Wellness Tech Company MOVABLE Is On The Move

Around Cleveland, the latest fashion trend is a rather futuristic-looking accessory: the MOVband. This simple device worn on the wrist and available in a variety of bright colors resembles a no-frills digital watch. However, instead of tracking time, the MOVband is an affordable activity monitor. The idea is that the more active a person is, [...]... Read More

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New Startup Breather Launches Today; Closes $1.5 Million Seed Round
BY: Caryn Tomer
Do you ever just need to take a breath? Find a quiet space, especially when you’re traveling, to just relax, get some work done, or take a breather? That’s what Julien Smith, founder, CEO and best-selling author is looking to provide for you with his new startup launching today at Le Web London. It’s called [...]
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Personify Launching Mac Version; Makes The Online Meeting Experience More Engaging
BY: Caryn Tomer
We’ve all been on those conference calls, where a sales person tries to pitch us on the next great product that we just have to have to run our business. They typically involve a webinar of some type, where the individual is either sharing their screen or walking you through a PowerPoint presentation. Be honest: [...]
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Monitoring Legislation Goes Mobile: TrakBill Launches New iOS App
BY: Caryn Tomer
TrakBill, a St. Louis startup that is building an online legislative monitoring platform, unveiled its brand new iOS app yesterday. This launch comes on the heels of winning an Arch Grant just last week and presenting at Capital Innovators Demo Day the week before that. To say that it’s been a whirlwind of activity for [...]
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Amiigo: Fitness Bracelet For iPhone And Android Blows Away Funding Goal
BY: Edward Domain
“I’m an athlete,” said David Scott, one of the cofounders of new exercise bracelet Amiigo. “I don’t need to push to the absolute limit and I still like to eat and talk to my friends. Amiigo is built with this in mind- some people want to track everything, and others want to compare with their [...]
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Chicago-based iGearUnlimited Polls Customers To Make The Perfect iPad Mini Case
BY: Kathryn Hough
iGearUnlimited recently polled customers to discover the attributes that all add up to create the perfect iPad mini case.
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Mobile Dating App For Gay Men Stagg Launches In Chicago
BY: Kathryn Hough
Where Grindr, a geolocation mobile app for gay males that pivoted into Fab.com left off, Stagg is picking up. The new dating app has been in stealth for a year, and it launched this month to help gay men in cities across America find, rate, and date each other.
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Flash Is Not Dead (Yet) And Other Lessons From Adobe’s Create The Web Tour
BY: Kathryn Hough
As the final leg of Adobe’s Create The Web Tour draws near, one question remains in the front of web designers’ minds around the world: is Flash dead? The answer is no, according to Adobe team, as the crowd snickered during the company’s last U.S. presentation before heading overseas.
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St. Louis Entrepreneur Balances Three Ventures, Including Hospitality Rewards App Sqwid
BY: Kathryn Hough
Tech industry veteran Chris Sommers has a lot on his plate – literally. He co-founded Pi Pizzeria in St. Louis in 2007, but his foray into restaurants can’t keep him away from the tech industry. His latest venture Sqwid helps him keep track of customer feedback and issue rewards.
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Chicago-Based Winestyr Cuts The Middlemen Out Of The Wine Industry
BY: Kathryn Hough
Winestyr, an ecommerce startup based in Chicago that sells wine directly from small wineries to consumers, launched its marketplace this week. Rather than featuring old standards like Mondavi and Stag’s Leap, Winestyr is going after the smaller wineries that produce craft wines in smaller batches.
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Aetna Taps FoodEssentials To Unlock Food Label Data For Developers
BY: Kathryn Hough
St. Louis-based FoodEssentials is the latest in the series of Health 2.0 companies to partner with Aetna’s CarePass Developer Portal. FoodEssentials’ Label API joins the Rewards API by EarnedIt and Medical Search by Healthline among other health and wellness APIs to form a platform that apps like iTriage, MapMyFitness, Thryve, FatSecret, Gympact, Strava, and RunKeeper have all integrated with.
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St. Louis Startup Map Launches To Become The Digital Hub Of The City’s Startup Scene
BY: Kathryn Hough
St. Louis is blowing up as a startup hub in the Midwest, and soon could rival its neighbor to the north, Chicago. Previously, there was no way to see the actual size of the startup community in St. Louis. Thanks to a new initiative called the St. Louis Startup Map, the size of the St. Louis startup community is finally getting catalogued.
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Coding Education Platform Treehouse Gets A Book Deal: Comment On This Post To Win A Copy Of HTML5 Foundations
BY: Kathryn Hough
Coding education platform Treehouse is the first in the race to revolutionize web development education to get a traditional book deal. The series will be released by Wiley Publishing, starting with HTML5 Foundations by Matt West soon to be followed by CSS3 and iOS6 books. The team at Treehouse has generously decided to offer a digital copy of HTML5 Foundations for free to the first 10 people who comment on this post.
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Bonfyre App Teams Up With St. Louis Rams
BY: Kathryn Hough
St. Louis-based Bonfyre app extended the company’s NFL fan experience partnership over the weekend by offering fans a place to socialize during the St. Louis Rams home game against the New York Jets yesterday. The company offered two bonfyres where fans could have a live shared digital experience during the game.
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Stalk Other People’s Inboxes With ContactMonkey’s Bridge
BY: Kathryn Hough
If you work in sales or marketing, you probably shoot off a few hundred emails per week easily. But what happens after you click send?
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Dude, Where’s My Food? GrubHub’s New Track My Grub Feature Solves Our Burning Question
BY: Kathryn Hough
Chicago-based GrubHub announces the release of “Track Your Grub” this week, a new feature that allows customers to track their food from the time that the delivery worker leaves the restaurant to the moment that it reaches your door.
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Sick Of Election Results? Track Legislation Instead With TrakBill
BY: Kathryn Hough
A new startup called TrakBill is a search engine that will provide all of the information that both citizens and lobbyists need to know to track the legislative action around specific issues like education.
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CollabNet And UC4 Software Partner To Automate Enterprise DevOps At Scale
BY: Kathryn Hough
CollabNet a global leader for Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM, and UC4 Software, the leader in IT Process Automation, are announcing a partnership today that will help IT organizations achieve enterprise DevOps at scale.
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How A Startup Can Change The Election
BY: Kathryn Hough
Raising money via Twitter is attractive to a candidate rather than other fundraising options because political fundraising is about convincing your friends, family and like minded people to invest in an idea and a person.
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Talk Back to Advertisers With AdYapper
BY: Kathryn Hough
Have you ever noticed an ad that either rocked or annoyed you so much that you wanted to talk to the brand directly about it? Turns out, you’re not alone. If you’ve ever watched the SuperBowl, you know that spectators get just as excited about the ads as they do about the football game. The next day the internet blows up with conversation about the ads. AdYapper is a new platform that lets you talk to brands and agencies about their ads recently launched to the public.
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Curalate’s ‘Promote’ Quadruples Followers In Pinterest Sweepstakes
BY: Kathryn Hough
Curalate, the first marketing platform for the visual web, is announcing the success of the company’s Promote tool, which recently helped Carnival Cruise Lines quadruple followers during an 11-day promotion on Pinterest.
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Vizify Redesigns Mobile Experience To Help You Look Better At A Glance
BY: Kathryn Hough
Portland-based personal data visualization startup Vizify rolled out real-time analytics and a redesigned mobile experience this week based on feedback from Vizify fans.
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Post To Instagram And Get Paid With Portland-Based Chirpify
BY: Kathryn Hough
Portland-based Chirpify launched a new feature this week that allows people to monetize their Instagram feeds. Chirpify allows in-stream transactions by integrating with PayPal and taking 5% of each transaction.
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IDC Projects Will Debut Memory Matches For Windows 8 On Platform Launch Day
BY: Kathryn Hough
St. Louis’s IDC Projects is excited to announce that they are partnering with Microsoft to debut their Memory Matches game for Windows 8 on October 26, the platform’s launch day.
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BuddyTV Introduces TV Listings Grid For iOS
BY: Kathryn Hough
BuddyTV is helping people discover what shows to watch in less than 20 seconds with their new TV listings grid feature in their popular iOS app.
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getTalent Raises $2.6 Million To Revolutionize The Unsexy World Of HR Software
BY: Kathryn Hough
Building software for the human resources industry is not sexy. getTalent has managed to make their talent pipeline software both beautiful and easy to use thanks to the team’s dedication to applying modern technologies like mobile and social to the talent acquisition process.
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