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SendGrid, a cloud-based email delivery company headquartered in Colorado with a second office in Anaheim, has raised $21 million in its latest round of funding and plans to use the money, in part, to do additional hiring.

The company currently has 70 workers combined in the two offices. Robert Phillips, a company spokesman, told the Boulder Daily Camera they expect to have more than 100 on staff by next year.

About 60 percent of the staff is in Boulder and the rest are in Anaheim. Phillips said he expects that ratio to continue.

Among the Anaheim openings listed on SendGrid’s website are senior Linux systems administrator, corporate recruiter, Ruby on Rails engineer or architect, product manager and enterprise sales director. Get more information at SendGrid’s careers website.

Bessemer Venture Partners led this round of financial. Foundry Group, Highway 12 Ventures, SoftTechVC, 500 Startups and Bullet Time Ventures, which are existing investors, also participated.

SendGrid said it has more than tripled its customer base since it was founded in 2009 and now sends out 2.6 million emails a month for customers in 150 countries.

“This investment allows us to more quickly fulfill our original vision of making email simple and easy for developers everywhere,” said Isaac Saldana, SendGrid’s president and co-founder. “Although we intend to expand quickly, we will remain focused on developers by continuing the expansion of our market-leading platform, growing developer relations and providing outstanding support.”

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Nvidia’s low-power, low-cost, ARM-based Trim-Slice is easy to set up and run, and it delivers as a build server. – Tools

Once the processor is running and memory has been initialized, timers and devices must be started up and a memory map laid out. only then, can the OS be loaded. – Design

Give up your sequential linked lists in favor of tree structures for all of your unordered data when processing that data in parallel. – Parallel

Ahead-of-time compilation, metaprogramming Java objects, real threads, and the ability to call Java directly from Ruby code are all ways in which JRuby improves on the standard Ruby distribution. – JVM Languages

Historically speaking, the most profound change in the way we build software today is in how we care for the user. – Design

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Going to the very heart of the developer’s toolbox, we select four outstanding tools. – Jolt Awards

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A new report suggests that LinkedIn’s value has surpassed the $2 billion mark, based on recent investments from outside investors.

According to Bloomberg, hedge fund Tiger Global Management spent $20 million to acquire approximately a 1% stake in the business social network. the hedge fund specifically paid $21.50 per share.

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Noida, Uttar Pradesh — (SBWIRE) — 01/10/2012 — Open Source Development is a leading flash-based online game development company in India. the online game development company focuses only on providing quality PHP game development solutions to provide complete customer satisfaction. whether a client is looking for stand-alone gaming solution or planning to integrate game apps into a website, the game programmer possess the skill-set to meet the requirements on time without any compromise with quality.

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