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Interview with Evan Rifkin, Burstly

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We cater to mobile phone developers--right now the iPhone, and coming soon to Android. You have advertising networks and mediation players, but you don't really have an ad management platform like ours. In early 2009, no one was paying attention to that, so we spent some money and devoted resources to build this. READ MORE>>.

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

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In a world in which you have strong client applications for consuming “multiproduct streams&# then they gain relative power to any individual stream (e.g. This also would give the client the upper hand in discussions with advertisers, image providers, URL shorteners, etc. We didn’t have the resources to do it all.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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The numbers of potential buyers had decreased dramatically both because large companies were shedding jobs and because many past buyers simply lacked resources to make acquisitions. This world of local meets retail meets digital advertising portends to technology disruption and with it VC opportunities. This never existed a decade ago.

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

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And being gateways to the customer they naturally extracted their pound of flesh from mobile application developers. So Apple has encouraged application developers to set loose building apps. We now have a couple of hundred thousand applications developed. Should you now hire Android developers?

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