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President Trump reportedly has approved the Oracle deal for TikTok’s US operations

TechCrunch LA

President Donald Trump said has has given his stamp of approval “in concept” on the Oracle bid for the U.S. operations of the wildly popular social media app, TikTok, according to a report from Bloomberg. 12 stay, keeping it up through the US election and Oracle dealmaking. And the U.S.

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TikTok Avoids App Store Ban

L.A. Business Journal

operations to Oracle Corp. the social media platform notched a victory last week in its fight against the Trump administration. While TikTok awaits further developments in the proposed sale of its U.S. and Walmart Inc.,

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Interview: Mark Douglas, President & CEO, SteelHouse Media

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Messenger : Mark Douglas, President & CEO, SteelHouse Media. In this interview, Mark discusses how his experiences at Oracle, eHarmony and the Rubicon Project contributed to the creation of his latest venture, SteelHouse Media. 4) Did I read correctly that you were part of the original development team for Oracle Financials?

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How A Pivot Turned Vantage Media Into A $100M Plus Business

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Patrick Quigley: People often have the wrong perception of Vantage Media. However, if you talk to a lot of people about who Vantage Media is, a lot of them think we''re still an agency, specifically focused on for-profit education marketing. We sat down and spoke with Patrick about the business and its pivot.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

M&A has shown some spectacular results including Zappos to Amazon for $928million , Sun to Oracle for $7.4 Much like iPhone is the only mobile platform in town, Facebook is the only “closed network” social networking platform in town. billion and Omniture to Adobe for an astounding $1.8

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

Tech Zulu Event

Mark Douglas, Steelhouse President and CEO, is formerly from Oracle and was the VP of Technology at eHarmony. Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award. Social Media: Snapchat. Fun Fact: Technology is in their DNA. Incubator: Amplify LA. E-Commerce: Nasty Gal.

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