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Yapert Raises $1.2M For Mobile Magazine

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in a seed funding round, for its interactive mobile magazine. Yapert''s moblie magazine focuses on musicians, celebrities, athletes, fitness stars, and others, with a particular focus on stars and brands. The company said it will use the funding for continued platform expansion and sales and marketing. READ MORE>>.

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Robb Report's Bill Curtis On Why Podcasting Is The Next Media Frontier

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We have published 74 different magazine titles over the last 30 years. Bill Curtis: It's by far the most exciting platform right now. We get to take what we love best, which is create uniquely entertaining and authoritative, informative content, and put that in a medium people are actually enjoying and receptive to.

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Peter Coffee's Annual Technology Forecast

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One of the best-informed, and entertaining, technologists is Peter Coffee. Peter Coffee is Director of Platform Research at salesforce.com. Peter Coffee is Director of Platform Research at salesforce.com. Don't miss the pre-meeting roundtable. See [link] (more)

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How Yapert Puts All Your Interests In One Mobile App, With Phil Kelly

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Phil Kelly: We''re an interactive, mobile magazine, which I think is probably the best way to describe it. What we''re doing, is curating the most popular interests, brands, and entertainers, which comprise the interest in the social web, and putting in on one platform. Explain exactly what Yapert is all about? READ MORE>>.

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Driving User Engagement With FEM's Video Recommendations

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Rachel Payne: FEM is a video discovery platform that provides quality, relevant video recommendations for any website, app, or content network that is seeking to drive more engagement around video. I was running the largest deals in the media and entertainment video area across many different Google products. magazine, for example.

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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

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As you know, today, video is one of the primary means of communications from a personal, corporate, and entertainment level. We are unique in being an open platform, that allows for all of these variations to happen. The second thing, is instead of being just a platform, we also have content partners pre-integrated.

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From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

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If we had a blogging platform then, we would have been blogging. from university professors, to VCs, to entertainers, the bankers, to other entrepreneurs, and that''s what the media picked up on.". Magazine ended up doing a cover story on Kyle and I called, An American Start-Up. “We started sending out the newsletter.