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The Case For Web-Based Mobile Apps – An Interview With UR Mobile

YoungUpstarts

As small businesses increasingly look towards mobile applications as a marketing strategy to reach their customers, the question some of them are asking is this: Is it better to go with a native application (i.e. He argues that deploying mobile web applications may be better value for small businesses. How quick and easy is it?

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Top 3 Reasons Why Your Board Needs a Secure Communications App

Board Effect

Another eye-opening statistic is that there’s been at least one health data breach per day since 2016. The breach that was disclosed in 2016 just settled for a mere $117.5 users that had accounts between January 1, 2012, and December 31, 2016, were affected. has successfully been targeted by hackers more than once.

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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

In 2016, 16.4% Developing a popular mobile scheduling app, they raised $1.2 In 2016, Winnipeg’s tech market saw a growth spurt which led the city to become a booming center for tech talent in Canada. Since 2012, it produced half of all the tech jobs added to Canada, per the CBRE research done on Canadian tech talent.

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Alexander Interactive’s 3 E-Commerce Predictions For 2012

YoungUpstarts

With the continued explosion of Apple’s iPad and other tablets in 2011, 2012 will see an expanded focus on tablet commerce. In addition, Forrester predicts mobile commerce growing at CAGR 39% through 2016. by Alex Schmelkin, co-founder and president, Alexander Interactive. Tablet Commerce Takes Off. Small Sites Catch Up.

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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. During that time, we watched the first wave of mobile apps take off — Foursquare, GroupOn, Instagram, Twitter, etc. But we got serious in early 2016 when we developed deep conviction around the immense technical vision of Ethereum.

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The Future Of Mobile Phones Is NFC

YoungUpstarts

The first computer was the size of a room, now the latest mobile phones are in essence super computers the size of our palms. He founded GoGORILLA in 2012, which quickly gained traction with its innovative RFID solutions for large-scale events, concerts, sports, and shows. It is also possible to never overspend again on holiday.

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An update on Version One’s thesis: backing mission-driven founders

Version One Ventures

We raised our first fund in summer 2012. At that time, Version One was a generalist firm, investing in consumer Internet, e-commerce, SaaS and mobile companies. By 2016, we had begun to specialize into a thesis-driven firm , focusing on businesses with potentially large network effects built around people and/or data. .

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