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Reflections on 2018: Rob Freelen, Silicon Valley Bank

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Here are five exciting examples (in alphabetical order): Appetize, a cloud-based point-of-sale platform for large venues, recently raised funding from Shamrock Capital Advisors, the NFL and the Dodgers. Seismic, a sales software company, raised $100M and became a unicorn. Prior to the L.A.

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Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal

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Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic.

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Ten Of The Top Tech Companies For Employees In LA

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Readers in San Diego, Orange County, Ventura County, and elsewhere, please comment or send us your comments!). Demand Media. Demand Media consistently popped up near number one in the list of "companies to work for" from our readers. positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance.

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The Five Major Tech Trends of 2016

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Early this year, IDC predicted that worldwide spending on public cloud services will be $141 billion in 2019, while last year Amazon Web Services achieved net sales of $7.88 Customer expectations now demand seamless and satisfying user experiences. The Continued Growth of Cloud. The All-Important User Experience.

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YouTube Limits Firearms Videos; Gun Rights Group Cries Censorship

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YouTube has broadened its restrictions on gun-related videos, while thousands of Americans are mobilizing to demand stricter gun controls Saturday in a mass march spurred by young survivors of a deadly armed attack on a Florida high school last month.

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Zingle Raises $3M to Expand and Improve Messaging App Technology

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The company said its Web-based technology can automatically respond with a programmed response, (For example, responding automatically to a hotel guest who asks: “What is the wifi password?”) or forward the query to an appropriate hotel staffer to respond. Happy #TBT from our fearless Founder & CEO @fordblakely !

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Interview With Paul Myer, Veracity: Why The Industrial Internet Needs Security

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However, if you think about IT security, all the systems everyone is familiar with, ERP systems, web, and email, and other basic network systems, all those systems that are designed to run companies, my history and background is in securing those platforms. However, industrial security is very different.