Patents Are Worthwhile For Startups To Pursue In the US, But Not Abroad - TechCrunch

Editor's Note: Leonid ("Lenny") Kravets is a patent attorney at Panitch, Schwarze, Belisario and Nadel, LLP in Philadelphia, PA. Lenny focuses his practice on patent prosecution and intellectual property transactions in computer-related technology areas. He specializes in developing IP strategy for young technology companies and blogs on this topic at StartupsIP.

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Email Tricks Of The Super Successful - TechCrunch

Over the past month, the most successful people I know have taught me a very important lesson: be a great emailer. Nearly all of them have a few simple tricks up their super-efficient sleeves: be ridiculously fast (responding in 30 minutes and no more than 24 hours), keep messages short, delegate responsibility through CC, and be available every waking moment.

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Coders Can't Put Writers Out Of A Job Yet, But We'd Better Watch Our Backs

Last week The New York Times ran a story by John Markoff about robots replacing human workers. Andrew McAfee, co-author of the excellent Race Against The Machine followed up with a post of his own. The gist: technology and automation lead to more job creation than job displacement in the past, but that may be changing.

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Evernote Expands to Small Businesses, Partners Up With Moleskine

Evernote, the productivity app that helps you digitally organize notes, to-do lists and more, announced that it will launch a new service aimed at small- and medium-size businesses in December. Introduced by Evernote CEO Phil Libin at the Evernote Trunk Conference in San Francisco, Evernote Business expands on the company's consumer-focused product by adding more collaborative features, administrative controls and dedicated support.

http://pulse.me/s/cARYU

Here's how Google Play is being cleaned up [infographic]

Google announced updated Google Play developer policies earlier this month, which clarified the company's stance on things like app spam, duplicate apps, and mobile ad implementation. The Google Play changes, set to go into effect on September 1, have now been translated into a useful infographic (below) by the ad company Leadbolt.

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