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HipGeo Launches Updated iPhone Travel Blogging App

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HipGeo said its new app is a "complete redesign" of its platform, and is aimed at letting mobile phone users post text, places, and photos of their travels. HipGeo is backed by Morado Venture Partners, the seed fund of ex-Yahoo executives Ash Patel and Michael Marquez, eHarmony's Galen Buckwalter, and San Diego angel investor Bob Bingham.

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Walmart: Turning San Diego Into A Key Technology Center

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We have our own A/B testing platform, and my team is responsible for that solution for desktop and native apps, not only for Walmart.com, but also online groceries and the market. We've actually open sourced Test Armada, our open source platform for testing. How did Walmart decide to set up in San Diego?

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Walmart: Turning San Diego Into Its Technology Center

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We have our own A/B testing platform, and my team is responsible for that solution for desktop and native apps, not only for Walmart.com, but also online groceries and the market. We've actually open sourced Test Armada, our open source platform for testing. How did Walmart decide to set up in San Diego?

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Reflections on 2016: Cody Simms, Techstars

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With the advent of social media, open publishing platforms, and instantaneous communication, the world is flatter and more interconnected than anyone can truly grasp, and the next great wave of innovations can and will come from anywhere. Cody Simms: Locally in LA the Snapchat IPO will have a huge impact on our local startup ecosystem.

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Interview with Howard Lindzon, StockTwits

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I ended up passing on the Twitter investment, but I put out a blog post at the time--I was working for CBS--asking if someone would want to build it, and a kid named Soren MacBeth emailed me back saying he'd build it, which started the idea of StockTwits. So, we built our own, new and improved version of a microblogging platform.

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Kaleio Integrates National and International Job Listings via Indeed.com | Founder Interview Jim Riley

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The partnership is expected to offer working-class professionals access to job listings directly posted within Kaleio’s Marketplace and additional job and internship listings from leading companies, including Amazon, Google, Starbucks, The New York Times , Yahoo!, Will there be any integration between the two platforms?

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. But the masses didn’t want to blog.