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Hands-On With The Week’s Top Apps

Lots of great new apps launched this week. Disney released Story, a new app that uses the location and time stamp on photos you take with your iPhone to instantly create a digital storybook based on different events. Zynga released a new game in its “With Friends” series called Running With Friends, an infinite running…

Snoop on Competitors’ Online Deals With This App

Market researchers everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief. A new app called Perch, by developers Closely, lets small businesses monitor and track the online activity of their competitors — essentially, giving them a digital birds-eye view of their immediate competitive landscape. Perch collects Facebook posts, tweets and pins from local competition. Then, every update…

The Hackathon Comes of Age With Social Media

Any great hackathon requires plenty of coffee, energy drinks and lots of sugar, but for a purely distributed event, competitors need more than just a few jolts of caffeine. As hackathons grow in popularity, organizers and competitors alike are making use of a plethora of social media tools to plan, execute, promote and deliver new…