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Dropoff Will Build Same-Day Delivery Right Into Your Business
The courier industry has been around since the middle ages, but it has changed very little. Dropoff is looking to change that in a marketplace that is quickly heating up around express, same-day, reliable deliveries.
Dropoff offers a web and mobile dashboard that lets you book a courier anytime, review prices before you start, get reliable ETAs and then track the package as it’s moving. Read More
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Location Technology Startup SocialRadar Buys Gridskippr, Rolls Out SDK
SocialRadar, the location-based social app created by former Blackboard co-founder and CEO Michael Chasen and backed by $12.8 million, is announcing the acquisition of Baltimore-based Gridskippr, a targeted mobile advertising company founded last August. Terms of the all-stock deal were not revealed, but the two companies had already been working closely together over the past year to… Read More
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Hampton Creek Plans To Counter-Sue Unilever Over Mayo Fight
Plant-based food startup Hampton Creek is readying a response and planning to counter-sue major food corporation Unilever over the meaning of ‘mayo.’ Unilever filed a lawsuit against Hampton Creek this weekend, involving its “Just Mayo” product. Unilever’s two main concerns are over market share for its Hellmann’s mayonnaise product and consumer confusion… Read More
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Confirmed: Yahoo Is Acquiring Video Ad Company BrightRoll For $640M
Yahoo just announced that it’s acquiring video ad company BrightRoll for $640 million in cash.Flux’s 3D Printer Is Also A Scanner, Laser Engraver And More Thanks to A Modular Design
3D printers are at a bit of a crossroads – after a lot of initial promise, they seem to have hit a roadblock between early adopter zeal and general consumer interest. A new entrant called Flux should at least reinvigorate hobbyist excitement, thanks to a modular design that makes it a veritable all-in-one maker factor for budding builders. The Kickstarter project for Flux launches… Read More
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AdmitHub Launches AboutAdmissions To Make College Counseling Available To All
Today, AdmitHub launched AboutAdmissions, a free, Reddit-style Q&A forum for students and parents to post questions and receive answers about the college admissions process. Every year in the U.S., almost 2 million students apply to college. The application process itself is a complicated dance of school selection strategy (What is a safety school that I know I’ll get into and what is… Read More
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Two New Apps, Flic And Cleen, Make Managing Your iPhone’s Photo Gallery As Easy As Using Tinder
A couple of new mobile applications for iPhone users offer a faster, and arguably more fun, way to free up storage space on your device by allowing you to quickly delete photos from your phone’s gallery. Both apps, Flic and the newly launched Cleen, are sort of like “Tinder for your Camera Roll.” As with the popular dating app, users swipe photos left or right (or up… Read More
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Raise.com’s New App Lets You Buy Discounted Gift Cards To Instantly Save While Shopping
Gift card marketplace Raise.com has just rolled out a new mobile application that lets you save at your favorite local stores by buying unused gift cards for less than their face value. In a matter of seconds, consumers can can find a discounted gift card, purchase it in the iPhone application, and then present a barcode for scanning at point-of-sale to reduce their total out-of-pocket… Read More
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Mark Cuban-Backed Ocho Launches Its Social Network For Eight-Second Videos
According to Jourdan Urbach, co-founder of social video startup Ocho, “There really isn’t anything out there that’s just a solid social video platform.” That might come as a surprise to users of Vine, but Urbach argued that with its six-second, looping videos, Vine has really become a unique, specialized format, one that’s dominated by “high-end… Read More
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IroFit Scores $600K Seed Round For “Internet-Free” Mobile Payment Tech Targeting Emerging Markets
In a sea of ‘me too’ mobile payment startups/dongles à la Square, Finnish startup IroFit actually looks like it has an interesting proposition. The soon-to-launch Helsinki company offers a mobile platform for small businesses to accept card payments via a mobile app and ‘EMV-certified’ card reader, underpinned by various business management features.
However… Read More
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