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Big tech companies are looking at Hollywood as the next stage in their play for the cloud

TechCrunch LA

This week, both Microsoft and Google made moves to woo Hollywood to their cloud computing platforms in the latest act of the unfolding drama over who will win the multi-billion dollar business of the entertainment industry as it moves to the cloud. “I n media and entertainment there are lots of isolated studios around the world.

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With $40 million for AuditBoard’s risk and compliance toolkit, LA’s enterprise startups notch another win

TechCrunch LA

” There are other tools out there, IBM has OpenPages and ThomsonReuters developed a tool for audit and risk and compliance , but these software services pre-dated Sarbanes-Oxley, and were not made with a modern organization in mind, according to Lee and Kim. “Companies still manage Sarbanes-Oxley in Excel.”

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Charting Your Future - Panel of IT Recruiters -- AITP-LA

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, January 28, 2010 -- Charting your Future: A Panel Discussion by IT Recruiters Current Trends, and How to Stand Out in Todays's Job Market. You will hear directly from our panel of recruiting experts what it takes to find a job in this difficult market. See [link] (more).

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Dude, Akanda Is Tying The Cloud Together Like A Rug

InfoChachkie

DreamHost has a successful track record of incubating technologies in-house and then releasing them to the broader market. In the mid 1960’s, large mainframe manufacturers, such as IBM, Burroughs and Honeywell, provided complete IT solutions. The evolution of software from proprietary to open is an established technology pattern.

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Chrome River: Building An Enterprise Software Leader In LA, with Dave Terry

socalTECH

A few weeks ago, Los Angeles-based enterprise expense reporting software maker Chrome River (www.chromeriver.com) took a significant venture funding round--worth $100M--to help expand the company's growth in the enterprise software market. What that's done, is it's create a large hit in this space, at the top right end of the market.

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Making The Most out of Sitting on Panels

Both Sides of the Table

Don’t oversell or over market. But try to make it a functional discussion rather than a marketing pamphlet. Entertain – It is also your job to entertain! Entertain – It is also your job to entertain! It spices things up and makes for great entertainment. Don’t.

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Taking Your Startup Public Is Fraught With Negatives

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet they see warning lights flashing, based on a still fragile global economy, and volatile markets ahead. The reasons are a lot more complex than the meltdown of key investment banks in the US a few years ago, so don’t expect a big change in the numbers soon, even with recent stock market rallies.

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