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Android Founder on VR, Voice & the Future of Human-Machine Collaboration

Xconomy

Miner helped shape the smartphone era with Android, a mobile operating system startup that Google acquired in 2005. Android software now powers over 2 billion devices. On Tuesday, Miner spoke at a mobile software developer conference in Boston organized by Facebook, part of the city’s HUBweek festival.

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MaestroDev, Winston Damarillo's Latest Firm, Uncloaks At JavaOne

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Manhattan Beach-based MaestroDev , a firm developing Java build, test, and release tools for the software development community, has uncloaked at the JavaOne conference, exposing the latest firm started by GlueCode founder Winston Damarillo. He's currently heading up Morphlabs , which shares the same address as MaestroDev.

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NovaStor Shifts To Agoura

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Backup software developer NovaStor has shifted its U.S. by Mike Andrews; the firm was acquired by Swiss firm Mount10 in 2005. by Mike Andrews; the firm was acquired by Swiss firm Mount10 in 2005. Tags: novastor backup software data storage. NovaStor is managed by here in the U.S. READ MORE>>.

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EA Mobile Targets Amazon's Kindle

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Amazon said the new software development kit program from the firm will be offered as a limited beta to interested developers late last night. EA Mobile came out of EA's acquisition of Los Angeles based Jamdat in 2005. No details on which titles would first appear on the Kindle. READ MORE>>.

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How Kazuhm Is Reconnecting The Enterprise Cloud, With Tim O'Neal

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I also spend a chunk of my career in software development, working on enterprise applications. I have been lucky to have been around both parts of corporate IT and application development teams, and on the infrastructure side. Years of my career have been driving efforts like that. That was a very different experience.

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Interview with Taher Scherzay, FavRav

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I have always been in engineering, and was a software developer for some time, and also Director of Engineering. One of the previous companies I worked on we sold to Microsoft in 2005, and I then spent some time at Microsoft to get that company integrated. I decided to move down here for the weather, plus my wife is an actress.

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Equity Compensation: A 6 Point Primer on Creative Service Fees

From the Venture Trenches

Charlie eventually sold those shares for $26 million when he left the business in 2005, which meant he earned $4.3 There are many service providers such as software developers who will not work for equity unless an investment has been made by an institutional fund. million for each year he worked at the start-up.

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