Wednesday, September 28, 2016


Opaque Communications Takes On Encryption, Cybersecurity
A new, Santa Monica-based cybersecurity startup, Opaque Communications, said on Tuesday that it has launched the company and released a new suite of products in the cybersecurity area. The startup, led by Dwayne Hall, said its new products are aimed at the financial services, healthcare, biotech, defense/aerospace, entertainment and R&D markets, and offer up a "hack-resistant" data center storage system called Dark Vault, a fully encrypted, cloud service called Dark Transmit, and a secure, encry (More info...)
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How ContractSafe Wants To Help You Get Your Legal Docs In Order, With Ken Button
For a lot of companies—and their management and legal teams-- managing the reams of paperwork involved with legal contracts is a big, disorganized mess. To address that disaster, Ken Button and Randy Bishop—two veterans of the startup industry—created ContractSafe (www.contractsafe.com), a new online service aimed at helping companies to tame that mess and manage and store their contracts in the cloud. We caught up with Ken Button, the co-founder and CEO of the company, to learn more ab (More info...)
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ServiceNow Launches Its Own Venture Investment Arm, ServiceNow Ventures
ServiceNow, the developer of service management software led by Frank Slootman--and which started in San Diego--has launched its own venture capital arm, ServiceNow Ventures. According to ServiceNow, which is based in Santa Clara but still has major operations in San Diego, ServiceNow Ventures will target investments in early stage companies that develop cloud-based applications, built on its platform, as well as growth stage vendors developing strategic technology integration with the ServiceNo (More info...)
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TeleSign Backs White House Cybersecurity Effort
Los Angeles-based Telesign, which provides phone verification and two-factor authentication services to major online service providers, said it is helping to back the White House's Lock Down Your Login initiative. The initiative aims to encourage Americans to better protect their online accounts, by moving them beyond passwords. The safety and security initiative is being run by the National Cyber Security Alliance, in conjunction with the White House. The Lock Down Your Login site educates user (More info...)
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EDF Renewable Services Takes On Management Of 200MW Solar Portfolio
San Diego-based renewable energy developer and services provider EDF Renewable Services said on Tuesday that it has assumed the asset management and operations and maintenance on a portfolio of 200 megawatts (MW) of solar photovoltaic projects. The company said those projects include 206 solar projects spanning across 13 states from New Jersey to Hawaii. Name of the project issuer was not announced, and EDF Renewable Services did not say what the contract was worth. The company says it now has (More info...)
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