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Steve Would Be Proud: How Apple Won The War Against Flash

techcrunch.com

Late Thursday, an extraordinary thing happened: Adobe announced in a blog post that it would not provide Flash Player support for devices running Android 4.1 , and that it would pull the plugin from the Google Play store on August 15. It’s tough to believe now, but at one point, Flash on mobile devices was actually considered a feature.

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Back In The Filtering Game: Entrepreneur Drawn by The Siren Call Of The Startup

YoungUpstarts

In a flash of brilliance, we took our dial-up filter technology and built a software product that would run on any computer regardless of its Internet connection type. In 2010, the “we did it” moment arrived. com for over $10 million on December 2, 2010. It was a great idea. There was just one problem.

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2013 Top 10 Storage Trends: Hitachi Data Systems

YoungUpstarts

The Emergence of Enterprise Flash Controllers. The use of high-performance flash solid state drives (SSDs) in the enterprise has been slow due to their high price and limited durability compared to hard disk drives. Object stores will help solve the issue by reducing the need to back up and replicate unchanged data.

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

A bout 50,000 visitors from 200 countries are expected to attend the 2010 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, starting tomorrow February 15th. VC Cafe's own little 'cloud' for MWC 2010, taken from the Israeli IMA brochure. Our unique technology is called OTP (One Time programmable) FLASH.

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5 Tips To Boost Your SEO In A Competitive Online Environment

YoungUpstarts

It is super important to make sure your site functions correctly on mobile devices and does not rely on outdated technology like Flash. Eric Covino is President and Founder of Creative Signals, a full-service digital marketing agency that launched in 2010. Google expects mobile searches to outnumber desktop searches by next year!

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5 reasons VCs should favor code-savvy founders

The Next Web

Do we go with HTML5 or Flash? Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of software developers is projected to grow 30 percent from 2010 to 2020 , far eclipsing the 14 percent average growth for all occupations. Should we make the API available to developers? Is this whole “iPad” thing going anywhere? Acquiring top talent.

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The Difference Between Apple & Facebook ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Adobe has done it with Flash and PDF. Adobe is analogous… they give away software for consuming Flash and PDF content but as a result they have big software businesses selling the tools used to create this content (Creative Suite, Acrobat, etc). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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