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Interview with Evan Rifkin, Burstly

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Our main differentiation from what's out there now in the mobile area, is we allow developers to target their audience segment however they want, whether that is by time of day, by campaign, and we also turn control over to application developers, so they can transparently see and target their ads, to a greater degree.

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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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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

Both Sides of the Table

We didn’t have the resources to do it all. Specifically we encouraged vertical applications like financial services and healthcare. At Chirp I would say, “Look, there are times we’re going to build functionality that conflicts with what an application developer has built.