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Tapatalk Raises $5.8M For Web Forum Apps

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in a seed funding round, which came from Floodgate and Accel Partners. Tapatalk''s software is widely promoted in online community forums to help users better browse and read messages from various community forum software products on their mobile phone or tablet. mobile software capital venture community forum tapatalk'

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Vurbl Connects With $1.3M

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in a "pre-seed" funding round, the company announced on Wednesday. According to the company, it will use the funding to develop and launch its platform. The company says it plans to launch its web-based platform in Q4 2020, with plans for mobile apps in the future. The CEO and Co-Founder of Vurbl is Audra Gold.

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Kixer's Co-Founders On Mobile Ads and Early Exits

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Kixer develops mobile advertising software which helps publishers and connects mobile web users with apps. Omar Nicola: When we launched the company, it was no surprise that content publishers were struggling to monetize their mobile audience. Most people really hadn't tapped into the mobile web.

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ShareSquare Raises $150K

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QR codes are three dimensional barcodes which can be recognized by mobile phones to connect users with web sites and other information. Los Angeles-based ShareSquare , a new startup focused on the QR Code creation area, has launched its services this week, focusing on helping musicians and entertainers create QR codes.

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Interview with Michael Wong, MergeLocal

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Are users willing to check into local businesses with another, mobile check-in product? For local businesses, we're also giving them free mobile web sites, and working on other relationships. Can you talk about how your company is funded? We're also funding it out of pocket.

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Why Sidevision Is Tying Content, E-Commerce Together, with Justin Wu

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We recently spoke with co-founder and CEO, Justin Wu to learn more about the company, which so far has received a small seed funding from Warner Bros. could use it as an enterprise, to allow them to do what they do on social, mobile, and the web more interactive, and have greater interaction with their viewers.

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

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Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. Founded by Shervin Pishevar (COO of Webs). Developer and publisher of social mobile games. SGN games downloaded +17mm times on mobile devices.