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Dec

08

2015

Factors which determine the cost of a Mobile App

Since mobile apps are usually free to download, we often think that these apps are free. But this is not the case. To create great apps, an efficient mobile app development process requires a number of efforts, a strong foundation, excellent planning, an extraordinary ecosystem, and a perfect team with skilled human resource. The cost of apps varies due to a number of factors and the market conditions at a particular point in time. It also largely depends on the type of the app which needs to be developed. According to a survey in which almost 96 app developers were interviewed, the…

Dec

06

2015

Top 10 Highest paying Companies for Engineers

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=942727662485914 1. Juniper 2. Google 3. Salesforce 4. Facebook 5. Boardcom 6. Altera 7. Xilinx 8. Cisco 9. F5 Networks 10. Yahoo

Dec

05

2015

Software Houses in Lahore you should know about

Growing up in Lahore, we were always told that our city was hailed for its abundance of great food. People from all over the country used to (and still do) come to Lahore for their foodie fix, whether it was desi food they craved, Chinese or fast food. Now, with the advent of the modern age, I hope that the new tech-savvy generations growing up in Lahore will be urged to feel the same pride when they learn about the hundreds of people who leave their own cities to come work in one of Lahore’s famed software houses. Not only…

Dec

02

2015

MomentCam, with 200M downloads, wins Facebook’s first Fb Start mobile app contest

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Facebook has crowned the winner of its first-ever Fb Start competition, a contest that sought to identify the best apps in the world that are part of its program aimed at helping mobile developers. The grand prize winning team, which will receive $50,000 in cash and $25,000 in Facebook Ad Credit, is Beijing, China-based Hightalk Software, makers of MomentCam. The app, which allows users to easily create and share customized caricatures of people, has been downloaded more than 200 million times. Fb Start also named a set of regional winners, each of which will get $5,000 in cash and $5,000 in…

Dec

02

2015

Facebook has given startups $250M in FbStart benefits, schedules F8 developer conference for April 12-13

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Facebook announced that its global developer program FbStart is growing rapidly, with the number of participating startups rising by 61 percent in the past five months. The company also revealed that today it’s rolling out a new sharing feature for developers. Oh, and one more thing: Facebook announced the dates for next year’s F8 developer conference: April 12-13 at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, California. Deborah Liu, the vice president of platform at the social networking company, spoke at a press conference today about how Facebook is reaching out to developers worldwide through FbStart. Seventy percent of Facebook’s developers come from outside the U.S.…

Dec

02

2015

Founders of Microsoft, Facebook, LinkedIn, Amazon, and more to invest in clean energy tech

Bill Gates and a group of elite private investors — including Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg, Alibaba cofounder Jack Ma, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, and Salesforce founder Marc Benioff, among others — on Monday announced the launch of Breakthrough Energy Coalition. Gates says the new multi-billion dollar clean energy research and development initiative “will help companies get clean-energy innovation out of the lab and into the marketplace.” You can read the initiative’s principles here, but the broad focus is on bringing “widely available energy that is reliable, affordable, and does not produce carbon.” The launch was timed to coincide with the opening…

Dec

02

2015

How Facebook’s FbStart program helped MomentCam pass 300M downloads

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In 2014, Facebook launched an initiative aimed at giving assistance to local developers to help them produce applications that would have a beneficial impact on their community and region. Since that time, the company has provided $250 million in benefits. But what makes FbStart so effective? To answer that question, look to one of its supported startups. At last year’s F8 developer conference, Facebook hailed MomentCam as a model example of FbStart. Deb Liu, Facebook’s vice president of platform, said in a statement: “We reviewed hundreds of applicants to find the ones with significant growth and retention, the best user experience…

Dec

02

2015

Cornell wins its bid to build a Stanford of the East Coast

Cornell University is erecting a massive, important new science and engineering campus on New York’s Roosevelt Island, just half a bridge away from Manhattan in the middle of the East River. The two million-square-foot campus will cost $2 billion to build, with around $100 million of capital coming from the city of New York. The full, permanent campus is expected to house as many as 2,500 students and almost 280 faculty, and won’t be completed for 30 years. However, classes will begin at another location off of Roosevelt Island in 2012, and the first phase of permanent construction on Roosevelt…

Dec

02

2015

A glimpse of Cornell’s new tech campus, the future of NY startup scene

For three years, Cornell University has promised New York City a technology campus to rival Stanford University. Today, the university and its partners revealed the first glimpse of Cornell Tech, the campus to come. During a press briefing, Cornell Tech’s senior director of capital projects, Andrew Winters, gave an overview of the campus and what still needs to be done before it opens in summer 2017. In total the campus, which is roughly half a mile long, will be home to ten buildings, including academic buildings, two residencies, a hotel, a central utility plant, and mixed-use buildings that will include co-working spaces and studios.…

Nov

26

2015

Russia – S-400 Air Defense System

Russia to deploy S-400 Air Defense System to Khmeimim airbase in Syria to Protect its Jets near Turkish Border. The System can track and shoot targets from as far as 400 KMs.