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When The Mobile Evolution Turns To Revolution

YoungUpstarts

With the rapid global penetration of smartphones and tablets and the increased data speed of 4G networks, mobile applications are riding a wave of explosive growth. New releases can be distributed and sold directly to the consumer via the mobile app.

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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. We have quite an open platform, that allows any registered developer to take advantage of our APIs, tools, services, etc.

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Choosing The Right Mobile Application Architecture

YoungUpstarts

The idea of mobile application development for the enterprise is rapidly catching on, as mobile apps are now an obvious (and critical) path to both generate revenue and improve the customer experience for today’s modern businesses. What will you do to brand, distribute and support the app?

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

Both Sides of the Table

And being gateways to the customer they naturally extracted their pound of flesh from mobile application developers. So Apple has encouraged application developers to set loose building apps. We now have a couple of hundred thousand applications developed. Why does iPhone only come on the AT&T network?

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How to Build the Next Huge Mobile App

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The advent and growth of social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and, now, Pinterest has heralded a new era in the Internet where people are connected to one another to share, discover, curate, and collaborate. Thus the application developers would have to think differently about getting user attention and engagement.

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How Not To Run Your Own Technology Startup

YoungUpstarts

P.S. Three types of external providers are not mentioned because they are well known: open-source software stacks, domain name (DNS) providers, and marketing/social networking sites. LinkedIn – Leveraging each person in the company’s network. Mobile Application Management. Your mileage may vary. Backend Support.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers. Total raised: $29.5mm. Read more: CrunchBase profile , TechCrunch. Total Raised: $17.7mm.

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