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OrderWithMe Raises Another $28M To Help Small Businesses Procure Like Big Ones
OrderWithMe, a startup based out of Las Vegas that has built a platform for small businesses to come together to effectively act like big ones to source, order and pay for supplies and components – has raised another $28 million in funding. The company says the money will be used to build out its operations to new verticals — it has “multiple industry partners lined… Read More
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Breezeworks Raises $5 Million For Tools That Let Service Pros Run Their Business From Their Smartphone
Breezeworks, a company working to bring a modern, mobile set of tools to vendors who largely work outside a traditional office environment – like locksmiths, plumbers, electricians, contractors, dog walkers and more – has raised $5 million in Series A funding led by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams’ Obvious Ventures. Other investors in the round included Marc Benioff of… Read More
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Ex-Nokians Launch Employee Wellness App Wellmo
Born from the ashes of Nokia’s ‘Wellness’ initiative — part of Nokia Research Center, which, by some estimates, helped make the once mobile giant the third largest R&D spender in Europe as recently as 2011 — is Wellmo, another Finnish startup operating in the health and fitness space. Founded by ex-Nokians, Jaakko Olkkonen (who headed up Nokia’s… Read More
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Snapcash Could Bring Real Identity And Ad Targeting Data To Snapchat
Snapchat doesn’t ask for your real name, but its on the debit card you use for its new peer-to-peer payments feature Snapcash. That could prove very lucrative for the ephemeral messaging service. To use the feature for sending friends money that launched today, users connect their debit card to their Snapchat accounts through a partnership with Square Cash. The real names, addresses,… Read More
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RealScout Raises $6 Million Series A For Better Real Estate Search Technology
When consumers are home shopping these days, they tend to be drawn to consumer-friendly portals like Zillow, Trulia, Redfin and others, which offer simple, user-friendly tools to take on what’s otherwise a complex and confusing process. But these services can also sideline real estate agents, who are often still stuck using dated technology while their customers are being lured away… Read More
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Snapchat Now Lets You Send Money To Friends Through Snapcash Deal With Square Cash
While Venmo, Google Wallet, and more try to take a business approach to peer-to-peer payments, Snapchat today swooped in from the consumer side. It just added a “Snapcash” payments option to its app through a deal with Square Cash. Now you can add a debit card, type a dollar amount into Snapchat’s text-chat feature, and hit the green pay button to instantly send a… Read More
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Spaces Debuts A Community Where UX Designers Can Share App Prototypes
A new site called Spaces is now launching as a place where mobile app designers can showcase interactive prototypes of their work, or browse one of many common user experiences from other popular apps – like the navigation in Facebook Paper, or how Dropbox’s Carousel app appears to first-time users, for example.
The service is akin to a “Dribbble for UX.” Or, in… Read More
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Biz Stone’s Jelly Launches Super So You Can Express Your Best, Craziest, Sexiest Opinions
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone’s Q&A app Jelly didn’t quite blow up, so today he’s launching a much weirder app called Super where you can share colorful statements, opinions and recommendations. It’s a lot like the private beta version of Super I stumbled into and profiled in September, but now everyone on iOS and Android can start yelling in all caps about their… Read More
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Topping 500K Users, InVision Prototyping Platform Integrates With Sketch
InVision, the platform for building beautiful, interactive prototypes, has just announced integration with Sketch, a design application that is growing in traction as an alternative to Photoshop.
InVision has been around since 2011 trying to change the way that companies think about the prototyping process. Usually, to see a concept at a realistic level, designers and engineers had to work… Read More
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Panasonic Partners With Photon To Build Smarter Signs In Stores
Photon Interactive, a company that’s been focused on building mobile experiences for large brands, is teaming up with Panasonic to bring what they say will be a more personalized experience to the digital signs you see in stores. The goal is to combine Photon’s software with Panasonic displays, so that those displays will know more about the customer. That information can be used… Read More
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