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Bill Guard: Service scans users’ credit card bills for errors and scams

If consumers dislike filling out health insurance claims enough to pay someone to handle the chore for them, it seems a pretty safe bet that they’d feel similarly about the task of monitoring their credit card bills as well. Sure enough, BillGuard is a personal finance security service that scans users’ credit and debit card bills each day for unwanted and unauthorized transactions…. Read More…

Of a Kind

Seven months ago, college friends Claire Mazur and Erica Cerulo launched Of a Kind, the first retail site on Tumblr and “online art gallery for emerging designers.” Since the explosive debut, the site has racked up thousands of followers, unsurprisingly attracted to the platform’s simplified interface and rotating cast of exciting new talents. … Read More…

Consmr Aims To Be the Yelp for Supermarket Goods

A new site is hoping to become the Yelp or Rotten Tomatoes of supermarket products. Consmr, which launched Tuesday, ranks consumer-packaged goods based on reviews from consumers, bloggers and a couple of editorial publications. Ryan Charles, the founder of Consmr — who previously served as head of mobile, interactive products and marketing at Zagat — says although there’s no mobile Consmr app yet, he envisions consumers accessing the information in-store to make informed purchases…. Read More…

Why Top Brands Are Investing So Much Time In a Social Media Leaderboard

When I asked Duleepa Wijayawardhana (a.k.a. “Dups”), co-founder and CEO of the self-described “social media exchange” Empire Avenue (EA), if he wanted to be the next Gordon Gekko, he replied, “We want to be bigger than Gordon Gekko.” He might just get there thanks to the growing trend of ranking a person’s social media capital as well as thousands of new “investors.”… Read More…

Nuvve – The “Cash-back car”: Danish EV owners to sell power back to the grid

US company Nuvve will use Denmark as the first test market for a new technology allowing electric vehicle (EV) owners to sell energy stored in their EV batteries back to the grid. The first pilot will consist of 30 cars. According to Nuvve, individual EV owners could make $10,000 over the lifetime of a vehicle (estimated at 8 years) depending on market price and owner commitment…. Read More…

Slice – Your e-shopping history, consolidated and accessible

Anyone who’s ever bought anything online knows that a parade of emails tends to follow such purchases — including critical information that will have to be retrieved later in the event of a return or other subsequent follow-up. Much the way Danish Garanti Hotel offers a centralized place to keep electronic product warranties safe and organized, so Project Slice aims to bring a similar solution to order-confirmation emails and other e-commerce documents…. Read More…

UCube

Artfully designed with science in mind, these desktop UCube speakers deliver a powerful 170-degree field of sound in an an equally impressive 3.25-inch package. The surprisingly small speakers require only two cables and no external power supply, meaning less mess on your desk without sacrificing sound. … Read More…

4 Fun Apps for Foodies, Savers & Travelers

If you’re traveling this summer, why not take a trip to Fortnighter’s website first for a custom travel itinerary written just for you by one of the site’s contributing travel writers? Those staycationing instead might appreciate the deals and food information on venues just down the street as provided by Poggled or Foodstream…. Read More…

Morning Pictures

TrendCentral: MorningPics links directly to Instagram to send users a daily pictorial blast from the past. Drawing from Instagram’s photo archive, which has built up impressively over its mere seven-month existence, MorningPics delivers a photo each morning directly to a user’s inbox. Each rando… Read More…

Podio.com – Create Your Own Apps

Having a job that is completely peculiar and uncharacteristic certainly looks exciting from the outside, but the challenges it can pose are certainly tremendous. Having to cope with a total lack of applications for getting the job actually done is one of them. And there is no easy way out of such a … Read More…

Spoontrip – For foodie travelers, a guide to culinary activities worldwide

For lovers of good food and wine, part of the joy of traveling to new places is often the ability to enjoy new and different gastronomic experiences. Where Dishcrawl enables four culinary mini-adventures in a single evening within the North American cities it serves, Spoontrip helps travelers away from home find authentic, local food and wine experiences wherever their journeys happen to take them…. Read More…

Fab.com

Fab.com, the latest entry to the online curated sale and design space, offers daily design inspiration and up to 70% off retail prices on a wide range of design products including furniture, home accessories, technology, entertainment, lighting, art, toys, and jewelry from more than 175 leading desi… Read More…