Archive | March 10th, 2012

Eric Chu Steps Away From Overseeing Android’s App Store, Jamie Rosenberg Expands Role

Posted on 10 March 2012

There was more than meets the eye with this week’s rebranding of Android Market as Google Play . Accompanying the new name and look is a shift in how the store is being managed.  Eric Chu , who has worked on the Android team for four-and-a-half years, is stepping away from overseeing Android’s app store and is exploring other options inside Google. Jamie Rosenberg, who has been a director of digital content for Android and was the public face for the Google Music launch , gets increased oversight for apps and games inside the store.

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3 Predictions On The Future Of Enterprise Software

Posted on 10 March 2012

Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Uzi Shmilovici , the founder and CEO and founder of Future Simple , the company behind Base CRM . The first image that comes to my mind when I think about business computing is the dystopic scene from the 1984 Apple commercial : A swarm of employees wearing the same uniforms and marching in unison into their offices where they are forced to use certain devices and software. They sit down in front of their PCs, open a business application their company paid millions of dollars to implement and, in a disciplined manner, fill out forms to populate the company’s database so their managers will be happy

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100Proof App Shows How Getting Drunk Is Killing (Or Saving) You

Posted on 10 March 2012

6 drinks for an 160-pound, 30-year-old male? That’ll take 2 days off your lifespan.

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Sexy IPOs Versus SaaS-y IPOs

Posted on 10 March 2012

Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Doug Pepper , who is a General Partner at InterWest Partners where he invests in SaaS, mobile, consumer internet and digital media companies.

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New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Power Reviews, Nickelodeon, SocialPoint and more

Posted on 10 March 2012

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 Power Reviews ,  GREE International, Inc.

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Harvest Co-Founder: “Solve A Real Pain Point, And Don’t Be Afraid To Charge For It” [TCTV]

Posted on 10 March 2012

Right now the enterprise software space is growing rapidly, but so are the number of users who need it, especially freelancers, independent contractors, consultants, and developers.

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Wikipedia Completes Transfer Of Sites Away From GoDaddy DNS

Posted on 10 March 2012

Part of the long-running (and far from over) SOPA/PIPA battle was the drawing of lines in the sand by internet companies.

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StartupBus Day Four: San Antonio to Austin [TCTV]

Posted on 10 March 2012

The “buspreneurs” have arrived in Austin! The StartupBus, which began a four-day journey from San Francisco/Silicon Valley on Tuesday morning, completed the final leg of the voyage yesterday. The teams of entrepreneurs hoping to debut new products at South by Southwest Interactive arrived by way of San Antonio, where they received an enthusiastic welcome at Rackspace. “We live in a magic moment of innovation and entrepreneurship right now,” remarked Rackspace CEO Lanham Napier as the StartupBus teams took another break from the road.

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DiCaprio-Backed Mobli Pushes Major Revamp for SXSW

Posted on 10 March 2012

Not missing an opportunity to make an impression upon hipsters, Mobli is going to squeeze all the juice it can get out of SXSW with a major app revamp, and a party in Austin to boot. Mobli, which counts Leonardo DiCaprio as one of its investors ( $4M funding to date ), is dubbing the new version, ‘Mobli 2.0′.

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At SXSW? Because Paul Carr Is, Launching His Book Today At Bookpeople In Austin

Posted on 10 March 2012

Jack McKenna here, checking in from South By Southwest to support my old buddy Paul Carr.

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