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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 said Black will focus on infrastructure expansion of its platform. Irvine-based security software developer CrowdStrike announced this morning that it has named Colin Black as its new Chief Information Officer.

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Google Cloud opens its Las Vegas region

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“Cloud technologies enable two important outcomes for us,” said James Alvarez, CIO of Aristocrat. “First the ability to securely, consistently and immediately enable and disable game development platforms; and second, our ability to expand and contract our infrastructure based on demand.

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Gradient X Snags Exec From OpenX

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Cunninghame was last overseeing and developing marketplace strategy for the OpenX real-time bidding platform, and also had served as Director of Product Management at Yahoo. He was at Overture before it was acquired by Yahoo.

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Fliptu Gets $1.2M For Social Aggregation Tools

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The startup--led by Jeremy Gocke--said the funding came from Scout Ventures, Rick Dalzell (former Amazon CIO), Rich Heise (early Groupon investor), Hivers & Strivers, Kelly Perdew, and other angels. The company said it will use the funds to bolster its product team and expand into new verticals.

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Corent Adds Advisor

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Corent said it has added Mario Leone, former CIO of Ingram Micro, FIAT, Federal-Mogul and Dow Chemical, as an advisor. Corent develops a softare platform which makes it easier for companies to modernize their enterprise IT architecture, helping them to extend legacy software into software-as-a-service.

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

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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. Klara is now live with 24 of the top 100 U.S. retailers, which it says is “more than any of its competitors.”.

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Mature Companies Can Learn Many Things From Startups

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Microsoft spent a huge amount of time and money with software developers for applications, and with hardware manufacturers to support multiple PC platforms. Now CIOs, as well as consumers, buy their next computer based largely on an image set by marketing. That’s real viral marketing. Quality is a good thing, but it is not everything.

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