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Scan Closes $1.7 Million Seed Funding Led by Menlo Ventures; Launches Scan Pages

02/25/201204/14/2014 Guest Post

Scan Allows Businesses and Individuals to Quickly and Easily Create and Share a Mobile Site Scan, Inc. (www.scan.me) announced $1.7 million in seed funding from top venture capital firms and notable angel investors. Scan connects the real world with the digital universe through mobile technologies like QR codes, NFC, image recognition and more. Menlo Ventures led the round, with venture capital participation from Google Ventures, Charles River Ventures, Yuri Milner’s Start Fund, Social + Capital Partnership, Transmedia Capital, and Ludlow Ventures. Scan’s angel investors include Ariel Poler, Naval Ravikant of…

Mobile discount coupons focus on QR code and social media compatibility

02/21/201202/21/2012 Stephanie Beck

Modiv Media has announced their newest product called Modiv Social, which allows consumers to collect discount coupons from any source they’d like, and then use them or share them over social media such as Facebook. This uses a concept that is not at all new, but that has yet to be fully leveraged over the mobile channel. Email marketers have been told that their effectiveness and survival will require the use of social and mobile platform links for some time now, but it wasn’t until mobile couponing arrived that this…

VerticalResponse unveils new social media marketing app for mobile

02/19/201202/18/2012 Jesse Collins

Leading self-service marketing solutions provider for small businesses, VerticalResponse, has now unveiled its new iOS mobile app for its social media marketing platform called Roost by VerticalResponse. The company provides a wide range of solutions, including social media marketing, email marketing, online surveys, direct mail marketing, and event marketing. Roost by VerticalResponse provides small businesses with a dashboard that allows them to quickly and easily develop, deploy, manage, and measure their various campaigns through social media. Now, the new mobile app – which is now available at the Apple iTunes…

Super Bowl Sunday broke mobile pizza order records

02/09/2012 Jesse Collins

This last Super Bowl Sunday brought a number of victories, not only in the game itself and its players, but also in the mobile marketplace, where records were broken for the number of pizza orders that were made for pizza delivery during the broadcast. Mobile use as a whole were very popular throughout the Super Bowl game, especially in terms of mobile social media platforms. In fact, there were approximately 12,000 tweets generated every second through the final three minutes of the game, alone. That said, social media wasn’t the…

Paatle launches new QR code initiative for the real estate industry

01/18/201201/18/2012 Stephen Vagus

Paatle, a technology startup launched in 2011, has announced that it will be adopting QR codes for a new initiative aimed at the real estate industry. The company will begin offering a new service called Paatle QR Codes, which will help realtors connect with consumers. Consumers will also be able to use the service to share properties with their friends and colleagues. Each property using the program will have its own, unique QR code that is attributed to its profile on Paatle.com. The program is designed to make it easier…