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News-reading app Flipboard expands local coverage, including coronavirus updates, to 12 more US metros

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Paul, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver and Washington, D.C. They join the 23 cities that were already supported: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis-St.

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Google Takes Clue From Robertsons' MP3Tunes, Planning Music Locker

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Mountain View-based Google appears to be taking a clue from San Diego entrepreneur Michael Robertson, the former founder of MP3.com, One of Robertson's many ventures is MP3Tunes , an online site which allows users to buy, store, and stream music to PCs, Android phones, the iPhone, and other devices.

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Interview with Quinn Curtis, BrightCloud

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Last week, San Diego-based provider of web content classification and security services developer BrightCloud was acquired by Webroot , and we thought it would be a great opportunity to talk to founder Quinn Curtis about how the acquisition of his firm came about. We're also very much marching down the path of IP reputation as well.

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Interview with Yan Hui, AirHop

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To get an idea of what one startup in the industry is doing, we spoke to San Diego-based AirHop (www.airhopcomm-web.com), a developer of software being used for small-, pico-, and femto-cell networks. That's not like before, where cell sites did not change their footprint. Back then, it was only 3.6

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Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

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Last week, San Diego-based Confident Technologies (www.confidenttechnologies.com) announced that it had acquired the assets of Vidoop, and created a company focused on security and authentication of users. What we've done, is for authentication, we have created a way to have a unique password to give you access to a web site very time.