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Detroit-Based Backstitch Is Instapaper For Your Entire Web Experience

Flipping from tab to tab can get annoying. Sure, RSS solved that issue when it came to content. But our lives on the web are becoming increasingly saturated with more dynamic web experiences. Enter Backstitch, a Detroit-based startup that wants to beautify your personal web.

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Ubooly: iPhone Sock Puppet Plays Games With Kids

A Boulder-based startup will soon ship a cuddly stuffed animal built to hold an iPhone or iPod, with the display serving as the creature’s face and a custom app that interacts and plays games with young children.

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HealPay: Making Debt Collection A Little Less Miserable

The system, the co-founder said, is “designed to make it easier for consumers to pay their bills.” If all goes well, more people choose to (and are able to) pay up.

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Marxent Labs Wants To See Augmented Reality Everywhere

Detroit-based Marxent Labs is a magician’s workshop of visual trickery, where they’ll create a custom app that bridges the gap between software and the real world.

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UpTo: The Future Is Unwritten (But Let’s Plan Ahead, Okay?)

Foursquare and Twitter are well and good, according to Schwartz, but without planning ahead, meetup opportunities will necessarily be limited, unless you’re checking your phone all the time — another faux pas in some circles.

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Years In The Restaurant Biz Inspired Tabling System OnDeq

Grabowski, who jokingly compared his experience in the restaurant industry to the bawdy comedy film Waiting, says it was his own term of service in food that set the standards he wants OnDeq to uphold.

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Protean: All The Cards In Your Wallet, On One Smart Card

Protean hopes to market a smart card that can emulate any card in your wallet directly to consumers by this winter.

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Crowdsourced Jukebox Startup Raises $1.2 Million

A startup with a novel twist on the classic jukeboxes that are now often left to decay in greasy spoons and dive bars has raised $1.2 million in a seed round.

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