App offers more localized detail to users, businesses
Feb 14, 2012In the mobile space navigation is key. And that isn't just simple navigation within a mobile website or app. Many consumers using mobile devices are looking for navigation information - local store/restaurant details, directions to a location, tickets to a movie. One app family helps in that navigation for both consumers and companies.
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12 Hyperlocal Apps: Yelp Alternatives for Urban Dwellers
Feb 8, 2012Where would you like to go? A good question, especially when you're in a city rich with choices and opportunities like New York, LA or San Francisco. If you want it, I will find it' your smartphone beckons and it certainly will with the help of point of interest apps like these.
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An Easy Way To Navigate
Feb 7, 2012What it is: Travel-related apps covering 37 cities, each city with its own collection of restaurant finder, tour info, transit schedules, crime reports, dog park locators and more.
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Updating that app to help find best places in Big Apple
Feb 3, 2012The updated NYCWay, from the MyCityWay collection of Apple apps, has just been released. The updated app lets you peruse lists from locals and visitors on the best places, and there's a new Quick Guide with insider tips to the city which includes a "Know Before You Go" section on the best times to visit and how to budget for trips.
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BMW Plants Seeds of Silicon Valley in the West Village
Feb 1, 2012Projects under the tutelage of BMW iVentures include the German car-sharing outfit DriveNow, the city-guide app developer MyCityWay and ParkatmyHouse, billed as the parking equivalent of Airbnb.
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Here Are The Best iPhone And iPad Apps You Missed This Week
Jan 21, 2012If you live in one of 38 select U.S. cities, MyCityWay can help you find some pretty cool stuff to do.
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50 new tech tools you should know about
Jan 25, 2012Clingle (free): This location-based social net comes with a twist: It doesn't focus the user experience on the public stream. Instead, users share multimedia messages for a specific user or group of users when they check in at a certain location. Those messages can grow into full-length conversations. Think text messaging, but with video and audio, and triggered through GPS. Don't know if it will catch on, but it's a very creative application.
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From Big Apple to Big APPle in New York
Jan 09, 2012In the first year of the event, one startup, NYC Way, now MyCityWay, was developed in order to better navigate New York's "urban scene," helping users find jobs, apartments, restaurants, parking spaces, wireless hotspots, and much more. The company, now funded by Firstmark Capital, BMW i, IA Ventures, and the New York City Economic Development Corporation, which now serves 70 urban markets around the world.
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MyCityWay: 3 Ex-Wall Street Techies Went from Idea to $6M in Funding
Jan 09, 2012In late 2009, Sonpreet Bhatia, Puneet Mehta, and Archana Patchirajan had a moment of inspiration – create a useful tool for discovering New York City. It was the dream of creating this tool that led all three of them to leave their VP-level technology jobs on Wall Street.
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25 big ideas for 2012: The open-data economy
Jan 05, 2012Others are pulling similar tricks. In 2009, a trio of Wall Streeters created the MyCityWay app by cleaning up and bundling data feeds from 20 US cities, including restaurant-inspection reports, swimming-pool hours, train schedules, even traffic-cam videofeeds. It's been downloaded more than a million times.
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Clingle takes on Foursquare and Google Huddles with new iPhone app
Nov 11, 2011Clingle is a new location-based social network that wants to enhance conversations as you check in to places throughout the day.
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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Goes Mobile
Nov 18, 2011The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is getting a technology update for its 85th year by way of an official mobile app. The Parade app will be available on both iOS and Android ahead of next Thursday's event, and feature a route map, NYC tips, a wifi hotspot finder and a way to track specific participants in the parade.
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MyCityWay – Not Just for Tourists
Oct 24, 2011Part city guide, part virtual dashboard, MyCityWay aggregates useful information into one convenient place: your mobile device. Available for more than 40 markets around the globe, each app is a comprehensive travel, reference and city-service guide wrapped into one. The free apps are available for iPhone, Android and Blackberry.
Read More +MyCityWay Launches Geosocial App Clingle in India
Oct 01, 2011Clingle is a social network connecting people with the world around them. With Clingle you are enabled to explore popular places around you, keep track of your friends, start conversations on your favorite locations and keep your world engaged like never before! Be it finding nearest dining spot, sharing your visit there with the world and sending personalized messages(using text, picture, audio or video(coming soon)) to friends about the spot, Clingle makes your everyday journey more exciting and fun filled!
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MyCityWay is the winner of the TechSparks App4India contest, sponsored by Intel
Aug 19, 2011The winning app MyCityWay was announced at the TechSparks Grand Finale, held in Bangalore on 19th August. The contest got close to 100 entries, all of which were apps that were tailor-made for the audiences in India.
Read More +MyCityWays Gains 150,000+ Indian Downloads in 2 Months
Aug 04, 2011Founded by three Indians in November 2009, MyCityWays is a New York-based start-up which provides localized city guides across 60+ international cities on iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry smartphones.
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The Navigators
June 03, 2011Ms. Patchirajan (center), 29, Ms. Bhatia (right), 32, and Mr. Mehta (left), 32, worked by day as Wall Street developers while moonlighting on their own to beat the entry deadline for the first city-sponsored NYC BigApps competition last year.
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MyCityWay funded by BMW i Ventures, Becomes part of their Mobility Services
Feb 21, 2011BMW said that it had formed a venture capital fund to encourage the development of such applications. The fund, BMW i Ventures, already has a stake in MyCityWay, a start-up in New York that offers location-based information
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Xconomy
May 05, 2011With Help from BMW, MyCityWay Rolls Out Popular City-Guide App Around the World
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BMW Teams Up With, Invests $5 Million In MyCityWay
Feb 25, 2011BMW pumped $5 million into MyCityWay, a user-driven, location-aware city guide. FirstMark Capital and IA Ventures, who participated in an earlier $1 million seed round, joined BMW.
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NASDAQ
Jul 12, 2010In a rare honor, the founders of MyCity- Way, the mobile apps startup that won the inaugural NYC BigApps competition earlier this year, rang the ceremonial closing bell at the NASDAQ on July 12 2010.
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Forbes
Oct 02, 2010"NYC Way, an iPhone app that allows users to view everything from upcoming events to restaurant inspection results to live traffic feeds.
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Huffingtonpost
Sep 14, 2010If you want to see how people are using government-provided services in novel ways, try downloading an app for your iPhone or Android that uses government data. MyCityWay is a good example of the genre, though any app that plots official events or information on a map is likely based on government data. Washington, DC, and New York both have robust offerings.
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9 Free Mobile Apps for Exploring New York City
Sep 08, 2010Want to get the most out of New York City? It isn't always easy. There's so much happening all at once that deciding what to do can feel like a full-time project, and it's often easy to walk right past something amazing.
Read More +Mashable
Sep 07, 2010It's hard to pack all of New York City into one app, but this one comes incredibly close to pulling it off. Delivering more than 60 apps for street vendors, nightlife, tourist attractions, subway stations, the garbage collection schedule, and everything in between, it's hard to believe that this is also free.
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