Saturday, July 31, 2010

How to select your company’s lawyer

Selecting legal counsel for your new venture is one of the first decisions you’ll have to make as a startup entrepreneur – and it’s one you shouldn’t take lightly. While corporate counsel typically doesn’t have a lot of complex work early on, there’s a good chance you will be with that person or firm throughout the life cycle of your company.

As your company matures, the legal issues you’ll be asking your lawyer to tackle will become more demanding. You’ll need someone in your corner you value and respect.

Your mobile app is spying on you | VentureBeat

Your mobile app is spying on you | VentureBeat

PlacePop joins mobile loyalty program frenzy, gets funding boost | VentureBeat

PlacePop joins mobile loyalty program frenzy, gets funding boost | VentureBeat

Hacker tries to read a radio identification tag from 29 floors up (video) | VentureBeat

Hacker tries to read a radio identification tag from 29 floors up (video) | VentureBeat

Chris Paget talks about long-range RFID tag reading

Xtify faces competition from other location-based ad companies, such as San Francisco, Calif.-based Placecast, which runs geo-targeted ad campaigns, for instance pinging users with text messages when they are near a shop. Xtify says that the very fact that they have a background-running notification system is what differentiates them from the competition. In addition, the service is not reliant on getting a phone’s location from a carrier, nor is it using SMS, which makes the service cost-efficient, Xtify says.

Push-Notification Platform Xtify Picks Up $2.8M, Ramps Up Development

Xtify faces competition from other location-based ad companies, such as San Francisco, Calif.-based Placecast, which runs geo-targeted ad campaigns, for instance pinging users with text messages when they are near a shop. Xtify says that the very fact that they have a background-running notification system is what differentiates them from the competition. In addition, the service is not reliant on getting a phone’s location from a carrier, nor is it using SMS, which makes the service cost-efficient, Xtify says.

http://www.nytimes.com/external/venturebeat/2010/07/31/31venturebeat-push-notification-platform-xtify-picks-up-28-98767.html