If you’ve ever looked back over the weekend and wondered where all your money went, then Spenz is the app for you. Using this free app, you can keep up with spending by inputting purchases and tagging them with categories, people or locations. Spenz is so much more than the traditional budgeting app. It tracks spending frequency and…
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Baltimore-based startup LocalUp Solutions connects restaurants directly with consumers, making each locally branded website the mecca for online food ordering in their respective cities. If their business sounds a little GrubHub-ish, well, yeah it kind of is. But unlike many of its competitors, LocalUp licenses its technology to local entrepreneurs and media companies in many…
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You pay a lot to sit in the back seat of that taxi. Why not add a passenger and save some money? GobiCab is an iPhone app that allows users to find riders to share a taxi cab with. Every day millions of people pay full fare for taxi trips. GobiCab lets you save money…
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Maintaining a rockin’ social life can be time-consuming and exhausting. Who has time to visit multiple websites, call numerous friends, and scour Facebook for tips on what’s happening tonight? One would seriously need a personal event planner to keep up with it all and still muster the energy to actually enjoy the event upon arrival….
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Just as dolphins use biosonar to get the lay of the land, err–water, you can use Sonar to get a feel for any room you walk into. Sonar is a mobile app that uses your public profiles on places like Facebook, Foursquare, and Twitter, to find commonalities among you and the people around you. Sonar…
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Location-based services like Foursquare and Gowalla allow you to “check-in” to physical places like restaurants, bars and stores that you visit. Now Stopped.at is bringing the same idea to the web. Stopped.at allows users to “check-in” to any website, unlock deals, and share their online location with friends in real-time. All you have to do…
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If you’re taking your cues from James Bond, nothing says sexy and debonair like ordering your vodka martini “shaken, not stirred.” From Dr. No to Quantum of Solace, the famous spy has never failed to demonstrate his elegant taste in cocktails. With the new Bond Mixology iOS app that traces (literally) every drink the secret…
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Getting consumers to interact with your brand is every marketer’s dream. Interaction and participation create loyalty, which can be difficult to earn in today’s crowded marketplace. Loyalize is a real-time participation platform that helps businesses reach and activate consumers anytime, anywhere through their connected devices. Loyalize combines the proven tactics of promotional rewards with real-time…
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Have you ever seen a cool restaurant while en route to another place and thought, “Hey, I should check that out sometime.” But when “sometime” comes, you completely draw a blank? Matchbook just may become your favorite new app. Matchbook is a new bookmarking app for places. When someone gives you a recommendation about a…
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In today’s connected world, personal recommendations mean everything. Bre.ad is a new way to share what you love and to get tips about what’s hot, according to your friends. The founders of Bre.ad believe that sharing recommendations for your favorite causes, brands, and interests should be easy and free for everyone. There’s enough meaningless advertising…
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Last month, Tech Cocktail introduced our readers to AirRun, a location-based job hub that lets you outsource anything and gives a ton of job opportunities to people looking for work. Since AirRun’s launch last month, they’ve been growing quickly, with 3,500 users and climbing. People are having fun with the app, with fast food delivery…
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Taking and sharing photos is, for many of us, an integral part of communicating with friends and family. Photogram can help you streamline the photo sharing process, while helping you create a memorable and creative finished product. Photogram is a new kind of photo sharing app coming to iOS in mid-June. The app is for people…
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Imagine a world with fewer cars, without traffic jams, and with less pollution. That’s exactly what the founders of Getaround did, and they came up with a sustainable transportation solution. Getaround is a social car sharing service that enables car owners to safely rent out their underutilized cars to a community of trusted drivers. People…
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This week was huge for mobile payments with Google announcing its new mobile payments platform just yesterday, merely days after a big product launch for Square. Not a payments nerd like me? Here’s what you need to know: Google Introduces Wallet- In its initial stages, Google Wallet will allow you to use your cell phone…
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I don’t know about you, but being jarred awake to the annoying sound of an alarm clock (or worse–the a.m. traffic report on the radio) isn’t exactly my favorite time of day. Now, LARK has created a system to help you ease into your day, and it can even help you get higher-quality sleep! LARK…
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Over the weekend, Apple revamped their retail store operations to better leverage their own technology. The focus of the changes is around the use of the iPad 2 at each kiosk to provide interactive product information for the mass of customers that flow through their retail stores. The iPads present a self-contained demo that allows…
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Two months after the iPad 2 debuted in March, around 40% of users surveyed said their iPad was their primary computer, up from around 30%... Read More
There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with... Read More
We are excited to announce the participating startups for Tech Cocktail's South by Southwest (SXSW) event: #Startuplife Celebration presented by .CO. It was one of... Read More
With our Startup Mixology Conference coming up next week followed by our classic Tech Cocktail DC Summer mixer which will showcase a handful of early-stage... Read More