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Update: Bird buys more scooters

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The company is currently operating in San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, Washington, DC, Nashville and Atlanta. Indeed, emails from suppliers seen by TechCrunch confirm that one of the suppliers mentioned in the Bird release still intends to fulfill planned orders from a direct Bird competitor.

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RPost Claims Patent Progress

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The firm claimed the granting of a motion for summary judgement in the US Federal Court in California will help it in its effort to convince the courts to prevent these companies from operating the services that infringe RPost patents. RPost had sued the firms in 2011. RPost claims it has 35 patents covering electronic signatures.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

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. – Digital Messaging Infrastructure Company (incubated by Addante and Associates, LLC) Age: 25 - 29 (present) Time Period: 2002 - present My Role: Founder High Point: TBD Here is a summary of my experiences to-date with StrongMail: 1. StrongMail was originally supposed to be the email infrastructure for the DHARMA project.

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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

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And that rep doesn’t just send an email to his boss – he has coffee with the head of customer service. This is a topic that comes up often in Los Angeles because many CEOs are tempted to hire their tech teams in the Bay Area. In summary: I know that it’s trendy to espouse the virtues of distributed teams.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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The 30-minute interview of Jonah Peretti is here but my summary in the notes below. Back then there were “email forwards.” You may notice in the pictures that Jonah is wearing a “Los Angeles” sweatshirt and I don’t believe this was simply catering to me.

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Why I’m Turning Over a New Leaf & Refocusing My Energy

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These are people who now live in Los Angeles, San Francisco or New York City but grew up in Cincinnati, Central Florida, Utah, Michigan and similar places where their parents, families or friends may have different political views. I am a white, middle-aged, affluent business person who lives in socially liberal Los Angeles.

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