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Apple Starts Accepting iPad Applications; Launch Apps Must Be Submitted By March 27

There are only two weeks left until the iPad’s April 3 launch date, and Apple has just started reaching out to developers to say that they’re accepting applications that were developed specifically for the device. We’ve included the Email below. The key takeaway: If you’re looking to have your app available at [...]

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Fri, March 19 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Burbn’s Funding Goes Down Smooth. Baseline, Andreessen Back Stealthy Location Startup.

For the past several weeks, there have been quite a few whispers around the web about a new service called Burbn. Besides having a great name, the service is apparently in a very hot space right now: location-based services. I say “apparently,” because the service is still very much a stealth project. But it’s not [...]

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Fri, March 5 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Why Hit Up One Happy Hour When You Can Hit Up 15,000?

Village Voice Media has always been about location. Their publications (which include Villiage Voice, SF Weekly, and 12 others) are highly tailored towards specific cities. So it makes some sense that they’d get into the mobile social location space that is getting so hot right now. But you might not have thought it would be [...]

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Tue, March 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Flavors.me: A Dead Simple Way To Pull Your Online Presences Into One Place

If you’re reading this post, there’s a good chance you have multiple online profiles scattered across various services, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, and Twitter. And one problem you may face is pulling all of this information together to build a single online identity — be it for personal use, or to create a professional online profile. [...]

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Tue, February 23 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Why Apple’s New Ban Against Sexy Apps Is Scary

Last night, we reported on a new restriction that was being applied to Apple’s App Store: no more applications with “overtly sexual content”. At this point, the exact nature of that ban is unclear. But it’s a policy shift that may alarm many developers — even those whose applications have nothing to do with [...]

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Sat, February 20 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

A Googler Has his Tiananmen Square Moment

Earlier today I was driving to Google for a product briefing, minding my own business, talking on my Google phone with Google PR and trying to figure out what Google building I was supposed to be driving to. I stopped at a crosswalk for a bunch of Googlers to pass. And this guy, who’s wearing [...]

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Sat, February 6 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Ten-Year Venture Capital Returns Continue To Slide

Ten-year returns for Venture Capital firms continue to slide downwards for the 5 and 10-year periods ending on September 30, 2009 according to the Cambridge Associates U.S. Venture Capital Index, the VC performance benchmark of the National Venture Capital Association.
As investments in startups during the lucrative 1990’s tech boom are no longer included, ten-year returns [...]

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Mon, February 1 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments