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Here are the 76 products that vied for attention at DEMO Asia

76 companies met in Singapore this week to pitch their products or ideas onstage at the first ever DEMO Asia conference.

The motley group of companies came from 14 companies and showed off innovations across the spectrum, from cancer-tracking technology …

How to attract users to your app and go platinum

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If you are a struggling artist or developer working on the next great mobile app, you need a strategy for drawing in users.

Keep in mind that buying traffic to convert to users doesn’t always add up. Developing for the …

The 7 ‘creep factors’ of online behavioral advertising

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The flood of news stories on the data-collection and online behavioral advertising (“OBA”) practices of search engines, mobile apps, brand advertisers, and social networks is giving many people a very distinct feeling: the creeps. Whether the stories are about concerns …

Brands, don’t kill your social feed by over-automating it

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It wasn’t that long ago that the jury was still out on whether brands should bother cultivating a presence on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Now that the business world knows how important social media is, the next big …

Jeremy Lin, women in VC, and the bigotry of pattern matching

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Jeremy Lin is the talk of the NBA. Sportswriters everywhere are busy cranking out column inches on what people have called the ultimate Cinderella story: The emergence of an Asian-American Harvard graduate, seemingly from nowhere, as one of the NBA’s …

8 tips for entrepreneurs from a founder-turned-VC

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A friend of mine recently asked me a simple question: “After four years as a VC, knowing what you know now, what basic tips do you have for guys like me who are growing venture-backed businesses?” It got me thinking …