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J2 Global Inc. Acquires Another Six Companies in Q2

L.A. Business Journal

The Hollywood-based internet services company acquired six small companies for an undisclosed amount in the second quarter. The acquired firms include email marketing companies SMTP and Publicaster, digital media company GameTrailers, as well as backup storage companies Electronic Vaulting Services, Safebackup, and 24sevenbackup.

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j2 Global Buys Six Companies In Q2

socalTECH

j2 Global said it has acquired SMTP , a provider of email marketing services; GameTrailers , a digital media publisher; Publicaster , an email marketing company; Electronic Vaulting Services , a backup services provider; Safebackup , another backup provider, and Ireland-based , also in the backup area.

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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

socalTECH

Jim Franklin: Sendgrid is a cloud-based email service. Explain why someone would use your service, rather than set up your own email servers? It can be deceptively easy to set up your own, SMTP server, to send email on behalf of that app. What is Sendgrid? We move transactional mail between web applications and end users.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

application services (security, integration), etc. Mentions - Marc Andreessen's - The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet A Level 1 platform's apps run elsewhere, and call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services -- this is how Flickr does it. does make it seem like it's a lot of work.

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The Web is Against the Ropes, But it’s Not Dead

Both Sides of the Table

The start of the argument is that you need to separate using the Internet into “infrastructure & cloud services&# (basically the protocols of the Internet such as HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP, etc. + I discussed these issues in the video. The Internet existed long before the World Wide Web and web browsers were created.

Web 300
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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

Both Sides of the Table

By making it easier to capture value for goods & services that ordinary people provide and by creating a means of storing value today that can be used in the future — currencies have literally changed society and the world. I provided a short reading list in the Appendix if you want to read directly about the history of money.

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