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TellApart Buys Freshplum To Chase You With Personalized Shopping Discounts
Promo codes are dangerous. Rather than seducing customers, people already planning to buy will find and use them to knock a few dollars off a retailer’s profits. But Google Ventures-backed startup Freshplum lets ecommerce sites offer personalized, exclusive discounts just to visitors who look like they wouldn’t make a purchase otherwise. Today, adtech powerhouse TellApart… Read More
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Announcing ‘The Road To Disrupt’ Video Series
Three times per year, TechCrunch activity converges in a flurry around the Disrupt conference for a few jam-packed days showing off the best and brightest in tech. The mornings at Disrupt are filled with sit-down interviews with some of the tech industry’s biggest established minds as well as its rising stars. And every afternoon, the Startup Battlefield gives the audience a glimpse into… Read More
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cPulse Is An Android Smartphone Case That Packs 128 Multicoloured And Programable LED Lights
As smartphone makers look to bring innovation even to the backside of our phones, adding all sorts of extra functionality to otherwise dormant real-estate, it’s perhaps no surprise to see third-party case-makers think along similar lines. But Codlight’s cPulse, which kicks off its Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign today, has to be one of the more ambitious and garish efforts to date. Read More
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WunWun Slashes Pricing To Compete With Other On-Demand Delivery Services
Going up against big players like PostMates, Uber Rush, and even Seamless, WunWun is looking to make even more of a dent in the on-demand delivery space with a switch-up on pricing.
WunWun is a mobile app that asks you what you want, where you want it to be delivered, and simply asks you to push a button. WunWun helpers will get whatever you request, text you throughout the process with any… Read More
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Minuum Demos Non-Annoying Text Entry On An Android Wear Watch
The Android Wear devices currently available let you respond to texts as well as read them – but they employ either voice-based input or canned responses to do so, and neither is entirely ideal. A whole host of alternative keyboard makers will likely try to deliver alternate solutions, but Minuum is among the first to offer a working solution. In the video above, you can see how it… Read More
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Snapchat Adds Geofilters For Quick Image Location Tags, And A New Revenue Possibility
Snapchat has added a new feature to its app starting today that will offer special image filters depending on your location. All you need to do to activate them is swipe right from the preview screen after you take a photo, and you’ll receive a text or graphic sticker overlaid on your pic. The location-based filters were drawn up specifically for locations in LA and NYC to begin with,… Read More
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Squink Lets You Print A Circuit Board For The Price Of A Cup Of Coffee
3D printing has changed the way engineers test products, allowing them to cut down on time and costs. But what about 3D printing the components that go into most of these products? Toonimo Raises $2.5M To Liven Up Websites With Custom Cartoons
Toonimo, a startup that says it can make websites more engaging and lucrative by adding custom animations, is announcing that it has raised $2.5 million in funding. The idea is that online visitors might appreciate having a cartoon character who can point out the important parts of a website and walk them through some of the trickier bits — and that, in turn, can lead to increased sales.… Read More
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Floret Is A Gamified Dating App For Virtual Romance
There’s surely no shortage of dating apps out there, but for those of us who wish to arm ourselves with every weapon in the potential arsenal, might I introduce Floret. Floret is a new dating app that focuses on a common problem known as the Stable Marriage Problem, which essentially means that elements in a group are matched based on preferences, without any two elements in the… Read More
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With Publicize, Former Tech Blogger Conrad Egusa Offers A More Affordable Approach To Startup PR
We’ve written about several attempts to rethink PR for startups, including PressFriendly (which offers customers a virtual “pitch builder”) and AirPR (which created a marketplace connecting startups and PR). A new firm called Publicize may not embrace a self-serve, tech-centric model quite as a fully, but it does have a pretty appealing price tag — its standard price… Read More
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