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Columbia/Wharton startup “Sportaneous” wins White House “Champions of Change” Award

Omar Haroun, MBA candidate at Columbia Business School, and Aaron Royston, MBA candidate at the Wharton School, and their startup Sportaneous were named “Champions of Change” by the White House this week. According to its founders Omar and Aaron Royston Sportaneous is a mobile app that, “…makes it easy for busy people to get physically active … Continue reading

HBS student creates smartphone app to detect malaria

A little while ago we posted about Ginger.io, a mobile app that monitors phone usage behavior, and by transitive property, mental health. Today we learned from Bostinnovation about Harvard Business School student Cy Khormaee and his social enterprise Lifelens, a hardware + software point-of-care solution that can detect the presence malaria using a single drop of blood. … Continue reading

Ginger.io (Sloan ’11 founder) monitors phone behavior and mental health

MIT’s Technology Review posted this week about Ginger.io, an app that collects data from your phone usage (bursts of frantic texting, for example) to warn users or doctors of potential illness or manic behavior. Sloan student Karan Singh is a co-founder. Privacy issues abound, but it’s still pretty cool.  

Social Gaming Network releases new app, build your own “Mini Cafe”

Andres de Lucca (Kellogg ’09), Director of Strategy and Analytics at the Social Gaming Network based in the Bay Area, just announced the release of a new game called “Mini Cafe,” where users can create cafes with international cuisine…korean barbecue, anyone? Check it out here or on the iTunes store from the mobile device nearest … Continue reading

Mobli (Kellogg ’11) called a game-changing app by Techcrunch

Mobli – whose VP of Strategy, Gil Eyal (Kellogg ’11) is profiled here – is outshining Color with its latest real-time visual media sharing app. TechCrunch just this week gave it a hearty endorsement, and meanwhile its competitor, Color’s future is hanging in the balance after its much heralded fundraise. Could it be still that … Continue reading