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Cloudera, Hortonworks Plan To Merge As $5.2B Cloud Data Platform

Xconomy

Cloudera and Hortonworks, two large, publicly traded companies that compete to offer Web-based data storage and analytics, announced plans today to merge into a combined entity they value at $5.2 The goal of the combined entity is to provide a leading data platform. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Interview: Mark Douglas, President & CEO, SteelHouse Media

InfoChachkie

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. Value Prop Twitter Style : SteelHouse’s Behavioral Commerce platform increases online conversions via targeted incentives based on shopper personality and behavior.

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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

And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g. M&A has shown some spectacular results including Zappos to Amazon for $928million , Sun to Oracle for $7.4 Twitter, FriendFeed and other real-time “feeds”.).

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Interview with Idris Manley, NativeTung

socalTECH

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. Idris Manley: Essentially, what we do is we create a global layer for web sites, that supports multiple language content channels.

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

SoCal Delicious

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech

Tech Zulu Event

Mobile Web America, Inc. Leftronic is a real-time data visualization platform for startups. Early-stage companies in the web, mobile and ecommerce space are encouraged to apply for the program which completes four cycles per year, culminating in Demo Days that are attended by the region’s top angel investors and VCs.

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