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X1 Loses Competitor: Google

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Pasadena-based X1 Technologies , the developer of desktop search software, has one less competitor: Google , as Google said Friday that it is shutting down its Google Desktop search software project. Google's service shuts down on September 14th. Google shut down a long list of projects late Friday.

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Android App Targets Pirates

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A new report today from Symantec has uncovered a new threat to Android users, although this time with a unique twist. Symantec said that it has discovered a new, threat called Android.Walkinwat , which poses as the legitimate app "Walk and Text". READ MORE>>.

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Spammers Running Japan Tsunami Scams, Says Norton

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Among the established, trusted companies looking to help raise money for victims include Google and Amazon.com , who have set up donation pages for the Red Cross, which also has its own donation page. Norton is the Internet security brand of Symantec Corp.

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Rubicon Project Snags OpenX Exec As Product Management VP

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He also had been at Google, Trend Micro, Symantec, among other companies, including co-founding Silvan Networks, a Sequoia-funded Internet startup from the late 90s. Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project announced on Monday that it has named former OpenX executive Khoi Nguyen as its new Vice President, Product Management For Video.

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Double M Partners Raising New Fund

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Double M has invested in such companies as TheTradeDesk (IPO), Edgecast (acquired by Verizon), Orbitera (acquired by Google), Lettuce (acquired by Intuit), Gradient X (acquired by Singtel), MessageLabs (acquired by Symantec), as well as many others. The filing indicates that so far, $18.3M READ MORE>>.

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Getting To The Next Level In Cloud Storage, With IDrive

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Companies like Dropbox, Microsoft, Google, and many others are setting the standard for those cloud services. There''s Carbonite, Mozy, Symantec Online Backup, just to name a few. Our new product competes with Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft SkyDrive. It''s cheaper than both Dropbox and Google Drive.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Competition: McAfee , Symantec. I don’t like going against Google Docs or against 37Signals for project management. If you watch the show you’ll hear a great story about how this team got their start by hijacking data from stars on the red carpet at the Oscars. If you want the easy version you can read that story here ! Employees: 27.