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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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hours per day on average, and that’s excluding the other 13 hours a day where we have our mobile devices, our connected TVs, our iPads and Kindles and soon our cars connected to the web. Mobility really changes everything. According to Google data 30% of all restaurant searches now come via mobile devices. And the future?

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

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They had a viral promotional technique that encouraged your friends to download their app to watch a video they posted and a channel (Facebook) that was trying to grow its video audience. I was talking with a colleague once about how videos go viral. Look at Viddy & SocialCast. But it wasn’t to be. Underbelly.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

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Content can go viral – the highest quality stuff is shared. And with mobile you even have the ability to message your users when new content is released which leads to much higher consumptions rates. And ironically many consumer mobile apps are more of hits-driven businesses than video is today. Technology is Critical.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Social Networking is Becoming Mobile: FourSquare and Skout. Does Facebook have a permanent dominance of the future given their 500m users? The Past (1985-2002).

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Preparing Websites For The Unexpected | Smashing Mobile

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Mobile Design’s Wake-Up Call Preparing Websites For The Unexpected. Advertisement. Mobile devices shake old habits in two ways. Now, not only do we have small-screen iPhones, Android phones, Kindles, iPads and other mobile devices, but we’re asking websites to adapt to whichever device comes knocking. Newsletter.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. OTHER DEALS: 1. Total raised: $29.5mm.

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[Interview] RIM Eyes Southeast Asia’s Developer Scene

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Thousands of BlackBerry enthusiasts come together for sessions, demonstrations, hands-on labs and keynotes — all focused on creating mobile applications for the powerful BlackBerry platform. We offer a variety of platform services, including advertising and payment services to help developers monetize their applications.

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