It plans to hire specifically for e-commerce, business analytics, application development, engineering and project management areas.

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He will be responsible for guiding all aspects of the company's growth, including business development, growing the executive team and leading the development of the Leap application discovery store.

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"I think people are pretty shocked and surprised" that a deal didn't happen, says Keith Rabois, vice president of strategy and business development at Slide, a Web application developer.

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"This took a lot of software development and a lot of business development, " says Chief Executive Doug Renert , who formerly headed application sales at Oracle.

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"MetroPCS' adoption of Jibe Mobile is a major step forward in advancing our commitment to help bridge the worlds of traditional standards-based telecommunications and Silicon Valley-style rapid application development to let carriers and developers connect, and ultimately enhance, the experience of mobile consumer and business subscribers around the world, " said Amir Sarhangi , CEO, Jibe Mobile.

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