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Where to focus in 2012

Up and Running

The common tone going into 2012 is cautious optimism. Instead, focus in 2012 on your high payoff activities and leverage the abundance of low cost, no cost marketing tools available to you. Converting your site to operate correctly on smartphones should be your next major web development.

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Giving Tuesday: How BoardEffect Is Giving Back to Nonprofits

Board Effect

BoardEffect was founded in 2007 by a team of web developers that served nonprofits and educational institutions. Most nonprofits didn’t have the tools or technology to fulfill their work efficiently. The idea for Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 around the concept of encouraging people to do good deeds.

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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

New emerging technologies have been the key catalyst for in-demand jobs. Positions for software development and data science continue to expand throughout the industry. These are software engineers, business analysts, project managers, graphic designers, and web developers. Job sites such as BCjobs.ca billion in revenue.

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TechStars Cloud’s Drifty.co Plans to Double in Size

SiliconHills

already has 140,000 people using its web development tools. Founded in 2012, the company, based in Madison, Wisc., makes cloud-based tools that let anyone easily create mobile apps and websites. Max Lynch and Ben Sperry have created two products: Codiqa for mobile sites and websites and Jetstrap for developers.

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13 tech trends to adopt before the year’s end

The Next Web

Though it’s incredibly valuable to be an early adopter of 2012′s tech trends, it won’t hurt your company to be right on time with everyone else who is just discovering them now. I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs the following question: What tech trends are you watching closely in the second half of 2012?

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It’s Cool When You are Not Square

Austin Startup

Recently rated by GigaOM as one of the 10 Austin Startups You Need to Meet at SXSW 2012, SubtleData is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) company that provides mobile app and mobile web developers with iPad enclosures, back-end software for retail apps and integrated payment processing.

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We crowdfunded $1.7 million for a new online news publication. This is our story so far.

The Next Web

Ernst-Jan Pfauth is the former Editor in Chief of Internet at NRC Handelsblad, as well as an acclaimed technology author and columnist. He also served as The Next Web’s blog’s first blogger and Editor in Chief, back in 2008. His superiors weren’t all happy with this atypical approach to news and asked him to leave in September 2012.