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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has donated $12.5 million to support 20 projects in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The goal is to Supply 20 million unbanked people with mobile financial services by 2012. The Mobile Money for the Unbanked (MMU) will work with mobile operators, banks, finance institutions, government to encourage affordable mobile [...]
YouNoodle sophisticated model analyzes information on start ups before they get funding to help predict their outcomes. The model is based on rigorous quantitative analysis of historical data and the application of the latest relevant theory.
The model focuses on the team (backgrounds, education, dynamics between team members), advisors (backgrounds, track record), financial factors, and company [...]
Mike Butcher from techCrunch UK had a video interview with Travis Katz, international head of MySpace at Mobile World Congress to get his views about MySpace mobile traffic. Check out the Video
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CEO Greg Yardley of Pinch Media in a recent presentation shows the drop-off rate in iPhone app usage. For free applications, only about 20 percent of users return to use the app the first day after they download it. The chart for paid apps shows a slightly steeper fall-off rate. The Presentation has been embedded [...]
Robin Wauters posted on Techcruch how TinyChat enables people to create web based chat by generating a unique URL that can be shared with anyone you choose to invite to chat with.
Instant chat rooms are starting to become pretty popular on micro-sharing service like Twitter. The service was created by Daniel Blake from Tinychat. [...]
Kerpoof, that launched at 2007’s TechCrunch 40, has been acquired by Disney. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.The company’s technology is primarily image-based with little instruction needed thus making it simpler for Kids
Source DMW Daily
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A visual web-based application editor that allowed users to develop enterprise applications, has closed its doors. The company attributes its closing to the dire economic situation, and says that users will be able to access and download their data through April 30, 2009.
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Bearingpoint one of the world’s leading IT and management consultancies has filed for protective bankruptcy in the US.
Formed from KPMG Consulting in 2001, management say their work will continue as normal while the restructuring takes place. Source Computerworld
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Israeli startup Clarizen has created a project management and collaboration tool specifically aimed at non-project managers. They have received approx $15M in funding and have been in operation from 2005.
The tool allows the project participants to assist in the planning, even if the project has already begun or if the resources are dispersed between two [...]
The channel, YouTube.com/Vatican, will broadcast short video news clips of upto 2 minutes duration produced daily on the Pope’s activities and what’s happening at the Vatican. The Channel aims to help establish relationships with Catholics, from around the world.
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Ok a few days back i was hanging out with a few friends, one of them asked me what Android was all about and the advantage of Android phones versus Apple iphones.
I am not a developer or a techo intellect, this was what i shared with my friends offline and thought it would be cool [...]
David Nelson a 15-year-old has created a free-music service by harnessing YouTube’s vast library of music videos. The service enables people to stream Youtube music straight to their PC without visiting Youtube. Users can build pluralists and organize this similar to iTunes. The 15 year old said “It’s really the first 100% free, legal method [...]
All the questions below i found on Google Moderator.
1. Does Googlebot have a preference in URL structure?
Matt Cutts replied to this as
“I would recommend
long-haired-dogs.html
long_haired_dogs.html
longhaireddogs.html
in that order. If your site is already live on the web, it’s probably not worth going back to change from one method to another, but if you’re just starting a new [...]
