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Planning 500,000 charging points for EVs by 2025, Shell becomes the latest company swept up in EV charging boom

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Since the beginning of the year, three companies have been acquired by special purpose acquisition vehicles and are on a path to go public, while a third has raised tens of millions from some of the biggest names in private equity investing for its own path to commercial viability. One more deal soon followed. billion valuation.

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Interview With Mike Mothner, Wpromote On Growth, Acquisitions

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We caught up with founder and CEO Mike Mothner --who we first interviewed back in 2007 --to catch up with the company, gets some hints and tips on growing a company, the challenges of bootstrapping, and why Wpromote hopes to be buying more companies in the future. We also have an office now in Houston as well as a result of the acquisition.

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Energica CEO plots her Italian EV company’s reboot from lockdown

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From lockdown in her Northern Italy home, Cevolini shared perspective on the future of motorcycling, acquisition offers and plans to recharge her company when the COVID-19 crisis subsides. The venture is also one of the few e-motorcycle companies drawing engineering tips from competition. MotoE Worldcup racing, Image Credits: Energica.

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Source13 Gathers the Biggest Names in Mobile

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Mobile first is becoming an important part of our daily lives. We interact with the world through our mobile devices, and they are quickly becoming our main vehicles for accessing and sharing information. Hence the emergence of Source13, a new mobile conference produced by Flurry. How do you discover the right people to follow?

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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They have a mobile app and I felt like it crashed too much for my liking. All applications crash and this is especially true in the nascent mobile world where dealing with device types, OS’s & networks adds one hell of a configuration management problem. Customer Acquisition. On measurement. Is it 4/1,000? lowering $1.50

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Interview: Seth Epstein of SocialStay

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Value Prop Twitter Style : SocialStay is: "An easy to set up & manage mobile platform designed for the hospitality industry. Month by month, the hospitality business is sorting out how mobile plays a role in increasing revenue and driving loyalty. Seth attended UCSB but dropped out to start a denim company. .

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Congrats To All The Winners and Thanks To Our Speakers at #REACHNeXT!

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Anyone can be a Sensay and help others to earn tips. Categories: mobile consumer, on-demand, chat. Founded a series of successful startups resulting in IPOs and acquisitions. Sensay is the marketplace valuing human knowledge and life experience. Billions of video views on YouTube. Mark Douglas, CEO of SteelHouse.