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No Co-Founder? Y Combinator Offers Matchmaking at Startup School

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There were a host of reasons—she wasn’t a software engineer, she had no product development experience, and she wanted to launch a consumer item that was already sold widely by established enterprises.

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Kyocera Wireless Sells Indian Operations

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San Diego-based Kyocera Wireless has sold its Indian subsidiary, Kyocera Wireless (India) Pvt. employs approximately 600, who provide wireless product development, software engineering, and product testing for Kyocera Wireless, and also develops custom handsets for Indian service providers.

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Networks In Motion Names VP

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Irvine-based location-based services (LBS) firm Networks in Motion said this week that it has hired on a new Vice President of Engineering at the firm. Fathi Hakam has joined the firm from Kyocera Wireless, in San Diego. Networks In Motion said that M. He has also served at Motorola.

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3D Robotics Raises $5 Million In Funding | Expanding To New Markets

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Currently the firm has 40 full time staff but will be hiring more hardware and software engineers. The firm will also be launching a new 3D Robotics store, new product sites, manuals and expand its tech support communities and support team.

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With New Program, DARPA To Encourage Safety “Brakes” For Gene Editing

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Megan Palmer, a fellow and biosecurity researcher at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, hoped DARPA’s program would encourage a more holistic approach to biosafety in a growing field where many people, such as software engineers, might not have thought much about biosafety and security risks.

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How Will Apple Innovate Beyond the iPhone 7? With Next-Gen Siri

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Already on that plateau are products like the commercial jet airliner, which hasn’t changed much since Boeing introduced the 747 in 1970. Planes have evolved on the inside through the addition of features like all-glass cockpits and fly-by-wire software. Maybe, before phones can get smarter, software engineers have to get smarter.