Loyalty platform Belly raises $10M from Andreessen Horowitz

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There’s a brewing battle in the digital loyalty and rewards market but no one has really emerged as a leader in helping local businesses  retire their old punch cards. Andreessen Horowitz is laying down a $10 million bet on Chicago-based Belly , which launched last year as a provider of customized loyalty programs for small and medium sized business

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After 20,000 Beta Downloads, Doodle.Ly iPad App Gets Legit With New Social Features

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Imagery has always been important, but it would seem that our obsession with it is growing by the minute.

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iPad Fake-Outs, Malware Rising, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post [Left Behind]

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So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn't possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn't worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case

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The iPad Is Dangerous In Bed [Video]

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This Taiwanese girl just learned the laws of gravity from her iPad. Not the apps inside the iPad, but the iPad itself

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Why Big Game Publishers Make Sucky Apps (Hint: It’s You)

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Image: Capcom The iOS version of the classic fighting game Marvel vs. Capcom 2 , released on April 25, is riding high in the App Store sales charts. And it’s an utter mess of a game.

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Please, Apple, Make the iPad Keyboard Work Like This [Video]

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Editing text on the iPad can be a total pain. Say you want to insert a word in the middle of sentence.

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The Upgraded iPad 2 Has Significantly Longer Battery Life Than the Latest iPad [Apple]

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The new iPad might have a gorgeous retina display, but a test from AnandTech shows that its predecessor gets better battery life.

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The Daily: Rupert Murdoch’s Tablet Experiment Heads to the iPhone [App Of The Day]

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News Corp's tablet-only publication The Daily isn't exclusive to tablets anymore.

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LinkedIn’s Mobile Future: 22 Percent Of Visitors Are Mobile, In-Stream Ads Coming?

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During the conference call this afternoon for their first quarter earnings , LinkedIn executives boasted about the impressive mobile growth they’re seeing. In the last week of March, the company says mobile accounted for 22 percent of unique visitors, up 8 percent from the same period last year. And although he wouldn’t share any numbers, CEO Jeff Weiner said adoption of the recently launched iPad app has exceeded the company’s “aggressive” expectations.

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Decide.com Brings Its Price Comparisons To iPad; Reveals Plans To Expand To Household Goods & Cars

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Smart shopping service Decide.com , which started off with a focus on consumer electronics before its recent addition of home appliances , is a unique player in the comparison shopping market. The service doesn’t just return prices and reviews, it actually tells whether to buy or wait to buy a given product by analyzing market conditions, trends, news, product release history, and more. Today, that same shopping experience has arrived in a handy new format: an iPad app

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