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What’s FinTech, And What Does It Mean For Your Business?

YoungUpstarts

It offered independence from financial establishments, which in the wake of 2008 were universally considered unreliable, and mere convenience. That was basically the message of most advertising campaigns of FinTech companies back then. Why stand in line and sign a plethora of papers in the bank, if you can pay/send money/etc.,

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Founded in August 2008 in Palo Alto, CA, by Sam Christiansen and Keith Lee.

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From Agency to Enterprise Software: The Evolution of Buddy Media

This is going to be BIG.

I decided to go back through the Wayback Machine to figure out what Buddy has called itself over the years: 7/27/2007 – Application Developer: Buddy Media is the leading developer of applications for the emerging new media platforms, including Facebook, MySpace and other social media sites.

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

Perfecto Mobile continuously provides immediate access to the latest and most popular devices, making it an ideal service for application developers and content providers. For every campaign period, the operator defines a set of offers (for prepaid recharge, airtime or other services). With 3GVision’s i-nigma, more than 150m.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet. Microsoft has always produced the best tools for building internal business applications, and.NET is their masterpiece. Serdar IRMAK.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Dedicated To Steve Jobs, Reinforcing Mission To Restructure Capitalism

ReadWriteStart

From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Ashok Jagathrakshakan, from Bangalore, India, presented Azuyo , a mobile and social application developer. Ashok has established himself as one of the go-to guys for many 1M/1M companies that are looking for outsourced product and prototype development services.