Barr also works as a social media consultant to Location Labs, a provider of mobile safety apps to wireless carriers, and she is occasionally paid by other app developers to review their products.

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In other EMC big data news, it has opened in Israel its second EMC Labs location (the first was opened in China last year).

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And in 2008, he started Mixer Labs, a service for helping developers build geo-location applications that Twitter acquired in December 2009.

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After struggling to recruit Android developers, location-based social network start-up Gowalla Inc. hired Pivotal Labs to build its Android client.

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