Many of these smaller, focused gatherings have seen VCs and developers networking with innovative startups that could never afford the expensive stands at MWC, and probably wouldn't want to.
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While investigators in New York focused on gathering evidence around the drug sales, law enforcement in Maryland began mapping the operation.
So far, the company, founded in 2002 and based in Redwood Shores, Calif., has focused on gathering evidence for lawsuits and internal corporate investigations -- such as unearthing incriminating patterns in an employee's e-mailed communications.
"We both fit categorically in this area of social relationship management, but Shoutlet has focused on gathering customer data and insights and figuring out ways to integrate that back into the enterprise," added Shoutlet co-founder and CEO President Aaron Everson.
But as Google+ stagnated, the company moved away from further Zagat integrations, and instead focused on gathering its own restaurant data from crowdsourced reviews via its Local Guides program, and more recently, a wider group of Maps users.
Apsalyamov's new job was to "focus on gathering data on individual players".
At this point, however, Ms. Quinn plans to focus on gathering small contributions in order to increase her public matching funds.
The F.B.I. took the lead in the Cook investigation, focusing on gathering evidence for a criminal prosecution rather than on immediately shutting down the fraud and securing investors' funds.
The Odyssey mission will focus on gathering data from orbit.
Apsalyamov's role will be to focus "on gathering data on individual players", according to a club statement.
