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| Aug 20, 2010 | Confirmed Hot Potato: Yup, Facebook Bought 'Em, Will Soon Shut Them Down | As we noted nearly a month ago now, Facebook has acquired social activity and ‘check-in’ service provider Hot Potato for about $10 million in cash.
Facebook, fresh from announcing its entry into the location game (our ongoing coverage), and... |
| Aug 20, 2010 | Facebook acquires location-based talent | ... by snapping up Hot Potato for a reported $10 million in cash
During the same week Facebook announced its widely-expected entry into location-based services, with Facebook Places, it was also made public that it's expanding its expertise... |
| Aug 20, 2010 | Facebook gets its hands on check-in startup Hot Potato | Location-based startup Hot Potato just announced that it has been purchased by Facebook, confirming acquisition rumors from last month.
After TechCrunch first reported that a deal was in the works, Silicon Alley Insider and All Things Digit... |
| Aug 20, 2010 | Facebook Catches Hot Potato | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Brooklyn, NY-based Hot Potato today confirmed rumors that it’s the latest acquisition target at Palo Alto, CA-based Facebook. Hot Potato launched last fall with an iPhone app ... |
| Aug 17, 2010 | 5M Monthly Check-Ins Later, GetGlue Comes to Android | Check-in apps are all the rage in the mobile space, but these days users aren’t just checking into business and landmarks. Apps like Miso and Facebook’s recent acquisition Hot Potato, which allow users to check-in to movies, TV shows, books... |
| Aug 10, 2010 | Facebook’s Places Feature About to Launch | Facebook’s location service “Places” is speeding towards an imminent launch, but will take the primary form of an Application Programming Interface (API) for other location specialist services to plug-into. That according to a report by CNe... |
| Aug 10, 2010 | Facebook tiptoes closer to launching geolocation | A week after rumors surfaced about Facebook’s acquisition of New York-based check-in-to-everything service Hot Potato, CNET’s Caroline McCarthy reports that the company’s long-awaited plan to enter the geolocation check-in space may finally... |
| Jul 28, 2010 | Facebook To Pay $10 Million Cash For Hot Potato, Says Source | We broke the news yesterday on Facebook’s most recent acquisition – social activity service Hot Potato. Like most of Facebook’s acquisitions, this deal looks to be mostly about getting a great team of engineers on board, not about the produ... |
| Jul 28, 2010 | HBO Sinks Its Teeth Into GetGlue To Reward Fans For Checking-In To Hit Shows | Forget about checking-in to venues. Apparently, the new thing to do is to check-in to whatever you’re doing — like watching television shows, or reading a book. It’s something that Hot Potato offers, and they’re in the process of being acqu... |
| Jul 27, 2010 | Facebook Closing In On Acquiring Check-In Service Hot Potato | We’re hearing from sources close to the deal that Facebook is in late stage negotiations to buy Hot Potato, the social activity service. The deal is not yet finalized from what we’re hearing, but could be at any moment.
Terms of the deal ar... |
| Jul 26, 2010 | After checking in at retailers, Booyah zooms in on products | Booyah, the San Francisco-based company most famous for its location-based game MyTown, launched a new feature over the weekend for its service called the product check-in. In short, it means users can “check in” with a T-shirt, much like t... |
| Jun 24, 2010 | Smashing the Passive TV: New Check-in Apps Make Entertainment Social Again | Do you want to chat with friends who are watching the same TV shows you are or reading the same books? Do you want to check in to record and share a history of your offline entertainment activities? Many startups think you will and the numb... |
| Jun 16, 2010 | Hot Potato 2.0 Lets You "Check-In" While You're Doing Anything | When Hot Potato launched at our Realtime Crunchup last November it was already a solid app. Then came a new version in March (just before SXSW), and it was even better. Today brings version 2.0 — and it’s the best yet. And it’s also differe... |
| Mar 27, 2010 | How To Make Facebook, FedEx, And Amazon More Fun | Editor’s note: Should everything be a game? In this guest post, Gabe Zichermann argues that fun is good and that game mechanics will find their way into all sorts of products and businesses. Zichermann is the CEO of professional mobile soci... |
| Mar 19, 2010 | Check-In Fatigue. Or, Why I'm Rooting For An All-Out Location War. | I didn’t have the same problems at SXSW this year that some people did. Was it too crowded at some events? Sure. But there were plenty of alternative things to do. Did some of the keynotes bomb? Yes. But there were plenty of other things to... |
| Mar 11, 2010 | Hot Potato Tosses A New Site, API, And iPhone App With Foursquare Integration At You | Back in November of last year, the location-based social event service Hot Potato launched at our Realtime CrunchUp. Today, they’ve taken what was a solid service, and made it a lot better with a number of upgrades.
First and foremost, ther... |
| Feb 5, 2010 | Remotely Check-In At The Super Bowl And Trash Talk With Friends With FanPulse | The concept of “checking-in” has become popular in the location space. But as the concept gains popularity through the likes of Foursquare and Gowalla there’s no reason it can’t be extended beyond location. A new iPhone sports app, FanPulse... |
| Dec 23, 2009 | The Great Location Land Rush Of 2010 | Back in November, at our Realtime CrunchUp event, I sat on the geolocation panel with members of Twitter, Foursquare, SimpleGeo, GeoAPI, Hot Potato, and Google. At one point, I raised the question if location was going to be the next battle... |
| Nov 20, 2009 | Hot Potato launches event streaming, storytelling in real-time | Expect big things from this location-based service.
Brooklyn-based Hot Potato launched a site and iPhone app today that lets groups of people share and create streams of content around events.
You can create an event like a concert or a foo... |
| Nov 20, 2009 | Hot Potato Organizes The Stream Around What's Really Happening Now | Yesterday, Twitter changed its organizing question from “What Are You Doing?” to “What’s Happening?” But if you want to know what’s really happening now, check out Hot Potato, a startup launching right now at our Realtime CrunchUp. Hot Pota... |
| Nov 20, 2009 | Hot Potato launches event streaming, storytelling in real-time | 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!
Expect big things from this location-based servic... |
| Nov 18, 2009 | Founder Collective: When Entrepreneurs Form Their Own Seed-Stage Venture Firm | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Managing a venture fund is hugely different from running a startup. Eric Paley told me that last year at this time his primary responsibility was at dental imaging firm Bronte... |
| Oct 30, 2009 | Benioff, Conway And Costolo Are Speaking At Our Realtime Crunchup. Tickets On Sale Now. | Ever since our first Realtime Crunchup last July, the momentum behind realtime streams just keeps getting stronger. Which is why TechCrunchIT editor Steve Gillmor and I are putting together another Realtime Crunchup on November 20 in San Fr... |
