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BlueCava Gets $13M For Ad Technology

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According to the company, the second round of funding came from S3 Ventures, Performance Edge Partners and Zeitgeist Capital. The company also said it has appointed Phil Myers as Executive Chairman--Myers was previously CEO of StoredIQ (also backed by S3), and also served at Cyclone Commerce, SalesLogix, and other firms.

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BlueCava Gets $9.5M For Device ID Technology

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Irvine-based BlueCava , a developer of device identification technology used for both online advertising tracking, as well as fraud prevention, said Tuesday that it has raised $9.5M The round was led by S3 Ventures, and also included Mark Cuban and Tim Headington. S3's Brian R. in a funding round.

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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

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Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. What gives?

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Nirvanix Steals Away Zynga CIO

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Debra Chrapaty, who formerly was CIO of Zynga, also served at Cisco as SVP of its Collaboration Software Group, in addition to working at Microsoft and E*TRADE Technologies. Nirvanix is venture backed by Khosla Ventures, Valhalla Partners, Intel Capital, Mission Ventures and Windward Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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Nirvanix Powers Ooyala

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San Diego-based Nirvanix, a provider of storage-as-a-service, said Tuesday that the firm's technology is being used by video delivery firm Ooyala. The firm charges by bandwidth and amount of storage, and competes against Amazon's S3 service. Financial impact of the partnership was not disclosed. READ MORE>>

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

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A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. On October 24th tech enthusiast will come together to discuss the latest in Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming. Now all we need is YOU to: Join us!

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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Close shop to try and control monetization and you can only rely on your own internal innovation machine & capital. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). At the top end is the business logic created by startups and established technology companies. Social Networking is Becoming Mobile.