Startups vying for top awards at the Web Summit in Dublin this week are developing products for widely different markets, highlighting the growing use and reliance on cloud services and mobile devices on the part of developers and users alike.

British company BaseStone and its collaboration tool for the construction industry, for example, emerged victorious in the “Alpha” category of the Pitch competition at the conference. BaseStone’s tablet and Web-based tool aim to make it easier to review drawings and keep up with the inevitable changes that are made to big building projects.

“The construction industry is still very much paper based with old processes. Our platform is about speeding up review process, making sure people have the right documents and reducing paper waste,” said Simon McCabe, CTO at BaseStone.

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