Monday, August 10, 2015


Prevoty Links Into Splunk
Los Angeles-based application security monitoring software developer Prevoty announced Monday that it has launched a new software tool for Splunk. Prevoty--which is venture backed by US Venture Partners, Plus Capital, Double M Capital, Core Ventures Group, Inventures Group, Daher Capital, Digi Venture Fund and Karlin Ventures--says its new Prevoty Application Monitoring and Protection (AMP) App for Splunk helps enterprises gain visibility into attacks on their production applications. Pricing on (More info...)
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Interview with Tony Farwell, GovX
Our interview this morning is with serial entrepreneur Tony Farwell, the Executive Chairman and co-founder of GovX (www.govx.com), a San Diego-based online marketplace aimed at current members of the military, veterans, and government employees, including first responders, police, and others. Tony was the principal investor in STATS, which he sold to News Corp., and also was heavily involved in Hollywood Media, which was acquired by The Times Mirror Company, in addition to a number of other co (More info...)
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Cold Genesys Finds $10M For Cancer Immunotherapy
Santa Ana-based Cold Genesys, a company developing oncolytic immunotherapy products, said last week that it has raised $10M in a Series B funding. The funding came from Ally Bridge Group and WI Harper Group along with Whitesun Healthcare Ventures and Song Hong Fang. Cold Genesys is developing viruses which are designed to selectively replicate in tumors (but not normal tissue) and to elicit an immune response against cancer cells.
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United Online Names EVP, General Counsel
Woodland Hills-based United Online said Friday that it has named Mark Harrington as the company's new Executive Vice President and General Counsel. Harrington was most recently Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of Guidance Software, and also has served at Intel Corporation, Trillium Digital Systems, Munger, Tolles & Olson and Ticketmaster. United Online says Harrington has over 25 years of business experience.
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USC, 2U Launch New Online Nursing Degree
The University of Southern California and online degree program operator 2U said last week that they are planning to launch a new, online degree in nursing. The two said they plan to develop and online Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) for aspiring family nurse practitioners. The two said the new program is expected to start in fall of 2016. The program will also include in-person clinical rotations. 2U already powers a number of online degree programs for USC.
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