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MARCH 8, 2013

UberMedia , the Pasadena-based startup developing third party, Twitter clients and other mobile apps, said yesterday that it has launched a new mobile ad campaign product called Appvertise. Developers use their iTunes account to pay for the CPC ads. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

Los Angeles- and Austin-based GameSalad , which develops software which helps people create iOS, Android, and web games, said Friday that its software now supports Windows 8 application development. The startup--which has been supporting Windows development since May--said its latest version, 0.10.0 READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Los Angeles-based Webalo , a company which provides mobile application development tools, said this afternoon that it has raised $3M in a new funding round. Webalo says its software eliminates much of the coding, wating, and cost of traditional, mobile application development. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 17, 2013

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 was advised by Viant Group in the deal.

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MAY 30, 2013

Los Angeles-based mobile ad network operator Airpush said this morning that it has reached $4M in monthly developer payouts, and over 90,000 live apps using its mobile ad network. Airpush allows mobile application developers on Android to include banner, push notification, interstitial,and icon ads in their apps. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 23, 2012

Redland-based Esri , the developer of mapping and GIS software, said Friday that it has acquired Maptel , a mobile application development company based in Melbourne, Australia. Esri said the buy will help provide field data collection capabilities and mobile application development expertise to its team.

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AUGUST 1, 2012

Burbank-based Magic Ruby , a new service aimed at the social television segment, said today that it has launched to help provide revenue for advertisers, content creators, distributors, and app developers. The service said it is a business unit of Second Screen Solutions, and is backed by Technicolor.

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MARCH 11, 2015

Los Angeles-based Prevoty , a develops of software toolsets used to provide runtime protection of applications, has raised $8M in a Series A funding round, the company said today. prevoty venture capital security secure application monitoring cloud software' Prevoty i led by Julien Bellanger. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based GRP Partners is one of the lead investors in a developer of social media analytics software, Awe.sm , Awe.sm Awe.sm's tools are used by application developers to monitor and measure social media and sharing activity through their apps. said Thursday.

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JUNE 29, 2010

According to Demand, Banks' beauty and entertainment firm Bankable is in a deal to develop a Web site, online video offerings, and mobile applications. Demand Media said the new property will be "inherently social, highly interactive" and leverage its content creation platform, social media tools and application development tools.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

Los Angeles-based Burstly , the mobile advertising tools firm run by Evan Rifkin, said this week that it has opened up a new way for mobile application developers to sell their own advertising space. Newtoy recently revealed it has had over 10 million downloads of its game.

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MARCH 21, 2013

Want to better understand how people are using your mobile application? Santa Monica-based application testing software developer TestFlight said today that it has launched a new tool, which provides analytics to mobile app developers. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based Factual , the data API firm led by Gil Elbaz, has made a big enhancement to its Places dataset, the firm explained this morning, saying it has added over 80,000 landmarks (parks, memorials, historic building), 20,000 transport hubs (airports, rail stations, etc.) and 190,000 ATM location to its database.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 27, 2015

One of the oldest and most-popular developer communities, IBM’s developerWorks has announced today a first-of-its-kind premium subscription model, developerWorks Premium , geared toward maximizing developer access to IBM’s software, tools, training and partners at a fraction of the cost.

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MARCH 20, 2012

Factual operates an online data service, targeted at application developers, to retrieve live data on business locations, restaurants, and other verticals. According to Factual, its data is available through the Greenplum corus platfor, which will allow data scientists to use data from Factual as part of their own, existing data.

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APRIL 1, 2010

We cater to mobile phone developers--right now the iPhone, and coming soon to Android. We're very similar to OpenX, from the standpoint of ad management tools, in that we also have built in a marketplace and also allow you to go direct to advertisers. That may seem very simple, but those tools are not there today.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 7, 2013

Stained Glass Labs (SGL), the first Glass and wearable technologies accelerator has launched the world’s first comprehensive app directory and a self-service app publishing portal for Google Glass pre-launched applications. SGL says the Comprehensive App Directory launched is a simple 2 step process.

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MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. But I believe it’s a very comprehensive solution and our due diligence with large app developers confirmed as much. I’ll explain in detail below.

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JUNE 25, 2012

Mark Sylvester sat down with us to talk about the new project, and how it's applying what they've learned building their visual analysis tools to the world of Facebook and social media. Those folks are any tool they can find to help them, any new tool they find. Is there anything interesting you've learned using your own tool?

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JULY 13, 2012

Divshot is a tool for web application developers. It is the first interface prototyping tool that gives its users the ease of a drag-and-drop mockup application. Founder, Matt Cooper was a very crowd-pleasing, almost comedian-esqe speaker! Divshot was the winner of the Crowstart LA $25,000 Competion.

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MAY 19, 2017

In today's world of web application development, speed is everything. Developers are now turning out code and releasing it live to the world in near real time--what is called DevOps and Agile development. With the rise of the cloud and Agile, it's really changed how developer are coding their websites.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers.

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APRIL 15, 2012

If you’re new to software development, you may be asking yourself, “What the heck is a User Story, anyway?” ” Put simply, a User Story is the analysis of a user’s mindset, their goals with your application and a consideration of how they would use it to accomplish certain tasks. What is a User Story?

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TechEmpower

MAY 1, 2014

If you are a web developer using C++, you win this particular bragging-rights game. These checks are rigid--failing implementations for using the wrong letter case in their JSON encoding, for example--but ultimately a valuable tool to ensure fairness. We are presently looking for a generalist web/mobile developer to expand our team.

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APRIL 5, 2013

Last week, we posted the results of benchmarking several web application development and frameworks. We received comments, recommendations, advice, criticism, questions, and most importantly pull requests from dozens of readers and developers. We didn''t switch tools to improve the rps numbers, though. Dedicated hardware.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2013

One of the hottest areas in enterprise and cloud software has been the move by the industry to adopt technologies like NoSQL, a way to tap into the distributed nature of the cloud to accelerate distributed applications. It''s a distributed data platform built for scale, and build for accelerated application development.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Tools and efficiencies powered by the cloud. At KnowledgeBase, he worked with EdgeCast co-founders James, Phil and Lior, and as CEO was involved in all aspects of the company and responsible for its development. Prior to starting KnowledgeBase, Alex founded HostPro, an industry-leading web hosting and application services provider.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2015

It has been a big summer for developers ready to do a deep dive into open source projects and the Internet of Things (IoT) with IBM’s announcement of two new communities created in its developer-centric hub developerWorks , aimed at giving developers the perfect sandbox to play in.

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