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SweetLabs Snags $13M

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The round was led by Intel Capital, and also included prior investors Google Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners. The new project comes on top of OpenCandy, the company's ad network effort which allows application developers to advertise and recommend their software while users are installing other desktop applications.

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Burstly Snags $1.8M For Mobile Ad Tools

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Burstly is developing mobile advertising tools for the Apple iPhone and Google Android platforms, which allows application developers to manage and optimize their advertising inventory. Tags: rifkin evan advertising mobile capital venture burstly. READ MORE>>.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers. Current round: $7mm in Series C from Atlas Ventures (lead), Benchmark, Integral Capital.

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Interview with Bryan Biniak, Connected Travel

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We had an advanced application development and innovation team. We had a new tablet we had developed back in 2007, and we were asked to come up with concepts to drive cellular usage. How did you end up working in the whole area of automotive AI? Brian Biniak: I was back at Nokia running the products ecosystem with the app store.

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

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I guess it may be impractical for Twitter to acquire Seesmic given it has raised considerable amounts of venture capital (reportedly $12 million) but the broader point for me is that I always believed Twitter should control the client versions of its product. Think about the creative tension. No, I don’t think so.