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Philadelphia health IT company adds Apple Pay

April 16, 2015

Source: Philadelphia Business Journal A Philadelphia company that processes tens of billions of dollars in health care payments each year has added Apple Pay to its payment network. InstaMed, which has offices in Center City and Newport Beach, Calif., operates an integrated health care payment network that connects more than 1,500 hospitals, more than 70,000 […]

35 New Jobs Coming to KOP-Based Greenphire

April 10, 2015

Source: Philly.com Greenphire to add 35 at new KofP HQ Flush with new investor cash, clinical-trials payment-technology provider Greenphire says it has moved to an 18,000 sq. ft. office at 630 Allendale Road, King of Prussia, from a smaller location nearby. The company employs 65, and plans to have over 100 by the end of […]

Milkcrate helps people wanting to live green

April 10, 2015

Source: Philly.com In those cash-strapped days when you first moved into your own place and used plastic milk crates as furniture, you might not have considered yourself part of the sustainability movement. But you were, by repurposing that crate. A few years ago, Morgan Berman decided she, too, wanted to live a greener existence. “I […]

Third acquisition's the charm. Change.org now owns Versa!

April 10, 2015

Source: Venture Beat With 90M users, Change.org buys Versa to expand its petition platform Today Change.org, a rather large site for creating and promoting petitions, announced its third acquisition: Versa. Versa tried to make sense of chaotic comments on news articles with a sponsored comment tool. That tool was designed to help politicians, corporations, and […]

Panasonic and Neat Company are Now a Thing

April 8, 2015

Source: Business Wire Panasonic Announces New Bundled Product Offering with the Neat Company, a Leading Provider of Expense Management Software for the Small Business New hardware and software bundle delivers affordable and versatile expense management capabilities and scanning solution NEWARK, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Panasonic System Communications Company of North America, a provider of industry leading document management […]

A less frustrating customer service call? Yes please!

April 6, 2015

Source: Technically Philly This Philly startup is using live video to enhance customer service calls Livegenic aims to make calling in insurance claims much less frustrating. “Have you tried turning it off and on again?” It’s a question we’re asked in many a customer service phone call. For good reason, too: it’s a starting point. […]

$5M Series A for Cloudmine…CHECK!

March 17, 2015

Source: VentureBeat Mobile Backend Startup CloudMine Picks Up $5M Image Credit: John Karakatsanis/Flickr CloudMine, a startup that sells a cloud service for operating mobile apps and websites, is announcing today that it has picked up $5 million in new funding. CloudMine offers several components for mobile developers to tap, including object storage, push notifications, load […]

From Borrowing Moms Money To Running A Business. This is Jason Rappaport's Story.

February 25, 2015

Source: Vista.Today Walnut St. Labs Hosts Squareknot’s Jason Rappaport For Startup Meetup Jason Rappaport stopped by Walnut St. Labs this morning to share his insights and the story behind his unusual entrance into the startupsphere. Rappaport became an entrepreneur at 15 when his mom loaned him the cash to purchase ZeldaUniverse.net, a fansite to which […]

Ticketleap is at it again! Meet Met.

February 25, 2015

Source: Technically Philly Ticketleap wants to help you keep track of your real-life interactions And its new product for doing so has a nifty URL. IRL matters more, right? Meet Met. It’s a new mobile app from Ticketleap’s Labs team that aims to keep track of in-person interactions — because, as VP of Product Beah […]

Attention Sports Junkies: OneTwoSee Is Staying With Fox News Gametrax

February 25, 2015

Source: Multichannel News Fox Sports Re-Ups With OneTwoSee Startup Weaves Real-Time Data, Interactivity Into Fox’s ‘GameTrax’ OneTwoSee, a Philadelphia-based multiscreen startup that specializes in interactive apps that sync up contextual data with live sports broadcasts, said it has inked a new multi-year deal to continue to produce interactive elements for FoxSports.com and Fox Sports’ coverage […]