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The report, which is based on extensive research conducted by a team of three researchers, five interviewers, and eight mobile application developers between January and June 2010, provides insights into all the touchpoints of mobile app development, from platform selection to distribution and monetization. - Market penetration is hands down the most important reason for selecting a mobile platform to develop for, chosen by over 75% of respondents across each and every platform.

Everything You Need To Know About The Fragmented Mobile Developer Ecosystem

http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/05/mobile-developer-economics-2010/
Call it ingenious, call it evil or call it a little of both: Copyright troll Righthaven is exploiting a loophole in intellectual property law, suing websites that might have avoided any trace of civil liability had they spent a mere $105. That’s the fee for a blog or other website to register a DMCA takedown agent with the U.S. Copyright Office, an obscure bureaucratic prerequisite to enjoying a legal “safe harbor” from copyright lawsuits over third-party posts, such as reader comments.

The $105 Fix That Could Protect You From Copyright-Troll Lawsuits | Threat Level | Wired.com

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/dmca-righthaven-loophole/
http://blog.danilocampos.com/2010/10/13/stop-speaking-in-bullshit/ Today I read a great job posting on Hacker News:

Stop Speaking in Bullshit | Danilo Campos.blog

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/11/valentines-day-bait-switch-groupon-must-avoid-becoming-just-another-useless-coupon-site/#comment-144671358 I assume that “sale!” signs in retail businesses are usually just BS.

Valentines Day Bait & Switch: Groupon Must Avoid Becoming Just Another Useless Coupon Site

iStockphoto Sells Stolen Images – @iStock

We have received a complaint in connection with the below-pasted details from Mark Jahnon regarding materials contained in the specified web site that are infringing upon the claimant’s intellectual property rights. http://www.shoemoney.com/2010/09/22/istockphoto-sells-stolen-images-istock
http://www.bizreport.com/2009/03/citibank_slips_ads_into_online_credit_card_statements.html#

Citibank slips ads into online credit card statements - Advertising - BizReport

Businesses have to be increasingly innovative in the current tough economic climate, and some are finding new vehicles to get ads to consumers. The latest place for an ad to pop up is alongside entries on credit card statements, reports ClickZ. According to Citi Cards EVP Liza Landsman, the offers being displayed are "primarily merchant discounts and promotions and supplemental financial services offerings".

Taiwan's HTC: iPhone's `quiet' challenger - Yahoo! News

Please check the URL for proper spelling and capitalization. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100906/ap_on_hi_te/as_apple_s_challenger/

Choosing a price for your webapp or startup using multivariate testing « Boxed Ice Blog

This is the 3rd post in a 3 part series which has previously looked at our work and the metrics behind improvements to features (part 1) and the conversion funnel (part 2) . http://blog.serverdensity.com/2010/03/07/choosing-a-price-for-your-webapp-or-startup-using-multivariate-testing/

Living Self-Employed Online: The Manual They Forgot to Give You

February 1st, 2009, was a very memorable day for me. http://www.viperchill.com/self-employment-manual/
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20101001/the-way-i-work-michael-arrington-techcrunch.html

The Way I Work: Michael Arrington of TechCrunch

TechCrunch, a San Francisco-based company that publishes the influential blog of the same name, started as a hobby.

Why Intel bought McAfee

There's been quite a bit of head-scratching over Intel's decision to purchase McAfee, but, despite all the breathless talk about mobile security and ARM and virus-fighting processors, the chipmaker's motivations for the purchase are actually fairly straightforward. First, Intel's management has decided, in the wake of Operation Aurora , to move security up to the top of Intel's priority list.
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ConsumersUsing Visa | Report a Merchant Violation | Checkout Fees | Personal | Visa USA

A checkout fee, or payment card surcharge, is an unfair surprise fee that a retailer tacks onto a consumer's bill when he or she uses a credit or debit card. Visa rules do not allow retailers to charge cardholders a checkout fee for using their cards, mirroring laws in 10 U.S. states .