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Favor Plans Expansion Into San Diego, Gets $13M

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Favor , a on-demand, mobile delivery app developer, said today that it will be expanding into San Diego in the coming months, thanks to a new, $13M funding round.

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Interview with Gil Elbaz, Factual

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How does this differ from the kind of data Amazon has said it will make available through services like S3? They are making storage available to people or to institutions who have data they want to share publicly, for free, on S3. In your launch you mention that Demand Media and others are using the platform. Is this similar?

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). AOL is in the process of rebuilding itself and emulating a little-known LA-based startup called Demand Media. Social Networking (like the web) Will Split Into Layers: SimpleGeo, PlaceIQ. I’m going to write a whole post on BothSid.es

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

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Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. So we only had to raise $500,000 to get going and again hardware ate just over 10% of the round.

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