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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

there is a wealth of opportunity in home security, public safety, workplace safety, health/fitness, contextual advertising, automated video editing, customer education/support, retail (checkout and loss) and parking/traffic management. Verticalized Video Understanding – machine interpreted video.

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The future of search is being reinvented with generative AI

VC Cafe

Makes sense, as companies can adopt a SaaS model and not require huge scale to monetise via advertising. Will Google cannibalise its advertising business in a generative AI search world, or will ads be inserted into generated results? The rest of the competition in the generative AI search space is focused on enterprise search.

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Picking the Most Important Features & APIs for Your Mobile App

ReadWriteStart

For multimedia capabilities, camera and video functionality lead the way with just over half of the respondents choosing these APIs. Least Desired Features/APIs. This trend is also evident in the survey results, as advertising and commerce functionality rounded out much of the middle and latter half of the rankings. Amazon 18%.

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FLoC: Google’s Plan to Kill Off Third-Party Cookies

ConversionXL

Safari and Firefox have already started to wean advertisers from them. Decisions that affect Chrome—with a nearly two-thirds market share —are decisions that affect the Internet, especially paid advertising. The first three go hand-and-hand—if advertisers can measure and get a good return on ad spend, they’ll keep buying ads.

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Can App.net Make It? On Dalton Caldwell’s Talk At SXSW.

YoungUpstarts

In the age of the advertiser supported social network, one person is trying to flip the script and create a paid social network. Some might dismiss Caldwell as a person not in touch with the necessity of advertisers to support a platform. Second, he ended up having to pull the API that developers were developing apps on.

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Shopify Guide — Here’s How to Become an Expert

ReadWriteStart

You have the following categories and subcategories to become the Shopify Expert: Marketing and Sales: Search engine optimization Email marketing Content marketing Search engine marketing & advertising Conversion rate optimization Analytics and tracking Sales channel expert Sales and marketing guide Online Shop Design: Store design or redesign (..)

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The Semantic Web Opens a New Age for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

A bigger step is a recent personal assistant startup, Maluuba , an Android-based Siri competitor, who just unveiled a new platform to provide app developers with a natural language processing API.

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