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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.

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Framework Benchmarks Round 13

TechEmpower

The project now features 230 framework implementations (of our JSON serialization test) and includes new entrants on platforms as diverse as Kotlin and Qt. The large filters panel on our results web site is a testament to the ever-broadening spectrum of options for web developers. Yes, that Qt. We love them too!)

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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

Platforms eschew threading and then re-invent threading anew. As software developers, we're technophiles, so we enjoy these cycles and quite often find humor listening to the energy spent arguing on either side of issues. Few developers will find themselves at an extreme or precisely in the middle, and we're no exception.

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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. We draw on a wealth of experience in mobile technology, digital security and web development, and have a solid technical grounding in electronic engineering, computer science and applied mathematics.

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

Tech Zulu Event

Speakers include Scott Hunger, a principal program Manager and Lead on the Azure Application and Platform Team; Richard Campbell, cofounder of Strangeloop Networks, Jeffrey Palermo, CIO of Headspring Systems and many more! We will examine various HTML5 APIs to see how they provide key advantages to the modern web developer.

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A Day in the Life of a Product Manager

Tech Zulu Event

The challenge is in getting clear numbers, but not often as cleanly as a basic web analytics report. For example? He continues with an example where they’d spent a lot of effort on implementing tracking on every portion of a product. Machinima’s example? Online usage data, easy. His take on the matter?

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Framework Benchmarks Round 9

TechEmpower

Since the first round, we have known that the highest-performance frameworks and platforms have been network-limited by our gigabit Ethernet. 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 JSON serialization, node.js that of i7.

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