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Pragma is a back-end toolkit for gaming companies, so game developers can focus on games

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Well, now those development studios can turn to Pragma , which is building the back-end toolkit for gaming companies so their developers can focus on what they do best — making games. In a way it’s a complement to the front-end game engines from companies like Epic, the creator of Fortnite.

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Former Snap employees are launching Forge Platform for Ethereum devs

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Ultimately Forge will bring a suite of products to market for distributed application developers, but for now the company is focused on a service to provide insight into the performance of smart contracts over the Ethereum network. .” . “We were really working on scalability testing.” ”

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

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Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. As I naturally get asked all the time why we invested in Company A or Company B, I thought I’d just put forth my thesis in writing. I like that.

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SmartDrive Sets New Engineering VP

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San Diego-based SmartDrive Systems announced today that it has named Andy Deninger as the company''s new Vice President of Engineering. Deninger was previously at Qualcomm''s Omnitracs unit, where he had headed the company''s engineering division.

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TenFarms Gets $2.7M For Smartphone Advertising Software

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Los Angeles-based TenFarms , the mobile application development startup headed by Nils Forsblom, announced this morning that it has raised $2.7M in an angel funding round, to launch a new mobile advertising product called Adtile to the market. TenFarms is the company behind mobile photo polling and social app Photopoll.

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Burstly Opens Skyrocket To All App Developers

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Santa Monica-based app testing and anlytics developer Burstly has opened up access to its mobile monetization platform, extending access to its SkyRocket product via a self-serve offering. Burstly formerly only referred to the company''s app monetization tools.

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Signal Sciences: Protecting Web Apps In The Era Of DevOps, with Andrew Peterson

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In today's world of web application development, speed is everything. Developers are now turning out code and releasing it live to the world in near real time--what is called DevOps and Agile development. How did you start the company? In that world, the risk of security holes is huge. What is Signal Sciences?

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