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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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Internet Growth Means Big Changes For How Businesses Connect

YoungUpstarts

By John Curran, President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). When the Internet was first conceived as a better way for computers to communicate with one another, no one could predict the impact it would have on business communications. billion of them.

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[Indonesia][Event] Startup Asia Jakarta 2012

YoungUpstarts

Buoyed by the success of that event, the Tech In Asia team will be organizing another ‘Startup Arena’, this time in Jakarta, Indonesia on Jun 7-8, 2012. About 20 startups will be selected to pitch in the Startup Arena, in front of top investors, industry leaders, and press for US$10,000 as a top prize.

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Global Mobile Internet Data Traffic To Explode 13-Fold By 2017: Cisco

YoungUpstarts

Worldwide mobile data traffic is expected to increase 13-fold over the next five years and reach some 11.2 exabytes per month (or 134 exabytes annually) by 2017, according to he Cisco® Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2012 to 2017. And that’s just mobile data. More mobile users.

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What Do Increased Mobile Speeds Mean for Your Business?

Up and Running

Predicting that the mobile phone will soon become your movable office is like predicting the sun will rise tomorrow. And as the number of users expands, so does the speed of mobile broadband. And as the number of users expands, so does the speed of mobile broadband. Mobile Speeds. By mid-2012, 26.5

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How to Handle Mobile “Moneyball Syndrome” & Cross-Device Attribution

ConversionXL

billion smartphone users in 2012. billion, and by 2017, nearly half of global mobile users are likely to own a smartphone. Band-aiding a mobile experience is no longer a possible solution, as 70% of mobile searches lead to action on a website within 1 hour of searching. The Mobile Gap & The Problems It Causes.

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Making Good Decisions Still Means You're Sometimes Wrong.

Agile VC

In NextView’s case that’s seed stage internet and software companies. Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm.