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Qualcomm Backs MapR's Hadoop Technology

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San Diego-based Qualcomm Ventures , the venture capital arm of Qualcomm, has put its funding behind MapR , the company behind the big data software framework called Hadoop. MapR said today that it has raised $110M in a giant funding round, which was led by Google Capital, and also included Qualcomm Ventures.

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Nervana’s $400M+ Buyout Reflects Key Tech Trend in Machine Learning

Xconomy

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out. In the 2-1/2 years since it was founded, Nervana raised roughly $25 million. (In

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Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology

TechCrunch LA

Welcome back to Human Capital, where we explore some of the latest news in labor, diversity and inclusion in tech. Human Capital will soon be available as a weekly newsletter. When racism is built into the technical framework of a company, it perpetuates a false idea that white people are superior to Black people. .

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Interview with Michael Witz, Mob Science

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For San Diego-based Mob Science (www.mobscience.com), an injection of cash, some key advisors--and a deal with Zynga. We had a little success with Coffee Bar, Magic Mall, and Sony's Infinite Anarchy, and those games keep getting better and we kept learning about the framework, and added more talent to our team. READ MORE>>.

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How ScoreStream Is Crowdsourcing Its Way Into High School Sports Media

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In the age of the smartphone and social sharing, San Diego-based ScoreStream (www.scorestream.com) thinks it has figured out how to tap into that new world, and connect all that social activity with the media. It's actually nice that there is a shortage of capital for sports startups.

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How SportStream Is Crowdsourcing Its Way Into High School Sports Media

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In the age of the smartphone and social sharing, San Diego-based SportStream (www.sportstream.com) thinks it has figured out how to tap into that new world, and connect all that social activity with the media. It's actually nice that there is a shortage of capital for sports startups.

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Gaining an Edge: Understanding Cyber Risk Appetite

Xconomy

Everyone’s a potential source: software engineers that ship new releases, HR teams that use human capital management software, and supply chain partners that have access to systems, all of which could be exploited. There’s also a need to look differently at who is a source of cyber risk and who should be responsible for protecting against it.