Digital Folio Adds Lowe's and Home Depot Appliance Data!

Trying to find the best prices for big-ticket items such as appliances can be nerve-wracking, especially with volatile price changes and hard-to-discover cart/checkout prices. The stale prices often provided by shopping search engines such as Google Shopping, NexTag, and PriceGrabber (and the fact that Google Shopping no longer includes Amazon pricing) make shopping for a new microwave, dishwasher, or other appliance all the more daunting.

Enter Digital Folio, which now includes appliance prices from Lowe's and Home Depot as well as other major appliance retailers including Amazon, Sears, and Best Buy! With a single search at http://digitalfolio.com/products you can now learn which top retailers offer the best prices on the appliance you need!

As always, please feel free to let us know what you think about Digital Folio, and what other retailers or product categories you'd like to see added.

70+% of Appliance Price Changes Hidden behind Add-to-Cart/Checkout

Digital Folio provides a valuable time-saving service to shoppers via its unique Price Compare feature's ability to instantly reveal cart/checkout prices on many products, including appliances!

As shown in the following chart, Best Buy and Sears are just two retailers that often hide product prices until shoppers add items to an online cart or, in many cases, proceed all the way to checkout.

By opening your Digital Folio sidebar, however, you can see current prices for products—even for big-ticket items such as appliances—on these and other sites without a single additional click.

Price Compare automatically kicks in when your browser is open to a listing page or single product page featuring products covered by Digital Folio on top retailer sites such as Amazon, Best Buy, Home Depot, Lowe's, Newegg, Sears, Target, TigerDirect, even Toys "R" Us.

Also, anyone on any browser can view prices across multiple retailers instantly simply by visiting www.digitalfolio.com/products and conducting a quick search. Digital Folio automatically generates a product page such as this one for a Samsung stainless-steel French door refrigerator that reveals cart pricing for Best Buy as well as prices at competitors including Sears, Home Depot, and others. Shipping costs and a revealing price history chart are also displayed.

About Digital Folio

Established in 2011, Digital Folio, Inc. is a Denver-based firm focused on revolutionizing the online-to-offline shopping experience for consumers and retailers alike. Digital Folio, a cloud-based shopping tool powered by Windows Azure, offers the first seamless, multi-channel retail shopping experience that allows consumers to shop the entire web at home on a computer, anywhere on a mobile phone, or in-store on an interactive display. As the industry's first "always with you" shopping resource, Digital Folio provides consumers real-time product/price comparison, social shopping, and instant deals direct from retailers—all based on their own shopping behavior and purchase intent.

For more information and to download the FREE, browser-based Digital Folio shopping app, visit www.digitalfolio.com.

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Digital Folio Launches Price Vibe Channel

Curious to see what's going on sale RIGHT NOW across top online retailers? Check out Digital Folio's new Price Vibe, the first real-time price channel that allows you to tune in and see prices change as they're detected on major retailer web sites.

Just click on a Price Vibe price tile to see how that posted price change stacks up against prices at other major retailers—including Amazon! Click again to open a tab with product details, including our price history chart, product availability at each retailer, and direct links so you can buy what you want at the price you want!

Price Vibe supports all current browser versions as well as mobile phones and tablets. Feel free to let us know what you think about Price Vibe, or what features you'd like to see added!

Digital Folio Shopping Apps Add Toys "R" Us Product Data!

Digital Folio has expanded the coverage of retailer product comparison and tracking results within its shopping applications to include those from everyone’s favorite toy store, Toys "R" Us! For 65 years, Toys“R”Us has offered a wide assortment of toys and games for every age, and today’s Toys “R” Us offers even more. Its extensive inventory includes educational products and children’s clothes and furniture as well as electronics such as tablets, digital cameras, camcorders, musical instruments, and MP3 players. Use Digital Folio to compare Toys "R" Us prices instantly with those at competing retailers! Digital Folio shopping apps now support a total of nine major online retailers: Amazon, Best Buy, Buy.com, Newegg, Sears, Target, TigerDirect, Toys “R” Us, and Walmart.

When you view a product or product listing page on one of these supported sites, Digital Folio automatically provides current, accurate prices on those exact products from any of these retailers that carry that same product. No extra pages to search, and no dead-end results! Digital Folio will continue to add more retailers to its shopping apps throughout 2013!

About Digital Folio

Established in 2011, Digital Folio, Inc. is a Denver-based firm focused on revolutionizing the online-to-offline shopping experience for consumers and retailers alike. Digital Folio, a cloud-based shopping tool powered by Windows Azure, offers the first seamless, multi-channel retail shopping experience that allows consumers to shop the entire web at home on a computer, anywhere on a mobile phone, or in-store on an interactive display. As the industry's first "always with you" shopping resource, Digital Folio provides consumers real-time product/price comparison, social shopping, and instant deals direct from retailers—all based on their own shopping behavior and purchase intent.

For more information and to download the FREE, browser-based Digital Folio shopping app, visit www.digitalfolio.com.

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Digital Folio Announces Real-time Retail Pricing Data Expansion to Over 275 Major Retailers

New Universal Connector Technology Allows for Real-time Pricing Data Capture for Over 150 Categories Ranging from Grocery to Apparel to Hard Goods

Digital Folio, the retail industry's first next-generation pricing intelligence platform powered by the crowd, announced today that it has launched its new Universal Connector Technology allowing its clients to capture real-time competitor pricing for more than 275 retailers in over 150 categories. Digital Folio's Retail Intelligence data platform delivers unprecedented data fidelity and access to retail big data as dynamic pricing happens.

"Our new Universal Connector Technology for retail websites is the outcome of significant work over the last year and now allows our business clients to quickly and easily get real-time pricing intelligence on virtually any retailer – whether a major brand retailer or specialty shop – or any category ranging from grocery to apparel to hard goods," said Patrick Carter, president of Digital Folio, Inc.

Digital Folio is featured in Microsoft Booth #1005 at the National Retail Federation (NRF) BIG Show occurring January 14-15 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City. Mr. Carter will be speaking at the NRF BIG !deas session "Enabling Great Customer Experiences with Big Data" on Monday, January 14, at 2 p.m.

The new universal tracking technology will also be incorporated within Digital Folio's award-winning consumer shopping applications, allowing shoppers to automatically track and get price history for virtually any product from any major retailer.

About Digital Folio

Established in 2011, Digital Folio, Inc. is a Denver-based firm focused on revolutionizing the online-to-offline shopping experience for consumers and retailers alike. Digital Folio, a cloud-based shopping tool powered by Windows Azure, offers the first seamless, multi-channel retail shopping experience that allows consumers to shop the entire web at home on a computer, anywhere on a mobile phone, or in-store on an interactive display. As the industry's first "always with you" shopping resource, Digital Folio provides consumers real-time product/price comparison, social shopping, and instant deals direct from retailers—all based on their own shopping behavior and purchase intent.

For more information and to download the FREE, browser-based Digital Folio shopping app, visit www.digitalfolio.com.

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Tweet to Win with Digital Folio!

Enter for your chance to win one of ten $25 online Target gift cards PLUS a grand prize of $100 in online Target gift cards!

Here's how:

• FIND a product at DigitalFolio.com with a listed price drop of 10% or more. (Look for the GREEN product cards!)

• CLICK on that product card to see price comparisons and other details.

• CLICK on the TWEET button.

• SIGN IN to Twitter and TWEET that deal!

Each day from Friday, December 7, through Sunday, December 16, the person with the most RETWEETS of their @DigitalFolio tweets as of 7pm MST will be awarded a $25 online Target gift card the following day. (Only one $25 online gift card will be awarded per Twitter account.)

Digital Folio will also award a grand prize of $100 in online Target gift cards to the person with the most December 7-16 @DigitalFolio RETWEETS overall!

Digital Folio is the first ad-free online shopping tool that provides real-time product price comparison, price history, and social shopping capabilities. Discover Digital Folio today…and win!

About Digital Folio

Established in 2011, Digital Folio, Inc. is a Denver-based firm focused on revolutionizing the online-to-offline shopping experience for consumers and retailers alike. Digital Folio, a cloud-based shopping tool powered by Windows Azure, offers the first seamless, multi-channel retail shopping experience that allows consumers to shop the entire web at home on a computer, anywhere on a mobile phone, or in-store on an interactive display. As the industry's first "always with you" shopping resource, Digital Folio provides consumers real-time product/price comparison, social shopping, and instant deals direct from retailers—all based on their own shopping behavior and purchase intent.

For more information and to download the FREE, browser-based Digital Folio shopping app, visit www.digitalfolio.com.

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Digital Folio to Deliver Real-time Retail Pricing Data through Windows Azure Marketplace

Features over 5 billion retail data points with thousands more generated every hour - for Amazon, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, and other key retailers and marketplaces.

Digital Folio announced today that it has launched its revolutionary Retail Intelligence Data API, which delivers unprecedented real-time visibility to dynamic pricing data as well as stock levels, channel availability, and reference data.

For the first time, businesses—including retailers, researchers, and analysts—can access real-time and historical competitor/retail online pricing, availability, and statistical analytics directly within Microsoft Excel, via browser, via download, or within their own business intelligence platforms—all via a self-service model without costly set-up fees or delays. The API also provides an unlimited number of queries with no limit on the number of products that can be accessed.

Digital Folio's Retail Intelligence API (RetailAPI.com) delivers unprecedented data fidelity and access to retail big data as dynamic pricing happens.

"With online retailers now deploying the ability to dynamically change pricing up to once every six seconds, it's nearly impossible to keep up," said Patrick Carter, President of Digital Folio, Inc. "Digital Folio does keep up because it's powered by the crowd, providing the platform capability to update up to 10,000 products per second. That's the equivalent of an entire major retailer in less than a minute."

Carter added, "From a technical perspective, we offer both OData and REST API interfaces, providing access to hourly interval summaries as well as discrete event data. We are particularly excited about also making our data API available via Microsoft's Windows Azure Marketplace."

Max Uritsky, Group Program Manager, Windows Azure Marketplace, said, "We are excited to work with Digital Folio and their data launch on Windows Azure Marketplace, a premiere online market for buying and selling finished premium data. Windows Azure Marketplace lets users directly access this data via large-scale Hadoop implementations, as well as via Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Office."

"Digital Folio has already been recognized by the press for the level of dynamic pricing accuracy we deliver within our consumer applications," Carter said. "Now our API provides dynamic pricing intelligence beyond what's easily exposed within our shopping applications.

"Until now there has been no ‘Nielsen' for real-time retail pricing. Digital Folio's platform is like a Level 2 trading system for real-time retail that empowers retailers and shoppers alike."

Digital Folio's Retail Intelligence API represents the newest addition to the Digital Folio comparison shopping platform, which includes the powerful Digital Folio sidebar, DigitalFolio comparison shopping site, and Windows 8 app. Thousands of shoppers use Digital Folio apps to compare product prices instantly across major retailers, save their finds in intelligent shopping lists, share their finds with friends and family, and get instant product pricing and availability updates…all in one place.

About Digital Folio

Established in 2011, Digital Folio, Inc. is a Denver-based firm focused on revolutionizing the online-to-offline shopping experience for consumers and retailers alike. Digital Folio, a cloud-based shopping tool powered by Windows Azure, offers the first seamless, multi-channel retail shopping experience that allows consumers to shop the entire web at home on a computer, anywhere on a mobile phone, or in-store on an interactive display. As the industry's first "always with you" shopping resource, Digital Folio provides consumers real-time product/price comparison, social shopping, and instant deals direct from retailers—all based on their own shopping behavior and purchase intent.

For more information and to download the FREE, browser-based Digital Folio shopping app, visit www.digitalfolio.com.

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