Sarah Perez
Sarah currently works as a writer for TechCrunch, after having previously spent over three years at ReadWriteWeb. Prior to becoming a professional blogger, Sarah worked in I.T. across a number of industries, including banking, retail and software.
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White Ribbon On Google.com Crashes UN Women Website [Update: 1M Uniques By 11 AM ET]
Google has at least partially crashed the website unwomen.org today by placing a link to it on the front page of Google.com. The search giant is commemorating the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on its homepage, as well as on the new tab page in the Google Chrome web browser. But the page in receipt of all the clicks is struggling to stay online. Read More
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Travel Startup Triptrotting Relaunches As Wist, A Local Recommendations App For iPhone
Travel startup Triptrotting is relaunching today on mobile as Wist, an app that gives you the top five personalized suggestions for dining and drink in any given neighborhood or city, based on your likes, plus friends' and locals' recommendations. The app is debuting with support for Miami only, but will arrive in other large U.S. cities, like New York and Triptrotting's home base of San… Read More
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SEEiT, The Feature That Turns Twitter Into A Remote Control For Comcast Subscribers, Rolls Out This Week
A new feature on Twitter which will allow Comcast subscribers to tune to or record select television programs by clicking on tweets is now going live. Last month, Twitter and Comcast announced a strategic partnership to introduce “See It” button in tweets, which Twitter users would tap on to immediately watch a live show or set their DVR to record it for the future. Today, Twitter is… Read More
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Sift Raises $2 Million For Its Personalized Shopping App, Now On iPhone
Mobile shopping service Sift has closed on $2 million in seed funding, the company is announcing today, alongside its launch on iPhone. The startup first emerged almost exactly a year ago as a way to leverage shopping data found in users' inboxes, including daily deals emails, retailer promotions, and messages from flash sale sites, then turn those into a "shoppable" experience on the iPad. Since… Read More
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With New Developer Toolkit, Appsfire Wants To Kill “Crappy Banner Ads” On Mobile
Appsfire, the makers of a suite of tools for mobile app developers acquire users, keep them engaged, and manage their advertising, has today released the second version of its app marketing SDK, which is free to use. The SDK, now iOS 7-friendly, offers features including engagement tools for in-app communication, feedback mechanisms, push notifications, as well as a new ad unit which Appsfire… Read More
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Link-Sharing Service Potluck’s New App Combines Messaging And News, Including Original Content
Everything's a messaging app now! Potluck, the link-sharing service from the team behind the social conversation service Branch, began as a simple tool allowing users to share their interesting findings from around web with a community where the focus was not on the people doing the sharing, but rather on the content. Today, with the release of Potluck version 2.0, the app is transforming… Read More
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Restaurant Recommendation Engine Ness Now Helps Groups Decide Where To Eat, Adds Support For Web & Android Users Too
Restaurant recommendations service Ness has been steadily improving upon on its technology which helps you find the best place to eat based on your unique likes and dislikes, a place's popularity, time of day and other factors. Earlier this year, it rolled out an update which allowed for instant recommendations, and today it's launching recommendations for groups - that is, it's able to combine… Read More
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Twice Brings Its Secondhand Clothing Marketplace To iPad
Online consignment shop for women's clothing, Twice, has made the move to mobile, starting first with a dedicated app for iPad, out now. The company, founded in 2012 and backed by $4.6 million in outside funding, was already seeing over half its emails opened on iPad, indicating a need to better address users on this platform with a native experience. Now that the app is live, the company expects… Read More
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Ribbon Is Building A Peer-To-Peer Payments For Consumers, No App Or Account Required
Payments startup Ribbon, which launched last year with a focus on making it easier to accept payments online across websites, blogs and social media services like Facebook and Twitter, is expanding in a new direction. The company is now working to develop a person-to-person payments service that will allow users to send money to friends over the web. Read More
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Kansas City Residents Get A Second Chance For Google Fiber, Ahead Of Further Regional Expansions Starting This March
Kansas City residents are getting a second change to sign up for Google Fiber, says Google. The efforts to slowly build out several high-speed networks where Google acts as an Internet Service provider first began in Kansas City, Mo. around two years ago, before arriving in other markets, like Austin, Texas and Provo, Utah, for example. Now those who live in Google Fiber's initial test market… Read More
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Slice Brings Its Shopping Companion & Shipment Tracker To Tablets, Goes Android-First
Mobile shopping assistant Slice has just launched a new version of its Android application today, that brings a full-screen, better optimized experience designed for those using Android tablets. This is the company’s first tablet application, in fact, arriving ahead of Slice’s expected iPad debut. The new app doesn’t yet work on Kindle Fire devices, however, nor will Slice… Read More
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eBay Debuts Shoppable Touchscreens And Digital Storefronts For Sony, Toms And Rebecca Minkoff In San Francisco
eBay is debuting a number of new, connected digital storefronts for shoppers today at the Westfield Mall in San Francisco. Similar to the marketplace giant's shoppable windows in New York, this new partnership melds connected glass, mobile technology and digital payments to give Sony, TOMS and Rebecca Minkoff shoppers the ability to buy from these digital storefronts in the Westfield San Francisco… Read More
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Family Photo-Sharing Service Lifecake Launches, Backed By $1.1 Million In Seed Funding
London-based Lifecake, a new photo-sharing service designed for families and built by former Skype, Qualcomm, and Yahoo engineers, is launching out of beta today, backed by an additional $1.1 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Balderton Capital, and comes on top of a previous $300,000 angel round from earlier this summer. Read More
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Tyra Banks Invests In Locket, The App That Brings Ads And Other Content To Android Lockscreens
Locket, the Android application that puts ads and other content on your lockscreen, letting users earn small amounts of money every time they unlock their smartphone, has received an additional investment from Fierce Capital, LLC, the investment arm of The Tyra Banks Company. Smize, you guys, Tyra’s into Ad Tech now! The size of the investment is not being disclosed, but the company is in… Read More
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Mixbook Debuts Montage, A Photo Book Builder Meant To Take Minutes, Not Hours
When the seven-year old company Mixbook introduced a mobile app for making photo books, Mosaic, last fall, the idea was to distill a process that had traditionally taken hours down to a matter of minutes. But in going mobile, there are some trade-offs in terms of losing the customizations permitted by Mixbook's traditional service. Now to fill the gap in between the more complicated online photo… Read More
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Kabbage Brings Its Small Business Lending Service To Mobile
Kabbage, the Atlanta-based company offering working capital to online merchants and sellers on marketplaces like Etsy, eBay and Amazon who wouldn't otherwise be able to get a bank loan, is today expanding its business to mobile. The company is officially introducing its new apps for both iOS and Android, which will enable Kabbage users to quickly add funds to their associated bank or PayPal… Read More
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Amazon Paperwhite Update Brings Goodreads, Kindle FreeTime & Cloud Collections To E-Reader Owners
Yesterday, Amazon upgraded its newer generation of Kindle tablets with the release of an updated version of its mobile operating system, Fire OS, and today the company is extending similar updates to its Kindle Paperwhite devices. Amazon announced this morning that the new software update for Paperwhite tablets will introduce deeper Goodreads integration and support for Kindle FreeTime, among… Read More
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Lookout Debuts A Mobile Security Suite For Business
As announced earlier this fall, mobile security company Lookout today launched its new security suite for business customers. The product, Lookout for Business, represents the first time the company has gone after the corporate market where the growth in BYOD (bring-your-own-device) programs has necessitated the need for IT departments to better secure the various mobile devices attaching to their… Read More
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Less Than A Year Post-Pivot, Payments Platform Spreedly Raises Additional $500K
Payments platform Spreedly, which offers customers a credit card vault in the cloud that works with 54 different payment gateways, has just raised an additional $500,000 in seed funding from Emerge.be, bringing its total raise to date to just under a million. The funding comes not even a year after Spreedly's pivot from a digital subscriptions service it sold off this July. Read More
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Deeplink.me Brings Twitter Card Support To Mobile Developers Without A Web Presence
Deeplink.me, an open initiative which encourages app developers to embrace deep linking - that is, linking directly to content inside an application from anywhere on the web or mobile - is today rolling out support for Twitter Cards. This means that app developers who don't currently have a web presence are now able to take advantage of Twitter's ability to point its users to a specific page… Read More
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