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Interview with Andrew Humphries, UK's Tech City

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On the invitation of UK Trade and Investment, socalTECH Contributing Editor Travis Oberlander has traveled this week to London for us, to compare and contrast the efforts in the UK to establish their own technology center with our own efforts in Southern California.). Andrew Humphries: There are four key things that we are doing.

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Interview with Evan Rifkin, Burstly

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Our main differentiation from what's out there now in the mobile area, is we allow developers to target their audience segment however they want, whether that is by time of day, by campaign, and we also turn control over to application developers, so they can transparently see and target their ads, to a greater degree.

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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

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Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. What's the biggest lesson you've learned here so far as an entrepreneur? Laurence Sotsky: I've been working in the software-as-a-service space for some time, in medium-sized, venture capital backed companies. That provides much better reporting to sponsors.

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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

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The service was created by experience serial entrepreneurs Mark Sylvester and KymberleeWeil, who some might know from creating service introNetworks. We're entrepreneurs, and we like to build our business, and wish we were known a little more. Those sites are on the large side, with 20,000 or 30,000 people.

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Interview with Hamilton Chan, PaperLinks

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I ended up representing people like Kobe Bryant, MGM, and others, but I realized I wanted to be an entrepreneur and that it is in my blood. Was it difficult going from print to mobile application development? I ended up going to Harvard for college, and worked at JP Morgan in investment banking, and went to Harvard Law School.

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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

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What we offer is really easy, and it takes 30 days, maybe only a few weeks to get up and running.

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Signal Sciences: Protecting Web Apps In The Era Of DevOps, with Andrew Peterson

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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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