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iPhone Discounts and an App for Roadtrips

Best Buy is offering great deals on iPhone, and you can take your iPhone savings and accessorize the device with a case from Evouni. A last-minute hotel booking service now lets you gift a stay or two. Borrow books from friends, no matter what E-reading device you have, with this new cloud-based library. And before you take your holiday road trip you’ll want to download this app.

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Plan Your Trip Online & Sync To Your iPhone with Roadtrippers App

If you planned on taking a road trip to visit family and friends for Thanksgiving, and you’re not reading this on your smartphone or tablet on the road, sucks to be you - AAA is forecasting that approximately 43.6 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more from home this Thanksgiving holiday weekend. So you can imagine the ridiculously congested highways you’re about to face.

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Roadtrippers: A GPS and a Tour Guide in One App

If you’re getting in a car and driving a long distance, you probably need two things: Decent directions, and things of note to look at once you start suffering from highway hypnosis. Roadtrippers is an app that does both jobs quite admirably.

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Customize your car trips with Roadtrippers app

No offense to Frommer’s, Fodor’s and AAA but when it comes to planning a road trip, nobody knows what you’re interested in as well as you do. That’s the premise behind Roadtrippers, a new iPhone app designed to provide a more personalized approach to travel planning.

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Roadtrippers: Plan Your Next Cross-Country Trek

Back before smartphones came along and made our lives easier, when we hit the open road we had to—hahahahaha—print out directions. Sometimes, if you can believe it, we used physical maps made of paper. Now that epic road trip you take is even easier to plan and execute with Roadtripper’s iPhone app.

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New Space and a New Class

With the finishing touches being put on the new Brandery office located at 1411 Vine St. in Over-the-Rhine it seems only fitting that The Brandery class of 2011 was officially announced today. We had a record year for applications, with companies applying from seven countries and 22 states. In the end, we selected 9 companies who will part of an amazing group of entrepreneurs that will be starting their journey on August 1st. Below is a bit more information on the startups and the entrepreneurs behind them.

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ChoreMonster, founded by Chris Bergman in Cincinnati, is a suite of web and mobile applications that allow parents to create chore “adventures” for their children, creating ownership of responsibilities in a unique and engaging way.

Keepio, founded by Dave Durand in Louisville, helps collectors, homeowners, and gadget enthusiasts to keep track of their personal belongings and interests, and then buy, sell or share their belongings within public or private marketplaces through a platform for peer-to-peer transactions.

Meruni, founded by Michael & Megan Wohlschlaeger in Shanghai, China, is a data aggregation and analytics platform which will enable both consumers and merchants to harness the power of O2O commerce.

Receept, founded by Kevin Pfefferle in Columbus, is building a platform for the web and mobile devices that will allow consumers to store, sort, search for and share receipts from any source, physical or digital. This will open up opportunities for customer-to-customer recommendations, profile existing customer bases for merchants and track loyalty for retail locations, brands and products.

RentShare, founded by Ian Halpern, Christopher Toppino, and Trevor Geise in New York City, is a social payment platform that makes it easy for renters to pay rent online, share expenses with roommates, and more.

Roadtrippers, founded by James Fisher, Tatiana Parent and Daniel Nielsen in Berlin, is a powerful, easy-to-use website and mobile app that allows users to plan amazing road trips by aggregating a wide range of travel data.

Spaciety (pronounced spa-SIGH-ih -tee), founded by Andrew Dennis and Eric Liu in Chicago, is Travelocity meets Open Table for spa/salon services, by consolidating spa services, locations, prices and appointment booking to one easily navigated website.

Wellthy, founded in Cincinnati by James Dickerson and Ryan Tinker, is the fun, social, and simple way for businesses to get more engaged in health and wellness. Coworkers share healthy meals and activities, as well as enter in to health challenges with one another to earn points, badges, and rewards.

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