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Android Founder on VR, Voice & the Future of Human-Machine Collaboration

Xconomy

Within 20 years, computer keyboards will be relegated to the technology dustbin, says Android co-founder Rich Miner. Miner helped shape the smartphone era with Android, a mobile operating system startup that Google acquired in 2005. Android software now powers over 2 billion devices.

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

socalTECH

If you're a large, enterprise company, in recent years, cloud computing has become an increasingly large--and expensive--piece of your information technology (IT) mix. What's unique about us, is that there haven't been modern, commercial technology which companies could subscribe to an implement in their corporate environment.

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

Both Sides of the Table

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. Arnie Gullov-Singh (ex-EVP of product, technology and operations for MySpace) also joined as CEO, as Sean Rad will assume the role of President.

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Interview with Taher Scherzay, FavRav

socalTECH

Taher Scherzay: I spent 20 years working for the industry, working for Lucent Technologies. I have always been in engineering, and was a software developer for some time, and also Director of Engineering. What's your background and how'd you get into the startup area?

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Interview with Adam Lieber, Webtide

socalTECH

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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