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The Last SMS

This is going to be BIG.

Texting has become an integral part of mobile communications for most people--so much so that it has replaced a lot of voice calls. To be clear, the desire to send and receive short messages isn't going away--but the need to send them via the SMS protocol may become extinct. Why call when you can just send a quick text?

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Leading Business Transformation – Featured Founder Mitul Ruparelia

The Startup Magazine

Mobile phone technological advance. Beginning of 2009, Mitul designed and sold a solution that enables mobile operators across the globe to seamlessly exchange SMS, while taking care of billing, settlement, and routing. Transformation of Mobile Handset business. billion in market capital.

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Announcing First Round’s Investment in GroupMe

This is going to be BIG.

They showed me a very lightweight HTML5 mobile site that enabled you to start a group chat that fell back to just text messages when you logged off the web. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. I was actually at the Hackathon, too… but had missed Steve’s presentation.

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

thebarefootvc

In India, two female journalists launched a mobile app to allow women to report harrassment and abuse, an issue in their hometown of Delhi and throughout the world. Applications such as Xtify , Local Response , and Placecast provided turnkey mobile solutions for retailers to target consumers.

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

Developer and publisher of social mobile games. SGN games downloaded +17mm times on mobile devices. Current round: $2mm Series B from Tomorrow Ventures (Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google) and Lars Hinrichs (Xing founder). Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. Read more: TechCrunch. CEO- Randy Breen (ex-EA, and LucasArts).

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Is 2009 the year of mobile computing?

BeyondVC

 As I look around post-holiday season, I am seeing more and more regular, non-technical friends and family get connected on their mobile devices.    Clearly that was just the beginning of a longer term trend for mobile devices to get more powerful, easier to use, and more widely deployed into the market. 

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Ireland Venture Capital/Startup Events

Jason Ball

Conor over at Argolon gave me the low-down on what’s happening on the green isle: Dublin has traditionally been the mobile dev centre here (Movidia, Newbay, Xiam, Puca, S3, Rococo etc etc) and I think that is still the case. Finally, Mobile Monday Dublin seems to be a bit quiet at the minute ([link].

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