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Announcing First Round’s Investment in GroupMe

This is going to be BIG.

What you might lose in the power of search and virality, you gain in the additional ways users will interact with you. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. What we saw here was Twitter built for the way mainstream users want to connect. The next two should get announced in a couple of weeks.

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

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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. The viral nature of social media no doubt aided this growth, as did improvements in the online shopping experience.

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Is 2009 the year of mobile computing?

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  Ever since, he has been using the phone to take pictures nonstop, send emails and SMS messages, stay connected to Facebook, and surf the web looking for the latest news or directions.   More importantly, will there be any grand slam venture capital opportunities in wireless? 

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Cracking The Code: iPhone, Apple TV and more from Mac World

Cracking the Code

Venture Capital. (3). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Explore Venture Capital. Aside from the sleek design, the iPhone has an amazing user interface. The multi-touch screen enables the user to perform several operations at the same time and everything is very intuitive. Favorite Podcasts. (1).