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Wallaby's Android App Tells You Which Credit Card To Use To Get The Best Rewards
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Wallaby, a startup which had been originally working to develop a universal credit card that optimizes consumers’ credit card points, rewards, airline miles and more, recently launched a more simplified version of that concept via an iPhone application. Instead of routing purchases to the appropriate card after swiping a Wallaby-branded...
Tempo AI's smart iPhone calendar app now freely available
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Tempo Smart Calendar, an iOS calendar app that tries to smartly incorporate relevant information about your day, was initially so popular that the company launched a reservation system to keep new users at bay. Now, though, the waitlist is no more, and you can freely download a copy of...
Nike to make huge splash at SXSW by opening up its FuelBand API at Managers Hack
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If you would have told me at the beginning of the week that the company who was making the biggest splashes in tech would be Nike, I would have told you that you’re nuts. However, that’s exactly what has happened this week. Yesterday, Path announced that it would be opening...
Mailbox launches an iPad app, but Gmail poses a greater threat than ever
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In early February, Mailbox hit the App Store and impressed millions with its refreshing take on email visualization and triage. An epic waitlist added fuel to the fire, since most people had to wait weeks to gain access to the cloud-powered email app. Mailbox’s impact was so forceful that...
Ziftit stealthily raises $2M to "make gifting easy"
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The holidays must be right around the corner. Starbucks is selling their Pumpkin Spice Latte (assuming they have the blend in stock), New York has gone cold, and another gift-giving startup is prepping for its time in the limelight. Gift-giving startups have raised funding, in Wantful’s case, or been...
Republic Wireless reopens for waitlisted customers with the Motorola Defy XT at $249
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Republic Wireless is re-opening its Beta for new customers and switching to a phone that's slightly more modern than the old Optimus S it had been using: the Motorola Defy XT535. As the company explained last April, it's allowing new customers in off its waitlist in "waves," and once...
NoshList: Free waitlist app for restaurants
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Go for a walk, NoshList will text you when your table is ready. For free. [Read more]...
YBuy Gets $1M to Apply to Try-Before-You-Buy Gadget Service
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YBuy, a subscription gadget service (see Tricia Duryee’s profile of the company), has raised $1 million in Series A funding led by Eric Schmidt’s TomorrowVentures. The start-up, which charges $24.95 per month, says it has 50,000 customers on its waitlist....
Startup News: CityMaps Expands Eastward; Hack’n Jill Reminds Us Girls Are Hackers, Too
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(flickr.com/VancityAllie) More maps CityMaps added Boston to its growing list of locales this week. The company also unveiled Featured Maps, which provides users with a layer of recommendations (think NYC and Co’s Best Pizza in NYC and New York’s Best Karaoke) visible on top of the standard map app. CityMaps...
Mailbox Ditches Its Waiting List
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Got some email problems? Help has finally arrived. A month after being acquired by Dropbox, Mailbox announced that it is throwing out its long waitlist--and its services will be open to everyone. "Good news!" the company wrote in a post today. "Mailbox is now available without having to wait...
Were you offline this weekend? Here's the tech news you missed
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This weekend again, the sun was part of the equation. So who could blame you if you were out and about, enjoying the nice weather? We certainly can’t. Here is a roundup of what you may have missed over the last few days. In the news Groupon’s stock is up...
Urbanspoon Debuts Rezbook “Right Now,” Lets Diners See Real-Time Availability For Reservations & Waitlists
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Urbanspoon is continuing to heat up the competition between it and competitor OpenTable with the launch of a new feature for Rezbook, its iPad-based reservation and tablet management system for restaurant owners. Today, the company is introducing Rezbook “Right Now” which lets diners view immediate table availability at the restaurants found...
Urbanspoon Debuts Rezbook “Right Now,” Lets Diners See Real-Time Availability For Reservations & Waitlists
Warby Parker's Dave Gilboa On Selling Frames From His Apartment, Partnerships, And A Big "No Comment" On Those Google Glass Rumors
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Dave Gilboa, co-founder at Warby Parker, one of the e-commerce startups that has “made it” so to speak, shared some stories from the startup’s early days on an afternoon panel at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013, where he was joined by Everlane’s Michael Preysman, Nasty Gal’s Deborah Benton, Wanelo’s Deena Varshavkaya and...
Warby Parker's Dave Gilboa On Selling Frames From His Apartment, Partnerships, And A Big "No Comment" On Those Google Glass Rumors
TC Disrupt Winner UberConference Sees Major Update: Adds Instant Conferences, Chat & Evernote Sync
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Only a few weeks following its TechCrunch Disrupt NYC win, UberConference, the service which aims to fix crappy conference calls, is out with its first major update. Today, the company is introducing three new features for its beta users, including Evernote integration, group chat, and something it’s calling “instant conferences.”...
The Warby Parker Of Gadgets? YBUY Gets $1M From Schmidt’s Tomorrow Ventures To Open Its 50k-Strong Waitlist For Test-Driving iPads, Jawbones And More
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The retail world of consumer electronics is a tough game, with a lot of the traditional bricks-and-mortar trade continually pushing online to compete against the likes of Amazon and eBay for consumers that prefer to get a wider selection for cheaper prices to seeing the products in action before purchasing....
The Warby Parker Of Gadgets? YBUY Gets $1M From Schmidt’s Tomorrow Ventures To Open Its 50k-Strong Waitlist For Test-Driving iPads, Jawbones And More
Kids' Clothing Consignment Service thredUP Prepares To Take On Threadflip, Poshmark & More With Move Into Women's Apparel
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Only a month after its expansion into juniors, online and mobile clothing consignment service thredUP is now expanding into women’s apparel. This is the company’s first step out of the kids’ clothes market, representing a shift for the brand which has previously targeted parents, and primarily moms. This morning, the...
Kids' Clothing Consignment Service thredUP Prepares To Take On Threadflip, Poshmark & More With Move Into Women's Apparel
528,000 People Are Still Waiting In Line For Mailbox, The 37-Day-Old App Dropbox Just Acquired
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File storing and sharing company Dropbox has acquired Mailbox for an undisclosed amount. Mailbox is an app that promised to help people reach Inbox 0 with easy archiving and saving for later features. What's crazy is the app only launched 37 days ago. And, thanks to a brilliant marketing scheme...
Your Table Is Ready: BuzzTable Makes The Restaurant Wait List Suck Less
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You’ve been there before. You show up with your friends at a restaurant, but lo and behold, there are no tables available. You have to wait. Countless couples, trios, foursomes are called before you. “Were they here before us?” your friend whispers. “I don’t know.” In short, it sucks. But...
Taxis, black cars, hybrids, SUVs…Uber announces ‘freedom to choose’ for US and Canadian riders
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Uber officially launched its private driver-for-hire service in London last week, and as we reported yesterday from this Wednesday, Uber-ers in San Francisco and New York will have the option of selecting one of its current range of black town cars OR a hybrid car. Whilst ice-cream trucks are also...
New From The Makers Of Nosh: NoshList, A Free Waitlisting App For Restaurants
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Firespotter Labs, makers of the food photo-sharing app Nosh (and more recently, the hilarious spoof app Jotly), is launching its latest creation today called NoshList, a new waitlisting application for restaurants. The app, designed for the iPad, ties into to the company’s consumer-facing Nosh mobile app, which allows users to...
A New Way For Luxury Brands To 'Discreetly' Connect With The Young And Wealthy
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There's no question that successful brands are embracing social commerce. But Merchant Exchange, a New York-based startup that launched two weeks ago, wants to tone down the "social" aspect of social commerce for a specific group of consumers. The site, a small but quickly growing luxury rewards network, targets a...
Mailbox gets its first update post Dropbox acquisition, featuring improved snoozing and UI fixes
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Mailbox, the wildly popular mail app for iOS, has just received an update to version 1.2.0 — it’s first update since Dropbox acquired the app last month. Mailbox made a name for itself with its clean and gesture-focused take on emailing (and hitting inbox zero). Now, today’s update brings additional refinements, including...
Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency: The Nerdy Way Facebook Sorts Graph Searches
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Ask Facebook Graph Search for “books liked by founders” and you won’t see The Da Vinci Code or The Bible first, though they’re amongst the most Liked books. Instead you’ll see books disproportionately Liked by founders compared to the general population thanks to what’s called “Term Frequency–Inverse Document Frequency”. Surfacing...
Someone Made A Groupon Just For Rich Kids
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that those least in need of a leg up are most likely to receive it. Into that aphorism rolls Merchant Exchange, a new "luxury rewards network" based in New York targeting a subset cofounder Michael Tolkin likes to call "wealthy millenials." By Mr....
Stitch Fix Gets $4.75M Series A To Scale Out Its Tech-Enabled Personal Shopping Service
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Stitch Fix, the San Francisco-based startup that provides a subscription-based personal shopping and delivery service for women’s clothing, has closed on $4.75 million in new funding, the company tells TechCrunch. The round, which serves as Stitch Fix’s Series A, was co-led by Baseline Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners with...
This Is What Facebook Graph Search Looks Like (FB)
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Facebook just announced a search product called Graph Search. Here are a list of frequently asked questions and answers, written by Facebook PR: What is Graph Search?Graph Search is a new way for you to find people, photos, places and interests that are most relevant to you on Facebook.What is...
AngelList Gives Smaller Investors A Piece Of The Action With Launch Of AngelList Invest
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AngelList, a service that matches early stage startups with investors, is today continuing its transformation from social network to investing platform with the launch of a new feature called AngelList Invest. Created in partnership with broker-dealer SecondMarket for regulatory compliance purposes, the new addition will allow smaller, accredited investors the ability...
Marissa Mayer Hints At One Way Yahoo Could Fix Email (YHOO)
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At the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is proving an engaging speaker. Turning to the audience, she asked, "How many of you have read an email on your phone and marked it unread so you could read it on your PC later?" A lot of...
Firespotter Labs, Makers Of UberConference, Raise $15 Million From Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures
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Although it was only a month ago that Firespotter Labs CEO Craig Walker was telling us how his company (the folks behind UberConference, Nosh, NoshList and Jotly) wasn’t in urgent need of funding, today they’re announcing the close of a good-sized round – a $15 million Series B. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and...
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