August 11, 2014
One Diary Wants To Make Your Calendar Smarter
One Diary is (another) attempt to make your calendar smarter. But, unlike something like Sunrise, which just landed a hefty funding round led by Balderton Capital, the UK…
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August 11, 2014
OpenTable Expands Mobile Payments To New York, And Soon, 20 More Cities
OpenTable, which first announced its mobile payments pilot program this February in San Francisco, is about to speed things up. The company said this morning that it’s now…
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YC-Backed Impraise Makes Workplace Performance Reviews Less Painful
Performance reviews are a hassle for everyone involved. Supervisors have to deal with an onslaught of paperwork and meetings, but employees who only get assessments once or twice…
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Fanmode Lets Sports Fans Share Their Emotions From The Couch To The Stadium
Sport is an emotional business. But, as it stands, there arguably exists a disconnect between fans watching at home or in the many sports bars around the world,…
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Timista Wants To Be Your Pocket Concierge
Timista is an event-planning app that uses AI to power recommendations for things to do in London that can be realistically chained together, based on their proximity, timings…
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Vine Competitor Groopie Lets Vloggers Create TV-Style Shows Together
YouTube stars are more popular among today’s U.S. teens than Hollywood celebs, a recent study found. Hoping to capitalize on this trend, a new social video network called…
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These Are Our Favorite Startups From The DreamIt NY Demo Day
This week, we met 12 new companies that graduated from DreamIt’s NY Demo Day. We have the scoop on all of them here, from the shoppable Pinterest to…
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EyeEm Partners With Foursquare And The Huffington Post For Latest Photography Challenges
Photo-sharing service EyeEm is announcing today that it is partnering with Foursquare and The Huffington Post to get photos taken by its users in front of more people…
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Disrupt Winner Vurb Raises $8 Million To Steal Mobile Search From Google
The conundrum of mobile is you either use one convenient app that is mediocre at doing many things, or you have to discover and hop between a flotilla…
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Peter Molyneux’s Godus Game Can Make You A Mobile Deity On iOS Right Now
Wacky game creator Peter Molyneux took to Kickstarter to fund the development of Godus, a god sim and Populous spiritual successor designed for mobile back in 2012. Now,…
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