article thumbnail

Former Snap employees are launching Forge Platform for Ethereum devs

TechCrunch LA

Chris Lorenz, Geoffrey Anderson, and James Borow may have spent their days over the past few years working at Snap, but on nights and weekends Anderson and Lorenz were laboring on a different project — improving Ethereum development tools. . “We were really working on scalability testing.” ”

Platform 216
article thumbnail

Morphlabs Takes On Amazon AWS With OpenStack Platform

socalTECH

Morphlabs , the developer of cloud-based infrastructure software, announced today that it has launched a new, Openstack-powered public cloud platform. The firm said the new software allows service providers to implement their own, public cloud software--and claims that it out-performs the giant in the market, Amazon Web Services.

Platform 157
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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

TechCrunch LA

These days, most of the games developed need to be social, multi-platform and extensible, but there are only a few developers with the expertise to bring those toolsets to the profusion of new games that crop up every year. In the game industry, a game can stay in beta for years as developers work out the kinks.

article thumbnail

Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

socalTECH

Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. Combining that with my previous experience, which was in the platform and SaaS market, and sports, was really a home run. We wanted to let people connect with even minor league teams, small market pro teams, college, everybody.

Mobile 162
article thumbnail

Total Immersion Takes On AR Video Games

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based Total Immersion , the developer of augmented reality (AR) software, is aiming at the game development market with its technology today, saying it has released a new version of its software specifically aimed at game and application developers.

Web 177
article thumbnail

Dreamhammer's Dream Of Interoperable Drones

socalTECH

We at Dreamhammer had been working closely in the industry, and were aware of the potential near-term commercial applications of this technology. We knew there would be a need in the commercial market, and prepared for it by building a viable, commercial-off-the-shelf product. What''s the background of your team? That''s a key factor.

Startup 183
article thumbnail

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

Both Sides of the Table

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. It isn’t written by them or any marketing department – so please take it for what it is. I’ll explain in detail below. Enter Burstly.

Mobile 282