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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. Developer in a Box – the ability to go from a human description of an issue to a draft solution, in code, to the problem.

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The future of search is being reinvented with generative AI

VC Cafe

Makes sense, as companies can adopt a SaaS model and not require huge scale to monetise via advertising. Will Google cannibalise its advertising business in a generative AI search world, or will ads be inserted into generated results? The rest of the competition in the generative AI search space is focused on enterprise search.

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[Interview] RIM Eyes Southeast Asia’s Developer Scene

YoungUpstarts

During the recent launch of Blackberry 7 OS in Singapore, Research In Motion (RIM) executives had shared that Southeast Asia was a potential hotbed of application developers with whom they were keen to work with. During the launch of Blackberry 7, RIM executives mentioned that Southeast Asia is a key market for developing applications.

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Picking the Most Important Features & APIs for Your Mobile App

ReadWriteStart

Many agreed that the power of the mobile Web and cloud over native apps may be an inevitability, but according to a survey released today , four out of five app developers say their customers prefer a native experience. Least Desired Features/APIs. Here are some results from the survey that may surprise you. Amazon 18%. TwitPic 19%.

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Shopify Guide — Here’s How to Become an Expert

ReadWriteStart

Whether you are a Shopify designer, developer, industry authority, or someone who wants to start a Dropshipping business, to become an expert, you will have to learn all the crucial aspects of the marketplace. Unarguably, Shopify has many difficult aspects in growing in the development industry and web design.

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FLoC: Google’s Plan to Kill Off Third-Party Cookies

ConversionXL

Safari and Firefox have already started to wean advertisers from them. Decisions that affect Chrome—with a nearly two-thirds market share —are decisions that affect the Internet, especially paid advertising. The first three go hand-and-hand—if advertisers can measure and get a good return on ad spend, they’ll keep buying ads.

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Can App.net Make It? On Dalton Caldwell’s Talk At SXSW.

YoungUpstarts

In the age of the advertiser supported social network, one person is trying to flip the script and create a paid social network. The join.app.net campaign of the summer was designed to get developers excited about the platform and to get them to build applications for it. by Garrett Heath. Leading a 20-person sales team. “I

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