Jason Ball's TechBytes

I'm sure everyone has been seeing what's happened in the US Equity markets- NASDAQ is up 30%+ YTD, with many stocks like Apple showing 131% gains this year. Strong earnings reports mean public companies have cash to deploy…

I attended GP Bullhound's Mobile Sector Breakfast two weeks ago, where Manish reported some positive liquidity stats (available here): M&A activity in the mobile sector has seen a 77% increase in transaction value and an increase in transactions over $50M (AT&T's acquisition of Plusmo is one example)

Today's announcements that Google is buying AdMob for $750M and EA's acquisition of Playfish for $300M (congrats Hussein) adds further fuel to the fire- and is very good news for the venture industry. Unless this is a dead cat bounce, it looks like the venture cycle just might be back…

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I’ve been given a Vox account since I’m a long-time TypePad user. Supposedly, you can cross post to Vox and Typepad simultaneously, however, most Vox will be private posts for friends and family, not for the entire world…

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Testing Macjournal 4.0. Does seem to work, but doesn’t support categories. What about linking?.Well, the biggest drawbacks of Macjournal 4.0 are the lack of category support, existing post import and trackbacks. Once the blogging part of the application is better, I’ll definitely buy a copy.

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Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!

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Fast Company is hosting a best VC blog contest. Be sure to vote for your favorites. Hint. Hint.

Remember, it *is* Christmas after all…

(Tip o the hat to Jeff Nolan.)

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