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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. We're entering another election year, and recent history has given us unprecedented access to information and interaction with our elected representatives. Reader beware.). Open Government.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

VC Financings: 1. Other players such as Obopay have set out to focus on mobile person-to-person cash transfers, mFoundry (a GRP portfolio company) has focused on mobile banking and a mobile wallet and one of my favorite companies m-via is focusing on mobile remittances (right now between the US and Mexico). 13mm in Series B.

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SonarSource raises $412M to scan codebases for bugs and vulnerabilities

TechCrunch

An alarming report from Veracode and Enterprise Strategy Group found that nearly half of organizations knowingly ship vulnerable code despite using cybersecurity tools, often to meet release deadlines. ” SonarSource was incorporated in 2008, and one of its first products was the open source program SonarQube.

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Yes Is the Answer—and Other Ways to Succeed in Business

Entrepreneurs' Organization

You write that leaders should regularly tell employees about the state of the company’s finances—especially when it’s bad news. It’s about mixing patience with your determination to succeed. You believe that leaders should embrace their culture and values more deeply in a crisis and cite the 2008 Great Recession as an example.

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Reimagining B2B Commerce with Faire

Y Combinator

require payment financing, invoicing/approvals, inventory management) and requirements differ from vertical to vertical. As a result, B2B buyers are looking for online platforms to help with the discovery, purchase, and financing of new products. The most common example of this phenomenon is in the books category. million in 2012 to 1.55

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

“If I am buying some items and feel a bit unsafe about the merchant I’m using, if there’s a credit card, I don’t feel like I’m risking my money. Between 2006 and 2008, Klarna continued to grow as more people started shopping online.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

“If I am buying some items and feel a bit unsafe about the merchant I’m using, if there’s a credit card, I don’t feel like I’m risking my money. Between 2006 and 2008, Klarna continued to grow as more people started shopping online.