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Web Second, Mobile First

Both Sides of the Table

The titles were: Mobile First, Web Second. Mobile First, Web Second (continued). I know that they really impacted an entire cohort of startups because every company that was coming to pitch me businesses was (is) saying, “I’m a ‘mobile first’ company.” The power of a keyboard.

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SpotOn raises $300M at a $3.15B valuation and acquires Appetize

TechCrunch LA

The latest investment is being used to finance the acquisition of another company in the space — Appetize, a digital and mobile commerce payments platform for enterprises such as sports and entertainment venues, theme parks and zoos. With the new capital, SpotOn has raised $628 million since its inception. Image Credits: SpotOn.

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Framework Benchmarks Round 9

TechEmpower

For example, a larger number of response headers might mean slightly fewer responses sent per second. For example, we are using MySQL 5.5 For example, platforms that use process-level concurrency scaled to a large number of processor cores quite well. For JSON serialization, node.js that of i7. in both environments.).

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Journey Platform To Build Data Gathering Mobile Apps | Co-founder Interview Conrad Hofmeyr

Tech Zulu Event

Journey is a platform to build data gathering mobile apps much faster than would traditionally have been possible. That is the problem Embark Mobile is set to solve across the world beginning in Africa. Journey was created by our company, Embark Mobile (or “Embark” for short). What has Embark Mobile done before this?

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HipGeo Launches API

socalTECH

The firm said the new API makes it easier for web developers to incorporate location information and maps into their web sites. HipGeo is headed by Scott Daniel, develops software which helps track where users are traveling, and allows them to map those travels and share it with others.

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Dallas Day of.Net | Training and Trends on Microsoft Technologies

Tech Zulu Event

The following is a list and description of a few of the sessions: Real-time Everything with SignalR (2 hour lab)SignalR, the latest addition to the ASP.NET stack, provides real-time capabilities to developers without requiring massive transitions in practice or imposing a huge learning curve.

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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

We build web and mobile applications, and we've been doing so for a little over fifteen years. Anyone who has been around the web development block is going to tell you that they select technologies with some balance between coolness and pragmatism. Vanilla node.js, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Apache Cordova for example.

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