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Snapchat Scores Win As Microsoft Nixes Third Party Apps

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Venice, California-based Snapchat scored a big win for its security efforts over the weekend, as Microsoft removed most third party Snapchat apps from its Windows Phone store.

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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

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We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund. I can tell you we did four investments in Southern California last year, and in none of those deals did we run into super angels, even though we are writing checks as small as $50,000. We're working with a company in Venice Beach which is trying to solve that problem.

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Interview with Gordon Gould, SmartyPants Vitamins

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You and I are from a web background, and usually, when you run into problem--if you're not asking for something unreasonable like artificial intelligence--there is always a way to write some software, or put together a workaround to deal with the issue. We live in Venice, and our back house is sort of our operations center.

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Doppels Is the Birthday Matching App You’re Going to Love

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Writing a wish list for birthday presents at 10 years-old is expected. I chose Venice, California as a great breeding ground for this tool to help all the local businesses,” said Hagger. To date, Doppels has over 260,000 users and acquire about 1,000 new members each day, said Hagger. Say Goodbye To The Wish List.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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And of course we have great public companies that have spanned content & communications like J2 Global whose market cap as of this writing is a cool $2.5 Stuff you may not know about LA?

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Signal Sciences: Protecting Web Apps In The Era Of DevOps, with Andrew Peterson

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Venice Beach-based Signal Sciences (www.signalsciences.com) has created sofdtware designed for those application developers to help protect those web applications. Not to plug myself, but I've done some writing and published a book with O'Reilly, talking about security misconceptions. In that world, the risk of security holes is huge.

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Coincident.TV Is “CREATE”-ing Second Screen Transmedia Producers Out Of Everyone [Beta Invites]

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Locally, Google is getting into the content game itself creating hundreds of celebrity driven channels and setting up shop all over Venice to produce content in preparation for this new world. It has been reported by Google that 77% of viewers use a companion device while watching TV.

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