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DALLAS, March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Business owners in Dallas may be able to take advantage of free SEO Consulting to help improve their Internet presence. Teksapiens LLC, a leading Dallas SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and web design firm, announced today that it was offering free SEO consulting to businesses who signed up at DallasBestSEO.com. This provides Dallas businesses a direct push to outperform the rest of the businesses in the nation when it comes to profitability ratios. Better online visibility means more customers, therefore more revenue. SEO consulting is not new. However, the way Teksapiens LLC does it certainly is. Dallas SEO companies are among the best in the world and Teksapiens LLC is the leader among them.

Start-ups are not the only group of companies who can benefit from SEO services. The free consulting that DallasBestSEO.com offers can also benefit businesses that have been established for years, but now are facing threats to their profitability from a constant flow of competitors. Perhaps these companies have a website already, but it was built using older technology and SEO was never implemented. The results are a website in cyberspace, but not really creating any profits for the company. A free SEO consultation can show these companies how to turn that "dead" website into a useful tool for boosting revenue.

Dallas businesses will find SEO consulting from Teksapiens LLC invaluable. It could even prevent them from making very costly SEO mistakes. Using the wrong SEO techniques could actually hurt business and cause lasting harm to any future Internet marketing efforts. Having professional SEO performed on their behalf is vital for the effectiveness and permanence of the search engine rankings. Otherwise, if SEO is not properly done, the website could be banned by the Search Engines entirely.

Teksapiens LLC has been a leading Dallas SEO company for the past 6 years. Many businesses have benefited from their Internet marketing services. In addition to SEO consulting, Teksapiens LLC offers web design services with strong SEO foundation for businesses in Dallas Texas. For more information visit DallasBestSEO.com.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Fenwick & West LLP, one of the nation's preeminent law firms providing comprehensive legal services to high technology and life science clients, today released its 2011 Seed Financing Survey.

The survey covers 56 internet/digital media and software companies that raised seed financing primarily in the Silicon Valley or Seattle markets in 2011. For purposes of the survey, a "seed financing" is the first round of financing of a company in which it raised between $250,000 and $2.5 million and is led by a professional investor.

"This is our second annual Seed Financing Survey. We began publishing the survey last year in response to the increased amount and importance of seed investment in the entrepreneurial community. This second survey finds that valuations of seed equity financings in the internet/digital media and software industries have continued to increase, from an average of $3.2 million in 2010 to $3.8 million in 2011, and discusses the continued growth and diversity of funding sources for seed investments," said Barry Kramer, co-author of the survey and a partner in the Fenwick & West Startup Group.

Some of the results of the survey are as follows:

"These results show a strong, generally entrepreneur-friendly environment for seed stage investments in the internet/digital media and software industries," said Steve Levine, also a co-author of the survey and a partner in the Fenwick & West Startup Group. "The relatively small amount of money required to bring these companies to market makes this area an appealing investment area."

Complete results of the survey are available at http://www.fenwick.com/seedsurvey.

About Fenwick & WestEstablished in 1972, Fenwick & West LLP is one of the nation's preeminent law firms with extensive expertise in venture capital, public offerings and other corporate finance, joint ventures, M&A and strategic relationships, intellectual property, litigation and dispute resolution, taxation, antitrust and employment and labor law.

Contacts:

Barry J. Kramer Fenwick & West LLP Phone: 650.335.7278 Email: bkramer@fenwick.com

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New digital payment technologies seem to be popping up every week and giving us alternative ways to pay - without using cash or even a credit or debit card.

From the recently launched Barclays Pingit phone app to Google Wallet and Near Field Communication-enabled smartphones, it remains to be seen which technologies will become mainstream.

But in the perpetually web-connected world of 2012 it certainly does look like coins and notes could be going the way of the dodo.

Here's a look at the ever-growing world of digital payment, which technologies you can already use and which ones are likely to be replacing your wallet in the not too distant future.

Send cash to a phone number

Last month, Barclays launched Pingit, a unique way of sending money to a mobile phone number. Just as Paypal allows you to send money safely and securely to an email address, Pingit does the same for mobile phone numbers.

Pingit comes as a free-to-use application for your iPhone, Android or Blackberry smartphone and allows you to send up to 300 a day to anyone with a phone number and a UK bank account.

You input the amount you want to transfer and the phone number of the recipient. They then receive a text message telling them about the payment and asking you to register with the service to receive payment. If they don't register

within 24 hours, the transaction is cancelled.

Only Barclays current account holders are able to send payments at the moment, as the app is registered against their currents account with the bank, but anyone can receive payments from Pingit.

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The idea of a lighted fretboard isn't a new one by any stretch (how do you think the Fretlight got its compound name?), but there's something to be said for not having to buy a brand new guitar for that functionality. The folks behind Tabber are working to make that a reality, having tested a number of prototypes for a product that you can simply slip over the neck of your axe for a quick tutorial. The company is looking to create a slicker version of the concept that it can bring to the market. Tabber's creators need your help to "transform the guitar industry," so naturally they've taken to Kickstarter, with a little under a month to hit their $45,000 goal. The Arduino-powered LED guitar instructor will connect to a mobile device via Bluetooth, accessing information to let you play along with songs, figure out chords and bend your fingers around some scales. Click the source link to send some cash Tabber's way, or to find out a bit more about the project.

Update: As a number of commenters have pointed out, there's a similar project currently awaiting your donations on Kickstarter. Great minds, huh?

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AT ONLY 21, Callan Ward concedes he will feel a bit like an old man tomorrow night when he leads out the GWS Giants in their AFL debut against the Swans at ANZ Stadium.

With just 60 senior games on his resume at the Western Bulldogs, Ward is one of only five players with previous AFL experience named in the Giants team for its inaugural game, the remainder being 17 first-gamers, of which 14 are teenagers.

Apart from Ward, Kevin Sheedy's side will field veterans James McDonald (251 games) and Chad Cornes (239 games), as well as Rhys Palmer (53 games) and Phil Davis (18 games).

Of their debutants, nine are only 18, and another five are 19, with Tim Mohr (23), Jonathan Giles (24) and NRL recruit Israel Folau (22) the older first-timers.

''Yeah, I know it feels like it sometimes,'' Ward said when suggested he was the old man. ''It will be different, it will be extremely exciting though. They will bring the enthusiasm we need. Everyone is just pumped to play the game.

''There is a great feeling around the joint at the moment,'' he said comparing the build-up to that of the preliminary finals he played at the Bulldogs. ''Everyone can't wait to get out there and play. I'm a little bit, not a whole lot yet. I'm not really one to get nervous too early before a game. Usually on the drive to a game I'm a bit nervous but I think I probably have been a bit more nervous this week.''

Asked whether he or Davis will get the honour of tossing the coin for the first time, Ward replied: ''We haven't decided yet. It might have to be paper, scissors, rock. I'm not sure how we'll decide that.''

The Giants' average age is 20 years and eight months, and thanks to the 490 games between McDonald and Cornes, the average number of games is boosted to 28. And Ward and his co-captain Davis, will enter the top 10 youngest AFL captains list tomorrow night, Ward at No.9 (21 years 348 days) and Davis at No.3 (21 years and 206 days).

The 17 debutants equals the AFL record held by Adelaide, which fielded 17 in its first match in the AFL in 1991.

Wagga teenager Harry Cunningham is another making his AFL debut after being selected by the Swans for the clash.

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