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May 16 2013
02:18 am
Forbes: New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto And More By Scanning Your Shopping Cart
Have you ever wondered whether the money you spend ends up funding causes you oppose?
from their facebook page, 5/15:
For all those wondering, we chose to pull the app from the Google Play store because it had too many bugs that we won't have time to address for a couple weeks, and the additional 100+ Android users who were signing up every minute were slowing our servers to a crawl. We REALLY didn't want to have to pull it but were left with little choice. We need a dedicated Android dev!
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