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or walking, and allowed private sharing of estimated arrival times with others. Twist functioned on a user's phone and integrated with their calendar, contacts, email, chat and Google Map features. Twist incorporated traffic conditions into its arrival time calculations. The service was free and was
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Twist and Shout, Inc. was founded by Bill Lee, Mike Belshe, Frank VanZile and Edward Marks. Twist and Shout, Inc. collected $ 6 million in
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The concept for the mobile application called Twist, came from
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