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Storage Trends for 2018: Cloud Storage 2.0 Players Poised to Ascend

Xconomy

In March 2006, Amazon launched Simple Storage Service (S3). Although few people paid much attention at the time, the announcement of S3 marked the beginning of a great migration of data from on-premises storage to the cloud.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

I will argue that when the dust settles, although we will have fewer firms, each type well end up more focused on traditional stage segments that cater to the core competencies of that firm. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in infrastructure just to get started and another $2.5 Enter Amazon.

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Getting To The Next Level In Cloud Storage, With IDrive

socalTECH

Companies like Dropbox, Microsoft, Google, and many others are setting the standard for those cloud services. We also have a mobile version of the product, Idrive Lite, which is primarily used to back up contacts. We have over 400 million contacts backed up for our users. It''s cheaper than both Dropbox and Google Drive.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

In particular I tried to do most of the “entrepreneur advice on VC” up front so that if you don’t want to watch our views on the deals you don’t have to. Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Competitors: SmashWords , Google Books.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Will it survive as long as you need?

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. MySpace vowed not to create anymore big successes off of their backs that Google could then acquire. The Past (1985-2002).

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

Tech Zulu Event

Tonight starting at 7:00pm PST we will be streaming and bringing you all the action live from Cross Campus in Santa Monica. Experience gadgets from the big brands with million dollar budgets to the startups bootstrapping and raising via IndieGoGo. So now is the time to step up and embrace what is truly the next iteration in gaming.