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RentSocial Launches Apartment Hunting Service On iOS

Another Chicago company is making the transition to mobile this week as RentSocial brings its brand new apartment hunting app to the iOS platform.

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Illinois Institute of Technology Brings iOS Dev Classes To 1871

Starting 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

Ocius, 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

Belly’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

The 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

With 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

In 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

Tian 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

St. 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

LA 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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