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CrowdStrike Sets New CIO

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Irvine-based security software developer CrowdStrike announced this morning that it has named Colin Black as its new Chief Information Officer. Black was previously CIO of Kratos Defense and Security, and also had served at Cymer and Mindspeed Technologies. READ MORE>>.

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Former LA VC Gets Backing For Enterprise Alerting, Micro Apps Startup

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Fouad ElNaggar , a former venture capitalist who had been responsible for the Los Angeles office of Redpoint Ventures, has scored funding for a new startup, Sapho. Sapho develops software which helps pull together information across hundreds of enterprise apps, and presents them to employees as "micro apps". Sapho is in Silicon Valley.

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At First Summit, 7CTOs Takes Baby Step to San Diego Tech Buildup

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A search for “CTO books,” on the other hand, yields about 540 titles. As a software engineer and self-described “tech guy,” de Bruin says he is more interested in. Search for “CEO books” on Amazon, and the search results from the world’s largest Internet-based retailer return just over 8,000 titles.

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How ZestFinance Is Using Machine Learning to Reshape Lending, with Jay Budzik

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We caught up with Jay Budzik , the CTO of ZestFinance, to better understand how the company is applying machine learning techniques to the world of lending, and what the advantage of machine learning is to that industry. We're now 100 percent a software company, delivering our software to financial services companies across the world.

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

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As a result, I really saw Visalus as a technology company. My CIO had been ex-CIO at Herbalife, and was an EVP of Software for Disney. We hired the ex-CTO of Sears, and other senior executives out of Disney in software. Ryan Blair: I've had some bad investments, and learned the hard way.

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Why.Net???

Alon Schwartz

After all, it’s a Microsoft product and, as we all know, Microsoft is all about world domination and the end of free and open source software as we know it. Basically Microsoft is evil and we should avoid its technology at all cost, not even touch it with a stick. Why pay money for something that suppose to be free? I rest my case.

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Why.Net???

Alon Schwartz

After all, it’s a Microsoft product and, as we all know, Microsoft is all about world domination and the end of free and open source software as we know it. Basically Microsoft is evil and we should avoid its technology at all cost, not even touch it with a stick. Why pay money for something that suppose to be free? I rest my case.

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