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HG Insights Names New Sales Head

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Santa Barbara-based HG Insights, which offers up information on technology and IT adoption to technology vendors, said this week that it has named Mark Richards as its new Chief Revenue Officer. He also previously served as Vice President of Mid-Market, Inside Sales & Renewals at Symantec.

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Cylance Names Trio Of New Executives

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Irvine-based antivirus and endpoint protection software developer Cylance has named a trio of new executives, saying that it has named Grant Johnson as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Kumud Kalia as Chief Information Officer (CIO), and promoted Eric Cornelius to Chief Product Officer (CPO). Kalia was most recently at Akamai Technologies.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Expands Board

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Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand , the developer of cloud-based talent and human resources management software, said today that it has added Steve Singh, CEO of Concur Technologies, to its board of directors. Concur is a provider of travel and expense management software for the enterprise market. READ MORE>>.

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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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Customer Trust Is An Opportunity With A Huge Payback

Startup Professionals Musings

There are others, like Norton LifeLock , acquired in 2017 by Symantec for $2.3 Market your solution and user benefits, not the mysterious technology behind it. The best startups start from a painful problem needing a solution, rather than a technology solution looking for a problem. Have you looked hard at the potential?

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Is the Future of Cybersecurity in M&A?

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Last month Symantec announced its plans to buy Blue Coat for $4.7 In general, M&A is a natural part of the IT security market. It’s why this market segment is so attractive to venture investors. Symantec Forces the Industry to Stay Competitive. billion (235 percent growth over 5 years). Why is this happening?

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Security And Privacy Are Both A Risk and Opportunity

Startup Professionals Musings

There are others, like LifeLock , acquired in 2017 by Symantec for $2.3 Market your solution and user benefits, not the mysterious technology behind it. The best startups start from a painful problem needing a solution, rather than a technology solution looking for a problem. Have you looked hard at the potential?