Foodie.Fm To Launch Worldwide At Le Web
The beta of Foodie.fm is already running in Finland and the UK, but yesterday TechCrunch reported that Foodie.fm will be launching in all countries at LeWeb this year. The service provides recipes which you can save in the app, which in turn will give you a shopping list to use at the store. Foodie.fm also has a deal with the S Group in Finland, so it gives you the prices of items on your shopping list as well. In UK Foodie.fm product assortment is linked to Tesco.com through their API.
Foodie.fm Gets Updated, Eyes UK For Expansion
From an iPhone app to a Facebook application to other platforms, Foodie.fm has made it even easier to start using their service. Now users can try the application directly on Foodie's website without registration. If they decide to create an account, though, it would still take less than 2 min. Today Foodie is coming out with an improved version of their social capabilities. The most important enhancements are a revamped recommendations engine (now better tailored to users' dietary needs and restrictions), more detailed information about products and discovery of new content from friends through a newsfeed.
Foodie.fm Becomes More Social
Foodie.fm, the startup we reviewed back in February last year. Foodie helps you with grocery shopping in a reverse way; lets you add a meal to your cart and breaks it into the ingredients that you need to prepare the meal. The value of the application is clearly in its ease of use - it basically combines your cook book with recipes and your shopping list.
Digital Foodie Expands To Nokia Phones
Foodie, the mobile application to help you better manage your groceries, is expanding its offering to Nokia phones. the application has recently been available to the iPhone and also as a separate application in Facebook. Foodie isn't your ordinary shopping list app. Foodie is able to learn what you shop for over time and then suggests items based on this learning. What's better, it's able to list the items in a way that they are layed out in the store.
Foodie is currently building its service offering in FInland. Due to a long history with Nokia, it is natural to expand to this platform. Nokia's domination in Finland is still very strong and according to Foodie, the service has been frequently asked to support Nokia phones as well. Users are able to download the mobile app from the Ovi store for Nokia's most recent smart phones, such as N8, E72 and N97.
Foodie.fm Secures Growth Financing
Finnish Foodie.fm has raised a new round of financing to help them increase growth. The investors in this round were the government backed Veraventure together with the Vigo Veturi Venture Accelerator. The size of the investment was not disclosed.
We previously covered and went through the Foodie.fm concept back in early February. Around then, they just had announced a partnership with one of the largest grocery store chains S-Ryhmä. It seems these partnerships and recent developments have worked well in favor of Foodie.fm.
Foodie.fm Helps You Grocery Shop Smarter
Foodie.fm is that obvious thing that I always knew I needed but could not think of. There's about a million different ToDo list apps and cooking apps that help you do partly what Foodie.fm does, but not really.
Foodie.fm enables smart grocery shopping by allowing the user to browse different recipes and then add that meal to their shopping cart. It lets me see different meals and then breaks them down into the needed ingredients in just the right amounts and once I tab 'Add to cart' it ads it to my shopping list on my phone. Now, here's the beauty. Foodie's back end is connected to all the stores in a given chain (They just announced a partnership with S-Ryhmä in Finland) and the server technology learns from what I like to buy and starts to ...wait for it... make recommendations to me when such ingredients or products are on sale in my local store (iPhone lets the service know where I live and recommends me to choose a store as my local shop). You can get the iPhone App here.
