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Putting an End to the Dark Ages of Local Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

and there was certainly less competition from everybody pitching local merchant solutions. We spent a year (2012-2013) building a merchant acquisition machine and all of the systems to support bookings, calendar integrations, location services, etc. We have an entire dev team dedicated solely to calendar integrations, for example.

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This Philanthropist Is Winning Skirmishes With Poverty By Tapping Into An Inner City’s Entrepreneurial Spirit

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We have a rigorous screening process, and we only fund the very best programs that are able to quantify their impact. It’s an open competition that awards $100,000 and a year of management support to the most promising early stage nonprofit that is helping low-income Chicagoans to rise out of poverty.

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How YP Is Growing A Giant Tech Team In Glendale

socalTECH

Darren Clark: It was officially May 9 of 2012, when David and I and others within YP and AT&T decided that given where we were with AT&T, their core focus on wireless, we should figure out how to take the business out of AT&T, so that we would not be constrained on our investments, and we could go after markets in a more strategic way.

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How YP.com Is Growing A Giant Tech Team In Glendale

socalTECH

ON the other side, we had incredible high ranking search results when we were baked off against the competition. An example of that, is we have a product in alpha in a couple of our markets, where, in real time, a user can fill out a form and it goes out to the top five service providers who we already have vetted and screened.

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Journey Platform To Build Data Gathering Mobile Apps | Co-founder Interview Conrad Hofmeyr

Tech Zulu Event

You define the data structures that your app requires, and then the layout and logic of its various screens. While Journey has launched now in mid-2012, it is the result of technology that we have been building and deploying in production since 2009, when Embark Mobile was founded. Any competition? When was it launched?

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