Online receipt scanning and expense management service Shoeboxed.com wants to become an essential tool for mobile businesspeople. The company recently introduced an iPhone app that lets users upload pictures of their receipts to be scanned and indexed. Using proprietary optical character recognition and computer learning technology, Shoeboxed lists the vendor, purchase date, and expenditure type for each receipt in an easy to use format.
The iPhone app is efficient, processing my crumpled up grocery receipts correctly in under 15 minutes. I was quickly able to edit and add categories for all of my receipts, dividing them into easy to understand categories. Full story...
We’ve got some great momentum for VentureBeat’s upcoming DiscoveryBeat event, which will attack the problem of how to get attention for an app in the midst of a lot of noise.
There are tons of karaoke applications for the iPhone, but a startup called Khu.sh is introducing a twist on the concept, “reverse karaoke,” to the App Store.
French mobile phone games publisher Gameloft said it is giving up on the Google Android platform.
Hot Potato launched a service today that lets you create streams of content around events.
You can create an event and then other people can check-in to it.
Playhaven is making it easy for gamers to create fan communities around iPhone games. It does so by creating online forums for fans on its web site, with a new fan section for every iPhone game.
Google hasn’t traditionally engaged in large-scale advertising campaigns.
Editor’s note: Chuck Dietrich is the chief executive of online presentation company SlideRocket, and previously served as general manager and vice president of mobile at Salesforce.
Twitter COO Dick Costolo is on-stage at TechCrunch’s Real-Time CrunchUp. I’m taking some notes as we go.
Infoaxe, which records your web history and make it searchable, just launched a public facing real-time search engine tapping the behavior of its more than 2 million users.
San Francisco startup Cloud Engines, maker of a box-like device called Pogoplug that makes external hard drives accessible from any computer or iPhone, today launched the next generation of the device, supporting more hardware and software capabilities.