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ISSUE 02 March 2012 Dear LSR Member, What a weekend it was at the BeMyApp hackathon! Thanks to everyone who got involved and congratulations to the winner, Matt Glover who created (all by himself!!) Star Jar, a fantastic app that rewards childrens good behaviour! If you have kids or know someone that does, Matts looking for BETA testers right now and you can register here: http://starjarapp.com/?page_id=2 Here are the apps our judges awarded the top 3 prizes to: 1. Star Jar (@starjarapp): a fun app for rewarding childrens good behaviour. 2. TwittGiftApp (@twittgiftapp): gift recommendations for your friends using social media. 3. StampChamp (@stampchamp): an app for storing loyalty cards on your mobile phone. If youre curious about what happened over the weekend, cnet.co.uk have done a fantastic job of covering the hackathon:http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/androidand-ios-app-olympics-held-in-london-in-video-50007159 Update on Investor Day Due to the great response we have had to our calls for Investor Day, were going to be running 2 events to put our selected startups in front of investors. 6th March now becomes a Pre-Investor Day where we will bring in a limited number of investors and mentors we know well to meet the startups before anyone else and give them some friendly advice. Investor Day has now been re-scheduled for Friday 23rd March. Details of presenting startups: http://techmeetups.com/wpcontent/uploads/2012/03/TechMeetups-Investor-Day-Presenting-Companies.pdf If youre an investor and would like to register for the event on 23rd March, please email anton[at]techmeetups[dot]com And, on that note, I would like to welcome Anton Halkouski (@Anton_Halkouski) to our team!

Have a nice weekend, Olga olga[at]techmeetups[dot]com

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EVENTS Pre-Investor Day: our most promising investment-ready tech startups March 6, 2012 Venue: Innovation Warehouse [ RSVP HERE] EcomSummit - London Silicon Roundabout March Meetup March 21, 2012 Venue: Innovation Warehouse [ RSVP HERE ] Investor Day: our most promising investment-ready tech startups March 23, 2012 Venue: Innovation Warehouse [ RSVP HERE ]

05 Mar: London School of Economics Emerging Markets Forum 05 Mar: Paul Ardeleanu Introduction to iOS Development 05-Mar:QCon London 2012 05-Mar:What Are Universities For?

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06-Mar:London Cassandra Meetup - March 06-Mar:Engineering challenges of the digital economy 06-Mar:London Clojure User Group: Web apps in ClojureScript 06-Mar:lightningUX 06-Mar:Unified Communications Expo 06-Mar: Low cost, high tech: How not to spend a fortune on technology 06-Mar: MI Expo 2012 07-Mar:Jon Jagger & Kevlin Henney's Agile Development for Developers 07-Mar:Demo & Pitch Night (compete for the best pitch title) & Network with Developers 07-Mar:Community Management, Creativity, and Content Strategy 07-Mar:Elevate Launch Event 07-Mar:FT Digital Media Conference 2012 07-Mar:London iOS Developer Group 37 07-Mar:LJC: March's Code Share: First Expressions 07-Mar: Built Environment Networking Group 07-Mar: The Beginners guide to the Lean Start-up 07-Mar: Finding a job in the tech startup world (Kings College Business Club) 07-Mar: Business Model Innovation for Social Enterprises

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07-Mar: PeoplePerHour - 'We Mean Business' in association with Club Workspace 08-Mar:ICT KTN Online Business Essential Clinics #5: Fundraising & Investment 08-Mar: Founder Exchange III: Female Founders Share Turning Points of Growth 08-Mar: In The Brain of Jon Jagger: Cyber Dojo 08-Mar: Music 4.5 Mobile Music 08-Mar: THE BIG RETHINK 09-Mar: UX Bootcamp - Information Architecture 09-Mar: Raising Capital for Startups - Register for a 2-Day Seminar! 21-Mar: Matthew Baxter-Reynolds' PhoneGap and jQuery Mobile course IN THE NEWS

Successfully social 01 March Yammer is a tool for making companies and organisations more productive, through the exchange of short, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you working on? Modelled in a similar way to Facebook, this enterprise social network is designed to cater to its members specific connectivity and information-sharing needs.

London beckons Kerala IT Companies 01 March Tvm: London & Partners, the official promotional organisation for London, in association with UK Trade & Investment and GTech, the Group of Technology Companies based out IT parks in Kerala, recently organised an interactive discussion on London Android and iOS App Olympics held in London in video 01 March

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Nikita has been coding for two days straight, and its starting to show. Its Sunday afternoon at the Mobile App Olympics, held just above the Smithfield chicken market in East London. Around 100 coders, designers and wannabe entrepreneurs are hunched over their laptops. City Lord Mayor visits HCT to discuss world class education, training and qualifications 29 February The Lord Mayor of the City of London, Alderman David Wootton visited Abu Dhabi Mens College at the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) and commended its academic and professional programmes. The story of Matt Glover the winner of the BeMyApp Mobile Olympics Hackathon in London 24 26th February 2012 29 February You can see more from Matt here and vote for his app before 7pm GMT on 29th Feb 2012:http://appolympics.bemyapp.com Star Jar: A mobile application to award children 29 February Taking the paper-based child reward system to a digital level now enables parents, grandparents, uncles, aunties in fact all members of the family, to recognise and reward Star-worthy acts of behaviour in their children. Cuts could undermine creative industries contribution to the economy 29 February Tech companies, however enormous, remind me of cut flowers. They look and smell fantastic but wither and die regardless. When David Cameron recently visited Londons Silicon Roundabout

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