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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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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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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!

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The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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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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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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Taylor Freeman of UploadVR on Building a Passionate Culture for Good

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We started traveling to Sundance and SXSW and these shows with awesome companies, but no one was writing about it,” Taylor said. “That really manifested into us doing events. We’d try to go bigger and show more people VR. And UploadVR was born. The company caught the attention of investor from China and secured a seed-funding round around $1.5

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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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