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EA Mobile Targets Amazon's Kindle

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According to Amazon.com, it is launching an effort to allow developers to create their own, active content on the electronic reader, including games, Internet-linked content, word games, and puzzles. EA Mobile came out of EA's acquisition of Los Angeles based Jamdat in 2005. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Taher Scherzay, FavRav

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I have always been in engineering, and was a software developer for some time, and also Director of Engineering. One of the previous companies I worked on we sold to Microsoft in 2005, and I then spent some time at Microsoft to get that company integrated. I decided to move down here for the weather, plus my wife is an actress.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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He is the author of “ Joel on Software ” and I was a reader nearly 10 years ago when I had never heard of Fred Wilson, Brad Feld and VentureHacks didn’t exist. Ad.ly – (disclosure: I led the funding on Ad.ly) Provides an in-stream advertising platform for any content creator (individual or organization) with an online social presence.