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10 Companies Want To Show You The Money

YoungUpstarts

Requirements: You must be a safe driver, not afraid to put miles on your ride and an iPhone or Android in order to use the Lyft mobile app. An on-demand mobile marketplace allowing busy people to outsource their errands and tasks for a fee. Paul, San Francisco, LA, San Diego, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, and Washington, DC. Task Rabbit.

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Brazil is using the law to push innovation, but here’s how it can do more

The Next Web

operations for Brazil-based Movile , a mobile platform for content and commerce. This is a step forward for the Good Law—which has already helped Brazil a lot—but private business and government need to start doing more to truly help launch Brazil’s mobile potential. Eduardo Henrique is the head of U.S.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

But their hypothesis that migrants could or would use smartphones was invalidated – their Customer Discovery interviews revealed that many migrants use only basic mobile phones because they fear that more expensive models may be stolen by smugglers.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

But their hypothesis that migrants could or would use smartphones was invalidated – their Customer Discovery interviews revealed that many migrants use only basic mobile phones because they fear that more expensive models may be stolen by smugglers.

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Divalicious Puts A Shopping Mall In Your Hand

YoungUpstarts

But if even those cannot satisfy you, you may want to look at Divalicious , a mobile application that aims to put a full shopping mall experience in your hand for shopping on-the-go. We took the application one step further than other mobile shopping applications,” says Andrew Weyrich, CEO, Weyrich Enterprises, which developed Divalicious.

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[Event] Ukraine, Thailand And US Take Top Spots At Microsoft Imagine Cup 2012

YoungUpstarts

. “Whether it’s using the cloud to aid in disaster recovery, inventing technology to make education more accessible to erase the digital divide or making it possible to diagnose medical conditions using mobile phones, the Imagine Cup has inspired students to imagine what once was considered impossible and make it real.”

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5,500 miles for #BookingHacks All Women Edition

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

The hackathon intrigued me in many ways: 1) it was for only women, 2) they wanted participants from 6 different functional roles (UX, FE, BE, mobile, PO/PM, and copywriters), and 3) all participants get to travel to Amsterdam. Portugal, Germany, Australia, Kazakhstan, and USA were represented on the team. Now to our hack.