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SendGrid Ties Into IBM Cloud

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SendGrid , the provider of email infrastructure for software developers which has major operations in Anaheim, said Monday afternoon that it has linked with IBM via its cloud marketplace. According to SendGrid, its applications are now available to software developers running their infrastructure in IBM''s cloud.

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Ampsy Taps Into IBM's Watson For Social Analytics

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Los Angeles-based Ampsy , the social content sharing and aggregation software developer led by Jeremy Gocke, has linked into IBM's Watson technology, saying it is using the machine learning technology as part of a new analytics offering. READ MORE>>.

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MaestroDev, Winston Damarillo's Latest Firm, Uncloaks At JavaOne

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Manhattan Beach-based MaestroDev , a firm developing Java build, test, and release tools for the software development community, has uncloaked at the JavaOne conference, exposing the latest firm started by GlueCode founder Winston Damarillo. He's currently heading up Morphlabs , which shares the same address as MaestroDev.

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RightScale Expands In Australia

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Santa Barbara-based cloud computing software developer RightScale has expanded into Australia, the firm said last week. RightScale is a provider of software used to manage the configuration, monitoring, and other aspects of both private and public cloud computing. READ MORE>>.

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Don Estridge, IBM PC Father, Startup Role Model

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My introduction to startups really came when I first worked in IBM with Philip Donald Estridge back in 1981. Known as Don Estridge, he led development of the original IBM Personal Computer, and thus is known as "father of the IBM PC" He’s gone now, but I still remember him fondly. mHz, now 3.0

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How Bill Gates Was A Role Model For New Entrepreneurs

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The honest truth is that I worked directly with him in the early days of Microsoft from my “safe” perch in big IBM, during the startup of the IBM PC. We in IBM didn’t get it at all, and we insisted on calling the IBM PC a “workstation” which in retrospect sounds like “work” for a bunch of robots at their “stations.”

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Trio Of SoCal Investors Back Welltok

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in healthcare software developer Welltok , which announced a big funding round this morning. Series C funding from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), IBM--via its new "Watson Fund"--and Qualcomm Ventures, along with existing investors Emergence Capital Partners, InterWest Partners, Miramar Venture Partners and Okapi Venture Capital.