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APRIL 29, 2020

Google Cloud today announced the official opening of its Las Vegas data center region. With this, Google Cloud now operates four regions in the western U.S., with Las Vegas complementing Google Cloud’s existing data centers in Los Angeles, Calif.; The Dalles, Ore. and its recently opened Salt Lake City, Utah region.

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Google CIO Outsource Development Demand 155

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NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Black was previously CIO of Kratos Defense and Security, and also had served at Cymer and Mindspeed Technologies. CrowdStrike is venture backed by Google Capital, Rackspace, Accel, and Warburg Pincus, among others, and is led by George Kurtz, the founder of Foundstone and former CTO of McAfee.

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CIO Google Software Development Platform 100

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

ZestFinance was founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google; the company is venture backed by Peter Thiel, Matrix Partners, Kensington Capital Holdings, and Eastward Capital Partners. READ MORE>>.

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CIO Google Los Angeles Capital 100

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JULY 21, 2011

The firm's founder and CEO is Douglas Merrill , the former CIO and VP of Engineering of Google. Hollywood-based ZestCash , a startup offering up short-term, consumer loans online, has scored $19M in funding today, including $11M in a Series A equity round plus $8M in venture debt. READ MORE>>.

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GRP Partners CIO Startup Hollywood 133

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

Furthermore, I believe that the digital identity landscape will change from todays duopoly of Google and Facebook to a more decentralized and self-sovereign future. He started Spokeo with his college roommates Mike Daly (CTO) and Eric Liang (CIO) in 2006 in his parents basement. Harrison Tang is the CEO and Co-founder of Spokeo.

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Technical Review Startup CIO Southern California 113

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MARCH 17, 2010

They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company in LA. You don’t.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

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APRIL 10, 2019

Jay Budzik: ZestFinance was founded in 2009, by Douglas Merrill, the former CIO at Google, in order to make fair and transparent credit available to everyone. What does ZestFinance do?

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Artificial Inteligence Tool CIO Customer 113