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Quest Founder's Firm, Toba Capital, Selects Alteryx as its First Analytics Investment - with Renewed Investment from SAP Ventures to Further Fuel Focus on Humanizing Big Data IRVINE, Calif., May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Alteryx, Inc., the leading provider of Strategic Analytics, today announced that it has received $12 million in financing from Toba Capital (recently formed by Vinny Smith, former CEO and founder of Quest Software) and existing investor, SAP Ventures. This financing...
Parviz Ghaffaripour Joins Company as Senior Vice President Connectivity and Power Management Products FREMONT, Calif., May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) a leading supplier of analog mixed-signal products and data management solutions, today announced that Parviz Ghaffaripour will join the Company as Senior Vice President of Connectivity and Power Management Products reporting to Exar President and CEO, Louis DiNardo. Mr. DiNardo commented, "Parviz is an...
ALISO VIEJO, Calif., May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sequent Medical, Inc. announced today that it has received CE mark for the SL ("Single Layer") family of WEB(®) Aneurysm Embolization Devices, and has commenced a controlled release of these new models in select neurovascular centers in Europe. The SL family offers a lower profile and superior navigability that will enable physicians to treat a broader range of aneurysms with the WEB platform. The SL configurations are made possible...
CourseSmart eTextbooks Now Includes Online and Offline Capabilities, Ensuring Digital Course Materials can be Accessed on the Go SAN MATEO, Calif., May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CourseSmart®, a leading Educational Services Platform and the world's largest provider of digital course materials, has announced today CourseSmart eTextbooks, a significant upgrade to its dedicated mobile application specifically designed for the Android Operating System (AOS). In response to customer...
"MEMPHIS" Recently Debuted @ #17 On Billboard Top 200 Maintains @ #1 On Billboard Blues Chart SANTA MONICA, Calif., Mary 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Grammy Award winning rock legend Boz Scaggs is celebrating one of his best chart debuts with his latest studio album titled MEMPHIS with an extensive tour and a confirmed appearance sitting in with The Roots on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" on May 23(rd). The critically acclaimed project entered the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart at...
60% of California mandarins to be sold under the "Wonderful" label this fall; Paramount Citrus will develop new brand name for sweet, seedless fruit DELANO, Calif., May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Paramount Citrus, America's largest citrus grower, today announced the acquisition of the Cuties trademark by Sun Pacific as part of a strategic move by Paramount and Wonderful Brands to oversee all facets of the production, sale and marketing for most of the country's California mandarin...
LAS VEGAS, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Mission Mining Company (OTC Pink: MISM) is pleased to announce that the Company has executed a Letter of Intent with Colten Metals LLC, to execute an agreement for Mission Mining Company to lease, mine, and operate the El Dorado Mine in California. The El Dorado Mine claims are reported to hold extensive values / quantities of gold, platinum group metals, and rare earth metals, and have the potential to become one of the largest and most...
SAN LEANDRO, Calif., May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Summer is just around the corner and it's the perfect time to enjoy the great outdoors with help from The North Face Explore Your Parks (www.exploreyourparks.com), an award-winning outreach effort. For the fourth consecutive year, The North Face is partnering with state parks around the country to encourage participation in outside activities. The 2013 program, running now through August, has expanded to 13 markets, including state...
Now, first time guests in San Jose, California can receive a complimentary waxing service. San Jose, California (PRWEB) May 19, 2013 European Wax Center San Jose-The Plant is happy to announce their latest money saving option for hair removal in San Jose, California. Now, first time guests to European Wax Center can receive a Free Wax Offer in Santa Clara County. With the fantastic Free Wax Offer men may receive a free ear, nose, or eyebrow wax, while women may receive a free underarm,...
Entrepreneurs and ventures are the engines of economic growth. Lpines and others addressed the topic of technology, ventures, entrepreneurial finance and innovation at the Innovation Economy Expo, which was held in Ontario Convention Center, California on May 9, 2013. Orange County, CA (PRWEB) May 19, 2013 The “Business opportunities today are virtually limitless as we live in the age of internet, technology, globalization, and a favorable funding environment with very low interest...
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The brown bear (Ursus arctos) can be found in North America and northern areas of Eurasia. There are sixteen recognized subspecies of the brown bear. This is the most widely distributed species of bear in the world, although its range is shrinking. Its range includes the Alaska and a few other areas of the United States, areas of Russia, and Romania and other areas of the Carpathian region, as well as Canada, Sweden, Finland, and the Balkans. The brown bear derives its common name from the...
Pinnacles National Park is located in the state of California in the United States. The park is comprised of 26,606 acres of land that was once inhabited by Native American tribes including the Ohlone people. When Spanish explorers arrived in the area, they brought diseases that nearly wiped out all of the Ohlone people, leaving the area uninhabited until Anglo-Americans arrived in 1865. By the 1880’s, visitors like picnickers and explorers began moving into the area, with the first...
Sequoia National Park is located in the United States in the southern area of the Sierra Nevada. The park contains 404,063 acres of protected land that was once inhabited by the Western Mono Native American tribe. The best evidence of Native American inhabitants are the pictographs found on Potwisha and Hospital Rock and bedrock mortars, tools that were sued to crush acorns. When European explorers and settlers entered the area, smallpox had already decimated the Native American...
The Redwood National and States Parks, also known as RNSP, are located along the northern coasts of California in the United States. RNSP is comprised of the Prairie Creek Redwoods State, Del Norte Coast, and Jedediah Smith State Parks, created in the 1920’s, and Redwood National Park, encompassing an area of 133,000 acres. These areas protect 45 percent of the red wood old growth forests that occur along 38,982 acres of California’s coastline. Many Native American tribes including the...
Yosemite National Park is located in eastern California in the United States in the central area of Sierra Nevada, extending to the western slopes of the range. The park holds 761,268 acres of protected land. The area became very popular after Thomas Ayres, the artist who was responsible for much of the publicity of the area, and an entrepreneur named James Mason Hutchings visited in 1855. Early tourists that visited Yosemite before it was a national park could enjoy passing over the Wawona...
