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You might remember,a couple of months ago, when I wrote aboutHelp Scoutover on TNW Insider. The determination and frugality of the team has allowed theseTechStars standoutsto build a product on very little money, acquire customers and do so all while adding some amazing features in the weeks that have passed. I got an email from CEO Nick Francis the other day, and he tells me that Help Scout has been hard at work piling on the features that have been most desired by its userbase....

When I was a little girl I remember perfumed women with slicked back hair selling cosmetics to my mother in our kitchen. They wore pink outfits, touted large suitcases filled with powders, brushes and lipsticks and worked for companies like Mary Kay and Avon. The direct sales industry is in need of a modern day makeover. And New York City companychloe + isabelis doing just that with fashion jewelry sales. While global jewelry manufacturing and marketing might not catch your ear at first, the list of investors will....

Traditionally people have viewed Apple as hostile to any apps outside of the native App Store market. This has been proven wrong time and again, but the perception seems to persist. The open-source Webkit framework that Apple provides web developers has been significantly improved since Apple first started using it for Safari and now, with iOS 5, Apple is introducing changes that make it better than ever. Isn’t it finally time to acknowledge that Apple isn’t afraid of web apps?...

It’s beyond question that Twitter is an absolutely dominant force in online social networks. along with Facebook, it has emerged as one of the clear winners of the race to capture users and mindshare. With its deep integration into Apple’s iOS 5 software,announced Monday, it has cemented its lead while simultaneously ensuring that it will continue to exist, in one form or another, for the foreseeable future. Both Apple and Twitter gain quite a lot from its integration into iOS....

I am admittedly about to gush. But as a food lover, aspiring gourmet chef and all around hedonist,Gojeeis one of those sites that gets my creative juices flowing. The mouth-watering photos on Gojee, an awesome new recipe app based in NYC, are delicious enough to make Mary-Kate Olsen hungry. Tell Gojee what you have in your kitchen and curated recipes pop up in seconds. Peruse over 10,000 recipes handpicked from 160 food writers who know what they’re doing....