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EA Mobile Targets Amazon's Kindle

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Los Angeles-based EA Mobile , the mobile game publishing arm of Electronic Arts, has set its sights on a new platform for its mobile games: Amazon's Kindle. Amazon said the new software development kit program from the firm will be offered as a limited beta to interested developers late last night. READ MORE>>.

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How Kazuhm Is Reconnecting The Enterprise Cloud, With Tim O'Neal

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Kazuhm is recapturing the capacity in those desktops, creating a commercial grade, distributed computing platform based on that capacity. I also spend a chunk of my career in software development, working on enterprise applications. Years of my career have been driving efforts like that. That was a very different experience.

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Interview with Taher Scherzay, FavRav

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Taher Scherzay: FavRav is basically a platform that allows small businesses to get a footprint with customers, using the referral network of social media. I have always been in engineering, and was a software developer for some time, and also Director of Engineering. We redesigned our service and migrated to another platform.

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Interview with Adam Lieber, Webtide

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One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Certainly, the use of common components will speed software development, as people realize it's not necessary to reinvent the wheel.

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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. SocialVibe – Social media monetization platform that benefits non-profit organizations and social causes. Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA.