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The Difference Between Apple & Facebook ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Of course both companies use their platform to increase user lock-in which indirectly helps their core revenue streams of advertising (in Facebook’s case) and hardware sales (for Apple). Windows Mobile has been a disappointment to date but Azure (an outgrowth of the.NET framework) is growing as a force on the cloud/server side.

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StickerRide – On-Vehicle Advertising For Brands And Drivers

YoungUpstarts

StickerRide , a mobile app that connects brands and drivers to provide an efficient targeted on-vehicle advertising platform, recently announced plans to enter the US market starting with the ever-busy city of Los Angeles. Founded in 2013, StickerRide has already seen great success as a worldwide car-advertising platform in Europe.

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Twitter Link Roundup #243 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

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Flash Mobs Have More to Teach About Managing Teams Than Any Textbook – crowdspring.co/1yOIIpD. Blurred Lines: Is Native Advertising Bad Or Good? There’s No Excuse for Avoiding Strategy | Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/1udAzMJ. Is the Corporate Campus Dying? Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/1t2ydd2. crowdspring.co/1A0l3H8.

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Ubiquitous Computing and the Misguided Frenzy About “Mobile”

Agile VC

About 6-12 months ago you could hardly throw a rock in the startup ecosystem without hitting a VC expressing their enthusiasm for “mobile” Now the frenzy about mobile has extended into the mass media and public equity markets, though with trepidation as often as excitement. First the enthusiasm.

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10 Ideas For Creative Guerrilla Marketing Campaigns

YoungUpstarts

However, the biggest names in business are now turning to similar disruptive modes of marketing – from flash mobs to some spray paint. Big businesses in cities around the world are inspired to create advertising in the form of street art. Flash mobs. Banksy in Bristol showed the power of random acts of graffiti art.

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7 Useful Tech Tips For Time Savvy Business Owners

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They may even limit their content to text-only asking “ is Adobe Flash player safe ?” How does my PPC advertising campaign perform? Mobile Optimized Site. Speaking of metrics, did you know that over 50% of all web searches were performed from a mobile device? ” This is a mistake. Use Cloud Technology.

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Twitter Link Roundup #95 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Flash Tips and Best Practices for Designers: Animation – [link]. Flash Tips and Best Practices for Designers: Animation – [link]. Seven Guidelines For Designing High-Performance Mobile User Experiences – [link]. Illustrating a Series of Application Icons – [link].