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We interviewed  Mark Ghermezian  and  Bill Magnuson , co-founders of  Appboy  who hope to make the mobile app space  a happier place  for both developers and consumers alike. Mark and Bill share their vision of the Mobile CRM space with our SocialGreg .

Most of the time when you think of the "Digital Divide", you may think more of the economics of the "haves" and "have nots." The "Digital Divide" is really about accessibility for groups no matter what the cause. A release caught my eye this week that will address this divide for seniors. It has been documented that getting grandma and grandpa on-line can help things like depression and cognitive skills .

Nerd Stalker interview with Sam Rahimi and Tammy Manor of Canadian startup iBroadcastTV(we broadcasted this interview live on iBroadcastTV). iBroadcastTV is a social broadcasting service that allows you to have your own personal TV channel as well as allow users to view others personal TV channels. Sam and Tammy tell our Greg Viloria aka @SocialGreg their path to entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley and their vision for iBroadcastTV.

Very interesting Amazon is offering tuition assistance for their full time associates of 3 years or more. From Amazon, "Amazon Career Choice Program FAQs What is the Amazon Career Choice Program? The Amazon Career Choice Program is an innovative program designed to expand the choices available to our associates in their future career, whether that's at Amazon or in another industry. Many Associates will choose to build a career at Amazon. For others, a job at Amazon may be the first step in a career path in another industry. The Amazon Career Choice Program provides associates with a resource for building the job skills needed for today's most in-demand and well-paying careers, such as aircraft mechanics, computer-aided design, machine tool technology, medical laboratory science, dental hygiene, and nursing, to name a few. Who is eligible for this program? All Amazon full-time hourly associates in the U.S. who have been employed for three consecutive years are elig...

I'm a (was?) Huge fan of Sparrow the uber clean email client popularized on the mac, today brings huge news that they have been acquired by Google. I'm cautiously  optimistic  that Google will incorporate or improve on the fantastic foundation of Sparrow, however I'm pessimistic on the existing mac and ios application based on this quote from the Sparrow CEO, " We will continue to make available our existing products, and we will provide support and critical updates to our users. However, as we’ll be busy with new projects at Google, we do not plan to release new features for the Sparrow apps.". Hey existing Sparrow users, will you jump ship for another client? If so what alternatives are you considering? Let us know in the comments.

We caught up with Ahmed Siddiqui, Leader of Startup Weekend Bay Area at their headquarters located at the RallyPad . Ahmed gives his perspective on big companies and how they are reaching out to developers. Also, he gives some tips to entrepreneurs on providing value to big companies.   SoLoMo Startup Weekend is Coming on July 27 Ahmed talks about the next event on July 27 called SoLoMo. Qualcomm is sponsoring the event. Check it out here Here is a link to Ahmed's previous interview here on Nerd Stalker.