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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

Both Sides of the Table

I think Twitter made a minor gaffe by announcing their Blackberry app and their acquisition of Atebits (Tweetie) before the Chirp conference. And I saw a lot of this first hand in Salesforce’s acquisition of my company, Koral, which was a content management company. But in any platform community this happens.

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TigerLogic Sells Off Business Unit For $22M

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Irvine-based TigerLogic , a developer of application development tools, said Wednesday that it has sold off its Multidimensional Database Management Systems (MDMS) business to Rocket Software , in a deal worth $22M in cash. tigerlogic multidiemsional database management systems software merger acquisition rocket'

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Stained Glass Labs Patners With Exitround, Unveils App Directory for Google Glass

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To make it better for entrepreneurs to get the maximum attention and funding they need Stained Glass Labs has also partnered with Exitround , the world’s first marketplace for startups to discreetly get funding partners and acquisition opportunities.

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How FatCloud Is Bringing NoSQL To The World of Microsoft

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We caught up with CEO Ian Miller to learn about the company and its NoSQL database, and its roots here in applications built for companies like Yahoo and CBS. Ian Miller: FatCloud is a data management and software platform company with a NoSQL database. I moved to the states with my first acquisition. What exactly is FatCloud?

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Entrepreneurs Should be Respected, Not Loved

Both Sides of the Table

Your product team is pissed off because they’re making $120,000 / year and some hot-shot 25 year-olds just made millions from the acquisition of XYZ company that we could have built here! This pissed off application developers because it became harder to find apps. But he hasn’t fudged the tough calls.