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Amazon’s Selz Acquisition is Encouraging News for Small Businesses

Tech.Co

Not only has he become the richest man in the world again, leapfrogging a certain Mr Musk, but it has also been revealed that Amazon has quietly acquired ecommerce platform Selz. In fact, ecommerce website builders and platforms have become seriously big business over the last few years. It's been a big week for Jeff Bezos.

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Q Manning of Rocksauce Studios | Founder Interview

Tech Zulu Event

Apps aren’t going away now that the technology of having a powerful computer in your hand has reached consumers. Our world is hustle & bustle, fast and furious – we need technology that keeps up with a society that is connected 24/7. Mobile app design is worlds apart from web design. Refinement.

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Appallicious & the Age of Open Data

Tech Zulu Event

As fast as life moves, technology moves even faster. Especially on the local level, and especially when it comes to embracing technology. They need a government that is more open, more available; a government that speaks their technological language. Technology moves fast. Want to take a trip down memory lane?

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

From the Venture Trenches

Jeff told us of his life-long passion for technology and start-ups, which spoke volumes about the drive, dedication and focus needed to make any business a success. Consequently, Jeff is a big believer in B to B opportunities or SaaS platforms, like Jeff’s own Leads 360. Jeff Solomon holding court in the kitchen.

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An Unlikely Unicorn: Lynda.com’s Journey From Garage To $1.3B Sale

InfoChachkie

Under Bruce’s innovative guidance, the company was an early adopter of the Internet, creating online videos long before platforms such as YouTube became ubiquitous. In 1995, Lynda wrote one of the first books on web design, Designing Web Graphics. 10:10] “I completely failed. I did not do well.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

Plus, he told us a little bit about how he's helping to build a mini cluster of technology companies in the Silverlake area. SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform. We started working on local web design projects, but got sick of that in six months. Alex Benzer: I'm actually building two startups.

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Interview with Ilya Pozin, Cofounder of Pluto TV

socalTECH

I started a web design company, and ended up going to college in Florida, but kept on running the company on the side. That gave me the general landscape view and understanding of online technology businesses. I had always kind of been a computer nerd, and had been starting companies in high school.

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