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Everything Halal

Everything Halal iPhone app released into the Australian App store, developed by us for Community Interactive. http://bit.ly/gyNi6h

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Mobreezy - iPhone Apps Made Easy

Easy? It’s Mobreezy!

SCV has launched an affordable iPhone product to help businesses get an app into the Apple App Store quickly and easily.

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Easy measures to cope with extraordinary traffic surge

The queue to get up the Eiffel Tower

From time to time one of our portfolio companies gets to be featured on a prime time TV show (A Current Affair, Today Tonight…). This has obvious benefits for the business in terms of…

Posted 1 year ago

Why Location-Based Social Media Needs to Get “Passive” Aggressive

Location Apps

Jesse Thomas is the CEO and Founder of JESS3, a Creative Interactive Agency. JESS3 designs products and experiences for brands like Google, Nike,…

Posted 1 year ago

Best Buy Rolls Out Shopkick’s Geo-Coupon System To 257 Stores

Best Buy is rolling out an in-store mobile couponing system in conjunction with a startup called shopkick. The system will be in place in 187 stores by tomorrow and 257 stores by October…

Posted 1 year ago

Barcode Hero Attacks In-Store Shopping With An Addictive Social Game

You’re likely aware of Foursquare, the location-based service that turns checking-in to venues into a game of sorts. You may also be aware of StickyBits, an app that turns barcodes into message boards

Posted 1 year ago

Why I’d Use Shopkick But Not Foursquare

Sometimes it feels like I am the only one in the world who is not into Foursquare. Or at least the only one in Silicon Valley. Or at least the only one who works for TechCrunch. I’m…

Posted 1 year ago

A Private, Anti-Foursquare To Geo-Fence Those Neer To You

If you are going to launch a new location app, creating an anti-Foursquare is probably not a bad idea. About a week ago, a Qualcomm-incubated project called Neer quietly launched on the…

Posted 1 year ago

Promiscuous Adoption: A tale of two companies

By now you know that Flipboard is one of my favorite new companies of 2010 and, while they’ve pretty much caught up to the initial demands on their servers, spent two weeks just getting slammed with…