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2012 Will Be The Year Of The Empowered Merchant, says Schedulicty

YoungUpstarts

Jerry Nettuno, founder and CEO of online appointment scheduling service Schedulicity , believes that 2012 will be a year that will see a majority of small businesses harness and leverage the power of technology and online productivity tools to effective manage and grow their business. 2012 sees extreme contraction in the Daily Deal space.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. In Q2 of 2012, 362 million mobile phones shipped and it is increasingly rare to see business users who don’t have smartphones or tablet devices. Experience – e.g. are the cloud vendors performing as advertised?

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The CEO’s CEO

Ben's Blog

If you start out building automobiles, you won’t likely pivot over to become an online advertising network. On the surface, an excellent outcome, but in 2012 Oracle will exceed that number in annual revenue from the BEA product family. In the end, being a publicly traded company proved to be the company’s Achilles heel.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. In Q2 of 2012, 362 million mobile phones shipped and it is increasingly rare to see business users who don’t have smartphones or tablet devices. Experience – e.g. are the cloud vendors performing as advertised?

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. So it is unsurprising that an over-funding environment and the commensurate returns hangover would have lasted until about – well – 2012.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community – August 2012

Rob Go

Topics have included “Leveraging Pinterest”, “Mobile Commerce”, and “Facebook Advertising” Future Forward and Nantucket Conference – Two high quality, invite only conferences for tech leaders and executives, both increasingly open to bringing in young blood. Entrepreneurial Development Firms.

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HTML5: 10 Provocative Predictions For The Future

readwrite.com

Like the “Made for Internet Explorer” badges of the 1990s, developers are now proudly advertising “Made for Chrome” in their apps. According to Google’s own stats, as recently as mid-2012, these versions of Android (mostly 2.3.x) Fortunately, the 2012 holiday season seems to have broken the logjam. on Twitter. on Google+.

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