Would You Trust an Electronic Nose App to Diagnose Your Ills? [Video]

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With 12M+ Downloads, Scan Launches Scan-to-gram, A New Way To Follow People On Instagram

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Three guys from Provo, Utah set out on a mission to make QR codes, those boring pixellated, black-and-white squares come alive — in other words, to extend their functionality by turning them into realworld “like,” “follow,” and “buy” buttons. And it’s been working. In February, Scan announced a seed funding round from Shervin Pishevar, Google Ventures, CRV, Start Fund, Social + Capital, Ludlow Ventures, and more.

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This Audio Recorder Thinks It’s a Music App [Video]

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We write about music apps because they enable all sorts of amazing things that manufacturers could never do with hardware - or if they could, it would be prohibitively expensive.

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Consmr Goes Mobile, Moves Closer To Becoming Yelp For The Supermarket

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Back in July of last year, we wrote about a New York City-based startup, called Consmr , which was attempting to build the Yelp, or Rotten Tomatoes of consumer goods.

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Simple Rolls Out iPhone App, But Still No Word On Public Launch

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Simple (formerly known as BankSimple), the startup with $13.1 million in funding to build a better banking experience for customers, has today introduced its first  mobile application , surprisingly ahead of its public launch. Operating in private beta/invite-only mode for now, co-founder Joshua Reich says that anyone with a Simple account can now use the app, which had been limited to TestFlight distributions since its private launch last November

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1000Memories Brings Its Photo-Scanning Shoebox App To Android, Revamps iPhone Version

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1000Memories , the startup that’s helping consumers get their old-fashioned printed photos online, is bringing its  ShoeBox mobile application  to the Android platform today, while also rolling out a completely revamped version of its iOS app . Both apps allow you to scan your old photographs simply by snapping a photo of them using your smartphone’s camera. Once scanned, the photos can be organized into virtual “shoeboxes,” which can then be shared with others or posted to Facebook.

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Triposo’s Mobile Travel Guide Now Actively Recommends Your Next Destination; CrunchFund Invests

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Back in September, Jon Tirsen and Douwe Osinga, two ex-Googlers, unveiled their new mobile travel guide, Triposo , setting out to do for travel content what Google and PageRank did for search. The startup developed a set of algorithms to crawl and parse the Web’s biggest travel information databases (like Wikitravel and Open Street Maps), before ranking the data to determine which pieces have the most relevance to its users and serving them up as rich travel guides

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Funzio Was Making $5M In Sales Per Month When It Sold To GREE For $210M

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San Francisco-based mobile gaming startup Funzio had just come off making more than $5 million in sales per month when it sold to  Japan’s GREE for $210 million last week . Profits may be another story, and there’s less visibility into that. But Funzio had to decide between raising additional funding or selling at the time the deal happened. The numbers were revealed in GREE’s earnings statement today

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Former Lolapps CEO Arjun Sethi Lands At Former Facebook VP’s Chamath Palihapitiya’s Fund As An EIR

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Arjun Sethi, who was the CEO of early social game developer Lolapps, has landed at Chamath Palihapitiya’s venture fund The Social+Capital Partnership as an entrepreneur in residence . It’s a soft landing after his company’s merger with social games publisher 6Waves didn’t go quite as planned .

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Tips for making money on mobile apps in China

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China is one of the fastest growing markets for mobile devices . We know device makers are making money off of this trend

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