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BlueCava Gets $13M For Ad Technology

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Irvine-based BlueCava , a developer of a cross-screen advertising platform, said Thursday that it has raised $13M in a new funding round. According to the company, the second round of funding came from S3 Ventures, Performance Edge Partners and Zeitgeist Capital. bluecava advertising platform cross venture capital targeting'

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Choosing Internet Platforms

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The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. However, these platforms could be interesting for prototype and pilot solutions. The other conclusion was that you need to have a migration path from the platform.

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LogicMonitor Ties Into Amazon Web Services

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The company said its platform now has the ability to monitor Amazon Web Services instances and services. The company said the new monitoring capabilities include monitoring of SQS, DynamoDB, S3, and monitoring Amazon billing data.

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DreamHost Readies Wider OpenStack Rollout

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Other local companies involved in the OpenStack movement include Morphlabs , MediaTemple (which launched its own OpenStack offering in October of last year), and Metacloud (fully managed OpenStack cloud offerings). DreamHost has been offering the service in beta since October of last year. READ MORE>>.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 Platform cloud players like Salesforce.com provide compute resources so that third parties can build applications that integrate with its core product. Facebook is a “platform cloud&# provider, too. That little online book company. These are very different.

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Interview with Gil Elbaz, Factual

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What's your new startup all about, and why did you start the company? Gil Elbaz: What we have been working on, and what we offer now, is a platform where anyone can share and mash open data. How does this differ from the kind of data Amazon has said it will make available through services like S3? Is this similar?

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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You can think of even your PC as a stack in which the hardware manufacturers handled physical layers, Microsoft handled the OS layer and application companies built higher up in the stack. For every layer if I mention companies please don’t assume that I’m suggesting there aren’t other players in that category.

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