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Mobile Productivity Tools for Business

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012 -- Mobile Productivity Tools for Business. Mobile Computing is one of the most exciting and important trends we have experienced in a very long time. Eliminating the barriers of time and place allows us to be productive when we are ready to engage. Techbizconnection. See [link] (more)

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What Mattered in 2012: Aber Whitcomb, io/LA

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We've also invented and patented a new technology called "MasterKey" that allows people to play our games natively on all relevant social and mobile platforms. It's worth mentioning that the largest and most complex pieces of technology ever created has proven itself useful in 2012--the Large Hadron Collider or LHC. Or Tapes and CDs?

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Rubicon Project Goes Mobile

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Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , the online advertising optimization firm headed by Frank Addante, has launched an offering for the mobile advertising market, the company said this morning. Rubicon said its new REVV for Mobile product helps publishers to sell mobile ad inventory, through both direct and indirect sales channels.

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Product Development

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Thursday, June 14, 2012 -- Software Product Development - How to Triple Your Likelihood of Success. Product development has always been challenging. Software products, while being easier to mold and perfect, offer additional set of management and technical challenges. The industry average rate of success is only 29%.

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Green Dot's Mashup Of Mobile Startup, Bank Powers GoBank

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How was Monrovia, California-based Green Dot able to quickly launch itself into the mobile banking category? Through two strategic acquisitions, one made in late 2011, and one made in early March of 2012. in assets, and with the acquisition in March of last year of mobile software developer Loopt. READ MORE>>.

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What Mattered in 2012: Howard Marks, StartEngine

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I think that the biggest news for StartEngine this year is our productivity. 2012 has been a remarkably interesting year in terms of developments in technology. Following that, I think mobile advertisement technologies. Howard Marks is co-founder of Activision , and head of Los Angeles-based startup accelerator StartEngine.

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The Shed is a startup out of Virginia trying to revive the rental-for-everything business

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. “We don’t buy product,” said Perrone. “We take delivery of all the products and rent them out in the local marketplaces where we do business.” Rodgers O’Neil came up with the concept back in 2012 when she was working as a marketing executive for General Electric out of Boston.

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