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Demo day arrives for Springboard’s Internet of Things accelerator

The Next Web

Today is the day that eight hopeful startups got to pitch their ideas to investors at startup accelerator Springboard’s Internet of Things (IoT) demo day in Cambridge, England. What WiCastr purports to do is allow people to access content across all of their smart devices, but without the need for an app or even an internet connection.

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From Israel to Pakistan, Community is Key When Building a Startup (Google I/O)

VC Cafe

Below are the highlights from the panel as well as some interesting audience questions. . When I moved to VC, I found out that there were no good consumer internet startups. Jeff – we look at mobile, consumer Internet, games and SaaS. In Bulgaria, where I’m involved in a new fund, it’s a desert.

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Facebook Acquires Israel’s Snaptu For an Estimated $60-70 Million

VC Cafe

Snaptu is a fast-growing application for feature-phones (or not-so-smart phones) which serves as a mini-app store for WAP-Internet phones. One of the differentiators of Snaptu, is that the company chose the feature-phone market as its core audience. source: [link].