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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. Aziz: RIM has over 300,000 registered developers globally. Over one billion apps downloaded to date.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! There are 20x more consumers online.

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After Layoffs and Profit Warnings, 888 Buys Mytopia’s assets for $18 million

VC Cafe

Mytopia was funded by SK telecom ventures Innovation Fund, Benhamou Global Ventures and private investors. Launched in 2008 by brother and sister Guy and Galia Ben Artzi, Mytopia offered a casual games community, where users can play against each other in real time. by midday in London today to ?0.50, 0.50, giving a market cap of ?174

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Bridging the Gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW

Austin Startup

The Semantic Web enables a web of data, which makes the web appear as a giant global database. It was a simple and extremely powerful idea, and SMW now encompasses an active worldwide developer community. The web has gone social and is rapidly going semantic. 5) tools and techniques for end-user application development.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

mashable.com

This decision initially drew some criticism, with members of the developer community questioning the company’s decision to just use HTML5. With the recent Readability kerfuffle , it’s possible that more developers will start considering a mobile web approach for their applications. .&# All Rights Reserved.

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

VC Cafe

Datanetis’s solutions enable organizations to leverage, for the first time, social networks and social influencers as part of their marketing activities on a large scale. IBM Global Technology Unit (GTU) – The GTU is leading the cooperation between IBM and many Israeli Telco oriented high-tech companies.

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

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. 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.

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