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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

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Enter the huge innovation in AJAX (asynchronous Javascript and XML), which let us redraw individual portions of the screen and therefore mimic user behavior on on-premise applications. Enter Flash, which gave us a multimedia development environment. So Apple has encouraged application developers to set loose building apps.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. In fact, the majority of Americans are now carrying computers in their front pockets. This world of local meets retail meets digital advertising portends to technology disruption and with it VC opportunities.