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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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Why Your Business Isn’t Immune To Online Threats

YoungUpstarts

In its Global Phishing Survey 2H2013 , the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) said there were a minimum of 115,565 unique phishing attacks worldwide between July 1 and December 31, 2013: “This is nearly a 60% increase over the 72,758 seen (in) the first half of 2013.”. Social networking and email — 16.8%. eCommerce — 26.2%.

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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. Fast forward six years later – Fetch Plus is a growing company, and is poised for further global expansion. Growing The Business.

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From Agency to Enterprise Software: The Evolution of Buddy Media

This is going to be BIG.

, but the evidence would suggest that repositioning the company as social enterprise software was a master stroke. Within days of the launch of the Facebook Platform, Buddy Media launched 7 applications that have been highlighted in the application directory, added by more than 300,000 Facebook users and accessed by millions of others.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! There are 20x more consumers online.

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After Layoffs and Profit Warnings, 888 Buys Mytopia’s assets for $18 million

VC Cafe

Mytopia was funded by SK telecom ventures Innovation Fund, Benhamou Global Ventures and private investors. In recent months, Mytopia changed its focus and began offering Particle Code, a cross-platform application development framework for mobile devices and tablets. by midday in London today to ?0.50,

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Bridging the Gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW

Austin Startup

The Semantic Web enables a web of data, which makes the web appear as a giant global database. The web has gone social and is rapidly going semantic. 4) social network anaysis enabled by Annotations and linked data. 5) tools and techniques for end-user application development. Jans Aasman – Franz.