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CTO Panel

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, November 17, 2011 -- CTO Panel discusses emerging trends, discussing about how recent technology changes are impacting CTOs. The panel of CTOs will discuss major technology trends such as social media integration, big data, geolocation, mobile and other relatively new technologies.

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Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

We had an interesting presentation at the LA CTO Forum by the CTO of a startup who chose Groovy / Grails as the framework for their startup. t prompted a good discussion around how CTOs go about choosing the programming language and framework for their startup. desktop, mobile, browser). So what's the bottom line?

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Qualcomm's Jacobs Sees The Light With New Investment

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The company--led by Dave Grannan--said the funding came from Bessemer Venture Partners, Charles River Ventures, Paul Jacobs, as well as Sanjay Jha of Motorola Mobility. Light was co-founded by Dr. Rajiv Laroia, who was previously the CTO of Flarion Technologies--whose base technology became LTE. READ MORE>>.

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Former LA VC Gets Backing For Enterprise Alerting, Micro Apps Startup

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Those apps provide push-like, user-friendly access to enterprise apps, much like employees are used to interacting with mobile consumer apps and alerts. ElNaggar was most recently serving as Chief Strategy Officer at CBS Interactive; he co-founded Sapho with fellow CBS Interactive alum Peter Yared, who was CBSi's CTO and CIO.

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What are the Technical Performance Requirements for your Startup?

SoCal CTO

It was originally written in 2011 and has had amazing staying power. I find myself sending it to startup founders all the time – maybe just slightly less than Free Startup CTO Consulting. It’s also necessary to note that a poor mobile website experience can impact your customers’ perception of and loyalty to your brand.

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Los Angeles Startup Weekend August 2011 | The Complete Breakdown

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We also had awesome group of mentors that included: David Waxman (Co-founder of PeoplePC, Spot Runner and Firefly Network), Paige Craig (CEO of BetterWorks ), Josh MacAdam (Co-founder/CTO at Ming.ly

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PayPal Acquires Smartphone Credit Card Scanner card.io

Tech Zulu Event

will integrate its credit card information capturing technology to PayPal’s mobile wallet. team while looking for an integration on their PayPal Here mobile app. enables fast, easy credit card scanning by using a mobile phone camera. technology to develop their own applications. PayPal is not new to card.io.

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