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4 Reasons Gen Z Will Rule The Tech World By 2020

YoungUpstarts

The new generation is coming of age and marketers turn their gaze to the new consumer focus group. Generation Z is making its way into the market and its starting to reshape the tech world with their views and preferences. Social networks will once again have to adapt to the preferences of the new leading generation.

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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. During the launch of Blackberry 7, RIM executives mentioned that Southeast Asia is a key market for developing applications.

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Managing Social Media With Fetch Plus

YoungUpstarts

One of the companies that will feature at the upcoming web and mobile technology startup conference Echelon 2011 is Fetch Plus , a social media and mobile application development company. Fast forward six years later – Fetch Plus is a growing company, and is poised for further global expansion.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). People mistook the fact that these text advertisements worked in Google to say they would work in social networks.

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2012 Will Be The Year Of The Empowered Merchant, says Schedulicty

YoungUpstarts

With the launch of Siri, Apple’s new voice-activated personal assistant application, developers will be hard at work on incredible voice-activated apps that will not only help small business productivity, but offer a unique way for businesses to stand out in the eyes of the consumer. Social media gets marketing dollars in 2012.

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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. Marketing and Communications. Your mileage may vary. Real-time Communication (internal and external).