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| Apr 16, 2014 | Oroeco Tracks Spending To Help Reduce Users’ Carbon Footprint | I’m the kind of person who cares about their environmental impact … but aside from basics like recycling, my ideas about how to do better get kind of fuzzy. That’s why a new service called Oroeco is pretty appealing.
Since its successful In... |
| Dec 12, 2013 | Gordon Renouf founder of Otter | Gordon Renouf is the co-founder of consumer information services Otter and Checking it Twice, both provided under the umbrella of social enterprise start-up Ethical Consumers Australia. ECA works for a fairer and more sustainable world by d... |
| Jun 17, 2013 | Sorry, Fashion Apps, Here Are 7 Apps Fashionistas Would Actually Use | This started out as a list titled “Fashion Apps Actual Fashionistas Would Use,” but in sifting through numerous style-centric apps, I realized that girls like Alexa Chung aren’t going to be using any of them.
Outfit selfie services like Pos... |
| Apr 11, 2013 | My iPhone Supports Gay Marriage. Does Yours? | If I can recommend a great local restaurant, leave a review for future patrons, alert my followers on Twitter, update my Facebook friends on my great new find – all in a few seconds – using only Yelp and my iPhone, why can’t I similarly pro... |
| Dec 9, 2012 | Startup Spotlight: Oroeco tackles climate change, one purchase at a time | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Every consumer choice you make has an effect on t... |
| Dec 9, 2012 | Startup Spotlight: Oroeco tackles climate change, one purchase at a time | Every consumer choice you make has an effect on the environment. The materials in your soap, the hardware in your phone, and the eggs on your breakfast plate are all a part of the global ecosystem. Yet, it can be easy to forget that every p... |
| Nov 10, 2012 | Google updates Shopper for Android and iOS, makes spending money easier | First Amazon and now Google. The holidays begin earlier every year. Amazon got things kicked off by first rolling out the traditional Black Friday Store and then, more recently, the new Santa App. Now Google has decided to step into the fra... |
| Nov 9, 2012 | Google Shopper Gets An Update On iOS And Android | Google Shopper (not to be confused with Google Shopping) just received an update. Google launched version 3.0 for Android and iOS.
The app was first launched for Android in 2010, and eventually made its way to the iPhone about a year later.... |
| Nov 9, 2012 | Google Shopper For iOS And Android Gets A Pre-Holidays Update With More Deals And GoodGuide Ratings | Just like every year, there will surely be long lines in front of your local Walmart, Best Buy and Macy’s on Black Friday in two weeks (assuming you live in the U.S.). With the shopping season about to start in full force, Google is launchi... |
| Feb 17, 2011 | GoodGuide Ranks Mobile Phone Sustainability: RIM Worst, Nokia Best | Click image, right, to enlarge.
Today, GoodGuide (a TechCrunch50 alumni company) added mobile phone rankings to their comprehensive database that ranks the environmental and social performance of products, and the companies that make them.
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| Jan 4, 2011 | GoodGuide Rolls Out New Social Features | GoodGuide — the mobile app and website that helps people find products that measure up to their environmental and social values — quietly rolled out new, social networking and product recommendation features this month.
Groups of friends an... |
| Jul 18, 2010 | The Many Bottom Lines Of Businesses | This post was written by guest contributor Leila Janah, the CEO of the nonprofit outsourced services firm Samasource. Leila continues to argue with me over whether or not pure capitalism can solve what ails us. I tend to take a Randian view... |
| Nov 18, 2009 | GoodGuide lets you scan barcodes to find the most ethical products | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
GoodGuide, one of my favorite applications for th... |
| Nov 18, 2009 | GoodGuide lets you scan barcodes to find the most ethical products | GoodGuide, one of my favorite applications for the iPhone, just got a cool new feature — barcode scanning. Users could already consult the app for data on whether a product was healthy, environmentally-friendly, and socially-responsible, bu... |
| Mar 16, 2009 | See what goes into your food with GoodGuide | I’ve been a big fan of GoodGuide — the online database for information about whether a product is healthy, environmentally friendly and ethical — since it launched at the TechCrunch50 conference in September. But as much as I admired GoodGu... |
| Jan 19, 2009 | GoodGuide raises $3.73M for ethical shopping | GoodGuide, a site that helps shoppers find healthy, sustainable, and ethical products, has raised $3.73 million in a first round of venture funding.
The concept behind GoodGuide is rather obvious, but it was also tough to pull all the neces... |
| Jan 19, 2009 | 7 Online Things To Do To Help Obama Restore America | On Tuesday, January 20th, 2009, America and the whole world will gather to watch Barack Obama be inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America. Many have called Mr. Obama the Internet Presidentbecause of the unprecedente... |
| Jan 19, 2009 | GoodGuide And Geni Land New Funding | PEHub has reported a handful of new unannounced funding rounds based on recent SEC filings. Included among them are ancestry site Geni, which raised $5 million in Series C funding with investors including Charles River Ventures and Founders... |
| Jan 10, 2009 | Facebook wins Crunchies 2008 'Best Overall' | Amid downturn, entrepreneurs recognized, and gathering sparks laughter
At the 2008 Crunchies award ceremony, held at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco Friday evening, Facebook won the "Best Overall" award. The Crunchies, hosted ... |
| Jan 10, 2009 | Congratulations To the Crunchies Winners; Facebook Takes Top Prize For Second Year | The second annual Crunchies are over, and 900 people are across the street at the after-party toasting the winners. For those of you who didn’t attend or see it live on Ustream, the nominees, winners and runners up for each category are bel... |
| Jan 9, 2009 | Winners of the 2008 Crunchies | Here are the winners of this year’s Crunchies, which honor the best tech companies from 2008. More than 170,000 people voted to select the nominees, and more than 350,000 people voted to select the winners. The awards were sponsored by Tech... |
| Dec 29, 2008 | What Was The Best Of The Web in 2008? A Voter's Guide For The Crunchies. | Last night we released the finalist names for the Crunchies Awards. Vote here for who you think should win. We’ve set up a site that is pretty self-explanatory, with all of the names of each finalist for every category, along with links to ... |
| Nov 6, 2008 | GoodGuide Takes Top Prize At Web 2.0 Summit Launchpad | One of the featured events at this week’s Web 2.0 Summit was the Launchpad, a showcase of six companies that were each given 5 minutes to pitch a room full of VC’s, entrepreneurs, and other notables in the tech industry. The companies were ... |
| Nov 5, 2008 | GoodGuide's Database Of Consumer Product "Goodness" Goes Mobile | GoodGuide, the startup that rates consumer products by factors including the toxicity of their ingredients and environmental impact, has released its native iPhone application on Apple’s App Store. The free application allows users to brows... |
| Sep 15, 2008 | GoodGuide Should Have Won TC50 | So the ‘Twitter for enterprise’ product Yammer won the TC50 contest. Having slammed Yammer, here is who I think should have won: GoodGuide. It’s a consumer play, but it is not Web 2.0 social media wisdom of the crowd. It uses hard core tech... |
| Sep 10, 2008 | GoodGuide helps you find healthy, sustainable, ethical products | GoodGuide has a simple goal — to become the one website you visit to understand whether a product is “good,” however you define good. That could mean safe for your kids, environmentally friendly or manufactured in an ethical way, whatever m... |
| Sep 10, 2008 | Yammer Takes Top Prize At TechCrunch50 | Watch a video of the awards ceremony here.
Three jam-packed days, and 52 startup demos later, we finally have a winner for this year’s TechCrunch50. Every day, the presentations just seemed to get stronger and stronger. There were so many s... |
| Sep 10, 2008 | TC50: GoodGuide Shines Light On The "Goodness" Of Consumer Products | Product transparency was a popular theme in the twelfth and last session of TechCrunch50, Research and Recommendations, with two companies in particular helping consumers make better purchasing decisions. The first, GoodGuide, was met with ... |
| Sep 8, 2008 | Announcing The TechCrunch50 Finalists | We’ve gone through more than 1,000 companies to get down to the final 50 (okay, 52) that will present on stage at TechCrunch50 starting later this morning. We will be covering all of the companies as they present onstage or shortly after. B... |