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Realtime Raises $100M, Opens Office In Santa Monica

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Realtime , a startup developing technology to help power real-time web applications, said today that it has raised $100M, launched in the U.S., The firm, which was previously known as Internet Business Technologies, said that it has developed a language, xRTML, that helps convert existing, static HTML into real-time, live web applications.

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Interview: Clark Benson of Founder & CEO of Ranker.com - Dicusses Playing Nice With Google

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Ranker helps Internet users find the most appropriate answers to questions that benefit from the wisdom of crowds. 4) One of the reasons we invested in Ranker is because one of the current investors, who also invested in one of your prior ventures, told us, “Clark will go above and beyond to get you a return on your money.”

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How The Right Employees Have An Innovation Advantage

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Rather than punish them, it may pay you to nurture and manage their outside-the-box thinking, and capitalize on their innovations that help your customers and keep you ahead of the competition. Indeed, internal innovators usually don’t have the risk tolerance of entrepreneurs like Elon Musk, who invested nearly everything into SpaceX.

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A Night Of #Hackfest With BetterWorks

Tech Zulu Event

Some used Java, Ruby, jQuery while others used PHP, HTML, and CSS. Cool Car Pools for example, an application to help co-workers locate each other that they could carpool with, demoed an entire use case for us. Just shows to the growth in the Santa Monica area with people like the CoLoft helping to fuel the ecosystem.&#.

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

Tech Zulu Event

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming(Waite Group Press, 1996). She was a morning business anchor for KPIX, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco and made frequent appearances as an expert on Internet investments and trends on CNBC, Fox Business News, and CBS. . Leila Chirayath Janah. .