Don’t want to eat in a restaurant that shouldn’t really be open at all? UseDon’t Eat At. Don’t Eat At was developed byMax Stollera NYU student, for theNYC BigApps competition, a competition to help New York City become more “transparent, accessible, and accountable.” This app is very simple; “Get a text message when you check into a restaurant that is at risk of being closed for health code violations”. Don’t Eat At logs in using Foursquare and is unfortunately only currently available in New York....

One of the reasons that Amazon and Apple are so successful as online retailers is that it’s so easy to buy from them. Once you’re signed up, it’s as simple as a click (or at most, entering your password) to buy anything. Other businesses would no doubt love to be able to make life that simple their customers, and UK startupApp55wants to help them do just that. The company offers a simple piece of code that retailers can place on their sites, enabling customers, once signed up, to simply enter their password every time they want to buy anything....

If you were a consumer-facing business 15 years ago, you needed to have a website. Now, you need to have Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and mobile presence. But you can’t just have these accounts and sit back on your haunches. To be successful, you need to be special and demand attention by standing out withbeautiful designand engaging content. AppAddictiveis a New York City startup that has built a social and mobile app geared towards publishing and advertising....

The San Francisco PD is now saying that Apple investigators were accompanied by three or four plain clothed officers, reportsSF Weekly. The SFPD had previously told the publication that they were uninvolved in the investigation. This led the publication to draw the conclusion that Apple’s investigatorsmay have impersonated policein order to gain access to a man’s home who was suspected of taking an iPhone prototype from a bar. Now, a police representative, Lt....

For mobile app developers, “discovery” is the most important key to the success. Appboy, an Edmonton-based startup has created a SDK (software development kit) that caters to “check-ins” and enables developers to easily get their apps discovered. How it works: Using theAppboy+ SDKtool developers are able to integrate a check-in feature, allowing users to share their check-ins with Facebook or Twitter within the app. It works somewhat like Glue, an app that helped extend the “check-in” craze beyond just “places” like Foursquare’s main agenda....