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Phocas Sets CFO

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Most of that investment is software engineers in Christchurch, New Zealand. The company said Boorman was most recently CFO for Network Ten, and also served at Seven West Media. Phocas is split between the US, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK and says it recently raised AU$45M. Boorman looks to be based in Australia.

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LeisureLink Acquired By VacationRoost

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Pasadena-based LeisureLink , the developer of travel booking software for the vacation rental market, has been acquired by VacationRoost , which operates an online vacation rental marketplace. software engine booking marketplace rental vacation vacationroost acquisition merger leisurelink' The company was led by Tom Lamb.

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California Technology Ventures Invests In Games Firm

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Pasadena-based venture capital firm California Technology Ventures has staked a developer of a video game software engine, Blade Games , with a $4M investment. According to Blade Games, which is based in Bellevue, Washington, CTV funded the firm in an initial round of investment.

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Netflix employees stage a trans solidarity walkout, pose list of demands

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They want Netflix to address a list of demands in the categories of content investment, employee relations and safety, and harm reduction. Netflix Senior Software Engineer Terra Field, who is transgender, tweeted a viral thread about the Chappelle special. Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images).

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Backed by LG, AmazeVR is hoping to resurrect virtual reality’s consumer dreams

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Despite billions of dollars in investment, and a sustained marketing push from some of the biggest names in the technology industry, virtual reality still doesn’t register with most regular consumers. Hardware makers have invested billions to improve the technology, and they’d like that money to not go to waste.

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CapLinked Adds Investors To Series A

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The firm said it has brought its Series A up to $2.1M, and added new investors Conversion Capital, Inflection Ventures, The Artesian Group, Chris Harris (software engineering manager at Google), and Lee Essener (founder of AccessDNA). The firm earlier had announced investments from.

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Human Centered Design: If it Doesn't Work for Humans, It Doesn't Work

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For modern software and systems with software to be successful, it has to not only work, it has to provide an engaging, useful and usable experience. The talk is based on both research and our students repeated success in following this integrated design method in their year-long Capstone projects at UCI.

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