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How Nix Hydra's Egg Baby Cracked The Code For Female Gamers

socalTECH

However, Egg Baby--the title from newly funded Nix Hydra (www.nixhydra.com)--seems to have cracked the code for how to get new, young, female consumers to become game players. The company just raised a $5M funding round for its efforts, from Foundry Group and a number of angels. Lina Chen: The first round of funding was super tough.

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A Night Of #Hackfest With BetterWorks

Tech Zulu Event

I dropped in to check out the contest a few times during the competition and the environment was uplifting and exciting. Some used Java, Ruby, jQuery while others used PHP, HTML, and CSS. Sparqlight – parts prebuilt before competition. Quick Web App Builder (QWAB) – parts prebuilt before competition.

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hereO | Watching the Kids

Tech Zulu Event

An Android and HTML 5 version will follow in June. Allon showed me a variety of hereO watches in different colors and compared them to the competition. A history of locations is also stored and directions are given to locate your child. Right now, the app is in beta stages for iOS and will be released this month.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

Both Sides of the Table

The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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Cojoin | Data Integration

Tech Zulu Event

We will be releasing actual mobile apps down the road, but right now we have device-friendly HTML 5 web applications. But the end result was incredibly valuable, so looked at that end result and we were able to optimize our campaigns and be more efficient than our competition. Tablet and mobile are a huge part of that.

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