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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

Farmers subscribed to daily updates via SMS on weather and crop prices. Villagers in rural areas are now connected to health services via SMS updates and “dial a doctor” services. Villagers in rural areas are now connected to health services via SMS updates and “dial a doctor” services.

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Launching The Customer Loyalty Programs The Big Guys Use? Slow Your Roll!

YoungUpstarts

With all of these factors in the backdrop — and keeping in mind potential sensitivities around giving out personal information — consider the following ideas for your loyalty program: Use SMS Text Features. Avoid developing a smart phone app unless there is a very compelling reason to have one. Don’t Worry About an App.

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Speech recognition anyone? AT&T; opens up Watson API

gigaom.com

Ma Bell has taken the locks off of its Watson speech application programming interfaces (APIs), allowing any developer to access them. Like Nuance, AT&T has developed specific taxonomies for specific use cases, allowing its servers to anticipate the words and phrasing consumers are likely to speak in a particular context.

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Soundbites from the future

Start Up Blog

SMS Slingshot: converging the digital world with a physical interaction [link] A great way to brand events around a city which is cool, a digital crossover and temporary. It’s hard to believe but new printers are being developed that can take images off the screen and replicate them into an actual size unit.

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Ireland Venture Capital/Startup Events

Jason Ball

Continuing with the Startup Events theme , I thought I’d start posting what I’m seeing around Europe. We’re only just dipping our toes into mobile/wireless etc in LouderVoice with SMS reviews/customer feedback. Medium term aim is full LBS functionality along the lines of Socialight or Whrrl.

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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

VC Cafe

There hasn’t been such a full list of Israeli startups coming to Europe since Barcelona’s World Mobile Congress. The UK is Israel’s second largest export market following the US, but Israeli startups often ‘forget Europe’ when it comes to Internationalizing their product. Betterview - Company Website.

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200.000.000 mobile users, for starters – Q&A with Viber CEO Talmon Marco

The Next Web

We are a little over 100 people, developing on about a dozen platforms. The company is based in Cyprus with development centers in Belarus, Israel and China. There are a few: - Speed of development: we need to release lots of features and fast. Also read: Free mobile messaging apps will be the death of SMS. Eventually.

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