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

YoungUpstarts

Small businesses move to the cloud. The ability to self-publish quickly via the cloud is moving businesses out of traditional media. According to a survey by Aberdeen Group , almost 40 percent of small business have adopted cloud computing. Social media isn’t just for early adopters anymore.

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Managing Social Media With Fetch Plus

YoungUpstarts

One of the companies that will feature at the upcoming web and mobile technology startup conference Echelon 2011 is Fetch Plus , a social media and mobile application development company. Another realization is that getting funding from VCs may not be the best thing for a startup.

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Picking the Most Important Features & APIs for Your Mobile App

ReadWriteStart

Earlier this summer, we posed the question of whether or not native mobile applications would eventually be made obsolete by the mobile Web. The survey, conducted by Appcelerator and the International Data Corporation (IDC), found that of nearly 2,000 developer responses, 91% of them felt a native experience is key to their app's success.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

Three revolutionaries will replace the current IT dictators: Cloud , Mobile and Social. While the cloud concepts first emerged in the late 1990s, the technology only recently matured to the point where it is poised to break the chains of handcrafted infrastructure and enterprise application software. What’s the ROI?

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The Consumerization of Business Software ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The classic delineations of web products for business and consumer (“enterprise” direct selling, on premise vs cloud, etc) are only getting blurrier. 3) UI/UX Matters in B2B - For decades, B2B application developers could skimp on innovating in the presentation layer.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

Three revolutionaries will replace the current IT dictators: Cloud , Mobile and Social. While the cloud concepts first emerged in the late 1990s, the technology only recently matured to the point where it is poised to break the chains of handcrafted infrastructure and enterprise application software. What’s the ROI?

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

Its Java-based applications replicate many of the features of smartphone applications, but make them accessible to the millions of people that don’t own a smartphone. It will focus on developing storage technologies and cloud computing solutions, which will be embedded in Dell products worldwide.

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