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| 1/12/2012 |
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| Users of the CheckPoints app can make donations on the spot to the fund and also receive rewards points... |
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| 1/09/2012 |
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| CheckPoints 3.0, consumers can Scan@Home with everyday household products... |
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| 12/02/2011 |
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| CheckPoints is a new mobile app "that pays you back.... |
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| 12/01/2011 |
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| App users, who earn points for scanning participating products in stores, can donate directly to Arctic Home... |
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| 11/29/2011 |
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| Working with shopping rewards app CheckPoints, shoppers are able to scan the can in the store... |
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| 11/28/2011 |
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| Points can earn you airline miles, gadgets and Amazon and iTunes giftcards... |
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| 11/24/2011 |
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| Paula found free phone apps that reward her with gift cards to Wal-Mart, Target and Amazon.com... |
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| 11/10/2011 |
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| CheckPoints: This app rewards shoppers just for checking out products with no purchase necessary... |
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| 10/28/2011 |
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| You see it as you go down the aisles of Walmart, Costco or any department store or supermarket... |
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| 10/25/2011 |
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| CheckPoints, which is a mobile app/service that engages consumers as they make purchasing decisions in-store... |
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| 7/8/2011 |
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| Some iPhone and Android apps pay you to use to them... |
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| 6/20/2011 |
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| It's time your smartphone started paying you back! Watch CheckPoints featured as the Free App That Pays You Back on KTLA News Los Angeles... |
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| 6/24/2011 |
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| Kimberly-Clark is kicking off a mobile incentive campaign in conjunction to Disney•Pixar’s “Cars 2” release that lets moms earn rewards by participating... |
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| 5/31/2011 |
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| Nestle has selected CheckPoints to power the mobile piece of its summer-long marketing campaign for the Dreyer's and Edy's Grand Ice Cream brands ... |
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| 3/31/2011 |
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| Checkpoints got me to pick up (and buy) brands I don't ordinarily consider, and introduced me to new SKUs from venerable brands I already purchase ... |
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| 2/18/2011 |
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| Using your smartphone to save money every time you walk into a store, no matter whether you're buying or just browsing? That's what we call smart. We tested the four most popular money-saving apps for iPhones ... |
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| 3/18/2011 |
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| CheckPoints has quickly emerged as a contender in the location-based marketing space, competing with shopkick, Foursquare, Gowalla and Placecast ... |
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| 2/3/2011 |
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| Shopping for groceries and other domestic items just got a little more interesting. There is an app that promises gift cards that you earn by scanning products to earn points... |
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| 2/1/2011 |
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| Need some extra money? Take your smartphone to the store and rack up points for cash and gift cards. One of the latest marketing trends pays you to walk into stores and use your phone's camera to... |
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| 1/24/2011 |
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| CheckPoints' partners include Kmart, food manufacturers Tyson and Frito-Lay, and consumer electronics company Belkin. DiPaola said it has been easy to get companies to sign up for the app because it gives them the opportunity to market to potential customers at the point of purchase... |
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| 1/13/2011 |
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| 50% of all barcode scans — there have been more than 600,000 total scans to date (3.5 MM scans as of July 2011) — are taking place in grocery store aisles. In fact, all scanning activity is on the rise and tripled between November and December of last year... |
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| 1/6/2011 |
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| Fast moving shopping rewards app and TechCrunch Disrupt finalist CheckPoints has hit a couple of milestones this week...1 million store check-ins and 600K barcode scans, or users scanning the barcodes of participating products in participating stores. (3.2 MM Check-Ins & 3.5 MM Scans As Of July 2011) |
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| 12/10/2010 |
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| Watch CheckPoints Featured on ABC News! Checkpoints rewards you with gift cards and gadgets, just for scanning barcodes while you shop. |
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| 12/03/2010 |
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| Despite not being available for OS3 users until recently, CheckPoints is currently the fastest growing mobile shopping application (in the same space as Shopkick and Barcode Hero) on the iPhone, amassing its first 100K users in one month and its last 100K users in the past two weeks. (Total 800K users as of July 2011) |
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| 11/15/2010 | | |
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| Once a consumer locates and scans the product for points, CheckPoints' advertisers also have the ability to serve up everything from a coupon to a recipe to a sweepstakes [and games]. ... |
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| 10/29/2010 | | |
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| At Kmart, CheckPoints users will earn more points for checkins, as well as be provided with an in-app list of featured products that they scan via their iPhone to earn additional points. Kmart is the startup's first featured location and the partnership is specifically designed to drive attention (read customers) to specific products on store shelves. ... |
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| 9/27/2010 | | |
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| Millions of consumers use location-based mobile apps to check-in to locations every day. But CheckPoints, a new mobile shopping application, is looking to take check-in services to the next level by asking you to check into products within stores. Each check-in rewards the user with points that can be redeemed for prizes like gift cards, miles or gadgets. ... |
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| 9/27/2010 | | |
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| Add another shopping rewards app to the iPhone dial. CheckPoints, a new app that offers shoppers prizes, discounts and cash, is launching this week for the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. ... |
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| 10/01/2010 | | |
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| So far, Checkpoints is available for use in more than 1 million locations across the U.S. Points can be cashed in for about 40 different types of rewards, including airline miles, Chanel handbags and Apple iPads. ... |
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| 10/09/2010 |
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| CheckPoints offers new twist on location-based marketing. With the CheckPoints app, you earn points for simply scanning the barcode on an item in a store. You can redeem the points you collect for free gift cards, airline miles and other perks. |
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| 11/04/2010 |
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| CheckPoints, a mobile shopping app that launched at TechCrunch Disrupt over a month ago, has surpassed 100,000 downloads (800K as of July 2011) of its iPhone app. The milestone is impressive considering that the app has only been available for one month. ... |
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| 11/04/2010 |
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| A new shopping rewards app has joined the fray. CheckPoints LLC has launched a bar code scanning iPhone app that rewards consumers for entering stores and scanning Universal Product Code, or UPC, bar codes on various items. ... |
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| 10/29/2010 |
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| CheckPoints – a shopping app that rewards you for checking-in to stores while you do your holiday shopping and scanning barcodes. Accumulate points and earn real world rewards like airline miles, gift cards, and gadgets. ... |
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| 10/19/2010 |
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| Shoppers can unlock exclusive content like coupons, games, and recipes each time they scan the UPC of a featured item - no purchase necessary. Featured brands at launch include Belkin(R), Energizer(R), Seventh Generation(R), Tyson Foods(R) and many others. ... |
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| 10/05/2010 | | |
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| CheckPoints - The App That Pays You Back - Featured on Fox News. Scan product barcodes for points, and turn those points into rewards like giftcards gadgets, and airline miles. Check out the video on YouTube! |
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| 10/04/2010 | | |
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| CheckPoints, of Venice (Los Angeles County), has a similar check-in service, although it works at any retailer that sells the sponsored product. Users earn points for scanning the products' barcodes... |
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| 9/28/2010 | | |
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| The user gets points for scanning selected products; the merchant gets the advantage that once users pick up that product, they are statistically more likely to become buyers ... |
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| 9/28/2010 | | |
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| If you can believe it, a company called CheckPoints has just come up with yet another twist on how "check-in" location-based services applications should work. With its new smartphone application, consumers are rewarded for scanning the barcodes of their favorite products while shopping. ... |
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| 9/27/2010 | | |
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| Newcomer CheckPoints is taking a slightly different approach to the mobile shopping space with a service that combines checkins, barcode scanning and rewards for an all-in-one consumer and brand-friendly platform. ... |
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| 9/27/2010 | | |
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| There's clearly something to this idea of mobile/social shopping. Or at least, a huge group of startups all seem to think there is. Already this year we have apps like Shopkick and Barcode Hero attempting to build upon what apps ShopSavvy and others have been working on for some time. ... |
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| While much attention has been focused on Facebook's Places location app and how it will affect the Foursquares and Gowallas of the world, there's at least one LBS startup that doesn't see Facebook encroaching on its territory. CheckPoints expects to come out of stealth mode next month with an app designed to hook consumers up with ... |
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| 8/19/2010 | | |  |
| Up to this point, it is probably safe to say that most users of location-based check-in services have been trying to meet up with friends. But Todd DiPaola, CheckPoints president, is pretty sure there are lots of practical things check-in services can ... |
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| 8/11/2010 | | |  |
| CheckPoints, which has just been given its first million in funding by its very founders, brothers Mark and Todd DiPaola, is an advertising and rewards system that could make popping out for a bit of window shopping a rather different experience ... |
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| 8/11/2010 | | |
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| Advertisers have always sought better ways of targeting consumers, but now a start-up company is promising to give them a way to target prospective buyers while they are holding the potential purchase in their hands. Soon, you could be sent advertising messages each time you ... |
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| CheckPoints plans to launch bar-code-enabled location-based shopping applications for the iPhone in September and for Android devices in October. The applications will enable consumers to earn virtual currency they can redeem for rewards and learn about new products by ... |
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| 8/4/2010 | | | |
| Still in stealth-mode until September, "CheckPoints" will debut with numerous retail partnerships and shiny new iPhone and Android apps that allow consumers to use their smartphones to discover featured brands and deals in retail locations across the country. How it differs, is that consumers accrue points simply by ... |
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| 8/3/2010 | | |
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| CheckPoints LLC, a mobile startup slated to enter the location-based retail category in September, today announces it closed a $1 million Founder Series A financing round from co-founders Mark and Todd DiPaola. The brothers are no strangers to bleeding edge advertising success. They created performance marketing agency Vantage Media in 2002 ... |
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