Today, the New York-based startup is launching its brilliant barcode scanning iPhone app, just as it passes 100,000 ratings on its platform. ”The app fulfills our vision of helping people make smarter purchases at the grocery and drugstore. The fact is, with over 50,000 choices at the average supermarket or drugstore, it’s easy to buy the wrong product or a disappointing one. Especially because these are the stores we frequent the most,” explains CEO Ryan Charles. (via Consmr Launches its Brilliant Barcode Scanning iPhone App)
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Nevada drivers could soon be sharing the road with vehicles that don’t need them.
Department of Motor Vehicles officials said Monday they’ve issued Google the nation’s first license to test self-driving cars on public streets, after conducting demonstrations on the Las Vegas Strip and in Carson City that show the car is as safe - or perhaps safer - than a human. […]
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C&A Brazil puts ‘likes’ on coat hangers
This is kind of a neat idea!
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Flight Card App
With this new Flight Card app, tracking your flight has never been this easy. Find your flight by Flight # or route, and all your flight info is displayed in a sleek, easy to read Boarding Pass display that we love. Now your only excuse for missing your flight is the airport bar.
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Farewell, App Store? Netizine Turns Magazines Into Social Networks, Runs On HTML5
And what is Netizine offering? Only a fully functional, HTML5-based tablet application that turns digital magazines into social networks…networks that run outside the App Store, that is.
Full Story: TechCrunch
LiveHood: New York City - social media and machine learning defining similar areas in a city (Carnegie Mellon University)
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App delivers customers’ shopping history to staff as they check-in
Neiman Marcus is trialling its new NM Service app, which provides customers with information on new products and staff availability upon check-in, while providing sales associates with consumer data they can act on in real time.
Full Story: Springwise