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| Mar 9, 2012 | Before SXSW Sunk Its Valuation, Loopt Location App Sells To Green Dot For $43.4 Million Cash | With a new class of passive location apps on the rise, failed geo-mobile apps of the past need to cut their losses, so Loopt today announced plans to sell to banking and payment solutions company Green Dot for $43.4 million. Green Dot hopes... |
| Mar 9, 2012 | Loopt was a lemon, dropping to just 500 daily active users prior to sale (updated) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
[Update: Loopt founder Sam Altman says the 500 DAU number is off by 100 times, and says he’ll be posting data shortly to prove it. We’l... |
| Mar 9, 2012 | Prepaid card company Green Dot gets Loopt for $43.4M | 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!
Loopt, a mobile location services pioneer, has be... |
| Mar 9, 2012 | Prepaid card company Green Dot gets Loopt for $43.4M | Loopt, a mobile location services pioneer, has been snapped up by an unlikely suitor. Green Dot, a company that specializes in prepaid debit cards, announced today that it has acquired the company for $43.4 million.
Loopt started out as a w... |
| Mar 9, 2012 | How Green Dot Will Use Loopt To Go After Mobile Payments | Imagine you’re walking by your local cafe, and you get a notification on your phone that you’ll get a free bagel if you buy a cup of coffee. You walk inside, and make the purchase with your credit card — no need to take out your phone again... |
| Feb 16, 2012 | Glassmap Maps Your Friends So You Can “Jump Into Their Context” | Glassmap launches today. Interesting name, right? It aptly describes a touchscreen map app. Co-founder Geoffrey Woo says the name is inspired by even more futuristic interfaces. For now, it’s an app that persistently shares your location wi... |
| Oct 18, 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... |
| Oct 18, 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... |
| Sep 30, 2011 | Loopt In Process Of Receiving Broad Patent Covering Location-Based Ads | Location-based service Loopt has been allowed its first patent, and it could be a big one.
The patent, as described, seems relevant to numerous existing products, including Google’s Latitude. In layman’s terms, it describes using your locat... |
| Sep 27, 2011 | Loopt Teams With Virgin America To Bring Check-In Deals To SFO | Location-based service Loopt is getting some nice promotion for the next three months, courtesy of San Francisco’s International Airport and Virgin America. And it might make your trip to the airport a bit less expensive.
Beginning this wee... |
| Sep 10, 2011 | The Fragmented Mobile Information Race | Mobile devices are shifting many individual computing behaviors, perhaps none more significant than how we search for and receive information. Right now, it’s moving at warp speed. In between the time I finish this draft and its posted, it’... |
| Aug 29, 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 ... |
| Aug 24, 2011 | Location-based social network BuzzMob launches. We’re not sure if it’s awesome, yet. | 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!
Let’s all give a warm, startup-community welcome ... |
| Aug 24, 2011 | Location-based social network BuzzMob launches. We’re not sure if it’s awesome, yet. | Let’s all give a warm, startup-community welcome to BuzzMob, which officially launched today. Hi, BuzzMob!
The Irvine-based company has made a mobile app, also called BuzzMob (free), for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad (their Android app i... |
| Jul 3, 2011 | Google’s Six-Front War | Editor’s note: Guest contributor 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.
While the tech world is buzzing about... |
| Jun 23, 2011 | Off And Running: Loopt's First U-Deal Sells Out In Less Than An Hour | Loopt has gone through quite a few incarnations, and this morning that tradition continued as the mobile social network announced it was entering the daily deals space with a service called U-Deals. In essence, U-Deals lets users request th... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | Loopt lets local business customers request daily deals | 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!
Loopt, an early leader in location-based services... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | Loopt Turns The Daily Deals Game On Its Head With U-Deals | Mobile social network Loopt is turning on the revenue streams by going after the daily deal space. It already partnered with Groupon to show users nearby Groupon Now deals via notifications, but today it is launching its own twist on daily ... |
| Jun 13, 2011 | Y Combinator Brings On Alumni To Be "Part Time Partners" | Y Combinator has just announced its “Part Time Partner” program, which will bring in former YC alumni to mentor the most recent cohort of startups, like regular partners, but only 1/5 of the time.
Joining the prestigious ranks of Paul Graha... |
| May 20, 2011 | Groupon’s New Partnership With Loopt: Is This How Location Will Be Monetized? | Mobile, location based social networking is a young but exciting field. How will it gain mainstream adoption and how will it become a viable business, though? A new partnership announced today between notable location service Loopt and high... |
| May 20, 2011 | Loopt Beats Groupon To Notifying You Of Nearby Groupon Now! Deals | Loopt a checkin app that seems to be pulling out all the stops in order to survive in a saturated space, has now partnered up with Groupon Now! in Chicago in order to provide Loopt users with locationally relevant realtime deals around them... |
| Apr 20, 2011 | Check In App Loopt Introduces Loopt Qs, Location Based Q&A Polls | Loopt, a location-based checkins app along the lines of Foursquare, is announcing the launch of Loopt Qs today at Where 2.0 Conference.
Loopt Qs are “micro reviews” or polls that the Loopt community team will create around a place (like “Wh... |
| Apr 20, 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... |
| Apr 20, 2011 | Loopt Introduces Qs: Real-Time Polls in Place of Reviews | Think about your average, smartphone-enabled visit to a new restaurant: You sit down, take a gander at the menu and quickly pull out your phone to look up the latest Foursquare tips and Yelp reviews. Some are novels of glowing hyperbole whi... |
| Apr 19, 2011 | Groupon goes shopping again, buying and retiring Whrrl creator Pelago | Group shopping site Groupon is continuing its buying spree, acquiring the parent company of check-in service Whrrl late Monday, dubbed Pelago, which the company said in a blog post it would retire on April 30.
Pelago was one of the first co... |
| Mar 7, 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 ... |
| Mar 7, 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... |
| Mar 7, 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 ... |
| Mar 1, 2011 | Loopt To Get Pushy With Big Flash Deals At SXSW | With a little over a week until SXSW begins in Austin, Texas, our inboxes have been hemorrhaging with seemingly every startup under the sun attempting to launch something in time for the festival. Many of these are app-related. And specific... |
| Feb 4, 2011 | New GroundLink App Lets Travelers Book A Green Limo, Shuttle or Car Service | GroundLink — a New York City transportation technology and travel services business — released a new mobile app this week. The second iPhone app from the company, GroundLink allows users to book a hybrid, electric or otherwise clean-vehicle... |
| Jan 27, 2011 | Sharing & Privacy: Can We Have Our Cake And Eat It Too? | It’s often said that services like Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter – you name it – are not the product, you are. Each and every bit of information you share and action you take is used to create a profile of user behavior, which is used then ... |
| Jan 20, 2011 | Startupbootcamp launches in Madrid. Next up: London and Berlin. | Is it just me, or is everyone and their mother talking about startup accelerators these days? I seriously feel like we’re in some kind of Paul Graham era. Y Combinator-made startups like Dropbox, Xobni, Loopt, AirBnB, WePay, etc. have gotte... |
| Jan 7, 2011 | Where the Valley’s hottest incubator nests its companies | A new report shows that most companies developed at Y Combinator, the much-watched Silicon Valley incubator known for both the geeky prowess of the startups it grooms and the Hollywood glitz of the investors it draws to its Demo Day events,... |
| Dec 14, 2010 | Where Is Google Hiding Those 9 Million Active Latitude Users? | I often have discussions with various people in the technology industry about location-based services. I also moderate and/or sit on a lot of panels about the topic. Naturally, I constantly read and write about it as well. So how often does... |
| Dec 10, 2010 | Angry Birds Open a Bank: Here’s What it Means, Beyond Android | The smash-hit puzzle game Angry Birds made big headlines today with its parent company’s announcement of its own sales system that will route around the Android Market and let consumers run up charges directly on the monthly bill sent to th... |
| Dec 8, 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 ... |
| Dec 6, 2010 | Loopt unveils new check in features with launch of version 4.0 | Loopt, an early leader in location-based services, today announced it has launched the next version of its application with several new features, including automatic check-ins, text messages, social recommendations, and rewards from busines... |
| Dec 6, 2010 | Loopt unveils new check in features with launch of version 4.0 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Loopt, an early leader in location-based services, today announced it has launched the next version of its application with several new... |
| Dec 6, 2010 | Loopt 4.0: Redesigned, Facebook-Heavy, And Location-Based Texting | Much has already been written about how Loopt was perhaps a bit too early to the location game for their own good. But that doesn’t mean they’re not out there still trying new things to keep their over 4 million users and entice new ones to... |
| Dec 4, 2010 | Google's Possible "+1" iPhone App, Facebook Similarities, And Social "Loop" Groups | Since we broke the news a couple days ago that Google’s secret social project, formerly known as “Emerald Sea“, is now being called “Google +1”, we’ve gotten more confirmation about the naming. This includes people more confident that this ... |
| Dec 2, 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... |
| Nov 12, 2010 | At Least It's Not Facebook: A Google Director Departs To Become Loopt Exec | Google is bleeding talent. As companies mature, that tends to happen. But the fact that a large number are defecting to rival Facebook clearly has Google worried — enough to offer massive retention bonuses and across-the-board salary increa... |
| Oct 19, 2010 | Loopt Feeling Right At Home With Facebook Places, Adds Deep Integration | When Facebook launched Places, their entry into the location space, the headlines made it seem as if every startup player in the field was about to go extinct. Obviously, that didn’t happen. Instead, the playing field has largely stayed the... |
| Oct 19, 2010 | Loopt brings users closer to Facebook friends | 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!
Loopt, an early leader in location-based services... |
| Oct 19, 2010 | Loopt brings users closer to Facebook friends | Loopt, an early leader in location-based services, today announced it has integrated Facebook Places into its mobile check-in application. The application is available for iPhone and iPod touch.
Loopt users will now be able to seamlessly co... |
| Oct 6, 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... |
| Oct 6, 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... |
| Sep 21, 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... |
| Sep 21, 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 ... |
| Sep 2, 2010 | Virgin America Rides Loopt Taco Truck Special To Fifth Largest Revenue Day Ever | Sometimes the titles just write themselves. On Tuesday Virgin America and Loopt partnered to offer people two-for-one tickets to Cancun or Los Cabos from California. All you had to do was check in on Loopt at SFO, LAX or one of a variety of... |
| Aug 30, 2010 | Loopt hires mobile veteran to reclaim the location crown | Loopt, an early leader in location-based social services, just announced that mobile industry veteran Steve Boom (pictured left) is joining the company as its first president. Boom will lead the Mountain View, Calif. startup with cofounder ... |
| Aug 25, 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... |
| Aug 19, 2010 | Facebook Places Vs. The Location-Based World | Let’s just pretend for a second that Facebook Places aka Facesquare is a charitable attempt on Facebook’s part to quell check-in fatigue by making nice with Foursquare, Gowalla, Booyah and Yelp (and not another attempt by Facebook to turn t... |
| Aug 16, 2010 | Are Apple’s iAds stumbling? | Back when Apple announced its iAds platform for creating and placing high-quality ads in iPhone apps, we wondered whether smaller ad networks might get crushed. But early signs suggest that Apple hasn’t mastered this ad thing yet, according... |
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| Aug 9, 2010 | Location service GroupTabs mixes offers with check-ins to draw in new customers | The biggest promise location-based services offer for merchants is that they are going to bring in the pundits en masse. Location companies and brands have been experimenting with rewarding users with discounts and other special offers (lik... |
| Aug 9, 2010 | Location service GroupTabs mixes offers with check-ins to draw in new customers | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The biggest promise location-based services offer for merchants is that they are going to bring in the pundits en masse. Location compa... |
| Aug 2, 2010 | Forget Check-ins, Hotlist Brings Facebook and Twitter “Geo-Trends” to iPhone | The Hotlist is going mobile. The service, a trend-tracker that connects users with upcoming events in the area and across their social networks, is now available as an iPhone application.
Although location-based social networking (LBS) apps... |
| Aug 2, 2010 | Check-In On Foursquare Without Taking Your Phone Out Of Your Pocket | Heavy Foursquare users, you have a new app to get immediately. Future Checkin is an app that allows you to check-in to your favorite Foursquare venues automatically when you’re near them. You don’t have to do a thing besides simply have you... |
| Jul 27, 2010 | Are Location-Based Services All Hype? | Are location-based mobile applications like
Foursquare
,
Loopt
and
Gowalla
just
hype
? That’s the potential, at-a-glance takeaway from a new
study
released today by Forrester Research. Only 4% of U.S. online adults have ever used location-b... |
| Jul 27, 2010 | CardStar connects loyalty cards to Foursquare check-ins | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The check-in game as popularized by location-based services Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt and others, desperately needs something more tan... |
| Jul 27, 2010 | CardStar connects loyalty cards to Foursquare check-ins | The check-in game as popularized by location-based services Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt and others, desperately needs something more tangible than just the mere exclamation of a user’s location. One way to bring more value – and thus more in... |
| 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... |
| Jul 22, 2010 | Topguest Hooks IHG, All-Star Investors [Video] | Earlier this month, investor Jeff Clavier told us on TechCrunch TV that he had just invested in a promising startup that was related to the geo-location space. Without giving us too many clues, he said it was not a primary check-in player l... |
| Jul 19, 2010 | Beyond Foursquare: What Search Engines Could Do With Location Data | Foursquare says it’s in talks with all the major search engines to index the startup’s location data. We’re hearing that Google in particular may be in talks with all the major players in the location-based social networking market. What wo... |
| Jul 12, 2010 | Where Do You Check In? The Northwest’s Location-Based Search and Social Networking Mini Cluster | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The rising popularity of New York, NY-based Foursquare, which launched in March of 2009 and has quickly become the most popular location-based social networking mobile applica... |
| Jul 12, 2010 | MobileBeat: MyTalk introduces a smarter social mobile network | MyTalk is one of 20 promising startups included in the MobileBeat 2010 Startup Competition, and is in the running for one of two coveted Tesla Awards.
At first glance MyTalk may just look like another location-based social mobile network. T... |
| Jul 12, 2010 | MobileBeat: MyTalk introduces a smarter social mobile network | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
MyTalk is one of 20 promising startups included in the MobileBeat 2010 Startup Competition, and is in the running for one of two covete... |
| Jul 9, 2010 | Loopt Hits 4 Million Users, Propelled By iOS 4 And Android | “Foursquare gets all the hype.” It’s something I hear just about every day from just about every other location-based startup. And it’s true, though I would argue that it’s warranted — and investors seem to agree. But it’s also important to... |
| Jul 8, 2010 | Face2face brings privacy to location by approximating friends’ whereabouts | Location-based services that are taking advantage of a smartphone’s GPS and wi-fi triangulation capabilities are continuously struggling to get even more accurate location data to pinpoint phones and, by extension, their users. While accura... |
| Jul 8, 2010 | Face2face brings privacy to location by approximating friends’ whereabouts | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Location-based services that are taking advantage of a smartphone’s GPS and wi-fi triangulation capabilities are continuously strugglin... |
| Jul 2, 2010 | One million singles sign up for Skout dating app | Feel like there are no singles out there? Have no fear. Skout, the location-based dating app, now boasts one million registered users in its service. Summer seems to be the time when people are looking for love, as Skout says more than 200,... |
| Jul 1, 2010 | Foursquare Goes iOS 4 Native: Brings A New Map View, But No Background Location | The iOS 4-compatible apps continue to roll-in. The latest is Foursquare which now includes fast app switching and high resolution artwork for the iPhone 4’s retina display. And this latest version, 1.9, includes a little bonus: a new map vi... |
| Jun 29, 2010 | MapQuest plays catch-up with redesign | MapQuest fell from it’s position as the number one mapping site early last year, pushed from its perch by Google’s Google Maps. And Google and Microsoft have been beating AOL-owned MapQuest to the punch in adding features to their services,... |
| Jun 21, 2010 | In-the-background location comes to iPhone through Loopt | Loopt, an early player in location-based social networking, has become one of the first apps to take advantage of iOS’s new multitasking ability.
It’s adding a feature that has long remained elusive for location apps on the device — in the ... |
| Jun 21, 2010 | Loopt 3.0 Marries Background Location With The Check-In | When Loopt first launched on the iPhone alongside the App Store in 2008, it looked to be an awesome new location-based service. Apple clearly agreed, as they gave the app plenty of face time: demo slots on stage at major events, appearances... |
| Jun 16, 2010 | Elite check-in service Topguest has “don of the PayPal mafia” on board | A new company is making blips on the location-based services radar. New York-based Topguest is moving into the market with an idea to bridge location-based services with the travel industry. Working in “sneak-preview” mode — meaning it’s ac... |
| Jun 16, 2010 | Elite check-in service Topguest has “don of the PayPal mafia” on board | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
A new company is making blips on the location-based services radar. New York-based Topguest is moving into the market with an idea to b... |
| Jun 10, 2010 | Sick of Useless Badges and Mayorships? Topguest Makes Check-ins Meaningful | If you’re an early adopter, you’ve not doubt heard of (and probably even use) mobile “check-in” applications. Popular location-based services like Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite, Whrrl, TriOut, Loopt and others are all the rage these days,... |
| Jun 2, 2010 | Behind The Scenes, Location Turf Wars Have Begun | Over the past several months I’ve moderated or been on a number of panels with many of the top players in the location space. A common theme keeps recurring. When someone brings up rivalries between any of the companies, it is always downpl... |
| May 31, 2010 | Loopt Star Keeps It Simple: Check-Ins, Specials, And Facebook | Back in January, we noted that Loopt was sending around a deck to advertisers showing off a new product. The product was focused on check-in specials (the kind popularized by Foursquare) and was entirely built on top of Facebook’s social gr... |
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| May 21, 2010 | Y Combinator Raises Over $8M to Expand Incubator Membership | Silicon Valley-based startup incubator Y Combinator (YC) announced today that is has raised $8.25 million with which it plans to provide funding to a larger group of startups this summer. Leading the funding was Sequoia Capital along with s... |
| May 7, 2010 | New generation of location games catches on | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Location-based social networks Foursquare and Gowalla, which launched the craze of “checking in” at locations such as restaurants or st... |
| May 7, 2010 | New generation of location games catches on | Location-based social networks Foursquare and Gowalla, which launched the craze of “checking in” at locations such as restaurants or stores in exchange for points, are often described as games. But they’re fairly simple examples as far as g... |
| May 3, 2010 | Foursquare sees no reason to rush to the iPad | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Even though popular location-based check-in service Gowalla released its native app for Apple’s iPad last week (pictured), its competit... |
| May 3, 2010 | Foursquare sees no reason to rush to the iPad | Even though popular location-based check-in service Gowalla released its native app for Apple’s iPad last week (pictured), its competitor Foursquare sees no reason to rush out an iPad application for the tablet that’s proven itself a real h... |
| Apr 23, 2010 | Mopho.to Blends Location Based Check-Ins With Photo Sharing | Location based apps and services are all the rage now, with Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, and Twitter leading the space. Startup ChoiceVendor has launched a location based iPhone app and service called MoPho.to that has a different twist. Ins... |
| Apr 23, 2010 | “Geofencing” enables new location-based apps, raises privacy concerns | A coffee shop pinging your cell phone with a deal for latte when you’re 300 feet away? A mother alerted when her child leaves the school grounds? All this is done with “geofencing“, the latest thing in location-based services, according to ... |
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| Apr 15, 2010 | Rally Up Brings Location-Based Social Networking to the iPad | Rally Up, a new location-based social network with a strong focus on privacy, just became the first fully featured location-based social network with an iPad app. The app, which is available for free (iTunes link), includes all of the featu... |
| Apr 10, 2010 | Apple's iPhone OS 4 Will Provide Background Location Security
Categories
Search | iPhone Feature: Background Location
Scott Forstall reviewed one of the advances coming to iPhone OS 4 called Background location – in context with multitasking. In the first half of his presentation on this topic he covered apps like TomTom... |
| Apr 7, 2010 | Loopt Updates Mobile Apps, Brings LooptPulse To BlackBerry | Location-based social network Loopt has just updated its iPhone and BlackBerry applications, adding a hybrid map feature that allows you to view a single map (seen at right) that plots nearby points of interest, friends, and events all at o... |
| Apr 2, 2010 | Loopt Pulse Bets That Location On The iPad Is About Planning | Location is all the rage right now. The iPad is all the rage right now. So it makes sense that when you combine the two, you’re going to get something awesome. But there’s just one little problem. The iPad, with its 9.7 inch screen is way t... |
| Mar 31, 2010 | Location-Based Social Networks: Delightful, Dangerous or Somewhere in Between? | Are location-based social networks privacy disasters waiting to happen? Or are the supposed “dangers” simply being overhyped by those without a thorough understanding of what these new networks can and cannot do? Today, these questions are ... |
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| Mar 23, 2010 | Y Combinator presents 26 new startups | Startup incubator Y Combinator is hosting its semi-annual Demo Day today. Twice a year, the Mountain View, Calif.-based incubator parades its latest batch of companies onstage to present before potential investors.
This afternoon, 26 compan... |
| 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 18, 2010 | SXSWi 2010: Q&A with Loopt Co-Founder/CEO Sam Altman – Pt 1 | The last of the four location based social networks I had a chance speak with at SXSW Interactive 2010 was actually one of the early services into the space. You may remember seeing Loopt on one of the many iPhone television commercials to ... |
