| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.01.2021 | Gowalla raises $4 million from GV and Spark for its AR social app | The newly resurrected Gowalla wants to realize its mobile dreams from the early-aughts in an augmented reality world, and they’ve raised some new funding to make it happen.
The AR startup tells TechCrunch that it has raised $4 million in se... |
| 10.04.2014 | Gowalla Founder Josh Williams Raises $2.1 Million To Have Another Go At Local Mobile Discovery Apps | Gowalla founder Josh Williams is nothing if not consistent.
After several years spent building location-based mobile apps and products for his own company, as well as Facebook, he’s back with another venture that’s focused on improving the ... |
| 11.03.2012 | Gowalla goes dark during SXSW 3 years after launch | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Location-based social network Gowalla is, as of t... |
| 10.03.2012 | Gowalla is Officially Gone | Kind of sad
Just two years after winning a SXSW Interactive award for Mobile apps, Gowalla has officially shut down. The location-based social networking start-up, once backed by investors including Kevin Rose and Jason Calacanis, was bough... |
| 12.12.2011 | Gowalla Went For $3M In Facebook Shares, And Many Investors Were Cool With That | What the headline says, basically, according to two sources. That and multiple sources are telling me that a majority of Gowalla investors were cool with the deal being entirely in Facebook shares, because those are likely to be more profit... |
| 11.12.2011 | Silicon Hills Technology Weekly Round-Up | The shortage of technology workers in the Silicon Hills region continues. The Austin American-Statesman today reported that the recent trip technology CEOs from Austin took to California didn’t result in any new employees moving to Texas. P... |
| 05.12.2011 | SuccessFactors, Admeld, Gowalla, Freshdesk: Bay Area Biztech by the Numbers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Time for our irregular, data-driven review of recent Bay Area funding and M&A news and other developments. From biggest to smallest:
$3.4 billion—The amount German busines... |
| 05.12.2011 | Gowalla Versus Foursquare: Why Pretty Doesn’t Always Win | Gowalla, the geo-social app, will soon be no more. The founders will be joining Facebook and shutting down the product a couple months after trying to reposition the app as a social travel guide. It was clear long ago that its rival Foursqu... |
| 05.12.2011 | Gowalla shuts down as staff goes to Facebook | Location-based social network Gowalla announced on Monday that its service is shutting down at the end of January as its team "goes to California" to join the Facebook team.
Gowalla became known as something of an also-ran against... |
| 05.12.2011 | Facebook snaps up Gowalla for location-based boost | Check-in, travel guide startup is the latest Facebook acquisition
While Facebook is a powerhouse of growth and innovation, it often gets a boost of new tech and talented developers through acquisitions. The social networking giant has just ... |
| 05.12.2011 | Gowalla Confirms It Will Shut Down As Founders and Team Members Join Facebook | Following reports that the company as a whole had been acquired, Gowalla today announced that its founders and several team members have joined Facebook and will move to its Palo Alto headquarters. The Gowalla service “will be winding down ... |
| 05.12.2011 | Updated: Gowalla CEO tells staff Facebook deal is in “holding pattern” | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Update: Soon after this posted, Gowalla announced... |
| 03.12.2011 | Facebook Opens New York City Engineering Office; Reported to Buy Gowalla | Facebook will open a New York City engineering office in early 2012, for which is already accepting applications.
The office will be led by Serkan Piantino, an engineering manager who previously managed the engineering team behind Facebook’... |
| 02.12.2011 | Facebook Has Acquired Gowalla | Facebook has acquired location-based startup Gowalla, according to a report this evening by Laurie Segall on CNN Money. The terms of the deal haven’t been reported, and Gowalla declined to comment. Facebook says it doesn’t comment on rumor ... |
| 02.12.2011 | Facebook buys location service Gowalla | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Facebook has acquired the location-sharing service Gowalla for an undisclosed sum, according to a report.
Facebook and Gowalla have not... |
| 02.12.2011 | Facebook buys location service Gowalla | Facebook has acquired the location-sharing service Gowalla for an undisclosed sum, according to a report.
Facebook and Gowalla have not confirmed the deal yet, which was reported by CNNMoney, citing an unnamed source. According to the story... |
| 26.11.2011 | Social Travel: Rediscovering the Friendly Skies | Editor’s note: TechCrunch contributor Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. Shah is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on twitter @semil
We’ve heard endlessly how “social” ... |
| 18.10.2011 | How Foursquare is moving beyond the check-in | “We want to build tools that change the way all the people in this room experience the real world,” said Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley at the Web 2.0 Summit today, as he described his company’s retreat from the game mechanics that first... |
| 18.10.2011 | How Foursquare is moving beyond the check-in | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
“We want to build tools that change the way all t... |
| 22.09.2011 | Gowalla 4.0, Their Bold Revamp Towards Travel And Stories Goes Live | A couple weeks ago during TechCrunch Disrupt, Gowalla co-founder and CEO Josh Williams took the stage to preview the latest version of his service. And while it is technically called Gowalla 4.0, as Williams showed, it’s really a total reva... |
| 17.09.2011 | The Mobile Picture Wars, The Moskovitz Manifesto, And Other Big Themes From TC Disrupt SF | TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 is over. After three days of launches, pivots, interviews, and demos, I’ve finally had a chance to catch up on sleep and digest what just happened. In no particular order, here are my thematic takeaways from this yea... |
| 16.09.2011 | The New Social Network: Who’s Nearby, Not Who You Know | There’s a new concept for social networking services taking root, and it’s not about re-creating your offline social graph on the Web, like Facebook does today. It’s about discovering the people who are nearby you now – the ones you probabl... |
| 12.09.2011 | Gowalla Is Reborn As A Beautiful App For Travel And Storytelling | The location wars had a number of casualties. Some companies shut down, some sold off their remaining tech and talent. Others are still out there plugging away, but at this point, it seems clear that Foursquare won the all-important battle ... |
| 12.09.2011 | Gowalla’s next location check-in app features city guides | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Location-based check-in company Gowalla unveiled the next version of its mobile application today, which features guides that include m... |
| 02.09.2011 | Austin companies seek tech talent in Silicon Valley | By L.A. Lorek
Got tech talent? |
| 29.08.2011 | Will ModoPayments Finally Monetize Check-In? | ModoPayments’ simple and comprehensive solution for providing mobile payments is interesting and what’s more, its offer-based approach may have finally cracked the code for monetizing check-ins. This is something that mobile location-based ... |
| 26.08.2011 | Life Is Crime: If You Try To Shakedown My Virtual TechCrunch Office, I Will Virtually Beat You Down | There’s a simple fundamental reason why Grand Theft Auto exploded into a phenomenon. Everyone has criminal tendencies sometimes. And virtually indulging them is a hell of a lot better then actually indulging them and dealing with the moral ... |
| 25.08.2011 | Gowalla trims feature set, eliminates virtual items and notes from check-ins | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Location-based social network Gowalla is trimming... |
| 25.08.2011 | Gowalla trims feature set, eliminates virtual items and notes from check-ins | Location-based social network Gowalla is trimming its feature set to improve the overall user experience, according to Gowalla founder and CEO Josh Williams, who made the announcement in a blog post Thursday.
The company will eliminate the ... |
| 16.08.2011 | Foursquare Adds Inline Photos And Even More Polish To Their iPhone App | Back in the day, the knock on the Foursquare iPhone app used to be that it wasn’t very visually appealing. That was especially true in comparison to rival Gowalla. But much has changed over the past several months. And now that Foursquare h... |
| 04.08.2011 | LocalResponse checks in to social TV advertising with Philo acquisition | Now businesses can keep an eye on consumers checking in in TV land and the real world at the same time. LocalResponse, a company that helps businesses monitor and respond to check-ins, today announced its acquisition of Philo Media Corporat... |
| 04.08.2011 | LocalResponse checks in to social TV advertising with Philo acquisition | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Now businesses can keep an eye on consumers check... |
| 20.07.2011 | Live From the Launch Pad: Lessons Learned From the Shuttle Tweetup | Spend your own money to travel to Florida during its least pleasant season, bum a ride to a rented house split with strangers, and wake up on a couch before dawn multiple days in a row. That’s no vacation – unless NASA requests your company... |
| 23.06.2011 | Foursquare partners with American Express for deal check-ins | Just after announcing that it passed 10 million users, location-based check-in service Foursquare has said it is partnering with American Express to give members even better deals when they check in at merchants’ stores across the country.
... |
| 23.06.2011 | Foursquare partners with American Express for deal check-ins | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Just after announcing that it passed 10 million u... |
| 22.06.2011 | Banjo’s New Mobile App Connects People & Locations | The most important thing you need to know about Banjo, the Palo Alto-based startup launching its new mobile app today, is that it’s not another social network. “Banjo is a social discovery service,” explains CEO Damien Patton. “It’s a layer... |
| 10.06.2011 | 2WAY Summit Preview: Who’s Leading the Future of Location? | According to comScore, 16.7 million people used location check-in services in March 2011. More than 12.6 million of those people did so through their smartphones. The rise of the smartphone and location services are inextricably linked as p... |
| 12.05.2011 | ComScore Says Check-In Users Are Young, Employed & Use Android | Digital analytics firm comScore released a study that says that 7.1% of the entire U.S. mobile phone population uses location check-in services and 17.6% of smartphone users checked in during the month of March.
So much for the idea of chec... |
| 20.04.2011 | Loopt introduces location-based Q&A feature | Loopt, an early leader in location-based services, today announced at Where 2.0 the launch of Qs, a new feature that allows users to answer questions and see other user’s responses in any physical business location.
Loopt is similar to othe... |
| 14.04.2011 | Local Is Focal: Street Fight Gives The Local Industry A Source For News And Analysis | I’m beginning to think that the old phrase “think globally, act locally” has become an appropriate slogan for Web 2.0. (Or perhaps an alternative might be “think global, try to monetize the sh*t out of local”.) With the rise of location-bas... |
| 13.04.2011 | PhoneTag app promises to keep social media meet-ups private | Smartphone app startup Ripple Mobile today debuted its PhoneTag application, which uses GPS-based technology to help mobile device users share a user’s real-time location and coordinate connections privately with their friends and contacts.... |
| 08.04.2011 | Google Brings Hotpot Recommendations to Places, Almost Reinvents Yelp | Google announced this morning that it would be “graduating” Hotpot, the restaurant recommendation engine that it launched last November. By “graduating,” the company means that the once stand-alone product would become an integrated part of... |
| 31.03.2011 | GeeknRolla – Duedil wins startup competition, Gowalla to hire UK team | This year’s European startup conference GeeknRolla has become a platform for news, as startups launched and speakers broke news direct from the stage.
Duedil, the business reputation startup, secured first prize in the startup competition, ... |
| 24.03.2011 | MeMap app lets you track Facebook friends on one central map | MeMap launched a mobile app today that aims to bring together all of your Facebook friends’ location data from various location-based networks and put it on a single map.
That includes data shared with Facebook and Facebook Connect by third... |
| 21.03.2011 | Check-Ins Coming to Facebook Events | Facebook is testing a new feature that would let users check-in to their Facebook events. AllFacebook.com first caught wind of the feature today, noting that some iPhone users are now seeing the option to check-in to events they’re attendin... |
| 07.03.2011 | Gowalla gears up for new rewards feature with new version for Android | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Gowalla, one of the earliest and best-known services that lets you share your location with friends, today released the newest version ... |
| 07.03.2011 | Gowalla 3 Launches For Android Today | Adding existing features like third-party check-in and better photo support, the Austin based company updates the Android version of their location software today. Gowalla co-founder and CEO Josh Williams told me in a quick phone call that ... |
| 07.03.2011 | Gowalla gears up for new rewards feature with new version for Android | Gowalla, one of the earliest and best-known services that lets you share your location with friends, today released the newest version of its Android application, dubbed Gowalla 3, according to the company’s blog.
The company claims the new... |
| 05.03.2011 | The App Wall | A couple nights ago, a friend sent me a message. “So glad we finally have a way to talk without hanging out.”
He was, of course, kidding. He sent me the message through Yobongo, a new location-based realtime chatting app that launched this ... |
| 23.02.2011 | Foursquare's SXSW Plan: "NEW APP + NEW BADGES + PARTIES + CONCERT + MOAR" | We’re now just over two weeks away from this year’s SXSW event in Austin, Texas. And just as is the case every year, there will be several startups jockeying to be the one that is the breakout hit. But one of those previous breakout hits, F... |
| 19.02.2011 | For Mobile Apps, It's 1996 All Over Again | This guest post is by Ben Keighran, CEO & Co-Founder of Chomp, a search engine for mobile apps.
1996 was a great year in the life of the web. Netscape had launched two years earlier, Excite@home was going to wire all of our homes with u... |
| 17.02.2011 | Facebook Now Oh, So Close to Blowing Location Wide Open | Facebook now publishes its millions of user generated event listings according to the standardized microformats hCalendar and hCard, according to an announcement today by microformats community leader Tantek Çelik. That means that the venue... |
| 10.02.2011 | Nearing A Million Users, Gowalla Moves Forward On The "Social Atlas" Path | A few weeks ago, we noted that with a few subtle changes being made to their service, it seemed as if Gowalla was starting to connect the dots on travel. That is to say, it seems like they’re starting to use all the of location information ... |
| 06.02.2011 | The Super Bowl Apps/Websites So That You Can Pretend You're Into The Game While Looking At Your Phone | It’s Super Bowl Sunday. The game starts in a few hours. The pre-game has been going on for a few hours already (well, several days, actually). And if you’re reading this post, the chances that you’re a diehard football fan are probably fair... |
| 28.01.2011 | Gowalla Begins Connecting The Dots On Travel | Now that Facebook has entered the space, Google appears to be ready to take it more seriously, and Foursquare is gaining some real traction, the other players in the location field need to start defining their roles. Of the other players, G... |
| 25.01.2011 | Facebook’s Latest Acquisition Aimed at Improving Local Deals | Facebook’s acquisition of Rel8tion, a stealth-mode startup out of Seattle, may hint towards the social network’s growing interest in the local advertising space. Rel8tion was developing a system for matching up a person’s location and their... |
| 21.01.2011 | Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Twitter Takes Best Startup Of 2010 | This year’s fourth annual Crunchies Awards have just concluded, and we’re happy to say that it was an overwhelming success. For those who weren’t at the event or watching our livestream, we’ve included the list of nominees and winners below... |
| 11.01.2011 | Foursquare explains itself better to businesses and brands | Popular location check-in application Foursquare just launched a new “Foursquare for Business” page to encourage businesses and brands to claim venues and create partnerships.
With millions of consumers checking in to locations around the w... |
| 07.01.2011 | Announcing Your 2010 Crunchies Finalists | The finalists for the 2010 Crunchies Awards have been chosen. Over 243,000 votes were made across all categories and many outstanding achievements were discussed. Along with our partners GigaOm and VentureBeat, we are very proud to announce... |
| 06.01.2011 | Foursquare fights fake friends | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Popular check-in application Foursquare is facing a problem that has long bedeviled social networks — spurious friend requests. And it’... |
| 06.01.2011 | Foursquare fights fake friends | Popular check-in application Foursquare is facing a problem that has long bedeviled social networks — spurious friend requests. And it’s dealing with violators by putting a cap on them.
Users now have a limit on the total number of friends ... |
| 05.01.2011 | Twitter’s Golden Egg: Location | Editor’s note: Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. He is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on twitter @semilshah
When “New Twitter” launched in 2010, the rollout was acc... |
| 01.01.2011 | Best of 2010 Tech, Year In Review | This year has been loaded with innovations both online and off. Many of these innovations were made by the companies we would expect, like Apple, Google, Facebook, etc. But there were also some fresh faces that pushed us to new heights. As ... |
| 21.12.2010 | Foursquare, Gowalla, Instagram: Mobile photos are everywhere | It’s been a big week for numbers about photos. Yesterday, location-based service Foursquare launched the latest version of its app with support for photo-sharing, and chief executive Dennis Crowley said later in the day that the service was... |
| 21.12.2010 | Gowalla Snaps Back: 1 Million Photos …But Foursquare May Hit That In 2 Weeks | Yesterday morning, Foursquare pushed out a big update to their iPhone app that included the ability to add pictures to check-ins for the first time. This functionality matches the one that rival Gowalla has had for some time now — 9 months,... |
| 20.12.2010 | Foursquare Checks In Comments And Pictures; Instagram, PicPlz, Foodspotting On Board | Earlier this month, location-based service Gowalla went on the offensive against rival Foursquare — by linking up with them. Yes, they created a way for you to use Gowalla to check-in on Foursquare (and Facebook). Why would they do that? Be... |
| 17.12.2010 | Top 10 Real-Time Web Products of 2010 | Last year, when we looked at the top real-time Web products of 2009, we predicted that in 2010 the real-time Web was “likely to become a standard expectation on sites all around the world”. Indeed, as we look back on the last year we find t... |
| 08.12.2010 | Google Latitude iPhone App Revealed: Should You Use It? | An iPhone application for Google Latitude, Google’s location-based friend tracking service, was spotted last night in the Japanese iTunes App Store, thanks to a TechCrunch tipster. Shortly thereafter, the application was pulled down and is ... |
| 04.12.2010 | The New Gowalla is Both Wonderful & Terrible | The mobile social travel diary and game Gowallalaunched version 3.0 of its popular, if market-trailing, service last week and it’s a great example of the potential and the pitfalls of contemporary social software.
If you’re familiar with Fa... |
| 02.12.2010 | Gowalla 3 plays nice with Foursquare and Facebook Places | Gowalla, one of the earliest and best-known services that lets you share your location with friends, is releasing a big upgrade today. The most noteworthy addition is the fact that it now lets users check in and view their friends’ check in... |
| 02.12.2010 | Gowalla 3.0: One Check-In to Rule Them All | Gowalla has released an ambitious update to its iPhone app today that does more than just offer well-designed pins or virtual items. Gowalla 3.0 comes to the iPhone with a brand new design, a number of new features and something Gowalla use... |
| 02.12.2010 | Gowalla 3 launches with Foursquare integrated | Users can now check in to Foursquare and Facebook Places and post to Twitter and Tumblr from Gowalla
Gowalla launched Thursday the third iteration of its location sharing app, whose most significant upgrade lets users check in to other loca... |
| 02.12.2010 | Gowalla 3.0 Unifies Check-Ins, Places With Facebook, Twitter, And Yes, Foursquare | This past March, I came home from SXSW with a problem. The so-called “location war” hadn’t yielded one check-in service to rule them all. In fact, several new ones popped up just at that conference alone. Check-in fatigue set in.
Since then... |
| 26.11.2010 | Black Friday location deals all on Foursquare | Facebook, Gowalla, SCVNGR and Yelp all offer special deals, but Foursquare goes beyond
Black Friday. Just those two words conjure up images of turkey hangovers, trample-happy shoppers, and sweet, sweet deals.
Trying to get a piece of the ac... |
| 18.11.2010 | What you need to know - Thursday 11/18/10 | Gowalla partners with Disney; Big Fish and Zynga regionalize, Apple launches iAd in Europe
Gowalla, a location based social network, has announced a partnership with Disney. This means that Gowalla will be creating a virtual Walt Disney Wor... |
| 18.11.2010 | Gowalla's goin' to Disney! | The company is partnering with Disney to bring location-based services to Disney theme parks
If you’ve ever gone to a theme park—or worse, taken kids to a theme park—you know that the process of navigating the park to find that one awesome ... |
| 18.11.2010 | Walt Disney Parks and Resorts check-in to Gowalla | Popular mobile check in application Gowalla today announced a new partnership with Walt Disney Parks and Resorts.
The agreement will provide Gowalla users with custom Disney Gowalla pages, a collection of recent check ins and activities for... |
| 13.11.2010 | Dear Foursquare, Gowalla: Please Let’s Stop Pretending This Is Fun | It’s a bad month to be Foursquare or Gowalla. Ten days ago, 900-pound gorilla Facebook announced Facebook Deals for Facebook Places (i,e., location-based coupons) and check-ins for third-party apps. A day later, Pew Research reported that, ... |
| 04.11.2010 | Local Hero: Josh Williams, Gowalla | Company: Gowalla
Location: Austin, Texas
Founded: 2009
Founders: Josh Williams, Scott Raymond
Funding: $10.4 million
Employees: 25
Not many people can say that the weather was their main inspiration for launching a startup, but that’s exact... |
| 04.11.2010 | Pew study: 4% of adults use check-in services | The report finds that on any day, only 1% of adults use a location-based check-in service
Just days after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a new suite of mobile upgrades to Facebook, including single sign-on, the opening of location A... |
| 04.11.2010 | More Data: “Check-in” Craze Not Mainstream Yet | Pew Internet & American Life Project is out with its first report on the use of “geosocial” services – that is, mobile location-based services that allow users to “check in” to a particular venue and see which of their friends are nearb... |
| 26.10.2010 | Gowalla thinks money with launch of new check-in features | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Popular mobile check-in application Gowalla today announced it has launched several new features — all helping the company to make mone... |
| 26.10.2010 | Gowalla thinks money with launch of new check-in features | Popular mobile check-in application Gowalla today announced it has launched several new features — all helping the company to make money from the service. The company’s new features include City Pages, Verified Businesses and a Stamp Calend... |
| 14.10.2010 | Houston, we’ve got check-ins: Gowalla and NASA team up | Popular mobile check-in game Gowalla announced a partnership today with government space agency NASA. While a mobile game and a space agency might not be the most likely of pairs, the two have joined forces to offer a country-wide scavenger... |
| 12.10.2010 | Beyond the Check-in: How Location Services Can Now Fight Identity Theft | When we talk of location-based services these days, there’s a heavy focus on so-called check-in apps like Foursquare and Gowalla – apps that allow users to register their physical presence at a venue in return for deals, discounts and virtu... |
| 08.10.2010 | Location game MyTown now lets users check-in around the globe … sort of | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
MyTown, a mobile check-in game for iPhone and iPod Touch, today announced its global availability. While the company claims global acce... |
| 08.10.2010 | Location game MyTown now lets users check-in around the globe … sort of | MyTown, a mobile check-in game for iPhone and iPod Touch, today announced its global availability. While the company claims global access, it’s really just available in the 29 countries that can access the Apple App Store and Google Places.... |
| 06.10.2010 | New Facebook patent could threaten Foursquare and Gowalla | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
While Facebook Places wasn’t the first on the loc... |
| 06.10.2010 | New Facebook patent could threaten Foursquare and Gowalla | While Facebook Places wasn’t the first on the location-based services scene, it may have just became the top dog. According to Eric Sherman at CBS’s BNET site, the company has been granted a very broad patent, filed in 2007, called “Systems... |
| 05.10.2010 | Trendrr is the latest “social media” dashboard — but it’s got your location too | Trendrr is the latest company to launch a social media dashboard, but it hopes to distinguish itself from the growing number of competing products in this area by focusing specifically on how conversations are tied to location.
The dashboar... |
| 28.09.2010 | Barcode Scanning for Points and Prizes with CheckPoints | If you can believe it, a company called CheckPoints has just come up with yet another twist on how “check-in” location-based services applications should work. With its new smartphone application, consumers are rewarded for scanning the bar... |
| 21.09.2010 | Loopt Star brings check-in rewards to Android users | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Loopt Star, an application from location-based startup Loopt that lets users check in to places and get rewards, is now available on An... |
| 21.09.2010 | Loopt Star brings check-in rewards to Android users | Loopt Star, an application from location-based startup Loopt that lets users check in to places and get rewards, is now available on Android devices.
The Loopt Star application is different from the original Loopt application as it focuses ... |
| 20.09.2010 | Foursquare 2.0 Goes Beyond The Check-In — By Reshuffling Old Features | Today, Foursquare has announced the arrival of version 2.0 of their service. This version has been the subject of much speculation for several weeks, as everyone wants to know how Foursquare is going to keep their momentum alive. With Faceb... |
| 06.09.2010 | Facebook denies testing Places in the UK – but it's clearly on its way | Is Facebook testing its location based service Places for imminent rollout in the UK? Notes on Twitter started to surface over the weekend indicating that might be the case. And as you can see from this screengrab from @kierondonoghue on Sa... |
| 06.09.2010 | Facebook Denies Testing Places In The UK – But It Looks Close | Is Facebook testing its location based service Places for imminent rollout in the UK? Notes on Twitter started to surface over the weekend indicating that might be the case. And as you can see from this screengrab from @kierondonoghue on Sa... |
| 01.09.2010 | Gowalla Continues The March Beyond The Check-In With Highlights — A Social Atlas | If you didn’t think the check-in was a commodity before Facebook launched their Places feature, you likely do now. But Gowalla has known that for awhile, and that’s why they’ve been moving to extend the service and build on top of the check... |
| 28.08.2010 | Foursquare Takes Over Times Square With A Massive Display Ad | In terms of brand recognition, it’s hard to top a huge live display billboard in Las Vegas. But Foursquare has managed to do it. As you can see above, they now have a massive, multi-level and multi-angle display practically screaming about ... |
| 25.08.2010 | TIME’s 50 Best Websites 2010: Gowalla Picked over Foursquare? | TIME has today released its “50 Best Websites of 2010,” an annual list to the best of the Web, which aims to include everything from “the big hitters to the unknowns.” Alongside obvious choices like The Onion, Wikileaks, National Geographic... |
| 23.08.2010 | Is Facebook Places Boring? Foursquare CEO Crowley Thinks So | Ever since the first hushed rumors of Facebook getting into the location game, everyone has been looking to pioneering services like Foursquare, wondering what they thought and what would become of them in the face of such a social networki... |
