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Parser.run

Data as a service.
Simple, custom web scraping tools for researchers, growth hackers, marketing & sales teams.

Grabio - mobile location based services mobile commerce marketplaces

Grabio

Location-based Marketplace
Grabio is a mobile marketplace where you can buy or sell things with people and businesses nearby. Grabio addresses some of the issues users have encountered with Craigslist: mobility,location-awareness,search efficiency,transparency and safety. With our user ...

Project Selfridge - e-commerce location based services mobile commerce social commerce

Project Selfridge

Giving the power of shopping negotiation back to the consumer.
Project Selfridge is a stealth mode start-up spinning out of the Incisent Labs Group. We are working to revolutionize online shopping by building a team, technology, and culture that seeks to disrupt one of the largest consumer verticals, one which is ripe for ...

LocalLux - e-commerce mobile commerce local subscription businesses

LocalLux

The best hyper-local shopping marketplace.
LocalLux is the best smartphone app for hyper-local shopping! It puts quality, independent goods at your fingertips, that’s the “luxury” of it. More importantly, the app gives you the opportunity to purchase household items, clothes, and furniture from the carpenters, ...

Invitation codes

The referral community
Invitation App is a social network where people post their referral codes and collect rewards on autopilot.

HiFive - mobile commerce mobile payments gift card

HiFive

five dollar gifts via mobile
HiFive is a mobile social gifting platform. Friends give $5 gifts and redeem them at local merchants. Givers pay a transaction fee. HiFive is an iOS application and a network of small local merchants that provides friends an easy way to share $5 gifts. HiFive enables ...

Tastebud - mobile mobile commerce loyalty programs personalization

Tastebud

Mobile apps for retail
Tastebud creates mobile apps that drive sales at brick-and-mortar shopping centers.

walkby - fashion mobile commerce small and medium businesses local services

walkby

Using mobile to connect local retailers to real-time consumer demand
walkby connects local retail to consumer demand. Local retailers use walkby Snap: In one post merchants post a buyable item to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Email and our consumer mobile app. Consumers use walkby App: Users enter a term they want to follow, broad ...

crowdfynd - mobile commerce social commerce crowdsourcing big data analytics

crowdfynd

Advancing Lost Property Management
crowdfynd is a mobile and web-based platform that is bringing efficiency to the management of lost, misplaced and unwanted personal property. crowdfynd offers solutions for both organizations and individual users. crowdfynd’s Enterprise platform was designed ...

Lowcost Email cheap flights alerts

NowBoarding ✈️

Invite-only mailing list.
We search the best weekend and long-haul flight deals so you can book before everyone else.

ZimaMedia

A Pocket Marketing Agency
iPhone & Android apps that present all of your social networks in one fully-interactive news feed and help you promote your brand's social footprint to attract more fans and followers.

Limelight

Premier Mobile Lifestyle Concierge Platform
Using Limelight, individuals have the ability to directly communicate with their favorite brands through a simple interface that is intuitive & easy to navigate. Users can utilize this platform for the purposes of establishing brand loyalty and directly monitoring ...

Paperwoven - mobile commerce Greeting Cards Gifts

Paperwoven

Send real greeting cards from mobile device
We all send greeting cards to friends and family. With Paperwoven, you can schedule cards on-the-go right from your mobile device. You can send a card in less than 30 seconds. Our customers are busy moms, forgetful dads, and anyone who is looking for a convenient ...

Nip - food and beverages mobile commerce

Nip

Food delivery simplified for the hungry and the busy ones
Nip offers a curated selection of moderately-priced meals, from the best restaurants in your area, delivered in under 30 minutes

FingaPay - e-commerce mobile commerce mobile advertising mobile payments

FingaPay

Pay by Text mobile Payment system and Localized Marketing
The product helps customer pay on the go without having smartphone, apps, or NFC capability or a data plan. The Merchant does not need to by fancy equipment to have merchant transactions. The merchant also send localized coupons and promotions to the users in their ...

Verde Sustainable Solutions, L3C - mobile clean technology energy efficiency mobile commerce

Verde Sustainable Solutions, L3C

Subscription LED Lighting
What began as an energy savings API for e-commerce has become a subscription LED lighting program for small business. We install LED lighting for free to small businesses and restaurants, then charge a small subscription amount that is lower than the energy savings ...

CouponTrade - mobile commerce coupons loyalty programs

CouponTrade

Online Coupons - Coupons - Real Time Offers
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Omicron - mobile commerce finance Investment Banking Financial Technology

Omicron

Expanding access to financial markets
Omicron seeks to eliminate the barriers for entry that prevent the majority of Americans from investing.

Fooda - e-commerce B2B food and beverages mobile commerce

Fooda

Food tech platform connecting restaurants to people at work
Fooda is food technology platform that connects restaurants to people while at work. Companies and individuals join Fooda to get food brought right to their office everyday.

LineHop - food and beverages mobile commerce small and medium businesses mobile payments

LineHop

Order Online Not In Line
LineHop is the easiest, lowest cost mobile ordering system for family entertainment centers. Our first product, SnackBar is built for the bowling industry where customers can order food and beverage from their phone. We collect customer demographic data and provided ...

Aidhenscorner.com - e-commerce location based services mobile commerce local services

Aidhenscorner.com

Local Services Connector (Uber)
Aidhenscorner is an on-line concierge service for all things kids. We focus on making the power to discover amazing things to do with your kids more accessible. We are to parents and adults with kids in their life, as Uber is to Riders. The world of an adult ...

FollowLater - e-commerce mobile commerce qr codes bridging online and offline

FollowLater

eCommerce for B&M stores
FollowLater is developing the way to help B&M stores fulfill customer's wishes. We provides the way to follow up the walk-in customers. We decrease showrooming effect. We help to get wishes.

LocalLux - mobile commerce marketplaces small and medium businesses bridging online and offline

LocalLux

Discover unique local designer fashion.
LocalLux is currently refining their beta released online marketplace for shoppers to discover local unique designer fashion. Essentially the platform, which will be available on the web and all smartphones, specializing in curating a city’s top boutiques into ...

JoinGiving - e-commerce mobile commerce cause marketing digital marketing

JoinGiving

Cause marketing platform
JoinGiving lets you quickly launch a profitable giving back program on your ecommerce website and measure ROI in real time.

SweetPerk - mobile commerce local advertising local based services local businesses

SweetPerk

Hyper-local mobile loyalty
SweetPerk is a shopper incentive and loyalty platform that is built and branded to the unique identity of a community to promote local commerce. It partners with business improvement districts to build a locally co-branded mobile app which creates local affiliation ...

Modest - mobile mobile commerce e commerce platforms curated web

Modest

The future of commerce
Modest gives your customers a whole new way of shopping. We've created an end-to-end experience that makes buying from you faster and easier than ever before.

ZumiOS - mobile mobile commerce technology

ZumiOS

Dynamic mobile imaging
ZumiOS dynamic imaging literally completes the picture for mobile browsing. ZumiOS senses the users zoom level and delivers the right size image, at the right time... and only for the visible portion of the page for fast mobile browsing. ZumiOS replaces the need ...

Productive Edge - mobile mobile commerce web design web development

Productive Edge

High quality web and mobile application development.
Productive Edge has built three unique products. 1. ThinkTime - Help Ticket and Knowledge Base Software: www.thinktime.com 2. EZCall - Medical Scheduling: www.ezcall.com 3. Easy Beauty - Beauty product distribution: www.easybeautypro.com

WyR | What you Rave - social media mobile commerce local advertising local businesses

WyR | What you Rave

A personal recommendations network
WyR | What you Rave (pronounced "wire") is an all positive mobile app that provides a more intimate and meaningful way to share recommendations of local businesses, service professionals and travel experiences with your friends. Unlike other review sites, WyR ...

ZmarkIT - e-commerce mobile commerce

ZmarkIT

The 3D Future of Online Shopping
ZmarkIT is a provisionally patented 3D shopping app in which customers navigate and shop as they would in a real store using touch screen navigation. The company creates customized 3D stores/end-cap ads for any ecommerce platform. The ZmarkIT app avoids security ...

Monthlys - mobile commerce marketplaces mobile payments

Monthlys

Instant refills or subscriptions for common things.
Visit our site: http://Monthlys.com Check out our for business site at: http://Monthlys.com/business

Goshi - mobile location based services mobile commerce social commerce

Goshi

The mobile storefront to your neighborhood.
Goshi is the community-curated storefront to your neighborhood, a smartphone application for browsing, discovering, and buying the interesting items nearby. These items are surfaced with the 'original social graph,' the people in your community who share your tastes. ...

Glance Technology - e-commerce machine learning mobile commerce

Glance Technology

A Better Mobile Discovery Experience
Glance Technology is currently in stealth-mode, but this will be a mobile app that revolutionizes the way users search and discover via mobile platforms. We are currently in prototype development stage with a full business model and product spec prepared. We’re ...

Avé Gourmet - e-commerce retail food and beverages mobile commerce

Avé Gourmet

Digital Platform for Social Event Shopping
We help retailers showroom products in the real world at amazing events easier and cheaper than banner ads.

RepairHub - automotive mobile commerce social commerce social media marketing

RepairHub

Open table for the auto service industry.
We are building the perfect bridge between the consumers and merchants of the auto service industry. For consumers find the right mechanic to fit in to your schedule with the features and coupons you care about and store all of your vehicle and history records ...

GigScout - mobile commerce ticketing concerts Venue and events

GigScout

Mobile live music discovery
GigScout is a software platform that visualizes where to find live music. Shows are displayed with pins on a map that provide event details. Users can search by city, proximity and filter specific genres. Users can then investigate options with song previews through ...

Red Meat Market - e-commerce mobile commerce communities social media platforms

Red Meat Market

We sell Locally Raised Meat to consumers, restaurants, grocers and at events.
Red Meat Market Inc. (also “RMM”) is a niche marketer of locally-produced natural, antibiotic free meat (“ABF”) products (beef, pork and poultry) addressing the growing demand for “better” meat. The Company has established the Red Meat Market® brand as a provider ...

Reppio - fashion mobile commerce social commerce local businesses

Reppio

Tumblr + Yelp for local shop discovery.
Reppio is the easiest way to explore local retailers. It is a discovery shopping tool that allows people to find and share products in nearby stores. Designed to bridge the gap between online and offline shopping experiences, shoppers organize their finds on ...

Bellhop - mobile mobile commerce sms

Bellhop

Smart Assistants
Bellhop is an automatic service that serves as a convenience layer with existing on-demand services. Smart assistants making your life easier via SMS.

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