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The Difference Between Apple & Facebook ? AGILEVC

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Windows Mobile has been a disappointment to date but Azure (an outgrowth of the.NET framework) is growing as a force on the cloud/server side. Adobe has done it with Flash and PDF. Microsoft has two huge ones in the Windows OS and Xbox. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

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Ubiquitous Computing and the Misguided Frenzy About “Mobile”

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About 6-12 months ago you could hardly throw a rock in the startup ecosystem without hitting a VC expressing their enthusiasm for “mobile” Now the frenzy about mobile has extended into the mass media and public equity markets, though with trepidation as often as excitement. First the enthusiasm.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened. Mobile payments are the trillion dollar industry that everybody’s been waiting for but has never materialized. But nearly everyone has wrongly placed emphasis on the mobile technology part and not on the payments aspect. June 12, 2012.

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Should Apple Buy Hungary?

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More recently acquiring Quattro Wireless created the iAds mobile ad network and Siri was of course a technology acquired from SRI. Semi, flash memory company Anobit, and security hardware – Authentec) to be integrated in various iStuff. Lastly Apple has bought several component companies (chip companies Intrinsity and P.A.

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