{"id":1870,"date":"2013-10-22T20:43:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T00:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/10\/22\/theres-an-app-for-that-2\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:56:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:56:12","slug":"theres-an-app-for-that-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/theres-an-app-for-that-2\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s an app for that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Furman alums and one current student have launched a new social media iPhone app called \u201cDicho\u201d that allows its users to ask any kind of question in a group text and put it to a vote.\u00a0 Brooks Buffington and Tyler Droll, who graduated in 2013, and senior Dougie Warstler have formed a company, Locus Engineering, and are currently marketing the app. The Greenville News reported on the new venture.<\/p>\n<p>Buffington graduated with a degree in accounting, while Droll majored in information technology with a pre-med track. \u00a0Warstler is a computer science-math major.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/article\/20131011\/news\/310110050\/furman-students-launch-social-media-app\"><strong>Read the article \u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Furman alums and one current student have launched a new social media iPhone app called \u201cDicho\u201d that allows its users to ask any kind of question in a group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}