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Unusual Perk For SoCal Technology Firm: Unlimited, Paid Vacation

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In what might be one of the more unusual perks for a Southern California high tech company, LRN , a developer of enterprise compliance and ethics software, has an unlimited, paid vacation policy. The firm's policy recently came to light in a WSJ article.

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Software Development Companies in Southern California

SoCal CTO

As part of doing that, I've had the opportunity to interact with a wide variety of different chief technical officers from different kinds of companies over those years. This is a private group of CTOs who are responsible for software development within their companies. or focused on industry or type of company.

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Webalo Scores $3M For Mobile Enterprise Apps

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Los Angeles-based Webalo , a company which provides mobile application development tools, said this afternoon that it has raised $3M in a new funding round. Webalo's platform is specifically designed for enterprise applications and making enterprise data available via smartphones. Easton Ventures, Balch Hill Capital, and others.

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Everything You Need to Know About Hyperloop

Tech.Co

Since 2013, when Elon Musk released his white paper for an emerging mode of transportation using low air pressure within a tube, companies around the world have answered the call to build the next generation of futuristic transportation. This has caused much confusion both in the public and the media. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies.

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Why Silicon Valley and Hollywood Don’t Get Each Other and Who Will Win the Future

Both Sides of the Table

And investing in content companies won’t return money! It requires writers, actors, film crews, lighting, costume & set designs, make-up artists, post production, sound, editors and so on. You can’t replace this stuff with Java. ” Them, “Oh, we’ve hired A,B,C company to do it for us.”

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Peering Into The Mobile Games Future With Josh Hartwell of Mobile Deluxe

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Josh Hartwell: We officially incorporate in 2003, though we started laying groundwork for the company in 2002. It was just a matter of process to add iOS, and later, Android to the output, and start designing games for the larger screens, later bringing those games down to run on BREW and Java after that.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? Must design your application differently to live on top of the platform. VRM - his company - goal is to provide a Level 4 platform. PIM based on Java that would be up-to-date on all your devices. Server and client in Java. I would tend to agree.

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