Discovering new trends, finding good advice, getting current item prices and discussing products with friends: that is how modern individuals want to shop online. However, for these four shopping steps, the shopper always needs four online platforms – until yesterday, that is. Because now there is apnoti.com, the first social shopping portal! By searching for products, tips and experiences, you can find like-minded people and friends on the site who make shopping a special experience.

Starnberg near Munich – 20. July 2010. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could browse on a shopping portal for new, trendy or simply just useful products – where the best supplier and most up-to-date price is always available? Wouldn’t it be even better if you could appear with your intended purchases in a community on the same website and compare notes to get new ideas or suggestions from friends? And wouldn’t it be absolutely fantastic if there was always a skilled professional or experienced user on hand with advice when you make a purchase – 24 hours a day, directly on the shopping site? Exactly, that would be PERFECT! The Starnberg-based company, apnoti.com, a specialist in real-time price searches, realised this and created the first German social shopping portal from its price search engine platform.

Although there are various contact networks on the web, such as sites where you can browse, get advice and share experiences, these are always scattered over numerous platforms. That is annoying, inconvenient and time-consuming – and time is money. apnoti.com has therefore become the first service provider to combine these services that logically belong together on a single portal, thus creating a unique shopping experience for users.

In the “Products” section at www.apnoti.com, men and women who love shopping can selectively and conveniently choose their desired product from the endless expanse of the internet. The buyer can also show intended purchases to his friends in the apnoti community and discuss them. If the consumer is unsure about a product, he can find tips under the heading “Advisor”, where skilled professionals and thousands of users with helpful suggestions and their own experiences are on hand to help at any time – honestly and without any commercial influence. Another special feature of the community is the opportunity to specifically locate users of certain products and to ask them questions. The product experts’ motivation to assist others comes from direct reader feedback, which gives them a feeling of having helped someone out. A bonus system also rewards all types of involvement with great prizes.

In the “Magazine” section, the user can find nifty product ideas and current trends from the areas of lifestyle, sport, technology, home and fashion. Depending on the appeal of the trendsetting products presented on the site, the reader can enter the product directly in his wishlist and/or discuss it in detail with other apnoti.com members. You can also find like-minded people with similar taste, whose recommendations and product lists point you towards the perfect items.

Once the purchase decision is made, apnoti.com’s centrepiece comes into play: the progressive real-time search engine that provides the current price charged by 10,000 affiliated shops. This real-time technology enables the user to take advantage of daily price fluctuations and save up to 80 percent.

apnoti.com GmbH:
apnoti.com is a social shopping platform that allows everyone to find the best prices, tips and information on products and to compare notes and opinions on these with like-minded people or friends. The price search relies on new real-time technology. Shoppers can find the cheapest, most up-to-date price for their product in just a few seconds. apnoti.com searches more than 65 million product offers from over 10,000 affiliated online shops for every single search request. The free service is available at www.apnoti.com in German and English.

German based price search engine smart.apnoti.com has just launched a new barcode scanning iPhone app, iBarcode.

The app (iTunes link) can deal with a range of barcodes (UPC8, UPC12, EAN and ISBN), which are commonly found on the packaging of consumer electricals, books, and DVDs. I’ve been seeing if it works…

The app compares prices for the US, UK, Germany and France though you need to change your preferred market in the settings section, otherwise it defaults to Germany.

You can either search by keyword, or use the iPhone camera (this works on all iPhones) to scan the barcode and return matching product results…

iBarcode reader app acts as real-time price search engine

iBarcode in action

Apnoti.com has launched a new iPhone application called iBarcode and claims it is the first mobile price search engine with an integrated bar code scanner.

Consumers can scan product bar codes and the application searches for the best prices on the Internet. The application is $1.99 in the Apple App Store.

“The mobile market is becoming more and more important,” said Wolfram Gast, cofounder and chief marketing officer of Apnoti.com, Starnberg, Germany. “Based on our unique technology of querying prices in real-time at http://smart.apnoti.com it was the only next logical step to bring this technology on the mobile market.

“The bar code scanner technology simply facilitates and speeds up the process of finding products on your iPhone,” he said. “So in the end consumers will always be able to better judge the price in the store in order to make the right purchase decision.”

Apnoti.com is an Internet company that is based on a piece of technology that registers price fluctuations in real-time. The site features automatic email notification when the desired price is reached and a price trend model.

Smart shopping on a smartphone
The application recognizes bar codes such as UPC8, UPC12, EAN and ISBN. These bar codes are generally found on the packaging of cameras, audio and hi-fi devices, computers, furniture, books and DVDs.

Consumers can set their own individual marketplace and language settings, send SMS product searches and store and send price watchlists.

Mr. Gast said that some products may see price fluctuations of up to 70 percent at one Internet retailer.

After a consumer scans a product, the application generates product information and a real-time price comparison.

Consumers can also search for items by product name.

Clicking on a price result sends the consumer to the merchant’s site for purchase.

According to Apnoti.com, the target demographic for the application is 16-40-year-old urban consumers in Germany, the United States, France and Britain.

IBarcode is not alone in the bar code scanning marketplace.

ShopSavvy lets consumers scan the bar code of any item to determine its availability and price from both online and local retailers (see story).

Mr. Gast said that by using the iBarcode application, consumers can get great price transparency and help in making the best purchase decision.

“We believe that people are becoming more and more price conscious,” Mr. Gast said. “IBarcode will facilitate the process of comparing prices.”

Press Release, 10 December 2009

Scan the barcode in the shop and find the best prices.

Starnberg, 10 December 2009 – Today sees the launch of the world’s first mobile price search engine with integrated barcode scanner, the new iBARCODE iPhone application – an innovative service that means you can save cash on the go. This technical innovation from apnoti.com GmbH, based in Starnberg near Munich, enables every iPhone user to scan product barcodes in a matter of seconds and find the best prices. From now on, smart, price-conscious online buyers can use iBARCODE to better evaluate shop prices and always make the right purchase decision. 

“The days when we had to go from shop to shop comparing products to find the best price are now finally over! For example, if you want to check the electronics market again to see if an offer really is good value, the iPhone iBARCODE app is a simple way of doing this,” says founder and Managing Director Gerold Herrmann. “Behind the unique and complex technology is a simple yet impressive idea. In order to scan a barcode, all you have to do is hold the iPhone over the relevant code. The integrated camera photographs it fully automatically and finds the best offers on the Internet within a matter of seconds. These are located by the recently launched real-time price search engine smart.apnoti.com, which now already comprises more than 65 million product offerings from more than 10,000 online shops worldwide,” says Head of Marketing Wolfram Gast.

The mobile application recognises a broad range of barcodes (UPC8, UPC12, EAN and ISBN), which can be found on the packaging of cameras, audio and hi-fi devices, computers, furniture, books, DVDs and medicines for example. Practical operating elements complete this handy offering, such as individual marketplace and language settings, fast entry of product search requests as text and storing and sending of watchlists.

The iPhone iBARCODE app is available for download at the iTunes App Store under the Finance category and can be found by searching the term ‘iBARCODE’. Furthermore, you can find more information about the mobile application directly on iTunes App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=340184122&mt=8

Source: masable.com, October 29^th, 2009

German company Apnoti indexes real-time pricing for consumers in the U.S and Germany. The primary benefit of their service is to help consumers find dramatic price fluctuations and to take advantage of pricing errors on various ecommerce sites. But this is really quite elementary compared to what is possible. For true real-time pricing to occur, there needs to be real-time inventory management, which will depend on major infrastructure companies such as EDS or IBM to build out those systems. As retailers move closer to real-time inventory management, they’ll improve on their pricing and sales efforts since they will be able to create more efficient price equilibrium adjustments.

For consumer facing applications, real-time pricing can be a competitive advantage for perishable goods. For example, the grocer with fresher fruit can theoretically charge or sell more by providing real-time freshness data. With the growth of smart energy grids, real-time pricing of solar energy and electric power provides tremendous cost-savings for consumers. Generally within ecommerce, real-time inventory information that is accessible through the web is valuable for both the consumer and company. What are the other areas of high impact? Travel? Off-season luxury goods? Event tickets? Let us know in the comments below.

On Friday the 16th October 2009, it was time to celebrate the happening. With our best friends and business partners, we have the new rooms of our think tank dedicated to decency and simultaneously triggered on the first anniversary of our company. We thank the many guests, friends and business partners, and representatives of the local press for the beautiful and cheerful celebration.

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A year after the foundation, we look back with joy and pride. The commitment of all the founders and employees of apnoti.com lets even in these tough times the company grow strongly, so the team of apnoti.com can look very optimistically about the future. What began in the “hobby room” at Lake Starnberg soon developed into a global online service for consumers. apnoti.com (automatic price notification) is based on an unprecedented technology to record price fluctuations – of products you love – in real time.  Once registered with apnoti.com, the user can directly monitor all desired online products with one click. From now on, apnoti.com will take over laborious online research into daily price fluctuations. As soon as the user’s desired price has been reached or undercut, an alert is sent out by email. In addition, price trend models provide information about past price developments.  Since August 2009 also the world’s only real-time price search engine www.smart.apnoti.com is part of our online services. Online shoppers will find the most recent and best price for their desired product just in a few seconds. Thereby smart.apnoti.com scans for each search query more than 65 million product offers from more than 10,000 affiliated online shops.

… someone at the opening ceremony raised the question if we are now going to freeze the further development of our online services. People just took notice of a loud and strong “not really – we are just starting to push our services and there never will be an ending story, for all of us every day is a new start to create something new and exciting on the web”. For example, at the end of November 2009, we will be launching the first web application for the iPhone, which soon is available for download from the iTunes Store. Thus, the new application makes the iPhone to the bar-code-scanner with integrated real-time price comparison. The user starts the iPhone application that scans the barcode from the desired product and will get all the necessary product details and on request a mobile real-time price comparison. This mobile application can read EAN, PZN, ISBN codes, and more. So you are always informed about the products of interest and know the price range in the store to better judge. In addition, you can also search products by using the iPhone application and receive the corresponding price data from a selection of several million product offerings analyzed in real time. Clicking the lowest bidder will then allow the purchase of the product. The countdown has started, so to speak, and soon we are ringing in a new era in mobile shopping – a new feature that we can hardly wait for.

Last but not least, we once again thank our guests very much for the lovely evening and the wonderful collection presents.

The apnoti.com Team

smart.apnoti.com is the world’s first and only price search engine to operate in real-time. This innovative price search engine helps you to find the most up-to-date and lowest price for your desired product in just a few seconds – and in real-time. In the process, smart.apnoti.com searches through over 10,000 affiliated shops on the internet for every single search request, and offers you a comprehensive and up-to-the minute overview of all available product offers with the respective real-time prices. In this way, online buyers can be immediately assured that they have the very latest prices, and they can even benefit from price fluctuations during the day – a technologically unique service that is available only from smart.apnoti.com.

smart.apnoti.com is the world’s first and only price search engine to operate in real-time. This innovative price search engine helps you to find the most up-to-date and lowest price for your desired product in just a few seconds – and in real-time. In the process, smart.apnoti.com searches through over 10,000 affiliated shops on the internet for every single search request, and offers you a comprehensive and up-to-the minute overview of all available product offers with the respective real-time prices. In this way, online buyers can be immediately assured that they have the very latest prices, and they can even benefit from price fluctuations during the day – a technologically unique service that is available only from smart.apnoti.com.

Real Time is all across the Web, be it status updates, search or all the way to shopping. I mean shopping has to be real time, which is exactly what Apnoti is about. The startup is a search engine dedicated to providing shoppers with real time prices of the objects they are searching for. Once you perform your search, the results include all offers, the place where you can shop for them and the trending price over the past 4 weeks. This added with the database of 65 million items and more than 10,000 shops, you can be sure about finding exactly what you are looking for and more importantly it’s all real time which makes it ever more useful.

Starnberg, Germany, 3 August 2009. The world’s first price search engine smart.apnoti.com with real-time technology will be launched on 3 August 2009, marking a new era in online shopping. The technical innovation from apnoti.com GmbH, based in Starnberg near Munich, Germany, checks all quotes from over 10,000 affiliated shops in real-time for every single product and price request. With smart.apnoti.com, price-concious, smart online shoppers can finally be sure that the prices found are completely up-to-date. And that pays off: price fluctuations during the day of up to 70 percent for the same product from the same internet dealer are not uncommon.

Behind the internationally unique and complex technology is a simple yet impressive business idea: because classic comparison portals update their data on average once a day at most, current product comparison concepts can lead to price distortions and misled customers. “Almost every consumer who has looked for, compared and bought online products and prices in the past, has already paid too much at one point because of out-of-date price data. That is now a thing of the past!” announces Gerold Herrmann, founder and managing director of the successful start-up company, adding: “With over 65 million items from more than 10,000 online shops, the number of relevant search results is already very impressive. The new and unique technology is making online shopping a true real-time experience because at smart.apnoti.com, the user decides when to request the price: “current’ no longer means today, but now”.

On 3 August 2009, the new real-time price search at www.smart.apnoti.com will be launched in Germany, the United States, Great Britain, and France. The service, in English and German, is available free of charge to smart shoppers who want to make intelligent, well-informed online purchases at real-time prices.

apnoti.com GmbH:

apnoti.com GmbH, founded in October 2008, is an innovative internet company based in Starnberg, near Munich. The online service at apnoti.com (automatic price notification) is based on a unique piece of technology that registers price fluctuations in real-time. Features such as automatic e-mail notification when the desired price is reached or the price trend model complete the service. Since August 2009, smart.apnoti.com, the unique international real-time price search engine, has been part of the apnoti.com GmbH portfolio. Online shoppers can find the cheapest, most up-to-date price for their product in just a few seconds. smart.apnoti.com searches more than 65 million product offers from over 10,000 affiliated online shops for every single search request. The free service is available at www.apnoti.de and www.smart.apnoti.com in German and English.

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Of course,  we also would like thank again all other smart shoppers who haven’t won this time.  Stay tuned – maybe next week you will be the lucky winner!

The apnoti.com winners list

Date                                                                    Nick name

Friday, 17th of July 2009                               WhiteRussian

Friday, 10th of July 2009                                   donaldduck

Friday, 3rd of July 2009                                          aghome

Friday, 26th of June 2009                                           yesie

Friday, 19th of June 2009                                         snoopy

Friday, 12th of June 2009                                  Elias Hover

Friday, 5th fo June 2009                                    windelpoon

Friday, 29th of May 2009                                             nicl

Friday, 22nd of May 2009                              dreamcatcher

Fiday, 15th of May 2009                                          benhur

Friday, 8st of May 2009                                    huggndubl

Friday, 1st of May 2009                                             Atino

Friday, 24th of April 2009                                     DietrichJ

Friday, 17^th of April 2009                                        vunited

Friday, 10^th of April 2009                                      carola24
 

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