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Forecast - mobile social media location based services local

Forecast

A fun & simple way for friends to share where they're going in the future.
Forecast is a free mobile app that helps you connect with your real friends out in the real world. It’s social networking that’s actually social. A check in tells your friends where you are now. A forecast tells your friends where you will be later. This simple ...

BenCo Valet Trash Service - location based services waste management recycling

BenCo Valet Trash Service

Doorstep Trash and Recycling Pickup Service
BenCo Valet Trash service provides trash and recycling pickup services to the multi-family industry. We pick up at the doorstep 5 nights/week keeping the property clean and creating an additional income stream for the property itself.

HomQi - social games location based services

HomQi

Stealth
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GroupWink - mobile social media location based services social media platforms

GroupWink

Location-based Group Dating (match.com)
GroupWink on CNN Money at SXSW: http://cnnmon.ie/GMkfbr GroupWink in Austin American Statesman: http://bit.ly/KQ6ln1 GroupWink is a social, location-based way for groups of friends to connect and meet new people. By identifying entire groups of friends instead ...

StickyPop - location based services social media platforms social media marketing mobile application

StickyPop

Newsfeeds Exclusive to Location
Stickypop is a mobile application enabling users to communicate with others in their direct environment by creating geo-social newsfeeds (Spots) exclusive to their location. A specific radius restricts a Spot’s size and only other users located within this radius ...

incular - advertising location based services social commerce deals

incular

Yelp! for promos and sales
Incular is a comprehensive, interactive and personalized circulars and deal discovery platform that allow shoppers to find the best sales and promos for themselves.

No Chains - social media location based services local restaurants

No Chains

The best restaurants you've never heard of- reviewed by the menu not the venue
No Chains helps you discover the best restaurants you never heard of; reviewed by the menu, not the venue. There are plenty of food apps that show you nearby restaurants, but how do you find the best crab cakes nearby? How do find in the “local flavor”? No ...

ReviewPush - social media SaaS enterprise software location based services

ReviewPush

Location Based Online Review Management
ReviewPush helps local businesses manage their online reviews efficiently and effectively. The service monitors the top user review sites on a daily basis and notifies the business owner when a new review has been posted. ReviewPush also helps businesses generate ...

PitchDeals - location based services food and beverages restaurants small and medium businesses

PitchDeals

Use your social power to get deals at restaurant you already love or really want to try.
PitchDeals is an exciting service that lets customers pitch deals to their favorite restaurants. Bring bargaining online, get your friends in on it, and get rewarded!

ThaTrunk - location based services mobile commerce mobile enterprise cloud infrastructure

ThaTrunk

With our platform, we build location-based mobile enterprise applications
ThaTrunk Inc is a technology platform that creates location-based mobile enterprise solutions. Companies can use location-based-technology in new ways to engage customers or manage resources more effectively. With our location-based content distribution platform, ...

Hero - location based services consumer electronics

Hero

The Digital Handyman
Hero, Inc. connects domestic tech problems with local people capable of solving them. Hero screens and aggregates a talent pool of qualified experts in consumer electronics, home media and computing, We then leverage latent capacity in real time to service on-demand ...

Qlue

Location Based Smartphone Savenger Hunting
Qlue is a revolutionary new mobile application that combines real world locations with an engaging digital adventure in the palm of your hand. Users can attend events created by the Qlue team and join in on the fun, or use our system to create their own scavenger ...

RideScout - mobile location based services transportation apps

RideScout

Search, Discover, Explore
RideScout is a technology platform that aggregates public, private and social rideshare on its free iOS and Android apps, allowing people to search and compare ground transportation options on demand and in real time. Hailed as the Kayak™ of ground transportation, ...

dgeo - mobile social media location based services gps

dgeo

Capture and Discover Your Nearby World!
For a while I was working from home and I realized there are a lot of things happening close to where I live I would love to know about. Maybe my neighbors love biking, photography, gardening like I do. Or maybe someone near me is trying to get rid of some old ...

Access The Night - social media location based services mobile advertising apps

Access The Night

Mobile, Real time, Mobile Coupons, Social Aggregator.
Access The Night is hyper-local, social entertainment platform that connect people to a real-time glimpse of bars, restaurants, and concert venues around them. We pair Instagram and Foursquare API's to collect data, geofence the results around our user's location ...

Key to the Street - location based services niche specific Urban Development City Planning

Key to the Street

Imagine using your cell phone to improve the design of public spaces and streets.
In-house meetings and workshops are the method for soliciting feedback and educating the local community about upcoming construction and improvements. Problems and solutions are explained to the participants. Conducted by both the private and public sector. Used ...

Tripeezy - mobile location based services content syndication social travel

Tripeezy

Travel Sharing Made Simple
Tripeezy makes it easy for travelers to share their adventures with their friends and family while on the road. Through mobile apps and the online portal, travelers can keep a record of their journey by making short updates with gps location and integration with ...

Ricochet Labs - mobile social games location based services social media platforms

Ricochet Labs

Mobile Platform for Creating a Game Layer Across All Information
Our mobile-social-geo platform called Qrank makes it easy for anyone with content to create mobile games that you play with people around you. Our platform takes a classic form of gameplay, the question and answer quiz, and injects it with all of the cool stuff ...

Moodfish - music location based services local restaurants

Moodfish

Local Search Based On Your Mood
Moodfish takes traditional contextual and demographic relevance and expands on it. 1) Users are in the mood to do something right now. 2) They're ready to spend money right now. 3) They're ready to spend money right now because of how they FEEL. We are quantifying ...

Peddler.io - location based services food trucks And/Or restaurants

Peddler.io

Proximity commerce
Peddler.io is a proximity based craigslist. Peddler could help you find a near by food truck, or help you find the closest plumber. For merchants, if you're on the move delivering your product, peddler.io is perfect for you, as you can broadcast your location ...

Let's Do X Technologies - mobile SaaS cloud computing location based services

Let's Do X Technologies

Mobile location-based negotiating agent
LetsDoX is a cloud-based service and mobile app designed for service providers and their customers to communicate in the smart phone era. Our clustered, cloud platform was designed for servicing B2C collaborative mobile applications. The product has 4+ years of ...

Favor - location based services marketplaces bridging online and offline logistics

Favor

Anything You Want. Delivered.
Favor is a simple way to get anything you want delivered. Customers request items from local stores/restaurants and Favor's friendly personal assistants purchase and deliver items on-demand. The average delivery time is only 35 minutes. Like Uber or Lyft, people ...

Toopher - SaaS location based services enterprise security mobile security

Toopher

Invisible Strong Authentication
Toopher is an invisible, location-based multifactor authentication solution designed around user behavior and powered by your phone's location awareness. By marrying the strongest, state-of-the-art, true out-of-band pervasive technology with decidedly lean and ...

3 Frogs Studios - social media location based services virtual goods mobile games

3 Frogs Studios

Social Media Mobile Games for Entertainment Industry
Social Media Location Based Mobile Games - Initially Launching MovieStarsLife - a virtual hollywood where you can virtually Audition for Real Movie roles in movies coming out next week. Buy "real" virtual goods like Mansions, Ferrari's, and real Celebrity clothing ...

GrubBid - location based services mobile advertising advertising platforms sms

GrubBid

Dining offers on demand.
The final product is a platform that will consist of an app and a web portal that will connect customers on demand to the best deals from local restaurants. This is NOT a marketplace business model, but rather an advanced advertising platform. The revenue will ...

Friendesque - location based services young adults university students match making

Friendesque

Don't eat alone
Friendesque helps you meet a new person every day by inviting you to eat together based on your location and daily schedule. Innovations include: - matching people not only based on their location and preferences, but also their daily schedule. - Each day the ...

SideGig - mobile location based services

SideGig

Marketplace
SideGig helps providers sell personally produced goods and services to their community. On SideGig, you can build a micro-business and sell what you create to paying customers who want what you have to offer.

Nuve - analytics location based services sensors internet of things

Nuve

Revolutionizing Asset Protection in an Internet of Things World
Nuve is revolutionizing how asset protection is done in an Internet of Things world. We develop and manufacturer advanced hardware sensors and smart locks that help transportation companies protect against fuel and cargo theft. We are serving a $25.5B global ...

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