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ClickUp Taps BuzzFeed, Cheddar Exec As Creative Head

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San Diego-based ClickUp , which develops productivity software for the business market, says it has tapped a veteran of the online media industry as its new Chief Creative Officer. Rosenthal was most recently Executive Vice President at Cheddar, and was Global Vice President of Creative at BuzzFeed. READ MORE>>.

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Report: Grindr Shared HIV Status, Location With App Optimization Services

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A report, published by Buzzfeed on Monday, says that Los Angeles-based gay dating and hookup app Grindr had been sharing information on users' HIV status with two app optimization services, coupled with their GPS data and information.

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

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—Boston’s PureTech Health, which conceives and launches life science companies, unveiled Sonde Health , which is developing software that listens for warning signs of depression in people’s speech patterns. Buzzfeed reports that Katze is still drawing his UW salary, but his lab has been shut down.

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Has Facebook Achieved What AOL Could Have A Generation Ago?

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Facebook started with the biggest publishers in the game: BuzzFeed , Huffington Post , New York Times , Washington Post. BuzzFeed has seen their Instant Articles engage more people than any of their standard link posts and Gawker ’s founder tweeted that instant articles boosted daily uniques to their website.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. Is it any surprise to see Zulily in Seattle, Wayfair in Boston, ExactTarget in Indianapolis, TrueCar in Los Angeles, GroupOn in Chicago or BuzzFeed in NYC?

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Some of the Best Reads for Casual Friday: Artificial Intelligence

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Fridays can be the most productive work day, as you look to shore up everything before the weekend starts. Or, maybe instead, it’s a day filled with long lunches and listless Internet surfing, as you seek out all the interesting articles you missed during the week.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth. And then the world changed. KickStarter?

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