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Fintech giant Klarna raises $639M at a $45.6B valuation amid ‘massive momentum’ in the US

TechCrunch LA

Overall, Klarna is live in 20 markets, has more than 90 million global active users and more than 2 million transactions a day conducted on its platform. billion of purchases made through the Klarna platform. Klarna has entered six new markets this year alone, including France and New Zealand, where it just launched this week.

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Gradient X Snags Exec From OpenX

socalTECH

Gradient X , the online mobile marketing and advertising technology developer backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, Crosscut Ventures, Founder Collective, Double M Capital, Baroda Ventures, Siemer Ventures, and others, has snapped up some talent from OpenX with its latest hire. He was at Overture before it was acquired by Yahoo.

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Mature Companies Can Learn Many Things From Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Bill Gates ran the technical show, but Steve Ballmer never let him forget the marketing and business side of the equation. handling marketing for Duncan Hines' Moist & Easy cakes – so he and Bill were a perfect mix, so to speak. Market vision, focus, and opportunity. That’s real viral marketing.

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How Bill Gates Was A Role Model For New Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Bill Gates ran the technical show, but Steve Ballmer never let him forget the marketing and business side of the equation. handling marketing for Duncan Hines' Moist & Easy cakes – so he and Bill were a perfect mix, so to speak. Market vision, focus, and opportunity. That’s real viral marketing.

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How Cloudvirga Wants To Disrupt The Slow, Antiquated Mortgage Industry

socalTECH

So, instead of just dealing with the consumer experience, we decided to tackle the problem head on and build an entire platform, and intelligent mortgage platform. For them to get to date with the times, to automate and build a platform, they'd have to reinvent and re-engineer their entire platform. It's plan and simple.

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Interview with David Loo, CEO and Founder of Perspectium

socalTECH

I was a principal engineer facilitating the integration and connectivity of the ServiceNow platform into these other systems. David Loo: Ultimately, at the C-level, the CIO requires data metrics and intelligence, in order to compete and make decisions and take actions to further a company's agenda. That's how we started.

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Biz2Beach To Stream Live Here On TechZulu

Tech Zulu Event

Their featured speakers, who range in marketing and business expertise, will lead four intimate breakout discussions. and most recently Myspace, where he ran an online marketing team focused on SEO, social media, and paid traffic acquisition. Garth pioneered Klout’s first Influence Marketing campaign with Virgin America.

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