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DEMO: Poynt adds location-based advertising tool for local businesses Multiplied Media is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective.Poynt, a location-based mobile search engine from Multiplied Media, today announced the launch of the Poynt Offer Engine, an advertising tool for local businesses to push promotions to potential customers nearby. Poynt, available on the iPhone, Android phones, and BlackBerrys, lets users search for services and products and provides results based on their location at the time of the search. Upon launching the app, the users can choose from five categories: restaurants, movies, businesses, people and gas. From there, they can either automatically see what’s in their area or search for something specific. For local businesses, the company has set up a dashboard which allows them to manage their promotions and see how many mobile users are in their area in real-time.

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DEMO: Yapper makes it easy for media publishers to build mobile apps SachManya is one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Fall 2010 event taking place this week in Silicon Valley. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains objective.SachManya, a maker of mobile publishing tools, helps media companies create applications without writing any code. The startup is launching version 2.0 of its mobile app platform, called Yapper, today at DEMO. Using Yapper, short for Your App Maker, publishers of books, magazines, and newspapers can build a mobile app in just 30 minutes with a visual tool that shows what the app will look like as it’s created. The first version of Yapper focused primarily on republishing RSS feeds as iPhone apps, but Yapper 2.0 allows publishers to build apps for iPhone, iPad, Android devices, and BlackBerrys.

Guanxi For the autonomous region, see Guangxi. Guanxi describes the basic dynamic in personalized networks of influence, and is a central idea in Chinese society. In Western media, the pinyin romanization of this Chinese word is becoming more widely used instead of the two common translations—"connections" and "relationships"—as neither of those terms sufficiently reflects the wide cultural implications that guanxi describes.[1] Guanxi has a major influence on the management of businesses based in China, and also those owned by overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia, known as the bamboo network.[2] Description and usage[edit] At its most basic, guanxi describes a personal connection between two people in which one is able to prevail upon another to perform a favor or service, or be prevailed upon.

DOES MINIMALISM MATTER? It has been the defining style of our era, but now it’s in retreat. Stephen Bayley works out whether less will soon be no more... From INTELLIGENT LIFE Magazine, Autumn 2010 Last June I shared a cab with Grayson Perry, one of Britain’s best-known artists. DEMO: Qualcomm Ventures doubles down on startups with its second startup competition Qualcomm Ventures is kicking off its second annual QPrize competition today for the best startups in the wireless technology ecosystem. The communications giant will award $750,000 in total seed funding to the winners of the contest. The venture capital arm of Qualcomm made the announcement at the DEMO Fall 2010 conference today in Santa Clara, Calif. It will formally announce the winner next spring at the DEMO Spring 2011 conference. The company will open the competition to entrepreneurs in North America, Europe, China, South Korea, India, and Israel.

Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India Entrepreneurship in the world's 2 most populous nations, China and India, has through modern times been somewhat asleep. But now, says HBS professor Tarun Khanna in a new book, both societies "have woken up," and the results could reshape business, politics, and society worldwide. "In some sense people in these societies are running faster than their rules and laws can keep up. DEMO: HP’s Phil McKinney explains company’s multibillion-dollar acquisition spree Hewlett-Packard has been on a huge acquisition spree, spending almost $5 billion on companies such as Arcsight, Palm, Fortify and 3Par. It’s difficult to see any rhyme or reason to the collection of new assets. But Phil McKinney, vice president and chief technology officer for HP’s Personal Systems Group, said today at the DEMO Fall 2010 conference that the aim is to create a one-stop shop for customers to buy complete systems that are already integrated and working together. “You integrate them and take the burden off the customers of doing that,” he said in a conversation with VentureBeat Editor-in-Chief and DEMO emcee Matt Marshall. “I understand what it takes to take disparate parts and stitch them together. It’s hard.

CHINA BUSINESS: How to Make Business Connections in China - Ed Gilligan - The Conversation There’s a debate whether or not the reputed Chinese proverb <a href=" you live in interesting times” is a blessing or a curse. I’m not going to tempt fate or argue semantics. As I see it, there are three truths about this greeting and what they may mean for making business connections in China. 1. We are absolutely living in interesting times.

HP's WebOS slate confirmed for early 2011 SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Hewlett-Packard's rumored slate that will run off of Palm's WebOS is in fact coming in "early 2011" according to remarks from Phil McKinney, HP's vice president and chief technology officer for the company's personal systems group. During an interview with VentureBeat's founder Matt Marshall as part of this year's Demo Fall conference, McKinney said that the WebOS-based version of the company's slate is well on track for its release early next year, but that HP is currently working hard to get its Windows 7-based slate out the door first.