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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

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TaskRabbit has (people) making over $5,000 a month in San Francisco," says Craig Shapiro, founder of Collaborative Fund, a venture-capital fund specializing in sharing sites. Julianna Iran, a tax consultant from Pasadena, Calif., Car owners on RelayRides make on average about $250 a month, says founder Shelby Clark. Ad Choices.

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Soundbites from the future

Start Up Blog

Does the store have an emotional footprint or large ‘sale’ signs? What we’ve seen in digital…’A mashup co-creation, mass customised society’… we will inevitably see in retail…. These founders are imbuing their new businesses with the values of our time. They’re happy to facilitate revolution in Moldova, Iran, Egypt and Libya.

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DataSift Announces Mega-Round. Apple Buys Topsy for $200 Million. Here’s What You Need to Know

Both Sides of the Table

It isn’t simply that when a leader in the US calls off negotiations with Iran he puts it on Twitter or when a leader from Iran rebuffs that Tweet publicly that a signal is created but it is the unseen. ” How can businesses not incorporate information into their marketing and sales funnels? should I go Audi or BMW?”

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200.000.000 mobile users, for starters – Q&A with Viber CEO Talmon Marco

The Next Web

We had a chat with Viber founder and CEO Talmon Marco to go beyond the facts in the press release and see how the company is faring. How, when and why did you co-found Viber Media? Viber is currently blocked or disrupted by Iran and Vodafone. The only interference we see is from Vodafone in some countries, and in Iran.

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