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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. But we have a great city for building technology companies. LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google. You can find very talented technology executives.

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Google Cloud opens its Las Vegas region

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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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CrowdStrike Sets New CIO

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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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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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An innovator in technology, especially monetization. The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. ” To me, LA will always be a creative hub for TV, film, music, video games and now technology.

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Reflections on 2020: Harrison Tang, Spokeo

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What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2021? Technologies such as multi-factor authentication, identity and access management, and fraud mitigation will see accelerated growth as more activities go digital. New technologies will pop up to accelerate these changes starting in 2021.

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

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One of the hottest sectors of the technology startup market today is the use of artificial intelligence, big data, and machine learning across many different sectors including finance. 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.