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With Acorn, you can leave a message everywhere you go

[Editor’s note: Santa Cruz Tech Beat published a guest feature by Acorn Founder and CDO, Frank Scott Krueger: Acorn App: From Santa Cruz to New York City and back again.]

by Cromwell Schubarth
Silicon Valley Business Journal

Acorn Chief Development Officer Frank Scott Krueger and COO Michael Otte. (photo credit: Vicki Thompson)

Acorn Chief Development Officer Frank Scott Krueger and COO Michael Otte. (photo credit: Vicki Thompson)

Acorn has developed a mobile app that does location-triggered messaging and reminders. It lets users tether messages, notes, photos and reminders to physical locations. When people with that app are near where the message has been tethered, the information is presented to them, front and center. It could remind them to get milk when they walk by a store or deliver a to-do list at work on Monday that was created on Saturday morning. It has proprietary location technology that uses 1 percent of a phone’s battery per hour and is accurate to 100 meters.

Continue reading full article here: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/print-edition/2014/09/19/with-acorn-you-can-leave-a-message-everywhere-you.html

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