Small business app engages customers with mobile information and offerings. Appsbar has awarded its App of the Day honor to The Rooms for showcasing how small businesses are utilizing the DIY app builder at appsbar.com to engage current and prospective customers through mobile platforms. The Rooms is available through appsbar’s affiliated app marketplace at appcatch.com [...]
Uber, the on demand black car app, is widely known for it's good service and it's price gouging, or surge, as they call it. They're also known for throwing some great parties. At this past weekends Coachella music festival they got the chance to blend both. There's a wide variety of Uber photos from Coachella [...]
QuickComet is a pretty interesting platform. In a nutshell, QuickComet is an investment education platform/app with tons and tons of walkthroughs and tutorials. As we said in our One Spark preview on QuickComet, there are currently a ton of different investment platforms, but not many that are solely focused on education. Enter QuickComet. The investor education [...]
SNAPprints was another super-creative application on display at One Spark. Perhaps the only thing that held SNAPprints back from performing better in the popular vote was their location. They were tucked into the Bank of America building which, for whatever reason, did not see much traffic throughout One Spark. Anyhow, SNAPprints is a collaborative, event [...]
I'm used to seeing copycat startups. It's something that has been going on for years. Typically I give a startup or new innovative tech company a chance to show me that they're like Apple. You see, although I use all Apple products, it's always a refreshing reminder when helping new companies, to point out that [...]
The internet was abuzz Monday with news that Google had doubled down on robotics, specifically in the drone variety. Google acquired Titan Aerospace, a company that makes solar powered drones that can fly 65,000 feet above sea level without needing to land, reports TechCrunch. The company was reportedly in talks to be acquired by Facebook [...]
Personal safety devices are nothing new. Pepper spray has been around for decades and there are a ton of personal safety devices either tied into apps, or cell phone cases. Run Safety, while not in the direct "tech" category, is a personal safety device currently on the market that makes incredible sense. It's actually hard [...]
Interests are an important part of a person's personal make up. But so often one of the hardest questions to answer for somebody is "what do you like to do". At OneSpark on Saturday I spent some time with Scott Hooks the founder of Yubixi, the Personal, Interest network, and watched as he asked hundreds [...]
The internet of things explosion continued at OneSpark. We saw several different creator projects that would fit into the wide net of "internet of things". One of those things was Miami based company Verti Labs and their Verti Bluetooth finder. There are several other Bluetooth finders around today. You can find some on the market [...]
Of all the education initiatives that were on display at the #EdSpark venue during One Spark, Flip Our Class was one of our favorites. Flip Our Class was actually one of our favorite creators from whole One Spark festival. Flip Our Class is a quasi-crowdfunding platform. The crowdfunding moniker may be a misleading though. Flip [...]
