united kingdom key people oded ran ceo raam thakrar co founder paul burdin co founder products ios android website touchnote.com touchnote is a mobile app for smartphones and website for sending printed personalised postcards and greeting cards . the android and iphone apps and website are periodically updated with new features . touchnote was first launched in 2008 1 2 3 and is based in london . contents 1 company profile 2 touchnote cards 3 mobile applications 4 data breach 5 references 6 external links company profile edit the company was founded by raam thakrar and paul burdin in 2008 and was launched to the public in november 2008 . 4 the touchnote apps and website convert users photos into postcards and greeting cards which are printed and posted by touchnote on behalf of the user . touchnote cards edit the touchnote app and website allows users to send personalised postcards and greeting cards using their own photos . cards are sent anywhere in the world with a functioning postal system but are printed and posted from print centres based in the uk usa germany and australia . the postcards are 6 x 4 inch and the greeting cards are 7 x 5 inch printed with a gloss finish . in 2014 the touchnote iphone app was updated to allow photo collage cards to be created where the user could add multiple photos onto one card . in march 2009 touchnote released an api which allows other sites to integrate into their print on demand system . this includes photos from facebook and from picasa . 5 mobile applications edit in may 2009 the company released an application on the nokia ovi store 6 which allowed users to use photos on their phone to make cards . it was the first application on the ovi store which produced a physical product . the app was voted the must have entertainment app of 2010 by ovi users . 7 the company first released an iphone application in september 2009 with similar functionality . 8 in june 2010 an android application was released with similar functionality . in october 2010 a windows phone 7 app was launched . this included additional features such as photo crop and zoom and ability for users to sign their cards . 9 the windows phone 7 app is no longer supported by touchnote . data breach edit on 4 november 2015 touchnote suffered a data breach in which customer names email addresses order histories and home addresses were stolen . 10 in their official statement on 5 november the company also confirmed that some dates of birth had been accessed along with some card recipient s names and postal addresses . 11 12 references edit 1 dead link touchnote wants to bring back the postcard . mashable.com . 2008 11 03 . retrieved 2016 01 28 . it s personal everywhere . dailycandy.com . 2008 11 07 . retrieved 2016 01 28 . touchnote wants to bring back the postcard . mashable.com . 2008 11 03 . retrieved 2016 01 28 . butcher mike . europe the latest innovative tech coming out of europe techcrunch . uk.techcrunch.com . retrieved 2016 01 28 . butcher mike . europe the latest innovative tech coming out of europe techcrunch . uk.techcrunch.com . retrieved 2016 01 28 . 2 archived january 10 2011 at the wayback machine . butcher mike . europe the latest innovative tech coming out of europe techcrunch . uk.techcrunch.com . retrieved 2016 01 28 . microsoft news touchnote hello from hawaii . microsoft news.tmcnet.com . 2010 10 13 . retrieved 2016 01 28 . touchnote postcard app suffers data breach . bbc news . retrieved 2016 01 28 . touchnote breach wrote a postcard with us thieves have your pal s name address . theregister.co.uk . retrieved 2016 01 28 . https web.archive.org web 20160203141458 https updates.touchnote.com . archived from the original on february 3 2016 . retrieved january 14 2016 . missing or empty title help external links edit touchnote website touchnote iphone app touchnote android app retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title touchnote & oldid 739101547 categories postcardsgreeting cardsbritish brandshidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from january 2016articles with wayback machine linkspages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urls navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 12 september 2016 at 19 49 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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