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Netflix employees stage a trans solidarity walkout, pose list of demands

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The employees who participated in the walkout want Netflix to “adopt measures to avoid future instances of platforming transphobia and hate speech,” they wrote in a letter. They want Netflix to address a list of demands in the categories of content investment, employee relations and safety, and harm reduction.

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Backed by LG, AmazeVR is hoping to resurrect virtual reality’s consumer dreams

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Despite billions of dollars in investment, and a sustained marketing push from some of the biggest names in the technology industry, virtual reality still doesn’t register with most regular consumers. Hardware makers have invested billions to improve the technology, and they’d like that money to not go to waste.

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CapLinked Adds Investors To Series A

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The firm said it has brought its Series A up to $2.1M, and added new investors Conversion Capital, Inflection Ventures, The Artesian Group, Chris Harris (software engineering manager at Google), and Lee Essener (founder of AccessDNA). The firm earlier had announced investments from. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Costin Tuculescu, Freebinar

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Costin Tuculescu: I cam out of UC Irvine as a software engineer, studying computer science. I immediately was recruited out into another company in webcasting, CTM Marketing Group, building out their platform for them. My first company was Digevent, a startup in the webcasting space.

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CapLinked Announces New Investors, Signs Up New Clients & Builds New Features

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Cloud-based business transactions platform, CapLinked ,today announced additional investors and the final results of its Series A financing round totaling to $2.1 Speaking of the new investment, CapLinked CEO Eric M. Jackson funding Google Inflection Ventures Investing Lee Essener' million in the Series A round.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” No less than Fred Wilson has credited Carlota’s work with having a major influence on his investment strategy at USV.

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Contur Sorts Your Email From Clutter To Save You Hours | Interview With The Founders

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When Cloud Services started to emerge, he joined the newly formed SQL Azure team as a senior software engineer, with the daunting mission of converting SQL Server into a cloud-based service. He also architected web-based trading platforms for several investment banks.

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