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Created by the Purchase Decision Network, Shopper currently has more than 1.75 million people using its app. This new “Snap2Add” feature allows them to snap photos of grocery products around their houses and have those items recognized immediately. From there, Shopper can add the items to user’s grocery shopping list, and use the app’s current features to look at product availability and pricing at nearby stores, provide recipe suggestions, and even provide you coupons for any applicable things on your list....

While LivingSocial searches for a new chief executive officer, which they believe will happen in the first half of 2014, O’Shaughnessy will maintain the position. Of LivingSocial’s original founding members – Eddie Fredrick, Aaron Batalion, Val Aleksenko, and Tim O’Shaughnessy, Aleksenko will be the only member still with the DC-based daily deals company once O’Shaughnessy departs. From the Washington Business Journal, O’Shaughnessy’s email read: “We now have the most stable and healthy business that we have ever had, and the luxury of having hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank to take us to the next level....

However, if you take charge of your business finances — from tracking incomings and outgoings religiously, to keeping a close eye on inventory levels, cutting back customer payment terms, utilizing business cash-back credit cards and the like — it is possible to get your organization’s cash flow in a better position quite quickly. Read on for some tips to help you improve your company’s cash flow and alleviate stress in the coming months....

Tech Cocktail interviewed Hsieh to learn more about the Downtown Project. The full interview at the bottom of this post is worth the watch, but for those who don’t have 8:43 to spare, below are some of the highlights. Community 1:11 – Hsieh explains how the project will be more community-centric (i.e., hands off) than some might assume – taking an “anti-master-planning” approach. His statement is solidified with the array of colorful post-it notes in the background, which is the wall of his apartment....

Current students who are learning web design typically earn up to $73,000 per year, according to the Treehouse team. That ranks them 41 percent higher than the national average, but Treehouse wants to keep growing that average. “At Treehouse our mission is to make technology education affordable and accessible to everyone on Earth. To that end, we’ve been working hard to get Treehouse curriculum into schools,” says Alan Johnson, co-founder of Treehouse....

Online security has been a hot topic over the last few years. Between security breaches of big businesses and ransomware attacks on individuals, protecting yourself online has become vitally important. Apple understood that, which is why its marketing campaigns of late have been largely focused on the privacy capabilities of its devices. Unfortunately, no one is completely safe from the hackers of the world, which is why Apple is urging users of its many devices to update them as soon as possible to close this vulnerability....

You may remember when Credit Karma took the truly free model to the people. After all the stink made by consumers after FreeCreditReport.com turned out to be anything but, they came in and saved the day by providing actually free credit reports to costumers far and wide. Vehicle History wants to do the same for your car report. You shouldn’t have to pay extra to find out whether your thousands of dollars are going to a pile of junk....

It wasn’t just one shipper, either. They “tried them all,” according to Van Moof’s cofounder and designer. So they came up with a simple, easy solution that cut damage by 70 percent: They printed pictures of flatscreen TVs on the outside of the boxes. Here’s the story. The Problem Shipping is an essential aspect of Van Moof’s business, and they plan on making it more essential, they wrote in a recent Medium post:...

The coworking company has announced two meaningful education initiatives that could help people get a leg up in the tech community. Take a look at what the both have to offer below and get excited for your WeEducation! WeGrow – Elementary School for Entrepreneurs Teaching kids as young as five-years-old about entrepreneurship is silly, right? Wrong! WeWork has plans to launch an elementary school inside their New York City office that will promote conscious entrepreneurship....

Maybe Richard should have gone on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” to prepare. The intricate rules of ABC’s “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” can attract the right kind of person: Someone who understands statistics, and can use them to know when to guess and when not to. Simply studying the odds can calm your nerves when you’re faced with an inevitable situation and start feeling that startup stress....

But here’s a kicker – only a small percentage of mobile games are profitable and successful, with even fewer going as far as the IPO (Good job, Candy Crush!). Is there any way to predict your game success apart from investing in some decent marketing? In general, yes, there are certain common factors that contribute to a mobile game’s success. Stick to the Profitability Formula According to Polat Hassan, CEO of App Box Media your app will bring you revenue if:...

CES Statistics In 2015, CES broke attendance records and 2016 is set to do that again. Last year, more than 170,000 attendees from all over the world (with close to 50,000 international attendees) transcended on the Las Vegas convention space to cover the over 2 million square feet of exhibition space. You can expect to see close to 4,000 companies exhibiting the latest technology and almost 400 startups with the biggest and brightest ideas for the future of tech and computers....

Consider all the times you’ve sent money from bank to bank electronically. In a lot of cases it takes three to four business days. There’s no denying it, Safahi’s got a point. Moreover, if individuals have a hard time with this issue what is it like for a startup company trying to grow? He’s cultivated his poignant insights about payments because he actually grew up in the payment processing space....

This point is important enough that it bears repeating. When you are just getting started, your business is not: Manufacturing widgetsSelling widgetsOffering unique and innovative servicesProviding the best customer serviceEnsuring high levels of customer satisfaction Before you can do any of those things, you have to master the art of networking. To do so, you need to be familiar with the tools of networking, and the reasons behind why it is so important....

Gen Z has never known the world without the Internet. They have 6-second-average attention spans and can’t live without their iPhones. At the same time, Gen Zs are deemed extremely hard working, realistic and mindful of the future. According to a recent survey conducted among high school students, 72 percent of respondents named “entrepreneurship” as their preferred career choice. They want to be pioneers, instead of career settlers. Most of them are likely to succeed as unlike the millennials they are more jagged, realistic and learned early that good life requires hard work....

Investment in digital currencies, especially Bitcoin, constitutes a new niche that is driving major innovations in the financial sector. These currencies are able to serve as an alternative to the global monetary chaos – with the potential to include the 4 billion people that are currently prevented from accessing traditional financial services. But Bitcoin’s value usually fluctuates a lot, and is currently a bit far from that record, so is it still a worthy investment?...

The smart home industry has grown on the back of a robust network created by the Internet of Things (IoT). And even though the future of the IoT and the closely related smart home industry looks bright, there are still major issues that can hold back most technologies that have been built around these platforms. Problems such as cross-platform software compatibility, tech support, and steep learning curves can significantly affect product uptake at the consumer level....

Behavioral Science Each individual has a very unique set of behaviors, especially when it comes to interacting with and purchasing from your business. Behavioral science teaches us that not all users should be treated the same; they each have unique characteristics that affect their buying habits and psychological buying motives. Segmenting your audience so that each group gets a much more personalized experience can have awesome effects on your conversion rate....

This impacts marketing, naturally, and has led to the latest logo trend, the wordless logo. Here are the studies behind the move. Advertising Is Failing Writing for Digiday, copywriter Mark Duffy drew on his decades of experience to compile the compelling case against advertising’s effectiveness. Here are the salient points: He notes that many expect free services and products, but rely on ad-blockers at the same time. And that even the ironic “no sell” ads lose effectiveness once the novelty wears off....

Wearable technologies are emerging in multiple formats and with a wide range of functionality; fitness trackers, cameras, inboxes, calling capabilities, playing music and even wearable fashion. But will we all be wearing smart clothing in a few years, or is this a new tech catchphrase that will begin to die down once the ‘cool’ factor wears off? It’s becoming evident that the wearable technologies that will become successful in the long-term will be those that provide real value to users....