Chicago startup, MentorMob, accelerates to Kaplan TechStars New York
MentorMob, a Chicago-based startup, has moved to New York to begin its tenure with TechStars. Team members are seeking mentorship opportunities and influence in a new city. MentorMob is a crowd sourced learning platform whose community creates “learning playlists” out of the best of the web. “We want to make it easy to connect [...]... Read More
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Illinois Institute of Technology Brings iOS Dev Classes To 1871
BY: Corey CummingsStarting later this month the Illinois Institute of Technology has announced that it will begin offering iOS development classes at Chicago’s 1871 startup incubator.
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Ocius Brings Rent Payment Platform To Mobile Devices
BY: Corey CummingsOcius, a Chicago property management solutions company, has unveiled its first mobile app this week that allows residents to pay rent and other property fees through a centralized service.
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Apple’s Passbook Throws Chicago-Based Belly A Bone
BY: Kathryn HoughBelly’s iPhone app was downloaded 50,000 times since the iOS 6 release, marking a huge week for a relatively new company that was founded in Chicago in late 2011. The company has raised $12.9 million from some of the biggest names in venture capital.
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Bonfyre Unveils Mobile App At DEMO 2012
BY: Corey CummingsThe app is focused around friends sharing experiences in a private mobile network, where photos and memories take precedent over the cluttered feed of social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
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Braintree Introduces Instant Merchant Account Approval In US
BY: Corey CummingsWith the accelerated service, startups can now begin accepting online payments through Braintree within the same day of submitting an application, eliminating the waiting process that once spanned a few days.
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Kuapay: Thinking Globally About Mobile Payments
BY: Jesse BoumanIn the wild west of mobile payments, Kuapay is building a mobile wallet that looks to tap the world’s many cash transactions and “commoditize electronic payments.”
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Helios Unveiled As The Most Affordable Telepresence Device Yet
BY: Corey CummingsTian Long Wang, an electric engineer working out of Princeton, New Jersey, set out to create the most affordable telepresence device so far — one that works with the smartphone everyone already has in their pocket.
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Aisle411 Builds Executive Management Team To Strengthen Market Lead
BY: Corey CummingsSt. Louis store navigation startup aisle411 has brought on three new executives this week to further strengthen the company’s leadership as it moves forward to becoming the premier indoor map and search platform.
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Gamepad Keychain Set To Bring Tactile Controls To Mobile Devices
BY: Corey CummingsLA company Black Powder Media has just launched a Kickstarter to solve the pain and clunkiness of touchscreen controls with the iMpulse, a multifunctional mini controller keychain.
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TagMyDoc Integrates Cloud Services, Microsoft Office Into Mobile Doc Sharing Platform
BY: Corey CummingsTagMyDoc allows anyone to embed a QR code onto a physical document, enabling anyone who would like a digital copy to retrieve it on a mobile device without having to ask to have it sent to them.
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IDC Projects Set To Join Capital Innovators, Plans For New App Releases
BY: Corey CummingsSt. Louis mobile app startup and fellow Arch Grants recipient IDC Projects has been in the app development market since the beginning days of the iPhone, with an early hit in a barcode scanning app.
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What Square’s $3.25 Billion Valuation Means For Mobile Payments
BY: Kathryn HoughSquare is valued at a whopping $3.25 billion according to AllThingsD after the company closed its latest $200 million round. But what does this mean in the increasingly crowded mobile payments space?
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FounderFuel Accelerator Grad ooomf Raises $500,000 For App Development And Discovery Platform
BY: Kathryn HoughWhat happens to the thousands of apps that launch each day in the app store after their debut? A new startup called ooomf launching its public beta today want to change the way that apps are developed and discovered.
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11 Mobile Shopping Apps Making Waves — and Lots of Money
BY: The Young Entrepreneur CouncilMembers of the Young Entrepreneur Council answer the question, “Name a product or brand with a mobile shopping app that’s caught your eye. What about it makes it special or useful?”
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Dinn Dinn: A Social Sharing App For Food Lovers
BY: Corey CummingsThe recently-launched mobile app allows users to share the foods they love or warn others about the meals they hate, create a profile of their specific taste, and even make friends (TasteBuds) within a local and global network of food fanatics.
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Artkive Makes Something Parents Want: A Way To Share And Save Their Children’s Artwork
BY: Kathryn HoughY Combinator’s motto is “make something people want”. Artkive’s breakout success proves that making something parents want is an even better strategy.
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RareWire Pitching WIRE As New Standard For Mobile App Development
BY: Melissa BritoWhile RareWire’s initial success came from creating apps, their ultimate goal is coming to fruition later this year as they prepare to release WIRE as an open source platform.
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Log Into Your Favorite Apps With Your Eyes Thanks To Kansas City Startup EyeVerify
BY: Kathryn HoughLife imitates art now thanks to a new technology that integrates with consumer-facing apps to allow users to sign in with an eye scan.
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Phonograf To Be “The Instagram For Music”
BY: Corey CummingsAtlanta-based startup Phonograf is looking to merge mobile music and social sharing with its forthcoming Android app. The app allows users to follow, comment, and elegantly share the music they love the most with their mobile network of friends.
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SmartThings Transforms Your Home Into A Network Of Gadgets
BY: Corey CummingsSmartThings has successfully created a platform in which everyday household items can be connected to a network to improve their efficiency and purpose, with the whole system fully-controlled through a simple smartphone app.
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RAWR! Interactive Unleashes Its First Mobile Game, Count To A Billion
BY: Corey CummingsAfter speaking with RAWR! Interactive developer Pedro Wunderlich back in June, the company has unleashed its brutal iPhone screen-masher, Count to a Billion, upon the unsuspecting public.
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ShopSavvy: Barcode Scanning App Growing Into Fully-Featured Mobile Marketplace
BY: Corey CummingsDallas-originated startup ShopSavvy has created a handy mobile platform for price comparison that can be used directly on the scene of purchasing indecision, and has been rapidly growing in features ever since its launch.
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Wattvision Reduces Your Energy Bill By Tracking Real-Time Consumption
BY: Corey CummingsIs the solution to unreasonable energy bills as simple as keeping a close eye on your usage? Wattvision, a green tech startup based out of Princeton, New Jersey, believes it might be the key to reducing the more than $130 billion wasted in energy by American’s each year.
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Mobile Payment Startup GoPago Eliminates The Need For Cash Registers
BY: Corey CummingsSan Francisco mobile payment startup GoPago has unveiled a new program this week that could eliminate cash registers in retail stores nationwide.
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Smarter Handsets Aren’t Necessarily Better Phones: Report
BY: Jon ChristianThe dissonant implication of Pew’s findings is that powerful, expensive handsets are not necessarily serving as better phones
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