business cards

HiHello raises $2.5 million to finally fix contact management

HiHello, the latest startup to take aim at business cards with its own digital alternative, has raised a $2.5 million seed round to continue its efforts in building a better contact management solutio

CardMunch founder returns with HiHello, a new app aiming to replace business cards

A new app called HiHello is taking aim at business cards. While plenty of apps in the past have tried to kill the business card, they never achieved critical mass. Mainly, this is because most require

Mobile portfolio app takes Moo beyond business cards

As a creative, you're most likely to get hired for a job off the back of your portfolio of past clients and work. Aimed squarely at this market, Moo -- the company better known for their business card

Tokyo-based Sansan Scores $16.9M To Help Companies Wrangle Business Cards

Tokyo-based Sansan has raised a $16.9 million Series C to help companies store and manage information scanned from business cards. The funding, which brings Sansan’s total funding so far to $35.8 mi

Haystack’s New App Wants To Be Your Digital Business Card

Over the years, a number of startups have attempted to kill the business card, but these antiquated pieces of paper have managed to stick around, despite our move to a digital age. However, that does

About.Me Launches App That Aims To Replace The Business Card

Tony Conrad, the founder of about.me, says it’s time to disrupt the business card. He’s released a new app today called Intro to do just that. “You don’t always have a business

Old-School Printing Company All-State Legal Acquires Vizibility To Get Into Mobile Business Cards

Vizibility, the mobile business card platform, today announced that it has been acquired by All-State Legal. Now All-State Legal isn’t exactly the kind of company we usually write about here. Th

CamCard, A Card-Scanning App That’s Dominating Asian Markets, Reaches 50M Users

While there's a perennial debate on the West Coast about whether and when business cards might become irrelevant, they continue to be at the center of business customs in China and Japan. That's why i

DIY Electronic Business Cards: You Know, For Nerds

Although a post that begins with “over the past six months I have set up fairly complete printed circuit board fabrication lab in my apartment, cheaply and safely” can be somewhat disconce

Pitrec: Handheld to digitize business cards

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/pitrec.jpg" /> It's 2010, and we're still exchanging printed business cards. There are quite a few solutions to digitize the cards, but

ScanBizCards: use your iPhone 3GS to organize your collection of business cards

<img src="http://www.mobilecrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/scanbizcards.jpg" />Business cards are an anachronism. We all have them, we all pass them out to people we meet, but how many of you ac

Very cool Pac-Man business card holder

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/pac_man_case.png" /> Remember the business card case shaped <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/07/23/the-nes-famicom-business-card-

LEGO employees hand out tiny versions of themselves as business cards

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/lego-card.jpg">Apparently if you work at LEGO, you get a miniaturized LEGO person of yourself with your contact info on the (your) back.

Mini Desktop Filing Cabinet Brings Back CES Woes

Every trade show we attend, we’re swarmed by people in the industry throwing their cards at us like shurikens. After the first 50 or so, you start accumulating a little pile on your work desk an

X-Ray Business Cards

File this under “coolest thing ever.” It just arrived in via email and I’m wondering where I can order a set. Note that this is the card of a “Debt Recovery Agent” and th