Showing all posts tagged Big Tech
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DC’s HelloWallet Updates Its iPhone App to Help You Save More Money
Personal finance tool HelloWallet launched version 2 of its iPhone app today, with new features that help you manage your
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Highlight vs. Banjo: 2 Approaches to Social Discovery
Social discovery - finding people nearby whom you might want to meet - is shaping up to be a startup trend this year. And
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Sonar CEO Brett Martin: “I Do the Exact Opposite of What I Did on Wall Street”
Ice breaker app Sonar is propelling forward: since their launch in May 2011, they’ve quadrupled their employees, ran a
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Sawbuck Launches HomeSnap App to Make Searching for Real Estate Info Easier
Founder Guy Wolcott of DC-based startup Sawbuck wants to change real estate.
“We saw how anti-consumer the real estate
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Cutting Through the Clutter of Apps
Apple’s acquisition this past week of app search company, Chomp, for a reported $50 million, brought the importance of app
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Lessons in Determination From SecQ.me Founder James Khoo
Three years ago, James Khoo’s sister drove her car into a tree and was knocked unconscious. She was hurried to the
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The PowerInbox API Lets You Turn Emails Into Interactive Experiences
Boston-based PowerInbox, has just launched an API (in beta) that is a marketer’s dream. Anyone from developers to
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Sell Your Photos to News Outlets with Spread
When a US Airways plane landed in the Hudson River on a freezing January day in 2009, some of the earliest photos came from
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Three Easy Ways to Protest SOPA and PIPA
Today, across America, there are sweeping protests against a pair of anti-piracy bills, SOPA and PIPA. The Stop Online
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2011 Trends: Tech Year In Review
Editor's Note: This article is a revised version of an article written by Jen Consalvo and Frank Gruber that appears in the
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Belly: The Universal Loyalty Program App
Logan LaHive wants you to get rid of all those pesky loyalty cards stacked in your wallet. You know.. the ones with the
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BodyShopBids: Get an Instant Auto Repair Estimate From a Phone Pic
No, you didn't read that headline wrong. BodyShopBids, a new Lightbank-backed Chicago startup, is helping provide auto
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By App Developers, For App Developers: FreeMyApps Helps You Find Customers
App developers, raise your hand if this sounds familiar:
You create a beautifully designed iOS app that solves a major
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Should Flickr Be Worried about Stunning Photo Site 500px?
Touted as a Flickr competitor, Toronto-based photo sharing site 500px got a $525,000 vote of confidence from investors in
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Fix That Pothole: CitySourced Gets Your Complaints to the Local Government
Instead of grumbling about potholes and all those other things their local government has yet to fix, CitySourced users have
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Fooducate: Scan Barcodes at the Supermarket to Make Healthier Choices
Fooducate, a San Francisco startup, helps users make healthy purchases after they scan food barcodes. They just announced
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Now Open: The Microsoft Store
Microsoft is taking control.
Just as Apple stores showcase Apple products better than any other retail outlet, Microsoft
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Google Music Launch Challenges iTunes, Boosts Android and Google Plus
Google Music, which has been in beta since May, launched yesterday and expanded to a full service for buying, selling, and
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Matt Fellowes on Transforming Personal Finance Through HelloWallet’s Social Mission
Independence – freedom from the control, influence, support, aid, or the like, of others.
Independent financial advice
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Milk Launches Its First Mobile App Oink: Rate Anything Inside A Place
Since leaving Digg back in March, Kevin Rose has been hard at work building his next company - Milk Inc. Milk is a mobile
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Lead iPod Creator Unveils Nest: The Sleek, Smart Thermostat
Green technology is making consumer appliances cool again: yesterday, former Apple iPod SVP Tony Fadell unveiled a smart
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