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Isis Mobile Wallet Rebrands To Softcard To Distance From Militant Terror Group
Isis, the mobile wallet platform backed by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, is rebranding. “In a few weeks, Isis Wallet will become Softcard. It’s a different name for the same great way to pay,” the company notes on its homepage. The move comes about two months after Isis announced that it would change its name, to distance itself from any association with the hardcore… Read More
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Ticket Search Engine SeatGeek Raises $35M Round From Accel And Some Big-Name Athletes
SeatGeek, a company that bills itself as “the web’s largest ticket search engine”, is announcing that it has raised $35 million in Series B funding. The round brought was led by Accel Capital, with Accel’s John Locke (whose previous investments include eBay-acquired payments company Braintree and Angry Birds-maker Rovio) joining the board of directors. Accel is a big… Read More
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Square Cash 2.0 Adds Free Money Transfer By Text Message, Payment Notes And More
Square has a new update out for its Cash app that lets users send cash by text, greatly improving the versatility of the mobile payment app. The update also improves the user interface for sending, reducing steps and increasing speed, and offers a host of new features like putting notes on payments and a new reward system that provides $1 each time someone you invite via text message signs up.… Read More
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Evernote Goes To Town On Its Market E-Commerce Portal With Retro Pfeiffer Office Gear
Evernote, the cross-platform note-taking app that now has over 100 million users, is going large on Market, its e-commerce business that sits alongside its core product: today the company is announcing a collaboration with furniture designer Eric Pfeiffer to create a Charles-and-Ray-Eames-inspired series of office accessories with bent plywood and lots of clean lines. The first products,… Read More
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Estimote Wants To Pioneer ‘Nearables’ With New Stickers Beacon Hardware
The Internet of Things gets a lot of hype, but its rollout is slow and it will take a long time for consumers to upgrade existing, non-connected devices that still work fine into something that can communicate with computing gadgets like smartphones. Estimote has put a lot of time and work into expediting our connected future via its beacon hardware and developer platform, and now the startup… Read More
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Uber’s API Launch Lights The Way For Sharing Economy Apps
Convincing users to join new collaborative consumption ventures can be a tall order, but Uber’s API launch today gives us a glimpse at how others building businesses along similar lines might be able to juice usage and find a lasting place in the virtual toolboxes of smartphone owners. The fact is that most of the so-called sharing economy apps offer services that complement other apps… Read More
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PayPal Rolls Out One-Touch Mobile Checkout For Apps
Mobile commerce today is still challenging with complicated checkout flows that see users bouncing between screens, and having to tap out their personal information on tiny screens and keyboards. PayPal today is hoping to change that with the release of a new product called One Touch for merchants and app developers. Read More
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Uber Corner Store Turns The Transit App Into A Delivery Service For Daily Staples
Uber has launched ‘Corner Store,’ an experimental service rolling out first to DC area customers that offers pick up and delivery services on-demand instead of just transportation. Corner Store works by letting users request daily staples like toothpaste, over the counter medicine, health and beauty supplies and over 100 more items right from the Uber app. The test of… Read More
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Vantage Analytics Raises $1.1M To Make Analytics Data More Usable For Small Businesses
Canadian startup Vantage Analytics is announcing that it has raised $1.1 million in its first round of funding.
Co-founder and President Aran Hamilton told me that the company currently integrates with Shopify’s e-commerce platform, aiming to help Shopify businesses understand and act on their data. Read More
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Chris Burch’s Office Products E-Tailer Poppin Raises Another $17 Million
Attractive, decked-out offices are a good way to attract new talent, which has led many tech companies (and others) to furnish their office spaces via Chris Burch’s workplace products company Poppin, which counts among its clients LinkedIn, Rent the Runway, Squarespace, Warby Parker, and the NFL Network. Today, the company is announcing an additional $17 million in Series C funding.… Read More
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