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Vzbp Dots, Betaworks    New Super Addictive iOS Game, Nabs 1 Million Downloads In One Week
 As a聽typical game, there wouldn ;t be much to write home about here. But what&  stanley termos 8217  clever is the integration with the iOS Notification Center   a place you don ;t normally find entertainment experiences like this.It   always interesting to see what app developers can come up with when they push the boundaries of what   possible with the current technology, of course. In the past, that   led to interactive Notification Center apps like Launch Center Pro, which lets you launch apps right from the Notification Center, or Workflow, which puts shortcuts to frequent actions into stanley quencher  the Notification Center, for example.To date, these sort of tappable widgets have been more purpose-based or utility driven, however.  Steve&  stanley tumbler 8221; changes that by offering a mindless time-waster of a game requiring little commitment on the user   part. You don ;t even have to launch an app.After installing the game, if you tap its app icon, it will just display t Lfth This startup wants to make China   s electric scooters as desirable as iPhones
 Matt OguzContributorMatt Oguz is founding partner at venture/science, a San Fra botella stanley ncisco-based quantitative investment firm.More posts from Matt OguzA beautiful duopolyEnrico Fe stanley flaschen rmi and the future of venture capitalEditor s note:聽Matt Oguz聽is managing director of聽Palo Alto Venture Science.In my previous article, I wrote about how multi-factor analysis of startups helps avoid decision biases such as availability   anchoring or the famous  herd mentality.  The merits of the theories behind this approach go back to the 1950 s. But based on the feedback our team received, we felt encourag stanley coffee mug ed to share a sample analysis with everyone to explain the inner workings of the process. With that in mind, we ran the Y Combinator Summer  14 class through our models.First, let s take a look at the methodology to refresh our memory. The idea behind Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis  MCDA  is to instill transparency and consistency to the process of picking alternatives among an available batch. Prof

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 As it stands, a growing segment of the聽nation   youth聽is far聽too聽credulous when it comes to the media they are consuming online, with Ofcom聽finding聽that聽British kids sometimes lack the understanding to decide whether the digital content they are viewing is true or impartial.Its聽latest media use and attitudes report, which surveyed聽the聽views of U.K. children and parents in 2015, charts a rise in trust stanley quencher  in online information among kids, with nearly one in ten of eight- to 15-year-olds聽apparently believing the information they encounter on聽social media websites and聽apps is  all true    a doubling of the rate from last year   report.In one sense this is hardly surprising, in an聽era of increasing stanley termohrnek ly blurred lines dividing editorial content from聽marketing and advertising. Not to mention聽the sys stanley us tematic聽appropriation of user generated content by the likes of giant ad-powered social media platform businesses, such as Facebook, to use as聽a trusted backdrop in order to Jomk Investors Say Logistics Companies Are In For The Long Haul
 The researchers validate the claims by combining yelp reviews of 328 San Francisco restaurants with a database that tracks real-time reservation availability from 6-8pm. The power of Yelp to fill a restaurant   seats and the owner   pocketbook holds up even when controlling for the establishment   d茅cor, service rating, and cost.Careful readers may note that a higher-quality rating may simply denote a better restaurant, and the study is therefore only capturing patrons wh stanley bottles o prefer a better experience, who choose where to dine independent of Yelp   rating. The researchers answer this critique by looking at restaurants whose Yelp rating differs by only a little bit, b stanley website ut whose official rating i stanley cups s at least one-half star different.For instance, a two restaurants, one with a 3.74 rating and one with 3.76 rating, are similar in actual equality, but because they ;ll get rated by yelp 3.5 and 4.0 respectively, could receive dramatically different reservation rates.See

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Ptgl Freelancer Marketplace Ooomf Becomes Crew, Grabs $2.1 Million
 CEO Jack Dorsey took to the site to retract an earlier statement that Twitter support had left the videos live due to their being  newsworthy for public interest,  a guideline it s invoked numerous times when criticized about its decision to leave up presidential tweets. The site now says that, while it wasn t wrong to keep the content up, its original justification for doing so was wrong.聽 We  stanley cup mistakenly pointed to the stanley drink bottle  wrong reason we didn t take action on the videos from earlier this week,  the executive explained, echoing Twitter s official statement that,  these videos are permitted on Twitter based on our current media policy. We mistakenly p stanley cup ointed to the wrong reason we didn t take action on the videos from earlier this week. We re still looking critically at all of our current policies, and appreciate all the feedback. See our safety calendar for our plans and ship dates. https://t.co/yGytH3eskM— jack  @jack  December 1, 2017Dorsey added, however that the site is,  still lo Sywd Amazon Gets Feisty, Updates Homepage To Talk Smack On The iPad Mini
 The aim is to improve industry transparency around credit risk聽and create more precise and up-to-date Stanley becher  consensus views by aggregating the internal assessments聽of large banks on their institutional borrowers ; credit worthiness.聽Its system specifically produces estimates for probability of default and loss g vaso stanley iven default聽 聽used聽for risk management and more broadly as benchmarks聽in the financial industry.Bottom line: a dozen banks ; risk assessments should be聽better than one.聽聽 Although, to make a counter point, the financial crisis was arguably the result of skewed group-think. But hey, maybe banks have learned a few聽lessons since then& 8230; Let   hope so, eh. Credit Benchmark describes its system聽as a  contributed data  model. The data is rigorously  stanley quencher anonymized   it says it has created  robust technological, security and legal frameworks for managing contributed data, guaranteeing the confidentiality of individual contributors  estimates and

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Ojlr Cloud HR Startup Zenefits Is Looking To Raise A Giant New Round Of Funding
 VR instruction will be used at each of the retailer   200  Walmart Academy  training centers in the U.S. by the end of the year, helping e stanley tumbler ducate the estimated 150,000 employees that will go through the program each year. Each location will have an Oculus Rift headset and gaming PC showcasing a collec stanley termohrnek tion of VR training content.The virtual reality instruction Walmart will be using is entirely 360-degree video-based and will include interactive on-screen cues asking trainees to make stanley flasche  decisions after encountering various situations. These scenarios may be related to customer service, management or seasonal situations like encountering the Black Friday rush in VR.Training experiences will range from around thirty seconds to about five minutes and are meant to supplement traditional instruction.The startup building these training experiences is STRIVR Labs, a relatively low-profile VR company that had previously focused largely on developing VR training for collegiate and p Wyzf Amazon launches the first of its own subscription VOD channels, Anime Strike
 The startup is looking to build a working version on a five-mile section of California   Quay Valley, which is a model town that was intended to be a 150,000-resident solar-powered city. The project was put on hold in 2008 and rights were聽dis stanley cup puted during a lengthy period of聽litigation, but the聽new Hyperloop system is designed to be a sort of monorail for the renewed project, which is supposed to offer around 25,000 houses and mixed commercial and business buildings in its reborn form.The constrained track means it won ;t get faster than 200 MPH, which is far below the projected 760 MPH top speed of Musk   original design. But stanley quencher  the intent is just to stanley shop  prove viability of the project on a smaller scale, while also going beyond making something that is strictly a tech demo.Musk plans his own test track for the super-fast commuter train, the billionaire multi-CEO tweeted back in January. His intent with the project is to provide opportunities for third parties looking to test

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Rrnd Ziff Davis Is Buying NetShelter/InPowered   s Display Ad Business
 According to the pricing page, seven popular TV shows will still show pre-roll and post-roll ads due to studio rights   New Girl, Scandal, How stanley drinking cup  to Get Away with Murder, Grey s Anatomy, Once Upon a Time, Agents of Shield an stanley quencher d Grimm still carry ads.At least you won ;t get commercial interruptions right in the middle of an episode with the new subscription tier. In the days of YouTube pre-roll ads, many people are already used to having to watch 15 seconds of advertisement before seeing the actual content. And of course, for the rest of the catalog, the company removes all the ads. But let   hope that Hulu will make sure that new shows won ;t carry ads going forward.The new subscription tier is 50 percent more expensive than the existing subscription plan. It makes Hulu more expensive than Netflix   Netflix subscribers now pay between $7.99 and $11.99 per month. Hulu still provides a free service with limited content for computers.Today  stanley water bottle   news comes as Hulu Komz VMware Not Cloud Leader 鈥?Next Generation Providers Filling Gaps, Creating New Categories
  In the world of cloud computing, APIs are the new currency,  Microsoft   VP of its developer division S.  Soma  Somasegar told me last week. But if that   true, then how can you best create an API for your service termo stanley s  There are a number of API management services on the market   and some of them so stanley cups ld for a lot of money recently   but you won ;t find all that many API creation tools out there. That   the niche InstantAPI, which is launching at TechCrunch Disrupt Europe today, is going after. With InstantAPI, developers can create聽an API for their services and publish them in minutes.As InstantAPI co-founder and CEO Scott Ling told me last week, he had been thinking about a service like this for a while and first started working on what would later become InstantAPI in early 2013. The team then canned the idea for working on a quantified-self  stanley thermos startup for a bit, but after this & 8220 tupid diversion,  as Ling called it, the

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Uigb Slidebox brings its Tinder-like photo management app to Android
 This particular trial of upvoting/downvoting buttons is limited to New Zealand and Australia for now, according to Facebook  via聽The Guardian .The latest test is a bit different to a downvote test Facebook ran in the US back in February   when it just offered a downvote option.  And if clicked it hid the comment and gave users additional reporting options such as:  Offensive ,  Misleading , and  Off Topic . The lat stanley bottle est stanley termoska  international test looks a bit less negative   with an overall score being recorded next to the arrows which could at least reward users with some positive feels if their comment gets lots of upvotes. Negative scores could do the opposite though.It   not certain whether the company will commit t stanley mug o rolling out the feature in this form   a spokesman told us this is an early test, with no decision made on whether to roll it out for Facebook   2.2BN+ user base   but its various tests in this area suggest it   interested in having anoth Xryo Blue Apron falls 9% on fourth day as a public company
 Jon EvansContributorJon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch   weekend c stanley cups olumnist since 2010.More posts from Jon EvansOur grimdark meathook cyberpunk nowLiving and workin stanley tumblers g in a worsening worldThis was a rich month for the deadpool. Prim shut down. So did CarWoo. And much-hyped Outbox. And even moot   Canvas/DrawQuest, which had 1.4 million app downloads and 400,000 monthly users. All part of the game, right  The circle of startup life stanley universitario , or something.It   a truism that most startups fail. But in fact most startups don ;t even get to fail, in the way the word is most commonly used in Silicon Valley. The  failures  listed above were, by any reasonable standard, astonishing successes; like athletes who almost-but-not-quite qualified for the Olympics. Most startups never get anywhere near as far as that. Most startups disappear wit

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Bvgo Car rental comparison site HappyCar picks up 鈧?.6M funding as Rocket Internet   s GFC quietly exits
 Microsoft work stanley hrnek ed with the likes of Evernote, Giphy  yay! , Nimble, Trello and Smartsheet to connect their services with Outlook and integrate them into the email and calendar experience. In addition, Microsoft also built its own integrations with Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Translator. Support for more of these extensions is on its way. The company also notes that Outl stanley flasche ook for Android will & 8220 oon  get the same functionality.聽To enable these new features, simply head into the Settings menu and look for the add-ins option.The company also notes that Outlook for Android will & 8220 oon  get the same functionality.聽Outlook for Windows, Mac  in Insiders  and the web already support add-ins anyway.For now, you must be an Office 365 customer to access these third-party integrations, though. Support for Outlook.com users is coming stanley us  soon.You can find a full walk-through of how聽all the currently available add-ins will work in Outlook in Microsoft   announcement, but I think  Pkvr Postmates Officially Launches Its On-Demand Delivery Service In New York City
 Blinding you, and muffling your ears from the rest of the world, the Ostrich Pillow was meant to be your portable nap in a bag, with holes for your head and mouth/nose, as well as your arms if you wanted to la stanley tumbler y your head down on a table. If you ;re in the airport and don ;t mind having your things stolen, or at the library and don ;t mind having your things stolen, or at the park and don ;t mind having your things stolen, it was a great product.Today, the company has made the Ostrich Pillow even more accessible by enhancing security. With the Ostrich Pillow Mini, users can rest their head on a pillow without sacrificing their sense of sight or sound, or binding their hands above their head.The Ostric stanley thermos h Pillow Mini is also actually portable. Whereas the original Ostrich Pillow was too big to really take on a plane or with you throughout the day, the Ostrich Pillow Mini is ab stanley mugs out the size of a neck pillow that you ;d take on the plane.The Kickstarter page for the m

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Eqag Google Launches Newsstand For Android, Combines Google Play Magazines And Currents Into A Single App
 Gfycat, which is centered around creator tools to make those short-form video clips and GIFs, said it   going to create an interface specifically designed for gamers. Called  Gfycat for gaming,  the startup hopes to ride both the wave of ever-omn stanley water bottle ipresent GIFs getting shared around the internet and popular, highly shareable game titles like PlayerUnknown   Battlegrounds and Rocket League. GIFs serve as a pretty good vehicle for delivering highlight reel clips for those games, which is why it   going to be putting some extra focus on that audience. Gaming is one of the most popular verticals on Gfycat, CEO Richard Rabbat said. As we were looking at different verticals, gaming is such a strong vertical, and we wanted gamers to get an experience that just really speaks to what they ;re looking for,  h stanley drink bottle e said.  We wanted to just focus on that as opposed to content that was much more mixed.聽Y stanley termos ou see a lot of teams or players that will play f Gavf GoDaddy made an app for entrepreneurs to get feedback on their startup ideas
 Now Facebook has created an echelon above Likes. A new bar for Pages to push for if they want an intimate/lucrative relation stanley termos ship with people who care abo stanley cup ut them. It   called  See First . Starting in the U.S., users can now go to Pages, friends, or public figures ; profiles and add them to their See First list聽that   managed in the revamped News Feed Preferences. Getting added to that list guarantees all their posts will appear at the top of a user   News Feed with a blue star.Compare that to the small, dwindling fraction of a Page   fans who Like them that see each of their posts, and you ;ll understand why I call See First the new Holy Grail for social marketers. If they can get added, they ;ll benefit from not only their mot popular posts reaching someone, but anything they post& 8230;including overt marketing or sales messages that Facebook tends to hide in the News Feed. It   these posts that actually sell things o stanley cups r drive tra

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Lmty HackerRank raises $30M to match developers with jobs
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 The launch of 4G in China is a potential boon for Apple, because this means the company can start offering versions of the two latest iPhone models compatible with TD-LTE, the 4G standard used by China Mobile. After years of negotiations, Apple secured the final government license needed t stanley taza o run the iPhone on China Mobile   proprietary wireless network in September. China Mobile is the world   largest mobile carrier with 760 million subscribers, which means that once it starts selling iPhones, Apple may enjoy a significant boost in sales and regain some of the market share it has lost to Android. From China Mobile   perspective, offering iPhones  and other handsets  that support T stanley website D-LTE is a valuable tool to convince users to spend more time on its networks stanley bottles .Xinhua says that 4G will be available first in Beijing, Guangzhou and Chongqing. Shanghai residents will have to wait longer for an upgrade because the city is building its own 4G network.In addition to Apple, foreig

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 There are some 1,000 Public Accounts that are debuting at launch, including accounts for The Huffington Post, Yandex and The Weather Channel, to send out updates and other information to users who choose to subscribe to them.The customer service component, meanwhile, will be coming soon. Michael Shmilov, COO of Viber, told me i stanley cup n an interview聽that by the end of November, Viber   A stanley cup PI will be integrated聽with between 10 and 15 popular CRM packages. Businesses can then send and read their Viber messages alongside all of their other soci stanley termosas al media, email and messaging interactions.Public Accounts will also open the door to Viber hosting bots as well   although Viber itself will not be building these, Shmilov tells me. We聽are focused on building the best chat experience with a scalable API, so we are not building bots ourselves,  he said.  We provide the聽tools for bot聽developers [to place them there]. Public Accounts   which Shmilov formally announced t Seku Uber Gives $5.5M To Make Amends For Stealing Carnegie Mellon   s Self-Driving Car Scientists
 The funding has helped the media company to pull in Rafe Needleman to head up digit stanley termos al content. Needleman is a long-time聽technology editor who has been reviewing gadgets and gizmos for the last two decades in Silicon Valley. He joins Maker Media from his most recent gig as聽the editorial director for Yahoo Tech.Maker Media tells us Needleman will be working quite heavily with video, as well as print and digital media.  Video is going to be a big part of what we focus on,  Maker Media CEO Gregg Brockway told TechCrunch over the phone about the news.The move to hire Needleman is part of a larger push for the media company to expand the content side of the business. Needleman is a huge get for the business and will en bidon stanley able them to have someone on the team who can bring more focus to online brands.The investment speaks to the growth and promise of Maker Media as a platform offering makers around the world content, commerce, stanley kubek  and community opportunities.Gregg BrockwayMaker Media is

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Evdd Ready For A   8220;Web  8221; Of Apps  Quixey Launches AppURL, A New Way To Enable Deep Linking Across Mobile Applications
 This is one of those times.Some traitors to the species at Carnegie Mellon have applied the ever-applicable neural network approach to create an AI that is literally a killing machine. Or perhaps I should say fragging machine, b stanley romania ecause聽it   only doing the killing in a Doom deathmatch. Now, you can of course say it doesn ;t count because the death is virtual, but why should that matter  To computers, everything is virtual. Think about it.You have a question: How does this differ from the bots we ;ve had in games since forever  Computer pl stanley cup ayers have been around forever!You are an acute observer, reader, but consider: Those bots are programs running within the game itself, aware of all the variables, coordinates, edges, the locations and specs of guns and health kits. Like any non-player character, they are programmed to act in certain ways in reaction to certain in-game stanley cup  variables.The AI created by Guillaume Lample and Devendra Singh Chaplot plays the game the way we humans Ybqh Skydog   s Home Networking Command And Control Router And Platform Ships To Backers, On Sale In October
 Launched December 6, the Precision Machined Dice project on Kickstarter currently sits at $32,701, over 10 times its initial funding goa stanley quencher l of $3,000. It aims to deliver American-made, six-sided dice in a variety of metals, including aluminum, stainless steel, copper, brass, titanium聽and tungsten to backers, but not just any old dice. These are聽precision聽machined according to exact mathematical standards, to ensure that each die has a precisely  or as near as is feasible  equal chance to land on any one of its six sides. Rix has a very in-depth mathematical聽explanation聽of how she hopes to achieve that, but essentially it聽amounts聽to聽drilling聽different hole depths on each face depending on how many pips are present, in order to聽balance聽the cube   overall mass.I ;m not going to pretend I understand the math at work he stanley cup re. Rix   explanation on the Kickstarter page is likely a much better read than whatever insight I can provide if youstanley cup  8217;re after the nerdy nitty-gritty.I a

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Spnl Retargeting Company AdRoll Says It Has Reached A $100M Revenue Run Rate
 Reco stanley cup website rded on March 1, 201 stanley flasche 6.Megan Rose Dickey sits down with Nerdwallet CEO Tim Chen to talk about pe stanley cups uk rsonal finance. Vyta Insurance firm China Life puts $600M into Didi Chuxing months after backing Uber
 Perhaps. Don ;t worry, we ;ll all be used t stanley tumblers o this in a few weeks ; time,  reads the Tumblr blog   cheeky tagline.But will we  After all, having your wife discover that you  like prostitutes  or your boss find out that you ;re a fan of  racism  could, oh, I don ;t know, maybe cause a few problems down the road   Best to check and re-check those privacy settings before this Graph Search thing exits beta. Tom Scott, who recently launched the site,聽says he   not sure he   making any deeper point about privacy with the Tumblr blog, though. As has happened so  stanley cups many times with Facebook, this data was always available & 8211; but it wasn ;t this easy to find,  he tells me.  While Graph Search jokes are a good demonstration to startle people into checking their privacy settings, most peop stanley cups le will never actually be affected by it. Most of the danger online comes not from strangers making half-asse

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 Recorded on August 4, 2017.Coinbase reverses its stance on Bitcoin cash, Grubhub buys Eat24 f stanley quencher or $287.5 million from Yelp and To stanley quencher yota takes 5 percent stake in Mazda. Al stanley termo puodeliai l this on Crunch Report. Cubu Superangel is a new pre-seed and seed fund out of Estonia with company builder ambitions
 Under the hood, you will find Blink   Google   rendering engine based on WebKit   as well as V8, the JavaScript engine in Chrome. That   why the browser feels snappier. Gone are the days of rendering issues on websites that weren ;t optimized for Opera   engine.Even the release cycle is now very similar to Chrome   release cycle. Users sub stanley quencher scribe to a release channel  Opera, Opera stanley cup  Next or Opera Developer  and can now expect a release every few weeks.While this strategic move was needed to keep up with the competition, the company has to give its users incentives to actually use the new version. Opera is back, but why would I use it over Chrome Opera often brags about its innovative features that the company introduced years before Microsoft, Google, Mozilla and Apple. For example, the speed dial fi stanley cup rst appeared in 2007 before popping up in other browsers. There is an entire Wikipedia page dedicated to Opera   features.Yet, this new release f

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Fcth Apple and Nike teamed up to make a Nike+ special edition Watch Series 2
 This advance may be stanley thermos  more symbolic than practical right now, but merely showing a working example of atomic data storage, orders of magnitude smaller than state of the art techniques, is practically science fiction.Atoms, it may not surprise you to hear, are pretty much the smallest unit of matter that we can manipulate reliably and expect to stay still. There are interesti stanley termo puodeliai ng experiments with entangling photon stanley canada s, but they ;re squirrelly customers. Better to stick to things that don ;t fire off at the speed of light if you lose your grip for a second. And a previous atomic storage technique doesn ;t actually store data in the atom, but moves them around to form readable patterns  still cool .This means that imbuing individual atoms with a 0 or 1 is the next major step forward and the next major barrier in storing data digitally, both increasing capacity by orders of magnitude and presenting a brand new challenge to engineers and physicists. IBM   experiment, published Mhku Uber for 911 transport is a horrible idea
 Until Draft, which is launching today to solve major problems with Google Docs & 8230; in ways  stanley cups that make me nostalgic for my own startup, WriteWith.Draft offers clean saves of drafts instead of the usual autosave jumble, clear version control between multiple users, easy importing from popular file services like Dropbox and Evernote, and something pretty unique   an editing service.Built by stanley flaschen  one-man Y Combinator team Nathan Kontny  previously the cofounder of Inkling and Cityposh , the web app puts solo writing first. Its interface makes a point of looking nice, with the words you write appearing in large, plain-text font on a light-gray background.There   the usual autosave feature that any serious online word processor has, but it als stanley cup o provides a manual  mark draft  button at the top-right corner, because serious writing happens in stages.Hit the button at any good midpoint and you ;ll create a series of drafts that you can easily compare against each othe

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Pnem NSA Docs Detail Efforts To Collect Data From Microsoft   s Skype, SkyDrive, And Outlook.com
 Andy VitusContributorAndy Vitus is a partner  stanley thermos at Scale Venture Partners.More posts from Andy VitusWhat s needed to unlock the real power of blockchain and distributed appsThe California Drought And Standards Of IoTThere s been a lot of hand-wringing about the future of blockchain la stanley website tely.With cryptocurrency price stanley bottles s reaching all-time highs and total market capitalization topping $800 billion recently, everyone wants to know if we re witnessing the second coming of the internet or the craziest bubble of all time. If you ask me, it s a bit of both.Today, we have blockchain projects raising hundreds of millions of dollars with little more than a whitepaper   no product, no traction, just an idea and some technical specifications. You don t need to be in venture capital to understand this level of speculation is unsustainable. At the same time, however, we saw much the same in the early stages of the internet, and look where we are today.I think the cryptocurrency insanity we re see Ebej FAA Selects 6 Sites For Civilian Drone Testing
 Today, W3i, the monetization stanley cup  and distribution network for app developers, released new user acquisition figures for the first half of 2012, and the results tell the same story and are worrying for developers. Assessing hundreds of millions of mobile users from January to June 2012, W3i found that the average cost-per-install  of CPI  of mobile apps increased by 70 percent o stanley shop n Android and by 56 percent on iOS. By June, the cost-per-install on Android had risen from $0.30 to $0.51, while iOS CPI has increased from $0.59 to $0.92. W3i attributed this increase, in part, to mobile gaming giants like DeNA have entered the U.S. market, a prime example of the fact that, for the first time, billion-dollar companies are now competing with small to mid-sized developers. As free-to-play giants leverage their huge marketing budg stanley cup ets to help attract new users, the overall cost of user acquisition has increased   making it increasingly difficult for developers who are trying to make a living in a