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Google Cloud opens its Las Vegas region

TechCrunch LA

And while it’s eerily quiet in Las Vegas right now, the idea behind these new regions is always to give companies the option to be close to their customers and offer them low-latency access to their applications, as well as the ability to distribute workloads across a wider geographic region.

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Interview with Bruce Huang, UCLA Silicon Beach Innovation Lab

socalTECH

The idea came about, because we see a lot of people coming through our program at UCLA, who might have the desire to be an entrepreneur, and to get into the technology field, by studying data science or cybersecurity. At the same time, we're trying to help add women and diversity to technology and entrepreneurship.

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Taming The Enterprise Texting Tiger, With TigerText's Brad Brooks

socalTECH

The original notion of the company started around the idea of sender controlled communications. So the idea was being able to set a lifespan, prevent forward and copying, and even recall those messages, which is a big paradigm shift in how we''ve handled electronics communications. People can forward it, copy it.

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New Bootstrap Fund Pulls Itself Up in World of Health IT Deals

Xconomy

They came to San Diego in 1996, when Scripps Health hired Balgrosky as CIO and senior vice president. She was previously the CIO for Holy Cross Health System in South Bend, IN, a 13-hospital chain where she was responsible for strategic IT planning from Maryland to California. He founded MaxIT Healthcare in 2001. Jean Balgrosky.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

He is a unique human being with original thoughts & ideas and very limited concern for having to fit into other people’s narratives. ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. Brad Feld visited Los Angeles this past week. I always enjoy spending time with Brad as the antidote to the eco chamber.

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Biz2Beach To Stream Live Here On TechZulu

Tech Zulu Event

For those who may be unfamiliar with the Biz2Beach conference, its a networking conference of thought leaders, innovators, and trendsetters for a day of exchanging ideas. Founder’s Table, CEO, CTO, CIO, COO, and President, CallFire. Check them out below: Tony Adam, Founder/CEO, Eventify and Visiable Factors.

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10 C-Level Positions That Are Red Flags For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Or he may be the founder’s brother, idea person, or inventor, who can’t be bothered actually working on the nuts and bolts of the real business. Assigning them the title of CIO seems like a bit of overkill, especially these days of serious “cloud” computing, meaning big servers have left the building. Chief Evangelist.