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Invisible Text Offers Up Disappearing Email, Calls

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Los Angeles-based startup Invisible Text is hoping the attractiveness of disappearing messages--made popular by Snapchat--might rub off on its new software, saying Wednesday that it is launching a new set of apps for the iPhone to let users send disappearing email and to make secure phone calls that do not leave a footprint.

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TeleSign Enhances Fraud Risk Scoring Tools

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Los Angeles-based TeleSign , which provides both two-factor authentication and fraud risk scoring tools, said on Tuesday that it has enhanced its Telesign Score fraud intelligence product. TeleSign's product provides a "fraud reputation score" based on any phone number, email, or IP address. READ MORE>>.

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Grocery startup Mercato spilled years of data, but didn’t tell its customers

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Mercato operates in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, where the company is headquartered. The data set contained more than 70,000 orders dating between September 2015 and November 2019, and included customer names and email addresses, home addresses and order details.

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Dreamhost Fights DoJ Request For Anti-Trump Supporters Names

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Los Angeles-based hosting firm Dreamhost is fighting the U.S. million visitor IP addresses, emails, photos, and more of anyone who has visited the disruptj20.org According to Dreamhost , it has decided to fight a Department of Justice search warrant, requesting information on all of the visitors to the site disruptj20.org.

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j2 Global Buys Two Australian Companies

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Los Angeles-based j2 Global said this morning that it has acquired the Internet fax business of two different, Australian service providers, as it continues to gobble up Internet service providers. According to j2 Global, it has acquired the Internet fax businesses of Sydney-based OzeFax and Brisbane-based Faxmate this morning.

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How Catalog Is Helping SMBs Compete Against Big Brands

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Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M They wanted to lead our round, so we relocated to Los Angeles. in a seed funding round. from Moonshots.

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TechZulu Live to Premiere "TZLaw" at 5:15 p.m. PT Thursday, October 7, with IP Attorney Denise Grayson of "The Social Network"

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PT as they kick off the new weekly tech law show "TechZulu Law" with a discussion with IP attorney Denise Grayson, who portrays the attorney of Eduardo Saverin in the film about the early days of Facebook, "The Social Network.". Tech Law Tip of the Week: explanation of a frequently-asked IP law question for tech companies.

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