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GumGum Gets $22M More For Advertising AI Software

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Santa Monica-based GumGum , which develops artificial intelligence software for the advertising and media market, has raised $22M more in a funding round, the company said on Thursday. She previously also served as CMO at Live Nation Concerts, and also served at Mattel, 20th Century Fox, Hasbro and Yahoo. READ MORE>>.

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ZipRecruiter Expands Board With GoDaddy, LinkedIn, Facebook Execs

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Los Angeles-based ZipRecruiter , which operates an artificial intelligence-driven online employment marketplace, has named three new, high profile board members, the company said last week. Irving was most recently CEO of GoDaddy, and also served at Microsoft and Yahoo, and sits on the board of Docusign.

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Walmart: Turning San Diego Into A Key Technology Center

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I had work for Yahoo for nine years, and at the time, they had an office in Carlsbad. The started looking at the Carlsbad group of engineers, who were working at Yahoo, in order to jump start something in Southern California. I was an engineering leader at the time, and I had a few meetings with Walmart when I was working at Yahoo.

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Walmart: Turning San Diego Into Its Technology Center

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I had work for Yahoo for nine years, and at the time, they had an office in Carlsbad. The started looking at the Carlsbad group of engineers, who were working at Yahoo, in order to jump start something in Southern California. I was an engineering leader at the time, and I had a few meetings with Walmart when I was working at Yahoo.

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Marissa Mayer Yahoo’s New CEO

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Marissa Mayer has started work at Yahoo! Her appointment is expected to spice things up at Yahoo, once a top internet and media firm. This might revive Yahoo’s leading properties like Yahoo! Mail ,Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Sports and Yahoo! ” She added,”Yahoo!’s

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Ten of Southern California's Top Software Companies

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The company has a stellar set of expert advisors in machine learning, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence--in addition to a highly technical team--which it is applying to the problem. Commercial API Programs at Yahoo, in addition to running engineering teams at Overture Services and Amazon.com.

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When Should Technical Founders Become CEO?

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Somehow in a world of rapid change Mark had been able to right his ship much faster than the highly bureaucratic organizations that places like Google, Yahoo! It seemed that Google was being out innovated by another Silicon Valley technical leader, Mark Zuckerberg. and Microsoft had become.

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