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What I noticed in 2013

Start Up Blog

I also reverted to more text / SMS activity which would’ve been the only domain for my social media a couple of years ago. Also the up weighting of data allowances on mobile phone from carriers. Still waiting for wearables: It feels like we are in early 2000′s phase for smart phones when it comes to wearable computing.

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Starting an Online Casino

The Startup Magazine

Conduct your research and find what works best, for example many online casinos allow customers to deposit and withdraw via their mobile phone bill using a premium rate SMS service. The launching of the site took happened in the year 2000, and since then, it continues to leave a mark in the people’s lives.

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Speech recognition anyone? AT&T; opens up Watson API

gigaom.com

The contexts are Web Search, Business Search, Voicemail-to-Text transcription, SMS speech transcription, Question and Answer, TV and a category called Generic used for general dictation purposes. Developers that exceed that amount will be charged $20 for each 2000-point increment, which works out to about 1 cent per transaction.

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8 strategic hacks for building marketplace liquidity

The Next Web

It turns out that network effects can be broken – Amazon and StubHub took on eBay in the mid 2000’s. Many of the current mobile focused marketplaces do an incredible job in time shifting demand or supply so that they can artificially be matched. The prevailing consensus at the time was that B2B marketplaces were too hard (e.g.

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270+ Tools for Running a Business Online

mashable.com

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Social media Mobile 2.0 Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Social media Mobile 2.0 ClairMail – ClairMail provides account management, mobile payments, customer service, and more, all on your mobile phone. Awsome post btw. Yalcin Great list.

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

The Mobile World Congress , possibly the largest International technology conference and definitely the most important mobile conference of the year is taking place in Barcelona this February 14-17. Mobile Apps and App stores – a new ecosystem was created and it’s here to stay (Check out LogiaGroup, Waze and Cellint).

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

When we launched the first version, what we tried to prove at first was that patients would actually want this technology driven, mobile app driven, customer experience, and to prove that, we started accepting patients, but we couldn't tell them that the service was going to be free. And I sketched something over the New Year's.