Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Jay Jamison, a Partner at BlueRun Ventures , who focuses on early stage mobile, consumer and enterprise investments. He also serves on the boards of AppCentral , AppRedeem , Foodspotting , and Thumb . You can follow Jay on Twitter @jay_jamison or read his blog at www.jayjamison.com .

Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Frank Barbieri, the SVP of Emerging Platforms at YuMe . You can follow him @frankba I had dinner last week with a senior exec from a global advertising holding company who asked what I often get asked these days, “What’s going on with mobile advertising?” it’s a timely question as last week Apple announced they were lowering the buy-in price for iAds from $500,000 to $100,000 and increasing the publisher revenue share from 60% to 70% .

Editor’s Note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan  is the founder and CEO of  WatchMojo , he hosts a weekly show on business and has published books on success. Follow him @ashkan .

Editor’s Note:  TechCrunch  contributor  Semil Shah  currently works at  Votizen  and lives in Palo Alto; you can follow him on twitter  @semil They say hindsight is 20/20. By now, everyone knows about the fastest-growing site on the web

The  Inside Network Job Board  is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the  Inside Network Job Board , including positions at SponsorPay ,  GREE International, Inc. , Social Point , King.com,   Atari , TinyCo , Addmired , PlayMesh ,  Spooky Cool Labs ,  Identified ,  XMG Studio ,  FashionPlaytes, Inc.

Editor’s note: Pedram Keyani has been an engineer at Facebook since 2007 . He is a manager on the Site Integrity team, the inventor of Keg Presence and a Hackathon enthusiast . Looking for internships and jobs after college can be exhilarating, especially for people with engineering and other technical expertise.

Allow me just a little self-congratulatory chest-beating. Four years ago I started writing a near-fiction thriller about the risks of swarms of UAVs in the wrong hands

The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — inaugurated a new title format where the topic replaces the date of the show release (it’s in the URL). Today’s topic: what it always is, Apple’s relentless march toward encircling Windows in a sea of HD-quality iOS devices

Editor’s note : Verne Kopytoff is a technology journalist who lives the the Bay area. A college textbook can cost a staggering $200

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