, and others to provide its service. over MSRP on their autos. Painter is the former CEO of CarsDirect.com. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Derrick Oien, Intercasting

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Derrick Oien: We have a platform we develop, called ANTHEM. ANTHEM is referred to, depending on what segment you're looking at, as either a community gateway or social networking gateway. But, with Intercasting and our ANTHEM version of MySpace, it's a client integrated into the device. Intercasting is backed by $17.5M

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Interview with Dale Quayle, FileTrek

socalTECH

Is this a mobile application, web service, or how does it work? How is this different than other online file storage and backup services? Dale Quayle: If you could compare us to Box.net or Dropbox, services which also allow you to share and synchronize your files ot the could, we can do that.

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Interview with Todd Jerry, Marmol Radziner

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Many local entrepreneurs might know Todd Jerry , formerly a venture capitalist at Anthem Venture Partners. Todd has a unique view, having worked both on the venture and high technology investing side at Anthem, as well as the architecture and construction industry now. We're somewhat vertically integrated.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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Mobile gifting service. Provides electronic book services for content publishers; services include digital scanning and conversion, distribution to leading e-book retailers, monetization and royalty management. Customer are primarily large media companies (publishers) and their media agencies. Company still in beta.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Current round: $5.0mm in Series A by NEA and Anthem Venture Partners. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. -DST invested $180mm last fall. Total raised: $5.0mm.