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Square Order now lets you order ahead and alerts restaurants and cafes of your impending arrival

Oct08
by on October 8, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

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Time is in short supply. It’s a steady unending slog away from our youth that drags us along while we toil away at the office. The procession is all the worse when you can’t spare the extra 15 minutes needed to stand in line at coffee shop because you don’t want to drink the blacker-than-night liquid that’s been simmering for three days in the office coffee machine. The updated Square Order app for iOS and Android lets you not only skip the line, but you can order your coffee — or whatever — from a local shop, and it won’t be prepared until the…

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Square Order now lets you order ahead and alerts restaurants and cafes of your impending arrival

Oct08
by on October 8, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

1008_sqaure1

Time is in short supply. It’s a steady unending slog away from our youth that drags us along while we toil away at the office. The procession is all the worse when you can’t spare the extra 15 minutes needed to stand in line at coffee shop because you don’t want to drink the blacker-than-night liquid that’s been simmering for three days in the office coffee machine. The updated Square Order app for iOS and Android lets you not only skip the line, but you can order your coffee — or whatever — from a local shop, and it won’t be prepared until the…

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Flush with fresh funding, Product Hunt will soon let you follow other users

Oct08
by on October 8, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Product Hunt, the community based around finding the best new products, has announced today that it’s rolling out a number of new features as well as having raised $6.1 Million in funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz. The service will soon let its users follow each other and get notifications when someone they respect posts a new product to the site. Additionally, user profiles have been redesigned to include more information and highlight products built by those people. Product Hunt, which launched in late 2013, only recently announced an iOS app as well as its $1 million seed round just last month. The…

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Flush with fresh funding, Product Hunt will soon let you follow other users

Oct08
by on October 8, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

Product Hunt

Product Hunt, the community based around finding the best new products, has announced today that it’s rolling out a number of new features as well as having raised $6.1 Million in funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz. The service will soon let its users follow each other and get notifications when someone they respect posts a new product to the site. Additionally, user profiles have been redesigned to include more information and highlight products built by those people. Product Hunt, which launched in late 2013, only recently announced an iOS app as well as its $1 million seed round just last month. The…

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Acorns for Android helps you get rich by investing all your spare change

Oct08
by on October 8, 2014 at 12:58 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

Back in August, we brought you news on Acorns, a new iPhone app that wants to help you get rich through micro-investing your spare change. And today, it’s available for Android too. Unfortunately, the app remains a US-only affair. But as with the iPhone incarnation, Acorns for Android connects up with your credit or debit card and links in with any purchase you make. Acorns can ’round up’ to the nearest dollar and invest this for you automatically, or enable you to do it manually.     Let’s say you buy groceries for $12.53, Acorns can make this an even $13,…

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