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Postmates Launches 1-Hour Delivery in New York City

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New York, NY (PRWEB) May 30, 2013

Postmates, the original same day delivery startup based in San Francisco, today announced availability of its one hour service in New York. Operating at the intersection of urban logistics and e-commerce, Postmates provides delivery from any store or restaurant in Manhattan.

Postmates’ mobile app connects its fleet of couriers with customers in New York, providing access to local inventory from the Apple Store, Bloomingdales, Shake Shack, Levain Bakery, Duane-Reade and virtually anywhere else. Postmates’ couriers are equipped with a proprietary courier app and company credit card to purchase items on behalf of their customers. From real-time tracking to digital receipts, the entire delivery process is transparent and cashless.

For local merchants, Postmates offers the opportunity to compete with mass retailers. The startup provides a platform for stores and restaurants to deliver goods to customers anywhere in the city at no cost to their business. With Postmates, the more than 65% of merchants in NYC that don’t offer deliver, now have a full-service option.

“I am excited to introduce Postmates to a city that defines convenience and accessibility,” explained Bastian Lehmann, CEO and co-founder of Postmates. “New York is the ideal market for an on-demand service. Now all of Manhattan is accessible at the touch of a button.”

The existing fleet of nearly 50 Postmates’ couriers in New York consists of bikes, cars, scooters and SUVs. At launch, Postmates will:

     + Deliver from anywhere in Manhattan to the greater Flatiron District (between 42nd and 14th, 8th and Lexington), and will quickly expand throughout the city over the next two months

     + Be available between 8:00am – 3:00am, 7 days a week

     + Start at $ 5 for delivery, but is free during launch week, May 30 – June 5

Postmates is currently live in San Francisco and Seattle and is growing its delivery volume by 20% month on month. In San Francisco, Postmates has increased the number of merchants that deliver from 800 to nearly 3,000 and has successfully processed over $ 1M in deliveries from merchants in San Francisco and Seattle over the last 3 months. The startup plans to launch a new market every two months.

Postmates has raised just over $ 7 million in funding to date from a handful of well-known Silicon Valley angel investors and venture capitalists.: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/postmates.

About Postmates:

Postmates is a revolutionary same day urban logistics and delivery platform that enables individuals to have any product in the city delivered in under an hour. Postmates enables same day delivery by arming couriers with credit cards to purchase goods on behalf of the customer at any retail store or merchant in the city. Postmates was co-founded by Sam Street, Sean Plaice and Bastian Lehmann in 2011, and is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in London, Seattle and NYC.

Postmates is free to download from the app store or by visiting: http://www.postmates.com







Eastward, Ho! deafREVIEW Launches in NYC, Rochester, and Metro D.C.

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Seattle, Washington (PRWEB) April 01, 2013

Deaf-friendly businesses are no April Fool’s joke: Seattle-based deafREVIEW (http://deafreview.com/), a community-led search and review site for deaf-friendly businesses, today announced the availability of deafREVIEW® in New York, NY, Rochester, NY, and Metro Washington, D.C.

Visitors and residents can now digitally rate and review the deaf-friendliness of businesses in these cities and 60-miles surrounding the city center. Three new city platforms have gone live today, showcasing 60+ new business reviews including a deaf-friendly camera repair shop, a deaf-friendly hospital, a deaf-challenged Citibank, and even the deaf-challenged American Museum of Natural History among many others.

Debuting in Seattle approximately one year ago, deafREVIEW also launched in California (San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego) last October. It has built a solid West Coast presence as well as 5,000+ unique monthly site visitors and 3,175 Facebook fans nationally.

“Today is an exciting day for all deaf, deaf-blind and hard of hearing consumers coast to coast. When we launched in Seattle last year, we weren’t expecting such an enormous response from our East Coast fans!” said deafREVIEW founder and CEO Melissa “echo” Greenlee. “People are hungry to share their consumer experiences (good and bad) and desperate for businesses to start acknowledging and improving their customer service for our unique consumer needs. I am happy to expand our review potential to three highly deaf-populated cities.”

deafREVIEW analyzed factors like reputable deaf schools, ample deaf and deaf-blind social services, and a thriving Deaf social/cultural scene.

“New Yorkers are notoriously busy, and sometimes we can’t get to see each other enough,” explained Guthrie Nutter, the new Review Coordinator for NYC. “This is a great way to share information from the comfort of our own computers!”

Half of the Facebook fans who participated in an ongoing poll voted to launch in Rochester, NY (home to deaf students of Rochester Institute of Technology and National Technical Institute of the Deaf). Five hours south, New York City is home to seven prominent deaf schools as well as diverse organizations like Metropolitan Asian Deaf Association, New York City Black Deaf Advocates and the Beth Torah of the Deaf.

Michael Cooper, a former New Yorker, said: “One-eighths of the entire U.S. population alone lives in the greater NYC Metro. Can you imagine the infinite opportunities to educate hearing people about Deaf needs in the Greater NYC Metro through deafREVIEW?”

With one of the largest concentrations of deaf/hh people in the nation, Metro D.C. (which includes Virginia and Maryland) is also full of reviewer potential. Metro D.C. is home to Gallaudet University, the world’s only Deaf Liberal Arts college. Even hearing residents check Gallaudet’s online calendar to partake in Deaf Culture events.

Business owners can enjoy access to many free educational resources (such as the ASL Manual Alphabet, and information about tax credits and deductions). To learn more, check out Recent Reviews and deafREVIEW News (http://deafreview.com/deafreview-news/) for weekly content about Deaf Culture topics.

About deafREVIEW

deafREVIEW is a web site that connects people to deaf-friendly businesses. Taking root in Seattle, it is new face of crowd sourcing: Bringing awareness to deaf-friendly businesses, and corrective feedback to “deaf-challenged” businesses. Reviewers fit a number of categories: deaf, deaf-blind, hard of hearing, friends/family of the deaf and those with a special interest in creating a deaf-friendly world. Shared insight and corrective feedback on a much-needed public platform is what slowly improves the consumer experience as well as businesses’ customer service. We invite you to write consumer reviews, so that we can increase deaf-friendliness in millions of businesses across the nation. For more information, please visit http://www.deafreview.com or send an email to press(at)deafreview(dot)com







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Cozy Launches, Aims to Reinvent the Experience for Landlords and Renters

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SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) June 06, 2013

Cozy, the company removing headaches from renting residential real estate, unveiled its new service today which features a first-of-its-kind rent payment system, innovative landlord screening tools, and beautifully designed renter profiles.

Cozy’s mission is to radically change the rental real estate experience with a focus on elegantly designed products, transparency, privacy, and total control of one’s personal information. After an intensive six month beta period, Cozy has thousands of landlords and renters using the service in over 300 U.S. cities. Cozy has established itself as a trustworthy payment processor, and is processing millions of dollars annually.

Landlords can sign up now for their free 60-day trial at: cozy.co. Cozy is free for renters.

“Renting property is one of the oldest systems in human history, and it is a miserable experience. Renting property has never been designed. At Cozy, we’re making the entire process secure, seamless and even enjoyable from the very first interaction,” said Cozy CEO Gino Zahnd. “The U.S. is moving toward a more renter-based economy, and the timing couldn’t be better for a service like Cozy.”

NEW TOOLS FOR LANDLORDS

Cozy’s new payment system supports households with roommates. Each roommate pays individually, and Cozy bundles the payments so that the landlord receives one clean payment from the household. This system supports how leases actually work, and reduces liability for the landlord. Everything is based on recurring payments and is completely automatic.

Innovative screening tools enable landlords to accept applications from prospective renters online and make informed decisions on applicants. The renter applications call out key decision points such as employment, financial health, and rental history.

Any Cozy property application can also be shared on sites such as Craigslist, Twitter and Facebook, via email, or at property showings.

BEAUTIFUL RENTER PROFILES

Renters can create a beautifully designed, reusable portfolio with unprecedented accuracy, legitimacy, and control. The Cozy renter profile can be used to apply to properties with Cozy landlords, or anywhere else online. A Cozy profile allows renters to:


Introduce themselves to landlords in their own words
Import their LinkedIn profile and verify their current employer
Give a complete picture of their financial health
Request endorsements from previous landlords and references

About Cozy

Cozy makes renting easy for both landlords and renters. With world-class customer service and first-of-their-kind products for rent payments, applying/screening, and personal security, Cozy is the best way for small landlords and renters to get things done.

Founded in March 2012 and based in San Francisco, Cozy’s mission is to radically change the rental real estate experience with a focus on beautifully designed products, transparency, privacy, and total control of one’s personal information.

Cozy is backed by The Social+Capital Partnership, Google Ventures, and noted angel investors Tim Ferriss, Jason Calacanis, and Gary Vaynerchuck. Our founders are former lead designers and engineers from Flickr, Kosmix (now @Walmartlabs), Splunk, and Capital One.

Learn more at cozy.co.







WebPurify Launches Video Moderation Service To Fight Pornography and Bullying

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) April 04, 2013

Last week a pornographic video involving an infant was posted on Facebook. According to Fox News, this disturbing content was shared tens of thousands of times and “liked” by 4,000 users. This unfortunate, but not uncommon incident, could have easily been prevented by using WebPurify.

WebPurify, the Internet’s first and most popular profanity filtering and image moderation API has launched a live video moderation service.

As the popularity of user-uploaded videos has soared, so has the opportunity for people to distribute harmful and illegal videos on social networks where such offensive material as child pornography can reach thousands, if not millions of people within seconds.

“It’s tragic enough that videos like this exist, but exposing users to traumatic content and destroying a company’s brand is completely avoidable,” said WebPurify Co-Founder Joshua Buxbaum. There is no way around this; real live human beings, not software, need to be reviewing every video before it goes live.”

Buxbaum believes that companies like Facebook are sacrificing the protection of children for the immediate gratification of their users.

“I understand the importance of the user experience, wanting to post a video and see it live immediately, but in this case, user experience doesn’t trump doing the right thing. ‘Going live’ is the perfect expression because once the content is out there, it ‘lives’ forever.”

Unfortunately, the problem isn’t limited to child pornography. Online bullying has become a significant issue, where the victims are often vulnerable teenagers. With people now being able to publish videos online with the simple tap of a finger, it’s inevitable that these tragedies will become even more commonplace. Too many social networking sites and other platforms rely on their users to report harmful content, but by the time they remove the offensive content, it’s often too late.

“Not having the proper safeguards in place, especially when WebPurify is available, is extremely irresponsible. WebPurify’s team not only moderates content, but we have also implemented systems to immediately alert our clients when that content contains potentially illegal or dangerous material” said WebPurify CTO & Co-Founder Jonathan Freger.

“If Facebook had used WebPurify, there is no way that video would have spread like wildfire. This was a wholly avoidable tragedy,” said Freger. “Our clients have relied on our platform to shield their website visitors from such harmful content. Incidents like this inspired the launch of our video moderation API.”

The WebPurify approach is far superior to purely-algorithmic services that allow for false positives, or unreliable crowd-sourced services that rely on anonymous, untrained and unaccountable internet users to moderate the content. Instead, WebPurify utilizes skilled teams of live moderators that are highly-trained and strictly-supervised.

About WebPurify.com:

WebPurify.com is a service of Los Angeles-based WebFurther, LLC. WebPurify was founded in 2007 as the web’s first and most popular profanity filtering service. They successfully launched their image moderation service in 2011 and recently launched their video moderation API. WebPurify pioneered “moderation as an API” by creating services that developers can easily integrate into their applications.







SavvyDox Launches Game-Changing, Mobile Document Management Solution

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Ottawa, ON (PRWEB) June 11, 2013

SavvyDox today announced the first commercial release of a cloud-based, mobile document management solution, SavvyDox 1.0. – a product that transforms tablet document interaction.

SavvyDox transforms tablet document interaction from primarily one of serial reading and consumption to one that provides the tablet device user with a new level of intelligent interaction with documents including highlighting revisions at the word and paragraph level, version sensitivity, changed content navigation, interaction with peer recipients and authors, shared annotations, and active and dynamic content.

SavvyDox solves tablet document management issues for enterprises, government and publishers, all within an enterprise grade, private, hybrid or public cloud based secure infrastructure. It is an elegant solution for anyone requiring always-on, always up-to-date, mobile access to revised document details.

The application is available from the App Store and the Windows Store and operates in conjunction with a server-based license available from SavvyDox.

“Our product highlights revisions at the bottom of the document with distinctive thumbnails – icons that resemble a page and identify where the revisions are in the document. Instead of reading the whole document you just tap on the page thumbnail and it takes you right to the exact location of the revision. No other product in this market segment does that,” said Hans Downer, President and CEO of SavvyDox.

SavvyDox supports “collaborative review” – parallel document review and comments from several recipients on a team improving synergy in the review process. In this mode, the author retains “ownership of the pen”, which allows only that person to modify the document. The author is also provided with analytic compliance reports identifying which recipients have read which pages of a document based on an author-supplied parameter.

During testing, users with iPad-based readers were fully productive within ten minutes of viewing a short training video. Testing also proved that the application integrates easily into the business environment since it accepts documents from MS Word, MS PowerPoint, or any document in PDF format.

The 30-person team testing the solution in California published 150 documents with over 250 revisions in a three-month period. The project team improved overall productivity since they no longer needed a 10-15 minute project review to bring everyone up to speed on the current plan.

In the Ottawa pilot, the national health care group entered over 300 comments on one 540-page document during a three-week period.

SavvyDox has confirmed a first order from a large Canadian systems integrator in early May and more recently a follow up order from a California county government. The systems integrator will use the solution to provide differentiated services to their clients on major projects in two other county governments in California and two large projects with another state government.

The solution had been in beta test since January 2013. A second pilot started in April of this year with a national healthcare group based in Ottawa, Ontario.

“We’re very pleased with the progress of the solution and the feedback from customers and investors. Our pilot customers have been extremely positive in their comments about how our product has addressed their business needs”, Downer said.

SavvyDox has raised a total of $ 1.25 million to date from Canadian Angel Investors and has received approval for a Canadian Federal Government loan of up to $ 1 million based on the amount of Angel investing received. SavvyDox just opened their third funding round of $ 625,000, which is expected to close quickly.

About SavvyDox

Founded in 2011, SavvyDox Inc. provides innovative mobile document solutions for tablet devices. Targeting businesses, enterprises and government organizations around the world, our focus is on building products and solutions to resolve unmet client needs in tablet document interaction, publishing and management.







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HopStop Live! Launches to Help Transit Riders Worldwide Receive, Contribute and Share Real-Time Transit Information

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New York, New York (PRWEB) April 08, 2013

HopStop, the number one ranked transit app in iTunes and Google Play with over three million downloads, today launched HopStop Live! TM – the only free, real-time social transit app backed by the power of millions of highly-engaged mobile users across seven countries, 700 transit agencies, 20,000 lines and 750,000 stops. HopStop Live! is the first social navigation platform that allows public transportation riders to contribute, receive and share real-time transit information about the stations, lines and transit systems that matter most to them. The new service will launch exclusively on the iPhone platform with other platforms, including iPad and Google Play, to follow in subsequent releases. The real-time transit service includes every market, across every transit agency, for every line/route that HopStop currently supports.

HopStop Live! is the only all-in-one transit app, providing unparalleled door-to-door walking and transit directions, schedules and officially licensed transit maps and, for the first time, real-time crowd-sourced information from fellow transit riders. The service benefits from an immediate install-base of 2 million monthly active users, not available anywhere else at this scale. The service also fills a large void left by the lack of real-time information currently available from most transit agencies – especially in periods of disruption caused by unforeseen incidents. Real-time, crowd-sourced information will be available both within HopStop’s familiar step-by-step direction search experience and also through a new standalone service with the iPhone app called “Live!”. Through the standalone service “Live!”, users can follow their specific lines and stations of regular use.

“The real-time public transportation space has attracted so much attention over the past twelve months with a countless number of new transit apps all professing to have the answer to real-time,” says Joe Meyer, CEO, HopStop. “The problem with the vast majority of these is that as impressive and headline-grabbing as their goals or claims may be –they all lack the critical ingredient for any crowd-sourced service to be useful –a big enough crowd of endemic users. Over the past nine years, HopStop has grown to be the biggest independent player in the transit routing market, and today’s launch of HopStop Live! will leverage our large user base and strong commitment to product excellence to define the future of real-time public transportation information.”

HopStop Live! also aims to help transit riders create micro-communities around their particular train line, bus route, stations or stops; and share real-time information and tips to make everyone’s trip better, easier and safer. HopStop Live! analyzes real-time user reports on lines, stations and routes across its entire global footprint to give transit riders a real-time snapshot of whether their ride is delayed, by how long, and an indication of the likely reason.

Joe Meyer, CEO, HopStop added, “Our reliable and highly accurate door-to-door transit directions revolutionized the transit industry a few years ago, and now HopStop Live! will do the same by becoming a must-have tool for any commuter. The new service will also help riders create micro-social communities around the specific stations, lines and stops that they care most about, thereby making everyone’s trip better, easier and safer.”







LeadFerret Launches Directory of Social Media Savvy Business Executives

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Calabasas, CA (PRWEB) April 10, 2013

LeadFerret users already enjoy free access to over 15+ million business contacts with complete information, including email addresses, social media links, and a robust set of search tools. Today LeadFerret launched a very specialized search page that allows users to search and see full contact information for contacts identified as Social Media Savvy Business Executives.

See the full directory at: http://leadferret.com/directory/social-media-savvy-business-executives

The top three Alexa ranked sites of 2012 were either social media sites (Facebook, Youtube), or had a social media aspect to the site (Google/Google+). The relavence of social media not only in the private lives of individuals, but in the business world, is ever increasing. This makes the ability to recognize the social media savvy of an individual that much more important.

“This directory is made up of business executives who have reported and/or demonstrated an understanding of how to leverage social media networks for business purposes. These executives have figured out ways to put social media networks to work for their businesses to drive sales, generate leads, promote brand awareness, network directly with other business executives, crowd-source, establish partnerships, and much more,” says Forest Cassidy, Co-Founder of LeadFerret. “In today’s internetcentric business world you’d be hard pressed to find a company that doesn’t have some sort of social media presence. Every single Fortune 500 company has, at the very least, a Facebook page and a Twitter account. Business executives are following suit, with both personal and business social media accounts. More and more, the ability to at least understand, if not utilize, social media is becoming increasingly important in the business world. This is a list of those people who are on the cutting edge of how to conduct business in the current, ever growing internet culture.”    

Amongst business executives, the most popular social networks include:

>LinkedIn

>Twitter

>Facebook

>Google+

>Youtube

>Pintrest

>Tumblr

>FourSquare

>MeetUp

>Xing

…and many more

About LeadFerret

LeadFerret, Inc offers a free online B2B database with complete data for over 15+ million business contacts. Users can search and view all 15+ million records, with no limitations, users only pay when they want to download records. Every record comes with complete information, including email address, phone number, company information, and much more. Many records now even come with social media links. For more information, go to: http://www.LeadFerret.com