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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

In an unusual crime, truckload of accelerated video cards (GPUs) heading from San Francisco to Southern California was stolen, according to the manufacturer, EVGA. The accelerated video cards--which are extremely hard to find now due to their popularity among Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency miners--are worth anywhere from $329.99 to $1959.99 each. In a post on the manufacturer's forum, a product manager warned that buying stolen property is a crime, as is "concealing, selling, or withholding" s

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Los Angeles-based e-commerce platform developer Boosted Commerce says it has hired Steve Oliver, the former CEO of e-commerce startup Hollar as its new President. According to Boosted Commerce, Oliver will be responsible for managing the company's portfolio of acquired brands. Oliver was head of Hollar through its sale to Five Below in 2020. He previously also served as COO of Ticketfly, and also previously served at Amazon.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Pasadena-based PopID, a company developing payment systems which use facial recognition for payments, says it is in an effort with Japan Computer Vision (a subsidiary of SoftBank Corp) and Wendy's First Kitchen to deploy its payment systems in the country of Japan. According to the companies, Wendy's First Kitchen, a QSR chain in Japan, will accept payment using PopPay's payments systems at locations in Akasaka Mitsuke, Shibuya Center, and Jiyugaoka.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Los Angeles-based software developer ServiceTitan, which develops software to manage the businesses of plumbers, electricians, and other home-based services, said this morning that it has appointed Anmol Bhasin as the company's Chief Technology Officer. Bhasin was most recently Senior Vice President of Engineering for Einstein AI and Search initiatives at Salesforce.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Laguna Beach-based Edgemesh says it has upgraded its product Edgemesh Server product line to specifically help e-commerce customers before the holiday rush. The company said its product now offers up a new image optimization feature, which helps decrease image download sizes by 39%. The company says its product now provides the most efficient image format and optimal size for every device and browser, with support for PNG, JPEG, WEBP and AVIF formats.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Los Angeles-based Mustard, which is developing a social, food shopping video app, said on Tuesday that it has raised $1M in a pre-seed funding round. The funding came from Operate Studio, Newfund, Great North Ventures and Fund LA. According to the startup, it is "part social media network and part ordering platform", and allows users to click on dishes they can order after viewing food videos.

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