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Hit Or Miss, A Tinder-Like Curated Fashion Shopping App, Looks To Keep Shopping Simple
Amber Reyngoudt and Dave Peck want to figure out how to perfect the mobile shopping experience — and they thinks it’s flipping through fewer products, not more.
Skull Ninja Labs’ first product is Hit or Miss — a tinder-like interface where users can swipe through a curated set of products and quickly build a profile of the things they like. But the catch is that the… Read More
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Narvar, A Service That Improves Online Post-Purchase Experiences, Raises $10M
Narvar, a startup that enables companies to better engage with customers after online purchases, said it has raised $10 million. Narvar provides companies with software that improves the post-purchase experience. That can include a better interface when it comes to shipping, more detailed text updates, and then of course options to return products and buy new ones. Those updates can even also… Read More
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IBM And Apple Release Eight More Enterprise Apps For Healthcare, Airlines And More
Apple and IBM’s partnership that has the companies working together to produce enterprise-friendly apps has expanded yet again with the addition of eight more apps designed for iOS devices, including the iPhone and iPad, bringing the total number of MobileFirst apps up to now 22. The new apps are focused on the healthcare and industrial products industries, following prior announcements… Read More
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Gift Card Marketplaces Raise Grabs $56 Million From NEA And Others
A company offering a marketplace where consumers can buy and sell their unused gift cards, Raise.com, announced this morning it has taken in a sizable $56 million round of Series B funding, led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA). The additional funding, which brings the company’s total outside investment to $81 million, comes after a period of rapid growth following the release of… Read More
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Bookatable Tests Foodies’ Appetite For iBeacons In UK, Shopkick Passes 7,500 Beacons
iBeacon, the Bluetooth Low Energy technology that is being used by businesses to push offers and other messages to customers’ smartphones when they are in the physical vicinity of a small pinging device, is starting to see some decent traction.
Businesses like Shopkick (recently acquired by SK planet for $200 million) have now rolled out some 7,500 of the devices across its retail… Read More
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YC-Backed VizeraLabs Projects New Materials Onto Any Surface
At stores with Y Combinator-backed VizeraLabs’s projector installed, you can see what every fabric looks like on a display model instantly. The company wants to replace the books full of different fabrics you can look through at furniture retailers with a projector and pretty much any device that can connect to its growing database of materials and patterns in the cloud. Read More
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