Pi’ikea Street Helps Kids Learn and Grow
As technology improves, so too does everything we use it for, whether for work, communication, play, or any other purpose. This is also true of the way children play and learn, and a startup called Pi’ikea Street looks to use the tech devices you utilize every day to help your child learn and grow. It is a company with apps dedicated specifically to young children, even babies, that they can safely access without getting into anything else that you have stored on your tablet or smartphone or opening any other programs on it. These apps have uses for both education and simple fun, and there are a variety of them to choose from. Pi’ikea Street also has plenty to offer parents including a blog about their apps and future release plans, coloring pages, and crafts that parents can access on a mobile device or download and print to use with their children. Read more »
GPS has made many advances since it became available for everyday use, and it now comes as a standard feature on almost every smartphone and many tablets as well. While many higher-end models can be somewhat adaptable, showing recent shifts in traffic, road closures, and similar issues, there are still many factors for which even the best GPS cannot account. This is where an app called Mapkin can help. While there is a great deal of information that a GPS can provide about the route you choose to take or its alternatives, there are many things that only a local can tell you about any particular place. Mapkin provides users with access to information that can sometimes drastically affect your drive, information that no GPS can provide otherwise. 
Time is a valuable thing, and people tend to spend a lot of it when searching for their next home. While there are many sites that can help locate a good apartment, condo, or house, a great deal of time, effort, and even money goes into the search with many unknown variables that can determine success or failure. This is where a startup called Bamboo Realty can help. Bamboo Realty is a full-service real estate firm specializing in luxury apartments and home leasing as well as Home purchasing and sales. It helps people by taking advantage of a need for high-end leasing services for people relocating across a state or even over state lines, particularly helpful for first-time homebuyers. There is a strong focus on the buyer and long-term renter market, which is a different approach than most companies that tend to focus much more on offering short-term rentals. 
While the improvements in our technology allow us to connect with more people more quickly than ever before, it can also disconnect people on a personal level in many ways. There is a push among many for the support and growth of local communities as well, and this is where a startup called Locable comes in. Locable works by using technology to connect people within communities in a way that can help them come together and continue to grow. This includes modernizing the way local organizations communicate and share what is happening around town as well as cultivating online gathering places powered by trusted local leaders like a community magazine or newspaper. It also includes creating a local-specific online forum that is simple and affordable for every local business to join and empowering these businesses to easily work together to build a connected local economy from which everyone can benefit.