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What if I there was an app that could make you healthier, smarter, and happier? That could turn your dreams into reality by breaking them into manageable steps and reminding you to take them? Everest wants to be that app. Backed by visionary investor Peter Thiel, Everest helps you with goals through inspiration, organization, and social support. Still a little shaky, it’s now emerging from stealth
It’s a little ironic that adrenalin-fuelled, sometimes dangerous extreme sports like windsurfing, kiteboarding and skiing also have a very pedestrian angle to them: it’s hard to do them when the weather isn’t quite right. There have been apps developed to try to meet that challenge by tapping into weather data providers, but sometimes these don’t actually give a personal feel of how the wind or water in a particular place can be, so two extreme sport enthusiasts, Katerina Stroponiati and Yiannis Varelas, who also happen to be techie-minded, decided to take matters into their own hands.
“In the Studio” continues this week by welcoming a successful founder, entrepreneur, and angel investor, who happened to amass a truly eclectic set of experiences in the Valley, from running a venture-backed company to an acquisition, from investing in some of the most iconic and bold consumer-technology companies in the past decade, and going back to the well again to run his current startup focused on mobile location and messaging.
Like a terrible San Francisco tech party in a poorly lit SOMA bar filled with awkward khaki- or T-shirt clad guys, men outnumber women by almost 2:1 in dating apps, mobile analytics startup Flurry found.
They ran an analysis on the 20 top dating apps,…
Applifier, a Helsinki-based mobile gaming network, wants to see your game face. Their product Everyplay, which records players at their best (or worst) moments inside mobile games, is launching a new feature today that uses the iPhone’s front-f…
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Cleverbug, a smartphone app that uses social network data to improve printed birthday cards, first launched in mid-January. The company tells me that as of early February, the app was downloaded 25,000 times by users in 89 countries, with 2.5 million birthdays now in the system.
The app integrates with your Facebook account, so it can remind you when people’s Facebook friends’ birthdays are coming up. Then it’s easy to create a personalized card — Cleverbug recommends different designs and Facebook photos that you can include, and you add or edit the text as well. Then you can print and send a card from more than 70 partner locations around the world, for $2.99 plus postage.
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Depending on where you’re at in life, Valentine’s Day can be one of the best or worst days of the year.
If you’re with someone, then just go ahead and tick off February 14th as one of those obligatory gift days alongside birthday, christmas, and anniversary. However, the chances that you’ll have a nice meal, a stiff drink, and get laid are quite high, so that’s a plus.
On the other hand, if you’re alone, be prepared for a lot of pink, red, white and flowers being delivered to your co-workers and a pinching sense of loneliness that only shows its face once a year.
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There’s nothing more terrifying than thinking you crossed the line by sending a risqué photo. Worrying that the person you sent a goofy Snapchat or Facebook Poke to thinks you’re an idiot is no fun either. Did they even actually see your self-destructing photo? Ephemeral messaging has a feedback problem.
Amex has extended its Twitter sync feature to enable customers who have synced their Amex account information with Twitter to also pay for certain products by tweeting purchase hashtags. Amex launched its original Twitter Sync feature last March — to allow customers get discount deals by tweeting offer hashtags. Now the card company has gone a step further by integrating payment into Twitter.
Twitter released the details of a new study about its “primary mobile users,” or those who engage with Twitter more on mobile devices and on the mobile web than on the desktop. The study, commissioned by Twitter from Kantar Media’s Compete, revealed that Twitter’s mobile-first users are more engaged than mobile users in more ways than one, skew younger, and tend to be more receptive to branded content than their desktop counterparts.
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