EDPA’s Reignite Alabama announces winners of startup competition
“The Economic Development Partnership of Alabama (EDPA) held its Reignite Alabama Finale to the Alabama Launchpad Response Pitch Competition Thursday, awarding a total of $150,000 in funding to four businesses that have developed innovations to address challenges presented by COVID-19. The event, produced within the headquarters of the EDPA with no live audience, was streamed […]
Reignite Alabama competition awards $150,000 to 4 promising startups
“Lifestyle: Taylor Peake and Emily Hart of Birmingham-based software developer MotionMobs have created a mobile-based anonymous notifications app for COVID-19 exposure, and future viruses. MotionMobs recently launched its GuideSafe app in partnership with the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Alabama Department of Public Health and aims to expand the technology in other states.”
COVID-19 tracking apps, supported by Apple and Google, begin showing up in app stores
“As we started actually building the app, we realized there were even more limits in place than we had initially known about,” emailed Taylor Smith, a developer with Birmingham, Ala.-based MotionMobs who worked on GuideSafe. “The biggest one, I think, is that there is no use of the GPS allowed in the app.”
GuideSafe COVID-19 notification app now available for download among general public.
“Supported by CARES Act funding, the GuideSafe Exposure Notification App was built by UAB and Birmingham-based MotionMobs in active collaboration with the Alabama Department of Public Health and integrating Google and Apple’s Exposure Notification System. This app, previously available only to .edu email address holders during its recent pilot phase, can now be downloaded at […]
COVID-19 Tracking App Available To The Public
“A phone app built by UAB and Birmingham-based MotionMobs that anonymously tracks COVID-19 exposure became available Monday to all Alabama residents.”