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[Interview] RIM Eyes Southeast Asia’s Developer Scene

YoungUpstarts

During the recent launch of Blackberry 7 OS in Singapore, Research In Motion (RIM) executives had shared that Southeast Asia was a potential hotbed of application developers with whom they were keen to work with. Do you have any interesting statistics about the number of apps developed per country for this region?

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”.

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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. ” to.

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Monetizing Social Networks: The Four Dominant Business Models and How You Should Implement Them in 2010

venturedig.com

The advertiser (IQ Quiz), will pay the Facebook developer (you) each time a user fills out their email address or phone number. For instance, LivingSocial is an application where users can make a list of their favorite things. Tags: Tech application development facebook monetization social media.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

This world of local meets retail meets digital advertising portends to technology disruption and with it VC opportunities. The desktop web introduced banner ads that offered “brand advertising” opportunities akin to television. Businesses are also one-click from advertising through Google and now Facebook.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

mashable.com

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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.

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