November 21st, 2012

Thumb, The Social App For Instant Opinions, Adds A Shopping Category

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Thumb, the opinion-polling mobile app, has been growing swiftly. But long ago, before users were asking about their love lives or how sexy their abs look from this angle, the vision for Thumb was focused on products, as well as the influence friends and family have on purchasing decisions. → Read More

September 14th, 2012

Opinion Polling Network Thumb Sees Growth Rate Double, Tops 1.2M Total Users

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Mobile app Thumb, which has been asking users to provide their opinions since its original private beta launch in June 2010 as Opinionaded, today revealed to TechCrunch that it now has more than 1.2 million registered users. It marks the first time the company has talked in detail about its specific user population size.

Thumb has been vocal about engagement stats in the past, however, telling… → Read More

July 31st, 2012

Thumb Brings New Opinion-Sharing App To Android, Says Average Engagement Now 5 Hours Per Month

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Thumb, the mobile startup that makes it easy for users to ask for and share opinions, is bringing a big update to its Android app today.

Thumb 3.0 launched on iOS at the beginning of June. CEO Dan Kurani says the new app has already contributed to a big increase in user engagement over the past five-ish months, going from an average of 3 hours and 50 minutes per month to an average of 5 hours. → Read More

December 8th, 2011

Mobile Q&A App Opinionaided Rebrands As Thumb

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Startup Opinionaided, which offers a mobile Q&A app around sharing people’s opinions, is rebranding as Thumb.

Opinionaided’s users are able input a question, determine a category (i.e. relationships, politics) and submit it for other Opinionaided users to answer. You can also publish your questions to Facebook and Twitter. After a question is posted, fellow Opinionaided users can comment… → Read More

October 23rd, 2006

Kanguru 32GB Flash Drive is the Worst Ever

It’s true that this Kanguru thumb drive holds 32GB, which is enough to take your entire operating system with you as you travel – sticking it into various local internet cafe computers like the naughty drive it is. The massive storage would be enough except for two things. The first? The $1,499 price tag. Unless you really need something the size of your thumb – perhaps… → Read More