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YouMail Gets New Competition: Google

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YouMail offers a voice mail service which allows cell phone users to preview their voicemail messages in email or on the web, convert those voicemails to text, and provide personalized phone greetings to callers, depending on who is calling. All of those features are key features of YouMail's service.

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AudioMicro Gets New, Big Competitor: Getty Images

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Los Angeles-based AudioMicro , the stock audio startup looking to provide music and sound effects, has some new competition this week: Getty Images, through its iStockphoto site. Born told socalTECH that the entry of iStock into the area "validates and expands the market" for micro stock audio. READ MORE>>.

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How ConsumerTrack Has Created A Growing, Profitable--and Mostly Unknown Business

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That allows our media buying team an dour content team to make moves, to buy more inventory on the web, and drive more traffic on the website, with the whole goal of bringing in more consumers and acquiring more customers for our clients. We rode that wave through 2007, until the housing market crashed, and we had to adapt.

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Decoding the Secret of iPhone Game Popularity, With William Volk, Playscreen

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It's an intensely competitive market in developing games for the iPhone and other mobile platforms, with thousands and thousands of titles competing for attention from users. In 2007, we tried to launch it for the iPhone web, and the platform still couldn't handle it. There is so little barrier to entry.

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Interview with Albert Ko, DealPerk.com

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I actually started my web site, CheapCheapCheap, while I was in college. I noticed that in the e-commerce realm, there was a tremendous uptick in sales, where people were promoting bargain hunting for nationwide merchants such as Amazon and Best Buy--especially as the recession hit in 2007 and 2008, and started taking a toll.

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Interview with Adam Lieber, Webtide

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We caught up with Webtide to learn more about the firm's open source web server software, Jetty. Adam Lieber: We make a web server called Jetty, which is our centerpiece, and after twelve or thirteen years of hard work is an overnight success. Where does Webtide fit into the software world?

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Interview with John Nahm, PhoneVite

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John Nahm: We started in January of 2007, and self-funded for a year. Last year, we were passively trying to get users to come to web site, experience things, and buy, this year we're going after them. The revenue we get from them covers all of the cost of the free calls, and more. How is the company funded?

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