Smoopa, analyses the price to find app for buyer deals lands on iOS

Smoopa, mobile-commerce start-up, founded by a former Googling for a long time, a scientist and a former police officer, Massachusetts (Yes), is landing on iOS today with a price of application seeking buyer pays offers.

The application is based on a tendency that roil began brick shops and Malta last year. Armed with Smartphones, consumers are offerings to price compare in physical memory, which are in the hunt for the best online.

While there already some apps are as on the market (included), spin, Smoopa comes on this topic that is they reward buyer for the exchange of information on the prices of the real businesses. If a consumer looks to an element and to engage in a physical store prices, there is a chance that they are rewarded with credits, gift cards, cheques for repayment or donations.

"We are at a turning point with local shops and can the scenery which has not previously given," Smoopa said cofounder Mendel Chuang, who previously on AdSense worked, after joining Google in 2004. She founded the company with the former Minister of defence scientists Charlie sharp.

And here the super nice (what I hope to write a post later, get), the iOS application was built by Chuang husband Derek Langton. He was a police officer in the State of Massachusetts and the last one and a half years took over 18 years of age.

"It has concentrated on crazy," Chuang said her husband at the age of 42. "I told him that the development of iOS hard, is more than he wanted to prove the opposite."

Langton added, the iOS app gives [Chuang] now even a little better than that of Android. "." Smoopa the first Android in an unusual decision. Chuang thought Android were probably more sensitive than iPhone owner price purchaser. This application has received more than 100,000 downloads on Google.

In your application, a user scans a bar code and the application will display a list of products in the database of 20 million euros for the company. It shows also a list of shops in the vicinity. The user selects an e gives the local price in the store of the element. A special offer or a randomly generated can be presented about 50 cent credit for a future purchase. If you find online with the application a better price, you can buy the item directly from the APP Smoopa factors, sending buyers can tell if the total price better offline or online.

Smoopa WINS affiliate revenue if customers by applying buy. You can also earn revenue through targeted advertising (which are particularly valuable in this case, because the app is as close to a person of the transaction).

It's just viral catch integrated app as a $2 bonus for every friend referral that adds a user.

The company, which has increased a little more than half a million dollars in financing, Angel based away from AOL incubator space of leading laboratories in Palo Alto. They took funding from Google Doodler Dennis Hwang, original, SimplyHired Widget Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Peter Weck and Nate Johnson, who leads the marketing of the consumer to LinkedIn.