Place bets and back up your bravado with mobile app Youbetme

Youbetme is a product for people who want to flex their muscles, intellectual or otherwise, and challenge their friends to bets big or small.

Want better mobile app curation? Meet Hapoose.

Despite some major revisions to the biggest mobile app platform stores, finding new and cool apps is still kind of difficult, which is something Hapoose plans to change.

Apparent’s social network helps parents plan playdates for their kids

Apparent's app for the iPhone creates a small social network that connects parents with each other to make the playdate scheduling process easier.

Forget influencers: Tellagence can find people who really care about your tweets

Tellagence for Twitter is a predictive tool that helps businesses tailor their status updates to the right people for the biggest impact.

This app may get friends to your party better than you can

Sometimes getting people to respond to an invitation is hard. Maybe they're lazy, maybe they didn't get your text, or maybe you sent your invitation right before the event was going to begin. iSocialite hopes to fix that.

Playing recruiter: This startup pays you to find your friends jobs

Many people, at some point in their lives, play match maker. You may set up a date, introduce friends, or connect potential business partners. Today, you're bound to have deep benches in your social networks, so why not use them to set up friends with jobs?

Turn your friends’ social updates into a gossip-soaked, personalized tabloid

Taploid is a service that attempts to solve the problem of noisy social network feeds, while allowing people to view social activity data to learn more about themselves and their friends.

Analytics for everybody! BellaDati spreads the love around your company

BellaDati gives everybody in a company access to cloud-based analytics for better business intelligence.

From Iceland with green: GreenQloud launches world’s first completely eco-friendly cloud computing center

According to a 2007 Gartner study, the IT industry produces as much greenhouse gas as the entire aviation industry. That's one of the reasons Eiki Hrafnsson and Tryggvi Lárusson created GreenQloud, the first public cloud fully powered by 100 percent renewable energy resources.

This startup is bringing ads into augmented reality. Too soon?

Cachetown is a mobile app technology that uses your smartphone's camera to turn the world into a video game via augmented reality -- with lots of advertising potential for brands.

AppEnsure provides big data intelligence for proactively managing enterprise apps

Enterprises that want peace of mind when it comes to applications running in cloud or virtual environments can outsource management to startup AppEnsure.

Cloud file-syncing heretic 4sync challenges the gospel of Dropbox

If you haven't already been lulled into Dropbox or SugarSync's grasps for cloud syncing, 4Sync wants to be your new best friend for backing up and accessing all of your files.

How your smartphone could give you a smart home, no extra smarts required

Wish home automation wasn't still a dream of the future? Ube does, too, and it's launching a Kickstarter today to bring you to a smarter home

Find your style brethren for online-shopping bliss with this Pinterest for fashion

What's your style? However you fill in that blank, ThreadMatcher wants to help you find more of what you love and buy it online, quickly and easily.

Online shoppers, this startup thinks you should be getting your goods faster

Gaxsys today released a consumer-facing application called GaxWallet that aims to simply and expedite the e-commerce experience for brands and their customers.

Oh, what a tangled web telecom services weave for small businesses

Wiresurfer's comparison engine for takes the mystery out of selecting a telecom provider