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Announcing First Round’s Investment in GroupMe

This is going to be BIG.

They also couldn’t have asked for a better syndicate of investors. What you might lose in the power of search and virality, you gain in the additional ways users will interact with you. Personally, I’m incredibly psyched about the scope of the vision and feel very lucky to be working with such a promising young team.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Takadu’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product enables utility companies to detect leaks, bursts and equipment failures as well as alerting personnel of any problems through email and SMS. “5min Media is the perfect complement to our powerful video capabilities&# – Tim Armstrong, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AOL.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

It’s not for a lack of technological effort from both startups and huge companies in all of mobile payments’ incarnations – SMS, mobile web, native apps, NFC, etc. NFC, SMS). My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. A new form of user authentication (e.g. Facebook Connect). Previous Entries.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Twitter as a company has encouraged this by granting DataSift “re-syndication rights,” which means that the company can ingest the full Twitter fire hose and resell subsets of it to other parties who want to consume a smaller stream, which is more cost effective in data licenses and in IT resources needed to consume the data.

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How Web APIs Unlock Value in the Cloud

mashable.com

Network Operators: AT&T, Verizon, Deutsche Telekom, and others are getting in the game with APIs exposing network resources, including SMS and carrier-billing for in-app purchase. Global Syndication Partners. AT&T, for example, recently published more than a hundred public network APIs to stimulate app development.

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