Posts Tagged ‘technology platforms

Investors have established the first investment vehicle dedicated to Android-focused startups and developers. Dubbed the A-Fund, the $100 million fund will invest between $500,000 and $4 million in products that will shape the Android ecosystem. The A-Fund is being managed by DCM, a firm with a presence in Silicon Valley, Beijing and Toyko. Additional fund [...]

Today, AT&T began to make its case to the FCC regarding the proposed $39 acquisition of T-Mobile.  Along with the requests to transfer licenses from T-Mobile USA to AT&T, the nation’s largest mobile provider also filed a public interest statement suggesting the benefits that said merger would have for customers. According to AT&T’s public policy [...]

Sacha Berik is founder and CEO of mexad, a Display Engine Marketing (DEM) agency which launched in the UK earlier this year. We interviewed Sacha about DEMs, the display ad market in Europe, as well as the emergence of ‘demand side’ agency ad networks and exchanges…  Can tell me about mexad and its business model?  [...]

When Twitter acquired Tweetie and made it their official iPhone app last week, dozens of lives and business plans were thrown into turmoil. The third-party app developers and investors who had worked together to create startups around the Twitter platform were blindsided. Some lost an entire business model or were forced to rapidly reconsider their [...]

Ever since Owen Van Natta stepped down as CEO of MySpace last month, there has been a lot of speculation surrounding the future of the social networking site. Can it function with two co-presidents? Can it turn things around and restart its growth? Can it remake and re-imagine itself for today’s social web? We know [...]


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