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Whim Takes On Instant, Mobile Dating

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A new, Los Angeles startup, Whim , has recently launched, looking to cut the time between mobile contact and a real date--saying that its app make it possible for users to find a person, and get a date the same day. Whim''s app currently works on the mobile web, and the startup said it will soon be releasing an iOS native version.

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How Addroid Is Hoping To Solve The Ad Industry's Flash Problem, with Matt Cooper

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Where do you fit into the mobile ad market? What that means, is the banner is no longer Flash, but it slcearly HTML-based, and video based. Since the iPhone in 2007, we are seeing that mobile is taking over, and what we were doing was not as relevant. HTML will get you modern browsers, but won't work on old browsers.

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Exploring A Brave New World Of Domain Names, With Rightside

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Do you think there''s some challenge to the domain industry today due to mobile? I don''t think the HTML browser is going to change. That''s actually where we''re spending a lot of time, focusing on innovation because of those issues. It''s a very different experience today from a year ago. I don''t know if it changes in too many ways.

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How Nix Hydra's Egg Baby Cracked The Code For Female Gamers

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Lina Chen: Nix Hydra makes mobile games for the young female demographic. Naomi Ladizinsky: We looked at the mobile gaming market and couldnt find the games we really wanted to play, so we decided to make them. startup interview female women mobile apple itunes eggbaby capital venture content development videogame hydra'

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Interview with Rahul Sonnad, Geodelic

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Rahul Sonnad: It runs on iPhone, Google Android, and will be running on a netbook with a major OEM this April, and in the near future you'd expect it to run on HTML alone. Tags: rahul sonnad entrepreneur startup theplatform geodelic location based mobile phone. This runs on a number of platforms? READ MORE>>.

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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

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Chris Tragos: Jetpack is an ad platform, which I would describe as the most beautiful, best engaging, and most performant ad product for desktop, mobile, and tablet. What is Jetpack, and what do you do? We are primarily focused on publishers. Our business is helping those guys make more money, through our better ad product.

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Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene

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