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Meet Our Startup of the Year Competition Semifinalists: Mobile Therapy

Tech.Co

From apps to hardware, to KickStarter successes and international startups, we’re inching closer to finding out who will take home the title of Startup of the Year competition at our annual Celebrate Conference in October. Among the dozens of participants that applied for the online competitions, only a few progressed into the semifinals.

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Interview with Hamilton Chan, PaperLinks

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Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

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How Kazuhm Is Reconnecting The Enterprise Cloud, With Tim O'Neal

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If you're a large, enterprise company, in recent years, cloud computing has become an increasingly large--and expensive--piece of your information technology (IT) mix. I also spend a chunk of my career in software development, working on enterprise applications.

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

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Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. I don’t intend either, Burstly has respectable and strong competition. I’ll explain in detail below. Enter Burstly. I like that.

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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

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In addition to the video, we also deliver everything around that video, including metadata, all the user information, all the subscriptions and monetization, and data that happens around video. What we specialize in, is the way we deliver this content in a seamless way, in high quality, with the latest technology available.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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First, I have chosen who to follow on Twitter so the information in my stream is self selected. I have to imagine that it will continue to suck time away from search as more people are discovering information from their friends and peers rather than seeking it out through search. Just ask MySpace. Why do you believe Ad.ly

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers. Competition: McAfee , Symantec. If you want the easy version you can read that story here !