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Leads360 Links With Mortgage Software Firm

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Los Angeles-based Leads360 reported today that it has linked its sales lead management software with offerings from web-based mortgage software firm Optimal Blue. Leads360 is backed by Rustic Canyon Partners, and is headed by Dan Morefield, who was CIO of Overture Services before its acquisition by Yahoo. READ MORE>>.

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

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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. We can help them reduce their losses and also increase approval rates with machine learning models. What does ZestFinance do? What kind of lenders are using your tool?

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Above the Cloud with Dave Linthicum | Shifting Perspectives on SaaS and Enterprise IT

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Featuring panelists from SOA Software , Edgecast and Bitium , we’ll discuss: Top priorities and challenges for today’s CIO. The rise of the social enterprise and Chief Digital Officer – what it means for the CIO. As the CTO of SOA Software Alistair is helping to shape and mature the enterprise API and SOA industry.

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Interview with David Loo, CEO and Founder of Perspectium

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For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together. That's how we started. What specific problem were you seeing?

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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Home of JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), which helps put rockets into space. ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. ReachLocal, founded by Zorik Gordon, publicly traded company helping small businesses across America use the Internet for marketing [Woodland Hills. And do so in real life, too.

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Interview with Jeff Kukowski, SecureAuth

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However, if you look at things like the Verizon data breach report, stolen identity is the number one issue out there. Why hasn't having a phone as a second factor helped? We also have the CEO of Forescout on our board, the CIO of Malwarebytes, and lots of other different security leaders who are familiar with this space.

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

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There is no region in the country that comes close to having the sheer number of angels & VCs that Silicon Valley has as well as the dollars that flow into the region (40% of all dollars, PwC Moneytree report ). Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company, ZestCash in LA. Brett Brewer has AdKnowledge.