| Date | Title | Description | Source |
| 28.01.2021 | Gowalla raises $4 million from GV and Spark for its AR socia... | The newly resurrected Gowalla wants to realize its mobile dreams from the early-aughts in an augment... | techcrunch... |
| 10.04.2014 | Gowalla Founder Josh Williams Raises $2.1 Million To Have An... | Gowalla founder Josh Williams is nothing if not consistent.
After several years spent building loca... | techcrunch... |
| 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 an... | venturebea... |
| 10.03.2012 | Gowalla is Officially Gone | Kind of sad
Just two years after winning a SXSW Interactive award for Mobile apps, Gowalla has offi... | observer.c... |
| 12.12.2011 | Gowalla Went For $3M In Facebook Shares, And Many Investors ... | What the headline says, basically, according to two sources. That and multiple sources are telling m... | techcrunch... |
| 11.12.2011 | Silicon Hills Technology Weekly Round-Up | The shortage of technology workers in the Silicon Hills region continues. The Austin American-States... | siliconhil... |
| 05.12.2011 | Updated: Gowalla CEO tells staff Facebook deal is in “holdin... | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI an... | venturebea... |
| 05.12.2011 | Gowalla Confirms It Will Shut Down As Founders and Team Memb... | Following reports that the company as a whole had been acquired, Gowalla today announced that its fo... | techcrunch... |
| 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... | vator.tv/n... |
| 05.12.2011 | SuccessFactors, Admeld, Gowalla, Freshdesk: Bay Area Biztech... | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Time for our irregular, data-drive... | xconomy.co... |
| 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 e... | betanews.c... |
| 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 shuttin... | techcrunch... |
| 03.12.2011 | Facebook Opens New York City Engineering Office; Reported to... | Facebook will open a New York City engineering office in early 2012, for which is already accepting ... | finsmes.co... |
| 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 m... | venturebea... |
| 02.12.2011 | Facebook buys location service Gowalla | Facebook has acquired the location-sharing service Gowalla for an undisclosed sum, according to a re... | venturebea... |
| 02.12.2011 | Facebook Has Acquired Gowalla | Facebook has acquired location-based startup Gowalla, according to a report this evening by Laurie S... | techcrunch... |
| 26.11.2011 | Social Travel: Rediscovering the Friendly Skies | Editor’s note: TechCrunch contributor Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, con... | techcrunch... |
| 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 an... | venturebea... |
| 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,” ... | venturebea... |
| 22.09.2011 | Gowalla 4.0, Their Bold Revamp Towards Travel And Stories Go... | A couple weeks ago during TechCrunch Disrupt, Gowalla co-founder and CEO Josh Williams took the stag... | techcrunch... |
| 17.09.2011 | The Mobile Picture Wars, The Moskovitz Manifesto, And Other ... | TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 is over. After three days of launches, pivots, interviews, and demos, I’ve f... | techcrunch... |
| 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 you... | techcrunch... |
| 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 m... | venturebea... |
| 12.09.2011 | Gowalla Is Reborn As A Beautiful App For Travel And Storytel... | The location wars had a number of casualties. Some companies shut down, some sold off their remainin... | techcrunch... |
| 02.09.2011 | Austin companies seek tech talent in Silicon Valley | By L.A. Lorek
Got tech talent?
Then Austin companies want to recruit you.
A group of Austin CEOs ... | siliconhil... |
| 29.08.2011 | Will ModoPayments Finally Monetize Check-In? | ModoPayments’ simple and comprehensive solution for providing mobile payments is interesting and wha... | techcrunch... |
| 26.08.2011 | Life Is Crime: If You Try To Shakedown My Virtual TechCrunch... | There’s a simple fundamental reason why Grand Theft Auto exploded into a phenomenon. Everyone has cr... | techcrunch... |
| 25.08.2011 | Gowalla trims feature set, eliminates virtual items and note... | Location-based social network Gowalla is trimming its feature set to improve the overall user experi... | venturebea... |
| 25.08.2011 | Gowalla trims feature set, eliminates virtual items and note... | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI an... | venturebea... |
| 16.08.2011 | Foursquare Adds Inline Photos And Even More Polish To Their ... | Back in the day, the knock on the Foursquare iPhone app used to be that it wasn’t very visually appe... | techcrunch... |
| 04.08.2011 | LocalResponse checks in to social TV advertising with Philo ... | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI an... | venturebea... |
| 04.08.2011 | LocalResponse checks in to social TV advertising with Philo ... | Now businesses can keep an eye on consumers checking in in TV land and the real world at the same ti... | venturebea... |
| 20.07.2011 | Live From the Launch Pad: Lessons Learned From the Shuttle T... | Spend your own money to travel to Florida during its least pleasant season, bum a ride to a rented h... | readwrite.... |
| 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 an... | venturebea... |
| 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 ha... | venturebea... |
| 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... | readwrite.... |
| 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 ... | readwrite.... |
| 12.05.2011 | ComScore Says Check-In Users Are Young, Employed & Use A... | Digital analytics firm comScore released a study that says that 7.1% of the entire U.S. mobile phone... | readwrite.... |
| 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 ... | venturebea... |
| 14.04.2011 | Local Is Focal: Street Fight Gives The Local Industry A Sour... | I’m beginning to think that the old phrase “think globally, act locally” has become an appropriate s... | techcrunch... |
| 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 te... | venturebea... |
| 08.04.2011 | Google Brings Hotpot Recommendations to Places, Almost Reinv... | Google announced this morning that it would be “graduating” Hotpot, the restaurant recommendation en... | readwrite.... |
| 31.03.2011 | GeeknRolla – Duedil wins startup competition, Gowalla to hir... | This year’s European startup conference GeeknRolla has become a platform for news, as startups launc... | techcrunch... |
| 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... | venturebea... |
| 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. AllFaceboo... | readwrite.... |
| 07.03.2011 | Gowalla 3 Launches For Android Today | Adding existing features like third-party check-in and better photo support, the Austin based compan... | techcrunch... |
| 07.03.2011 | Gowalla gears up for new rewards feature with new version fo... | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn m... | venturebea... |
| 07.03.2011 | Gowalla gears up for new rewards feature with new version fo... | Gowalla, one of the earliest and best-known services that lets you share your location with friends,... | venturebea... |
| 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 hang... | techcrunch... |
| 23.02.2011 | Foursquare's SXSW Plan: "NEW APP + NEW BADGES + PARTIES... | We’re now just over two weeks away from this year’s SXSW event in Austin, Texas. And just as is the ... | techcrunch... |
| 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.
... | techcrunch... |
| 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 m... | readwrite.... |
| 10.02.2011 | Nearing A Million Users, Gowalla Moves Forward On The "... | A few weeks ago, we noted that with a few subtle changes being made to their service, it seemed as i... | techcrunch... |
| 06.02.2011 | The Super Bowl Apps/Websites So That You Can Pretend You're ... | It’s Super Bowl Sunday. The game starts in a few hours. The pre-game has been going on for a few hou... | techcrunch... |
| 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 F... | techcrunch... |
| 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 soci... | readwrite.... |
| 21.01.2011 | Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Twitter Takes Best Startu... | This year’s fourth annual Crunchies Awards have just concluded, and we’re happy to say that it was a... | techcrunch... |
| 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 ... | venturebea... |
| 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 al... | techcrunch... |
| 06.01.2011 | Foursquare fights fake friends | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn m... | venturebea... |
| 06.01.2011 | Foursquare fights fake friends | Popular check-in application Foursquare is facing a problem that has long bedeviled social networks ... | venturebea... |
| 05.01.2011 | Twitter’s Golden Egg: Location | Editor’s note: Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and soc... | techcrunch... |
| 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 ... | tech.co/ne... |
| 21.12.2010 | Gowalla Snaps Back: 1 Million Photos …But Foursquare May Hit... | Yesterday morning, Foursquare pushed out a big update to their iPhone app that included the ability ... | techcrunch... |
| 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... | venturebea... |
| 20.12.2010 | Foursquare Checks In Comments And Pictures; Instagram, PicPl... | Earlier this month, location-based service Gowalla went on the offensive against rival Foursquare — ... | techcrunch... |
| 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 r... | readwrite.... |
| 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 spot... | readwrite.... |
| 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-traili... | readwrite.... |
| 02.12.2010 | Gowalla 3.0 Unifies Check-Ins, Places With Facebook, Twitter... | This past March, I came home from SXSW with a problem. The so-called “location war” hadn’t yielded o... | techcrunch... |
| 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... | readwrite.... |
| 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,... | venturebea... |
| 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... | vator.tv/n... |
| 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... | vator.tv/n... |
| 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,... | vator.tv/n... |
| 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... | vator.tv/n... |
| 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... | venturebea... |
| 13.11.2010 | Dear Foursquare, Gowalla: Please Let’s Stop Pretending This ... | It’s a bad month to be Foursquare or Gowalla. Ten days ago, 900-pound gorilla Facebook announced Fac... | techcrunch... |
| 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... | vator.tv/n... |
| 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” serv... | readwrite.... |
| 04.11.2010 | Local Hero: Josh Williams, Gowalla | Company: Gowalla
Location: Austin, Texas
Founded: 2009
Founders: Josh Williams, Scott Raymond
Fundin... | venturebea... |
| 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 m... | venturebea... |
| 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 — a... | venturebea... |
| 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... | venturebea... |
| 12.10.2010 | Beyond the Check-in: How Location Services Can Now Fight Ide... | When we talk of location-based services these days, there’s a heavy focus on so-called check-in apps... | readwrite.... |
| 08.10.2010 | Location game MyTown now lets users check-in around the glob... | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn m... | venturebea... |
| 08.10.2010 | Location game MyTown now lets users check-in around the glob... | MyTown, a mobile check-in game for iPhone and iPod Touch, today announced its global availability. W... | venturebea... |
| 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... | venturebea... |
| 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 an... | venturebea... |
| 05.10.2010 | Trendrr is the latest “social media” dashboard — but it’s go... | Trendrr is the latest company to launch a social media dashboard, but it hopes to distinguish itself... | venturebea... |
| 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 “... | readwrite.... |
| 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 ... | venturebea... |
| 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 m... | venturebea... |
| 20.09.2010 | Foursquare 2.0 Goes Beyond The Check-In — By Reshuffling Old... | Today, Foursquare has announced the arrival of version 2.0 of their service. This version has been t... | techcrunch... |
| 06.09.2010 | Facebook denies testing Places in the UK – but it's clearly ... | Is Facebook testing its location based service Places for imminent rollout in the UK? Notes on Twitt... | techcrunch... |
| 06.09.2010 | Facebook Denies Testing Places In The UK – But It Looks Clos... | Is Facebook testing its location based service Places for imminent rollout in the UK? Notes on Twitt... | techcrunch... |
| 01.09.2010 | Gowalla Continues The March Beyond The Check-In With Highlig... | If you didn’t think the check-in was a commodity before Facebook launched their Places feature, you ... | techcrunch... |
| 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 Four... | techcrunch... |
| 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... | readwrite.... |
| 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 loo... | readwrite.... |
