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The Orange Chef has raised $1.2 million in seed funding led by Google Ventures and Spark Labs. The company makes a kitchen scale that communicates with your iPad and a wealth… Read more »
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The Orange Chef has raised $1.2 million in seed funding led by Google Ventures and Spark Labs. The company makes a kitchen scale that communicates with your iPad and a wealth… Read more »
Square’s hardware lead details how Stand will be the centerpiece of a redesigned sales counter experience as it begins to work with more peripheral makers. Read more »
T-Mobile is trying to make it as easy as possible for new iPad owners to switch over to its LTE network. It’s selling the baseline iPads at no upfront cost and… Read more »
Apple likes to let new radio technologies mature, so it’s hardly a shock that the newest Wi-Fi tech didn’t make its way into the iPad. But we’ll have to wait longer… Read more »
Tempo’s quest to build the industry’s most contextually aware smartphone calendar got a $10 million boost. According to CEO Raj Singh, though, the calendar is just a proxy for its much… Read more »
Belly originally built its loyalty and marketing platform for local businesses, but it’s now gravitating toward big enterprise chains. McDonalds, Chic-fil-A, 7-Eleven and Domino’s are all running pilot programs of Belly’s… Read more »
MightyText started out as a simple service allowing you to replicate your Android smartphone SMS client on your PC. Now its turning to other synchronization capabilities, starting with photos and video. Read more »
Verizon just turned tablets and PCs into fully functioning SMS clients. It’s new Verizon Messaging service virtualizes its texting and MMS capabilities on the iPad, Android tablets and multiple web browsers. Read more »
Belly introduces the free sample to its local-business loyalty and rewards program. Through the Belly app, businesses can offer free goods and services to lure customers into their stores. Read more »
This is no Farmville. FarmLogs’ software-as-a-service tells you when the rows need tilling, when the fields need watering and when the crops are ready for harvest. Read more »