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Getting the scoop: How to research and identify your competitors

Apr09
by on April 9, 2014 at 4:58 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, How-To's

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George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures, a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. Webster’s Dictionary defines a competitor as “one buying and selling goods or services in the same market as another.” Pretty self explanatory at the high level – yet many executives fail to properly assess their full competitive set. Here’s the best way for you to not miss any competitor that could get between you and your goals. Study industry associations, search engines and startup databases I typically start with high level industry research. Find the major trade association in your…

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Google releases Dart SDK 1.3, promises 2x performance improvement for asynchronous code

Apr09
by on April 9, 2014 at 4:37 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Google, Insider

Google today released Dart SDK version 1.3 with 2x performance improvement for asynchronous Dart code combined with server-side I/O operations. You can download the latest stable release of Dart, the company’s JavaScript competitor, now from dartlang.org. Google explains its results come from measuring request-per-second improvements using three simple HTTP benchmarks: Hello, File, and JSON, which improved 130 percent, 30 percent, and almost 100 percent, respectively. Hello provides a measure for how many basic connections an HTTP server can handle, File simulates the server accessing and serving static content, and the JSON benchmark offers a proxy for performance of REST apps….

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OneNote for Android gets OneDrive notebook and section management

Apr09
by on April 9, 2014 at 4:20 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google, Insider, Mobile

Microsoft today updated its OneNote for Android app with support for managing OneDrive notebooks and sections, as well as bug fixes when pasting from the clipboard as and better content rendering on some devices. You can download the new version now directly from Google Play. Creating a new notebook on OneDrive is straightforward: on the Notebooks list, tap the overflow menu in the top right corner, hit Create Notebook, and type in your new notebook name. You can also create new sections in any of your OneDrive notebooks by tapping the overflow menu on the Section list, hitting the Create…

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$113 worth of iOS apps for $36: Check out this bundle

Apr09
by on April 9, 2014 at 4:14 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Offers

Apple Launches iPhone 5s And 5c In China
App bundles generally provide great value – but do you download more desktop, or mobile apps nowadays? Probably the latter. So, StackSocial has put together its first ever iOS bundle, featuring apps like Parallels Access and Scanner Pro. The best part? You get to choose the apps you actually want. And, to be honest, it’s quite likely you’ll find something you want, especially as the discounts range from 57 percent to 83 percent. The highlights include 57 percent off TNW favorites like the popular Calendars 5 and Printer Pro. Also worthy of note is the 70 percent discount off Parallels Access,…

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IDrive rolls out a mobile backup service for Android, offering 100GB of storage for $1 per year

Apr09
by on April 9, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

Cloud storage provider IDrive released today its first mobile-only backup plan. For $0.99 a year, users of the company’s Android app will receive 50GB to back up their their SD card, contacts, videos, photos and apps and 50GB of file-syncing. While the new plan is limited only to Android, it does include cross-platform support, so you can carry over data from an iOS device on one of IDrive’s existing regular plans. ➤ IDrive for Android

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