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AisleBuyer grabs $7.5M to help you skip the checkout line

AisleBuyer, a smartphone application that allows retail shoppers to scan products with their phones and check out without waiting in line, has announced its second round of funding for $7.5 million.

The funding will be used for product development as …

nSphere snags deals application Peekaboo Mobile

nSphere, a company that aggregates online content, has bought mobile location-based deals company Peekaboo Mobile, it announced today. The company plans on leveraging Peekaboo Mobile’s application to provide local search information to its users.

Peekaboo Mobile, which participated in one …