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j-von Lyft, SideCar, and Uber all slapped with $20K fines from CA regulator

In Chicago I've seen taxi drivers using Uber X, but that may be a city-specific pilot. This TC interview with Uber indicates that Uber X drivers have TCP licenses, but may not necessarily drive limos or town cars:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/01/uber-opens-up-platform-to-n...

j-von Ratchet: Prototyping iPhone apps in simple HTML, CSS, and JS

If this survey by a mobile ad company is to be believed, things seem to have changed dramatically from the beginning of the year:

Oct 2012: http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/17/android-smartphones-now-ha...

Jan 2012: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-android-mobile-web-usag...

j-von Android now powers 75% of all smartphones sold

This. From an app developer's perspective, there's no contest currently.

And mobile web usage isn't looking much better for Android: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-android-mobile-web-usag...

No doubt more and more phones in pockets will be running Android. But how many will really be used like smart phones?

j-von Group dating site Grouper (YC W12) launches to 10 cities

Interesting—in what ways was it better?

j-von Easily sync data between your mobile and web apps using Firebase and Trigger.io

Curious about this as well.