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Uber teases foodies with standalone UberEats app
Uber is testing a service that will allow Toronto residents to order food from their favorite restaurants through a standalone application called…
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Clear Labs uses kickstarter to fund ‘consumer reports’ for food quality
Have you ever spent a little more money on a supposed “premium” brand of hot dogs? You know, the ones that claim…
Read MoreWhat’s in your food? Clear Labs nabs $6.5M to help the food industry find out
While a large portion of people in the U.S. may have a fascination with the quality of food that goes into their bodies,…
Read MoreHow DNA barcoding can prevent foodborne illness outbreaks
In 2012, when several hundred people fell ill in the U.S. amid a salmonella outbreak, the Food and Drug Administration was quickly able to…
Read MoreOn the way to $220M in funding, Instacart quietly changed its business model
In its early days, grocery store delivery startup Instacart made its money two ways: Through delivery fees and product markups. It charged…
Read MoreWhat recipe search tells us: The coasts eat healthy, but inland, we like our bacon
Sorry, St. Louis. You're the unhealthiest major city in the country based on Yummly's analysis of recipe search data. The healthiest? Of course it's frigging San Francisco.…
Read MoreFoodie video startup Tastemade raises $25M, releases Android app
Tastemade thinks that foodies want to do more that just watch videos about restaurants and cooking -- which is why the company made apps to let everyone film their own restaurant reviews.…
Read MoreFood Network delves into quantified eating by buying Food on the Table
Food Network may be entertaining with you with culinary TV battles today, but it could wind up helping you plan your meals online tomorrow.…
Read MoreDon’t eat that! SRI built a calorie-counting food app that works via a photo snap
Meal logging and calorie counting is still a pretty painful process, but SRI is working on an image recognition technology that could change that.…
Read MoreFor $1,000, the Foodini 3D printer will take over your repetitive cooking tasks
Natural Machines is finally putting a date on the first shipments of its food 3D printer. It won't cook you a five-course dinner, but it's capable of making pasta, pizza and more.…
Read MoreWith a new iPad app Yummly aims to put its recipe engine right next to your stove
Recipe search engine Yummly wants to be more than just a research tool. With its new iPad app it hopes to become a digital kitchen assistant.…
Read MoreDrop gets into the kitchen with a connected scale for bakers
So far if you want a connected kitchen your primary option is a Bluetooth-enabled food scale. Adaptics launches with Drop, a new entrant into the category with a slight twist.…
Read MoreThe Orange Chef, a quantified-kitchen startup, could make you a better cook
There's a lot to like about The Orange Chef's plan to turn the lowly food scale into a virtual kitchen assistant, but it's larger goal of building creating a connected kitchen is far more elusive.…
Read MoreGoogle Ventures invests in the connected kitchen
The Orange Chef has raised $1.2 million in seed funding led by Google Ventures and Spark Labs. The company makes a kitchen scale that communicates with your iPad and a wealth of web nutritional data.…
Read MoreMeal replacement Soylent raises $1.5 million and will start shipping in December
The food experiment-turned-real product Soylent has raised a $1.5 million seed round from Andreessen Horowitz, Lerer Ventures and Alexis Ohanian.…
Read MoreYummly brings its recipe-crunching tools to the grocery store with a new iPhone app
Yummly's first mobile app doesn't just port its semantic food search engine over to iOS. Rather, the company has designed its iPhone app to be used in the grocery store rather than the kitchen.…
Read MoreSerious Eats launches monthly iOS food magazine with 29th Street Publishing
Serious Eats, one of my favorite food websites, has launched a monthly food magazine with iOS publisher 29th Street Publishing (more about…
Read MoreIn launch of new shop, Food52 sees cooking as the perfect mix of content and commerce
Lots of sites want to integrate retail, but Food52 thinks that cooking offers an ideal opportunity to do so. The site launched its new store, Provisions, on Tuesday.…
Read MoreTesters claim lab-grown burger backed by Sergey Brin had nice texture, bland flavor
Researchers built a hamburger from strips of muscle grown from cow stem cells. It was tasted for the first time in London this morning.…
Read MoreA Digital Life: The good, bad and gross of online grocery shopping
Many city dwellers rely on online grocery shopping in order to avoid inconvenient urban supermarkets. But this is still one area where I prefer the analog shopping experience.…
Read MoreHow to build a business around data in 7 easy steps, explained with food
Building a new data-based product or business is a lot like taking a recipe from idea through menu item. It has to be great in the end, but getting there can be a complicated process.…
Read MoreIntel invests in E la Carte, a startup making table-side tablets for restaurants
Smartphones and tablets are changing the way we cook food and decide where we eat out. E la Carte wants to extend that digital experience to the restaurant menu and dining table.…
Read MoreGrubHub, Seamless merge, creating one giant online delivery service
The two food ordering startups didn't reveal any financial details, but the merger will create the biggest take out and delivery portal on the web and mobile with more than 20,000 restaurants in 500 cities.…
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