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Burstly Opens Up Mobile Ad Service

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Los Angeles-based Burstly , the mobile advertising tools firm run by Evan Rifkin, said this week that it has opened up a new way for mobile application developers to sell their own advertising space. Newtoy recently revealed it has had over 10 million downloads of its game.

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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

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Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. The platform approach we took allows teams and companies and venues to access the best functionality, at a subcription price, rather than a custom development price. That provides much better reporting to sponsors.

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Interview with Bruce Nash, OpusData

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There is a portal into our database at OpusData, which allows you to log in, and run queries against the database, and produce reports which you can then save and re-run. You can also share those, and we have a widget server which allows you to republish reports you have developed. Pricing starts at $19.00

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

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Back in the day, when you went to Amazon, you ended up at Amazon Germany, where everything was in German, and prices were in German Marks. The app is simple to use, and if you think about photo polling apps, they tend to be very data oriented, reporting how many females or males like things. You had a hard time buying anything.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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The most recent report to weigh in on the troubles of the industry was produced by the esteemed Kauffman Foundation. Contrary to some press reporting, the boom in startups, the creation of accelerators and seed funds as well as the deserved popularity of AngelList do not signal doom for our industry. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

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So I agree with Fred Wilson’s post that startup applications shouldn’t simply be plugging in minor feature gaps in Twitter’s offering. Or if they do they should do so without raising venture capital so that they can still be acquired for reasonable prices. Think about the creative tension.