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This Communications Service For Gamers Has Already Outgrown Slack
Citron and Vishnevskiy began their gaming careers as 5-year-olds playing Nintendo on Long Island and in Los Angeles, respectively. They were programming for money by their teenage years and further honed their computer skills in college–Citron at Full Sail University in Florida and Vishnevskiy at Cal State Northridge. After graduating, Citron worked for gaming studios for a few years before launching his own Tetris-like game on the day App Store opened. When he couldn’t monetize the game, he took the social features he had built and turned them into a service for game developers. He expanded the company, OpenFeint, to 100 employees and sold it to the Japanese media company GREE for $104 million in 2011. Citron left a few months later and, after unwinding through three straight weeks of playing Final Fantasy IV, decided his work wasn’t done. “I had this itch, and still have the itch, to build something enduring and important,” Citron says. -- Kopitiam Bot - Singapore
Trying to find the right notes
Ed Francis was born in Ohio but moved to California in 1965. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Cal State Northridge and went on to teach music at Oxnard College, Moorpark College, Pepperdine University and CSUN. -- Medical Health News
Here’s what a $17 million gift means for CSUN’s Valley Performing Arts Center
NORTHRIDGE >> The Valley Performing Arts Center at Cal State Northridge may soon change its name thanks to $17 million gift for long-term programming, university officials announced Tuesday. -- Los Angeles Daily News
Nazarian family donates $17 million to CSUN's Valley Performing Arts Center
In the 1940s, many years before he fled the Iranian Revolution and became a rich man in America, Younes Nazarian was a boy from the Jewish ghetto selling and replacing light bulbs in the alleys and bazaars of Tehran. He was slight and swift, climbing ladders and making change in a world at war. -- Los Angeles Times
CSUN concert hall renamed for Iran immigrants after $17M gift
The Valley Performing Arts Center at Cal State Northridge will be renamed after philanthropists Younes and Soraya Nazarian to acknowledge a $17 million gift from their foundation, under action taken Tuesday by the California State University Board of Trustees. -- My News LA
Water, Native Plants, and Southern California's Long History of Unsustainable Gardening
A 1929 brochure of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, courtesy of the Oviatt Library, Cal State Northridge. -- KCET
Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Have Long Resided on Ready-to-Eat Foods
Investigators from California State University - Northridge presented an abstract at the American Society of Microbiology (ASM) Microbe 2017 meeting held in New Orleans, Louisiana, showing that human exposure to antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) through food sources is substantially higher than previously thought.1 -- Infectious Disease Advisor
SCV Boys & Girls Club appoints new CEO
He earned his bachelor’s degree in liberal studies from San Francisco State University and is currently attending California State University, Northridge (CSUN) where he is working to earn his master’s degree in Public Administration: Non-Profit Sector Management. -- Santa Clarita Valley Signal
OPINION: Colleges are impelling the injustice of ‘social justice’
There are now more than 100 U.S. colleges and universities that offer majors, minors and advanced degrees in social justice, according to a recent analysis from The College Fix. Among these are at least 64 minor programs, 18 four-year degree programs, 15 master’s degrees and two doctorate programs. The list includes California schools like the University of San Francisco (minor in Jewish Studies and Social Justice), the University of Southern California (minor in Gender and Social Justice), Cal State Northridge (B.A. in Social Justice and Social Welfare) and Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara (doctoral concentration for Ph.D. or Ed.D. in Inclusive Leadership for Social Justice). -- Orange County Register
WATCH: Steven Adams talks about Kobe Paras, Paul George, and Enes Kanter
Adams is in town for the NBA Philippines 3X happening from July 22 to 23 at the SM Mall of Asia Music Hall. The even will feature 3-on-3 tournaments plus appearances from the Laker Girls and former NBA coach and Kobe Paras' current mentor at CalState Northridge Reggie Theus. -- Rappler - Philippines