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BetterWorks Recruiting Effort: A LEGO Contest?

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How do you find the best and brightest engineers and web developers? Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , the developer of software and services to help companies manage their fringe benefits for employees, has an interesting one: have those software developers compete to build the best, LEGO. READ MORE>>.

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Divshot Sets Up Shop In Los Angeles

socalTECH

In the case of Divshot , a developer of user interface development tools for web apps, it was a chance to join Los Angeles accelerator Launchpad LA. Divshot develops software which provides a drag-and-drop interface to create web apps, which can then export HTML and CSS code for use by software developers.

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SD Team Heads to US Ignite Summit to Advance Emergency Mobile App

Xconomy

A San Diego software development team with an idea for an emergency mobile app that it said would be faster than calling 911 is headed this week to US Ignite’s Application Summit in Kansas City, MO. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 Unfortunately this was reinforced by the many conferences that rushed to espouse the benefits of Web 2.0 Cisco and others went out to fill out their Web 2.0 portfolios.

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Dude, Akanda Is Tying The Cloud Together Like A Rug

InfoChachkie

The dawn of personal computers by home hobbyists created the perfect environment for software sharing, yet it was young Bill Gates who convinced that nascent market that software development costs money and needed to be purchased, just like hardware. The earliest mega-scale web services (e.g.,

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4 Tips to Maximize Internet Bandwidth

Southern California Edison Blog

Enterprises and organizations are increasingly taking advantage of what the cloud has to offer to stay competitive and expand their services. In addition, take note of the amount of software being used, which is normally detailed by the software developer. Benefits of Increased Bandwidth.

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