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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

Tech Zulu Event

Tanz has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine “Young Millionaires of 2011 Special Report.” Early on GumGum began to experiment with overlaying rich media ads through Flash with photos until technology progressed and they moved over to Javascript. from Carnegie Mellon University. Much bigger. Engagement rate is at 0.5%

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Presenting Companies at UCLA

Tech Zulu Event

Mingle is a networking service that uses location to discover and create relevant connections. As a result, the team transformed the advertising industry with the creation of the first in-image ad network. When: Thursday, October 27th, 2011 – 7:00 p.m. 9:00 – 10:30pm – cocktail reception and networking. Event Details.

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Why Google Fiber? Moat-widening Endeavor & Future of Computing.

Tech Zulu Event

Computers still need web browsers to power HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and many other core web technologies. Someone needs to manufacture all of this hardware and network infrastructure to connect everything.

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Frameworks Round 2

TechEmpower

An impressive demonstration of modern hardware and networks: seven frameworks are able to provide a response with 20 individually database-sourced rows (that''s twenty round-trip conversations with a database server regardless of how you slice it) in less than 100 milliseconds on average. JavaScript. Two Amazon EC2 m1.large Ruby 2.0.0-p0.

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

Although we expect that the external service is itself caching the small number of rows our test consumes, the framework is not allowed to avoid the network transmission and data mapping portion of the work. For example, we used Sequelize for the JavaScript MySQL tests. JavaScript. Two Amazon EC2 m1.large Load simulator.

Framework 544
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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

Although we expect that the external service is itself caching the small number of rows our test consumes, the framework is not allowed to avoid the network transmission and data mapping portion of the work. For example, we used Sequelize for the JavaScript MySQL tests. JavaScript. Two Amazon EC2 m1.large Load simulator.

Framework 560