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With its new smart buttons, Amazon is pushing into the home in a fairly subtle way.
There are Digg buttons everywhere: just the smart buttons, we have about a billion impressions a month and it's growing by about 100m a month.
The startup hopes that this capital will help them move beyond their beta-testing in Israel and expand to the U.S. "Consumers like the convenience and simplicity of smart buttons," said Sergio Monsalve, partner at Norwest Venture Partners.
To use PayPal Checkout with Smart Buttons, existing retailers will not have to reintegrate their sites with PayPal Checkout, the company tells us — they'll only need to perform a small update.
The smartphone button Pressy, which raised close to $700k on Kickstarter, is now a famous case – the latest development is the Chinese company Qihoo giving away similar smart buttons for free to drive people to its mobile services.
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Somewhat less compelling are the LED flashlight and a smart button, which launches apps.
According to The Trademark Ninja, Apple also plans to use the name "Smart Button" in the upcoming MacBook Pro.
And with Misfit Link, users can essentially turn it into a "smart button" for different connected activities.
Buttons abound, though, so a smart button is at its core enabling internet connectivity for everything that you bought before 2010.
South Korean startup Naran launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo today for a smart button meant to control analog devices ranging from speakers to your crock pot.
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