We've taken some of the heavy lifting out of your holiday shopping by compiling our Top 5 Best Shopping Apps for iPhone to help you uncover amazing deals on Black Friday, Cyber Monday and beyond. With thousands of apps to choose from we hand picked five favorite freebies that are dressed to impress. Our picks are also ready to download in the Android Market as well. TGI Black Friday (Free) - Instantly search over 10,000 Black Friday deals across stores and categories. The deals are sorted by stores, popular, newest and by product category. You can view deals, create lists, and be alerted of sale ads before they hit newspapers or shop online for items that may be available before Black Friday. TGI Cyber Monday (Free) - Scan through over 5,000 of the top Cyber Monday deals, sales, and offers from over 50 of the top retailers. This app also identifies Read More

Starting tomorrow, May 22nd, customers using the shopkick mobile app will be rewarded simply for walking into any of the almost 1,300 Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile stores across the country. The rollout will make Best Buy the first of shopkick’s launch partners and first consumer electronics retailer to provide this “engaging mobile shopping experience” to its customers on a national scale. Best Buy started trialing the service since last August when it was unveiled in 257 stores. Obviously that worked for them and now they’re going for the masses, rewarding them just for entering the store. In case you don’t know, the shopkick app works in combination with the so called shopkick Signal, which is an inaudible sound emitted from a device located in each participating retailer, to verify that user is in the store, and reward him or her in the form of a currency called “kicks”. shopkick Read More

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(CNN) -- Seth Priebatsch was at a burrito joint in Boston recently when a message popped up on his smartphone from an app called SCVNGR. If he opened the foil on the burrito ever so carefully and turned the wrapper into a piece of origami art -- and if he uploaded a picture of his creation to the app, the note said, then he would earn points toward a free burrito. Priebatsch thought: That might be fun. "I made a really weak origami crane, because I'm no origami artist myself," he said, but "it got me closer to unlocking a free burrito, which was cool." SCVNGR, which Priebatsch helped create, is one of the latest apps to build on top of the idea of a "check-in," that emerging term some tech-savvy people use to describe the act of using a GPS-enabled smartphone to share their whereabouts with friends. Increasingly, app developers Read More

Browsing the App Store this weekend?  Here are fifteen new or updated apps for the iPhone and iPad worth taking a closer look at if you are: This is a choose your own adventure book, where you’re provided with a series of options at a particular point, and your decision affects the outcome of the story.  $3.99.  US-Only. Access 20,000 music videos from Vevo’s own catalogue from 7000 different artists, watch them on your iPhone and share them over Facebook or Twitter.  Discover new material, create playlists and read trivia too!  Free. US-Only. Another line drawing game, but here you must help swimmers out of the water in order to avoid become a snack for Jaws!  There are 10 levels and since this is an official app, the famous theme tune too!  $2.99/£1.79. A new variation on the tower defense game, this time with viruses instead of aliens/vikings/grandfather clocks.  You’ve got Read More

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Shopkick, a new location-based service (LBS) app for the iPhone, is launching today and it's taking LBS software in a direction we've been expecting all along. Rather than rewarding users with virtual goods or contextual information like user reviews, it goes straight to the heart of the matter - kickbacks, discounts, and real-world incentives. Shopkick wants to "turn offline stores into interactive worlds" using your smartphone and some interesting technology that detects not only if you're in a store, but what floor you're on. It even knows when you're in the changing room. The idea is simple - everything you do earns you points, or "kickbucks," which can be redeemed for anything from Facebook Credits to gift cards. Check in to a store and get a couple of points; physically walk in and get even more points. Once you're in, start scanning the barcodes of certain items and the points really Read More

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