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| Jan 13, 2012 | With SimpleGeo’s Shutdown Imminent, Parse Swoops In With A Life Preserver | Yesterday Urban Airship announced that it would be shutting down SimpleGeo on March 31 2012, only a few months after acquiring the company for around $3.5 million. The news irked plenty of developers — you can find a thread on Hacker News h... |
| Nov 8, 2011 | SimpleGeo Co-Founder Joe Stump Leaves Post-Urban Airship Acquisition | Following in the footsteps of co-founder Matt Galligan, SimpleGeo CTO and co-founder Joe Stump has announced he is leaving the company today; In a blog post titled “Looking Back While Moving Forward” the former Digg lead architect talks abo... |
| Nov 2, 2011 | Yahoo, Auditude, 100plus: Bay Area BizTech News by the Numbers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Time for our periodic data-driven roundup of funding news, acquisitions, and other developments in the Bay Area business and technology sphere.
$270 million—The value of Yahoo... |
| Oct 31, 2011 | Startup Shocker: SimpleGeo Gets Acquired by UrbanAirship | SimpleGeo, a much-watched location data provider lead by serial CEO Jay Adelson, has apparently proven unsuccessful in turning the incredible potential of its technology into a thriving standalone business. Today blogger Michael Arrington r... |
| Oct 31, 2011 | Urban Airship acquired SimpleGeo (confirmed) | The rumors are true: Urban Airship has acquired SimpleGeo.
Both companies focus on developer’s tools for cutting-edge mobile technologies. SimpleGeo is a platform for location-based mobile apps, and Urban Airship powers all kinds of mobile ... |
| Oct 31, 2011 | Urban Airship’s Strategic Partnership With SimpleGeo Turns Into An Acquisition | Back in November of 2009, former Digg Chief Architect Joe Stump and Social Thing founder Matt Galligan first publicly unveiled their new startup, SimpleGeo, which was slated to become the new infrastructure for location-based services. They... |
| Oct 31, 2011 | Urban Airship acquired SimpleGeo (confirmed) | 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!
The rumors are true: Urban Airship has acquired S... |
| Oct 27, 2011 | Geo-Loco: Is location 2.0 here and making dollars & sense? | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
This post is sponsored by Geo-Loco.
With the success of smartphones, cloud-based platforms like SimpleGeo, and “contextual” data from s... |
| Oct 27, 2011 | Geo-Loco: Is location 2.0 here and making dollars & sense? | This post is sponsored by Geo-Loco.
With the success of smartphones, cloud-based platforms like SimpleGeo, and “contextual” data from sources like GeoIQ and Factual, location-aware mobile devices and solutions have reached a tipping point. ... |
| Aug 31, 2011 | On Top of the Google: Search Startup Adds Your Friends’ Location Data to Your Search Results | Search tool Wajam is rolling out a new feature today to its browser extension that overlays links shared by your friends on Twitter and Facebook at the top of the page when you perform a search on Google. (Or Bing.) Now Wajam puts a sidebar... |
| Aug 22, 2011 | SimpleGeo Co-Founder Matt Galligan Leaves the Company; TechStars & Startup Equity Charity Next | Matt Galligan, co-founder and most recently Chief Strategy Officer of SimpleGeo, the geodata platform provider we’ve written about here many times and named the Most Promising Startup of 2011, just announced on the company blog that as of t... |
| Aug 22, 2011 | SimpleGeo Cofounder Matt Galligan Steps Down; Will Focus On Helping TechStars And A Non-Profit | Last November, location startup SimpleGeo brought in former Digg CEO Jay Adelson to replace co-founder Matt Galligan as CEO. At the time, Galligan slid into the role of Chief Strategy Officer and became more of a public face for the company... |
| Aug 22, 2011 | SimpleGeo Co-Founder Matt Galligan Moves On | Yesterday, we shared some thoughts from SimpleGeo VP of Product Jeffrey Kalmikoff, and today SimpleGeo founder Matt Galligan has decided to move on. We've been following Matt for quite sometime now from his days as a TechStars startup with ... |
| Aug 17, 2011 | Spotify Hires An Ex-Zynga, Ex-Google Exec For Biz Dev | Streaming music service Spotify is amping up its hiring efforts in the US, wanting to hire another 100 employees according to a source. The total team is currently around 380 people.
One month after its US launch, Spotify has hired Zynga ex... |
| Aug 10, 2011 | BankSimple Announces Funding & Partnerships to Launch Real-Time Banking Platform | BankSimple, the highly anticipated web-only bank being built with an emphasis on user experience and no fees, is getting closer to launching, the company said today. CEO Joshua Reich put up a blog post this afternoon announcing that BankSim... |
| Jul 29, 2011 | Omniscient Mobile Computing: What if Your Apps Knew Everything About Where You Are? | Geographic data provider SimpleGeo announced yesterday that it now offers US census data for any location an app queries for, along with all the other types of data about what surrounds that place. Gender breakout, commute time, age, housin... |
| Jul 28, 2011 | Urban Airship, SimpleGeo partner for simpler, sexier mobile location data | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
There’s got to be a better way to use location data for mobile technologies, and Urban Airship and SimpleGeo say they’re rolling it out... |
| Jul 27, 2011 | It’s Dangerous To Go Alone: SimpleGeo And Urban Airship Partner Up For Location Notifications | Over the past couple of years, push notifications have become a vital part of the mobile picture. There are so many apps, and so much that you can do on smartphones, that you need a system to alert you when something comes up that you’ll wa... |
| Jun 23, 2011 | SimpleGeo Outsources Its Places Database To Factual | In the quest for a unified database of places, geo-location startup Factual is making big strides. Today it is announcing a major partnership with SimpleGeo to maintain and power its places database, which up until now has offered a competi... |
| Jun 10, 2011 | With Neighborhoods And A New Website, SoundTracking Sounds More Like The "Musical Postcard" | When we first covered the launch of SoundTracking back in March, co-founder Steve Jang explained his vision for the service as a sort of “musical postcard”. That is, it’s not just about the music, it’s about the music mixed with location an... |
| May 10, 2011 | Google Opens Places API to the Public | Today at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco, Google announced the opening up and general availability of the Google Places API.
The API, which has been in a closed beta testing and only available for a select number of com... |
| Apr 28, 2011 | AppShowcase Lets Companies Like SimpleGeo Spotlight Apps Built With Their API | Appstores.com, formerly Appbistro, is finally live today with the release of its AppShowcase product. AppShowcase lets platforms like Eventbrite and SimpleGeo automate the process of showcasing (I know right!) apps that are built with their... |
| Apr 21, 2011 | Facts Should Be Free: SimpleGeo Puts 20 Million Places in the Public Domain | If this week’s Where 2.0 conference is proof of anything, it’s that developers are excited about creating location aware mobile apps. One of the biggest barriers to creating a place-aware app, however, is getting the ball rolling – you need... |
| Apr 16, 2011 | Voxy Now Uses Your Location To Help You Learn Language | TechCrunch Disrupt finalist Voxy, a service that lets you learn a language “from life” has just updated its iPhone app in the App Store, with one pretty disruptive difference; Voxy’s ESL app Aprende inglés now uses your location to help you... |
| Mar 28, 2011 | SimpleGeo Launching 'Storage': A Distributed Hosted Database For Location Data | The story of SimpleGeo is a familiar one: two founders — Matt Galligan and Joe Stump — set off to create location-based games, only to find that the tools they wanted to use to build their apps didn’t exist yet. So they switched gears and d... |
| Mar 15, 2011 | 2-Part Series from SXSW: 5 Interviews About the Rise of APIs | Here is the first of a two-part series about the rise of APIs at SXSW this year. It consists of five interviews: Oren Michels of Mashery, Mike Maney of Alcatel-Lucent, John Musser of Programmable Web, Sam Ramji of Apigee and Matt Galligan, ... |
| Mar 4, 2011 | Twitter Will Shut Off GeoAPI To Developers | When Twitter bought Mixer Labs in December, 2009, it inherited the startup’s then-recently launched GeoAPI, which offered a platform for building geo apps. The GeoAPI combined a places database of 16 million businesses with a reverse-geo-co... |
| Feb 13, 2011 | Why Engineers Are Better Off Joining Startups | Editor’s note: Guest author Bindu Reddy is the CEO of MyLikes, a word-of-mouth ad network funded by former Googlers. Previously at Google she managed a team of product managers in charge of various Google apps including Google Docs, Google ... |
| Feb 1, 2011 | Hyperpublic Wants To "Structure The Data In Your Local World" | One of my big predictions for 2011 is that we are going to start to see open databases for places spring up and take hold. Hyperpublic, which just launched today, is doing just that by creating an open database of people, places, and things... |
| Jan 21, 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... |
| Jan 7, 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... |
| Dec 28, 2010 | Most Promising Company For 2011: SimpleGeo | Yesterday we selected our Best LittleCo of 2010, the light blogging service Tumblr. In this post we select a company that we think has the potential to be Best LittleCo of 2011. Next year we’re expecting a lot from data-centric companies an... |
| Dec 28, 2010 | Zumigo Raises $420,000 To Help Jumpstart More Location-Based Applications | There’s no doubt in my mind that 2011 will be a big year for location and context-aware applications, and thus also for the companies that enable developers and publishers to build or enhance software that takes advantages of information on... |
| Dec 22, 2010 | SimpleGeo's Holiday Treats: QR Codes, Geocoders, And Simple Geo For Any Site | A couple weeks ago, SimpleGeo launched a couple of their APIs, Context and Places, into public beta and they were told that was probably a good cut off point for new products before the holidays. But they didn’t listen. Today they’re launch... |
| Dec 8, 2010 | SimpleGeo Launches, Aims to Make All Apps Geo-Aware | Are you ready to learn a whole lot more about the world around you every time you launch a location-aware application? Countless apps are likely to get a lot of real-world data dumped into their databases thanks to two new data sources avai... |
| Dec 5, 2010 | Social Networking: The Future | Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part guest post by venture capitalist Mark Suster of GRP Partners on “Social Networking: The Past, Present, And Future.” Read Part I and Part II first. This series is an adaptation of a recent tal... |
| Nov 15, 2010 | Former Digg CEO Jay Adelson finds himself at SimpleGeo | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
SimpleGeo, a service for adding location-based features to applications, just announced that former Digg CEO Jay Adelson will be its ne... |
| Nov 15, 2010 | SimpleGeo Hires Former Digg CEO Jay Adelson | Jay Adelson, the CEO of Digg until April 2010, just landed in a new position. He’s taking over as CEO of location services startup SimpleGeo, and will join the company’s board of directors. Founding CEO Matt Galligan will become the company... |
| Nov 15, 2010 | Former Digg CEO Jay Adelson finds himself at SimpleGeo | SimpleGeo, a service for adding location-based features to applications, just announced that former Digg CEO Jay Adelson will be its new CEO and join its board of directors.
The company’s former CEO and co-founder Matt Galligan will now act... |
| Nov 15, 2010 | To Describe to Us the World: Former Digg CEO Joins Location Startup SimpleGeo | Jay Adelson, known to some as the recent CEO of Digg but known to others for far more, has taken a position as the new CEO of pre-launched and eagerly-awaited geolocation data platform SimpleGeo, the company announced today.
SimpleGeo says ... |
| Oct 27, 2010 | 19 Year Old Kiip Founder Closes 300K Angel Round For Mobile In-Game Ad Startup | We’ve learned that former Digger and teen entrepreneur Brian Wong has just wrapped up a $300K angel round for his mobile gaming ad startup Kiip. You first read about Wong when our own Mike Arrington wrote about the 19 year old being the you... |
| Oct 25, 2010 | Tech World Welcomes Digg Refugees With Open Arms | This morning most of us woke up to the disappointing news that social news site Digg, once a promising destination for Silicon Valley talent, was losing 37% of its staff as well experiencing key executive departures.
While the usual armchai... |
| Sep 13, 2010 | What Is It You Do? The Need For Simplicity | Warren Buffett is famous for telling people they should only invest in businesses they understand. A corollary to that is that a company should be able to describe in simple terms what they do. Even if what they do is really technical and c... |
| Aug 31, 2010 | Speaking of tattoos – Interview with Micah Baldwin, CEO & co-founder of Graphic.ly (TCTV) | When a great story leaps out in front of you, sometimes you just have to whip out your flip camera and hope for the best. Apologies for the lighting on this one, but this interview with Micah Baldwin was just too good to miss.
First some ba... |
| Aug 27, 2010 | SCVNGR Launches Support For Facebook Places | Location-based game SCVNGR has had a big week of news, first with its partnership with AT&T and then the release of its secret social mechanics playdeck. Today the company has announced that it now sports full integration with the recen... |
| Aug 24, 2010 | AT&T Teams With Location-Based Game SCVNGR To Help Launch Samsung Captivate | A few weeks ago, location-based game SCVNGR launched a new feature called Rewards that makes it an increasing threat to the likes of shopkick, Foursquare, and every other company looking to combine the power of coupons and deals with locati... |
| Jul 1, 2010 | The Rise of the “Game Mechanic in a Box” | Having a game mechanic integrated into your product is effectively a launch requirement at this point. And it makes complete sense, too – build your product so that it harnesses people’s natural competitive drive and their desire for praise... |
| Jun 21, 2010 | SimpleGeo Becomes iOS 4-Aware. Geofencing And Background Tracking Ready To Roll | As you’ve undoubtedly heard by now, iOS 4 is out and spreading across iPhones like wildfire. With it, comes the ability for third-party apps to run certain tasks in the background. One of those tasks is background location — an awesome feat... |
| Jun 3, 2010 | Location 2012: Death Of The Information Silos | Editor’s note: The following is a guest post written by Robert Scoble, who travels the world for Rackspace interviewing tech geeks for building43.com. He’s one of the most popular (stalked) users of location-based services and has 8,215 fri... |
| May 27, 2010 | Check-Ins, Geo-Fences, And The Future Of Privacy | Facebook is under a lot of heat right now for how it shares our personal information. So much so that it is trying to simplify its privacy controls to so that nobody gets surprised when that embarrassing drunk photo you thought you were sha... |
| May 25, 2010 | New competititon scours the earth for innovative location apps | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The mission: One week to build a cool location-based application. The prize: $2,500, an iPad and, according to the Location Wild compet... |
| May 25, 2010 | New competititon scours the earth for innovative location apps | The mission: One week to build a cool location-based application. The prize: $2,500, an iPad and, according to the Location Wild competition organizers, mad publicity.
The London, UK-based competition kicks off for the first time ever on Sa... |
| May 21, 2010 | Market for Location-Based Services is Heating Up for Startups | Sure, it may be obvious to point out that location-based services (LBS) are growing in popularity and may be a great gravy train for young entrepreneurs to hop on, but the recent evolution of the platform has broadened the opportunities for... |
| May 19, 2010 | Watch Out Rivals, With Latitude API Google Starts Taking Location Very Seriously | Google Latitude has 3 million active users, but you wouldn’t know it by the amount of buzz they get in the location space these days. (Which is to say, just about none.) The problem is that Latitude has been pretty restricted, and not exact... |
| May 19, 2010 | Google Provides Free Location Awareness to Any Application With New Latitude API | Amidst the flurry of activity streaming from today’s Google I/O event, the mobile team at Google has announced the launch of a free Application Programming Interface (API) for its Latitude location service. The API will allow developers to ... |
| May 18, 2010 | Seizing Opportunity: How CrashCorp Became SimpleGeo | Back-end geolocation data providers SimpleGeo announced today that it has raised over $8 million in Series A funding. Included among the investors is Redpoint Ventures, First Round Capital and Foundry Group, which like SimpleGeo, is located... |
| May 18, 2010 | Location platform SimpleGeo raises $8M: “We are building something revolutionary” | Boulder, Colo.-based location-platform company SimpleGeo has just announced a second round of funding, a mere five months after the company’s seed funding. The Series A round totals $8.14 million, and in addition to the capital, the company... |
| May 18, 2010 | SimpleGeo Digs Up Another $8 Million And A Group Of Former Digg Employees | Almost exactly one year ago, we first wrote about former Digg lead architect, Joe Stump, and former Social Thing founder, Matt Galligan, teaming up to form Crash Corp., an “alternate reality mobile gaming” startup. A lot can change in a yea... |
| May 14, 2010 | What's Next In Online Advertising? Find Out At Disrupt. | Now that Apple has rolled out its very own mobile app advertising program, iAd –hey, better name than iPad, at least –and Verizon is making a rival tablet, the advertising industry is poised for disruption. Whoever can best use geo-local da... |
| May 10, 2010 | Yahoo's Director Of Geo Engineering Locates The Exit | Yahoo has seen better days. I can’t remember when, but they’ve seen them. And today seems like a particularly bad one.
We just reported about Jonathan Trevor, one of the key figures behind Yahoo Pipes and YQL, is leaving the company for Pol... |
| May 10, 2010 | No Funding? No Problem! How Occipital Shifted Gears to Success | Last week during my stint at Boulder Startup Week, Occipital co-founder Vikas Reddy was gracious enough to let me stay with him rather than in a hotel. Oddly enough it wasn’t until one of the late night mixers a few days into the event that... |
| May 6, 2010 | Live Video Access for iPhone OS 4.0 Has AR Developers Excited | When Steve Jobs and Apple announced some of the new features and APIs that would be available in the upcoming iPhone OS 4.0 upgrade, they managed to sneak in a feature that has gone largely unnoticed. On a slide showing a smattering of new ... |
| Apr 7, 2010 | Announcing First 3 Mobile Summit Sponsors | Excitement is building for our upcoming Mobile Summit – May 7th at the Computer History Museum. Get ready to explore, think and create the future of Mobile! As in our last event, The Real-Time Web Summit, it will be you – the attendees – wh... |
| Mar 31, 2010 | Where 2.0: Quova and SimpleGEO Make App Building Easier | If you believe in matches made in heaven then you will understand why the new partnership between Quova and SimpleGeo is just that.
Developers can now harness the power of Quova’s complex IP geolocation technology within SimpleGeo’s framewo... |
| Mar 30, 2010 | Tomorrow, SimpleGeo Launches Into Location Orbit With 5,000 Partners In Tow | If you’ll pardon the pun, SimpleGeo has positioned itself well.
With a frenzy of activity surrounding location-based services, more and more startups are launching ideas that rely heavily on location. But implementing location is still a re... |
| Mar 30, 2010 | SimpleGeo introduces location-platform as foundation for new mobile services | SimpleGeo is announcing a new platform this week as the foundation for new mobile apps that are location aware.
The company says its platform is the simple way to create a low-cost location-aware services. The idea is to make life easy for ... |
| Mar 30, 2010 | SimpleGeo introduces location-platform as foundation for new mobile services | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
SimpleGeo is announcing a new platform this week as the foundation for new mobile apps that are location aware.
The company says its pl... |
| Mar 25, 2010 | What Did The Location War Look Like At SXSW? Like This. | Right before the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas a couple weeks ago, some of you may have read about SimpleGeo’s awesome location data visualization tool called Vicarious.ly. The site showed location information coming in to SimpleGeo from A... |
| Mar 22, 2010 | Full Launch Impending, SimpleGeo Nearly Doubles Its Staff And Plans A SF Office | I couldn’t squeeze maybe the most impressive stat in the headline: SimpleGeo is closing in on one terabyte of geodata stored. Needless to say, they’re growing fast.
To help with that growth, the location infrastructure company (which helps ... |
| Mar 17, 2010 | Rummble seeks a location truce as it aggregates check-ins | Europe’s answer to the location-based services craze, Rummble, is seeking a bit of peace amid the competition for users to exclusively check-in and share their locations with a single app.
To do so, it’s aggregating check-ins from other ser... |
| Mar 17, 2010 | Rummble seeks a location truce as it aggregates 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!
Europe’s answer to the location-based services cr... |
| Mar 14, 2010 | SpotRank Is Skyhook's Intelligent Location Firehose. SimpleGeo Is The First To Wield. | In terms of location data, few get more than Skyhook Wireless. The positioning technology is in use in tens of millions of devices around the globe, including, notably, on every iPhone. And now the company has a simple way for third-parties... |
| Mar 13, 2010 | Foursquare Opens Up Its Firehose A Bit. Social Great Takes A Drink. | There’s been a lot of hoopla over the past couple of years about Twitter’s so-called “firehose.” Essentially, it’s an open stream of all their data that is provided to developers to use for third-party apps. Foursquare has a firehose of its... |
| Mar 11, 2010 | Vicarious.ly: SimpleGeo's One Location-Based Stream To Visualize Them All | As I’ve made abundantly clear over the past several days, just about every service that has anything to do with location is launching something at the SXSW festival which starts tomorrow in Austin, Texas. Don’t believe me, here’s a small sa... |
| Mar 11, 2010 | On The Eve Of SXSW's Location War, Plancast Gets An iPhone App | It’s getting tough to keep up with all of the location-related developments leading up to this year’s SXSW, and they just keep coming. Tonight, on the eve of the event, Plancast has just had its iPhone application approved. The service, whi... |
| Feb 25, 2010 | Location Will Be This Year's Twitter At SXSW | We’re two weeks away from the SXSW Interactive, a drinking festival with a side of tech that takes place each year in Austin, Texas (before the larger SXSW film and music portions). While the conference itself is interesting, more interesti... |
| Feb 17, 2010 | Unlaunched Comic Company Buys 10 Year Old Comic Fan Community | Boulder, CO based Graphic.ly has put some of its venture capital to work and rolled up 10-year old comics community iFanboy. Graphic.ly is developing an as-yet unlaunched comic and graphic novel reading application for Windows, Adobe AIR an... |
| Feb 12, 2010 | Pownce Founder Leah Culver Leaves Six Apart | In December 2008, Six Apart acquired Pownce, a microblogging service that never managed to attract a large following. Pownce was shuttered after the acquisition, but its two-person team joined Six Apart to help integrate the technology into... |
| Feb 2, 2010 | Open Thread: What Do Developers Think of Facebook’s HipHop? | So, Facebook went and secretly rewrote PHP’s runtime to be a lean, mean, C++ translated, g++ compiled piece of resource-friendly hotness.
If that sentence confused you, then you’re not the target audience for this post. We want to know what... |
| 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... |
| Dec 15, 2009 | Google Adds Spatial Search to Maps API | The battle for the hearts and minds of geo developers creating map-based apps is on. Last month, Twitter turned on its geo API, and services like SimpleGeo and the GeoAPI are offering to do a lot of the heavy lifting for startups that want ... |
| Dec 14, 2009 | Post-Funding, SimpleGeo Pounces On A Six Aparter, A Hacker, And Beta Keys | Two weeks ago, SimpleGeo raised a $1.5 million seed round from just about every big angel investor in Silicon Valley. Not surprisingly, they’re already putting that money to good use.
Before the funding, SimpleGeo was a team of four includi... |
| Dec 10, 2009 | AppVoyage makes it easy to build location-based mobile ads (free trial) | AppVoyage offers an easy way for businesses without a lot of expertise in mobile development to transform web content into mobile apps, and has added new features to help anyone from big brands to neighborhood restaurants create, launch, an... |
| Dec 10, 2009 | AppVoyage makes it easy to build location-based mobile ads (free trial) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
AppVoyage offers an easy way for businesses without a lot of expertise in mobile development to transform web content into mobile apps,... |
| Nov 30, 2009 | Why startup SimpleGeo abandoned game making to sell location tools instead | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
SimpleGeo is a Boulder-based startup now beta-testing its line of software development tools, cloud storage, and other must-haves for m... |
| Nov 30, 2009 | Why startup SimpleGeo abandoned game making to sell location tools instead | SimpleGeo is a Boulder-based startup now beta-testing its line of software development tools, cloud storage, and other must-haves for mobile application developers who want to easily build location-based services into their apps. The firm h... |
| Nov 30, 2009 | SimpleGeo Locates $1.5 Million And Many Big Name Investors | There is a lot of buzz around SimpleGeo right now. The service, which participated in our RealTime CrunchUp earlier this month, also took home two prizes at the Under The Radar conference just prior to that. And that was a big deal for the ... |
| Nov 28, 2009 | Watch Out Foursquare, Facebook is Poised To Dominate Geo | Over the last six months just about all of my tech friends have started using Foursquare, a geolocation-based game that was built by the creators of Google-acquired Dodgeball. Some of them will literally pull out their phones as soon as the... |
| Nov 20, 2009 | RealTime CrunchUp: The Rise Of Geo Streams | Today at the RealTime CrunchUp, representatives from some of the top companies involved in location based services came together to talk about the current state and future of geo-based services.
Participating in the panel were:
Matt Galliga... |
| Nov 19, 2009 | More Details On SimpleGeo, The AWS For Location | This morning at Under the Radar, former Digg Chief Architect Joe Stump and Social Thing founder Matt Galligan are taking the stage to unveil SimpleGeo, their new infrastructure for location based services. We’ve been following the company o... |
| Nov 12, 2009 | The GeoAPI Launches For Places, Tweets, Flickr Photos, And More | Location, location, location. With the growing ubiquity of GPS-equipped phones, there is a virtual land rush going on right now to put geolocation capabilities in every mobile app. Today, Mixer Labs, the folks behind TownMe, introduced the ... |
| Oct 27, 2009 | Matt Galligan And Joe Stump Are Building An Infrastructure For Location-Based Services | Last May we wrote about a new company called Crash Corp that was being formed by Digg’s long-time Chief Architect Joe Stump and Social Thing founder Matt Galligan, who were looking to build alternate reality mobile games. Over the last six ... |
| Oct 26, 2009 | AOL Loses Its Chief Lifestreamer, David Liu | AOL is losing another longtime executive, David Liu. He is the senior vice president in charge of Global Messaging, which includes AIM, ICQ, and AOL’s more recent Lifestreaming products. Liu spearheaded the transformation of AIM into a life... |
| Sep 28, 2009 | Tweetimag.es: An End To Broken Twitter Avatars | With more and more developers building services on top of Twitter, more and more are also using Twitter’s avatars as the primary icons for their services. That’s great because for the user it means one less image to upload to yet another se... |
| Sep 28, 2009 | Twitter Continues Talent Scoop, Takes Digg's UX Guy | Fresh off their new $100 million funding round, Twitter continues to scoop up talent from around the web to expand operations. The latest catch is Mark Trammell, who had spent the last two years working on user experience for Digg. Trammell... |
