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| Dec 13, 2016 | Data Point Capital Appoints Leonardo DiCaprio as a Special Advisor | Data Point Capital, a venture capital firm focused on funding companies that can be leveraged and scaled on the internet, announced today the expansion of their advisory board with the addition of Leonardo DiCaprio as a special advisor.
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| Dec 13, 2016 | Data Point Capital Appoints Leonardo DiCaprio as a Special Advisor | Data Point Capital, a venture capital firm focused on funding companies that can be leveraged and scaled on the internet, announced today the expansion of their advisory board with the addition of Leonardo DiCaprio as a special advisor.
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| Jul 13, 2016 | Where are they now? 1st & Future alum Radd3 raises $2.2M from HTC | In coordination with Super Bowl 50 at Levi’s Stadium, TechCrunch partnered with Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and the National Football League on 1st & Future, a competition for startups looking to advance the stadium experienc... |
| May 10, 2012 | Who Is Boston’s Hottest Startup? [Poll] | As we prepare to kick off our monthly speaker series Tech Cocktail Sessions in Boston next week (register here), we have been getting a lot of questions about the Boston area startup scene. With some of the top educational establishments in... |
| May 15, 2011 | Connecting The Dots On eBay's Local Shopping Strategy | It’s no secret that eBay has been heavily investing in a local commerce strategy. The central core of this is trying to capitalize on the $917 million online-to-offline buying market, which Forrester estimates will eventually reach $1.3 tri... |
| Apr 21, 2011 | EBay’s $135M Acquisition of Where Could Drive PayPal’s Mobile Future; Boston CEOs React to Another Silicon Valley Buyer | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 4/24/11. See comment below] Chalk up another $100 million-plus purchase of a Boston-area mobile technology company. First there was m-Qube, then Third Screen Media, E... |
| Apr 20, 2011 | How PayPal Can Help Where Close The Loop From Mobile Intent To Purchase | Why is eBay buying Where.com? It’s all about trying to link mobile ads directly to payments. Where will fall under PayPal. The geo-location service and mobile advertising company already has millions of active users across many mobile platf... |
| Apr 20, 2011 | eBay Acquires Location-Based Media And Advertising Company WHERE | eBay has acquired location-based media company Where.com, the ecommerce giant tells us. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed and the acquisition is expected to close during the second quarter of 2011. UPDATE: Boston Innovation say... |
| Dec 22, 2010 | Where Wins Patent for Geofencing: Location-Based Companies, Take Notice | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This is pretty big news for a local mobile startup. Boston-based Where, a mobile applications and advertising firm, announced today it has been granted a patent covering a wid... |
| Dec 21, 2010 | Where Is Awarded The "Mother Of All Geofencing Patents" | Just as geo mobile services are taking off, the U.S. Patent Office has awarded an extremely broad patent on “Location-based services” to Where. Patent No. 7,848,765 covers 31 claims ranging from sending an alert to offering a coupon when so... |
| Dec 3, 2010 | Punchbowl Throws a Punch, Checking In Is Out, TechStars Boston Changes Guard—Some Tech Tidbits | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Another busy week in Boston-area tech news. Here are a few items I didn’t have a chance to properly digest yet:
—Startup wars: Punchbowl founder and CEO Matt Douglas stirred t... |
| Dec 1, 2010 | With A New Local Discovery Engine, WHERE Wants To Own The "Pre Check-in" Experience | We’ve all been there before: You’ve just moved to a new city, the fridge is empty, and you need some grub. You pop into the nearest restaurant and.. it’s not bad. So you start branching out. You check out spots a few more blocks from home. ... |
| Oct 14, 2010 | Where, Peekaboo Mobile Team Up for Coupons | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Boston-based startups Where and Peekaboo Mobile said today they have formed a partnership to provide location-based coupons to consumers via mobile phones. Financial terms of ... |
| Sep 27, 2010 | Where Buys LocalGinger, Moves Into Location-Based Daily Deals | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Two Massachusetts startups have joined forces to try to crack the location-based daily deals market. Boston-based Where, a mobile search and advertising company, said today it... |
| Sep 27, 2010 | Where Buys LocalGinger To Gain Location-Based Social Commerce Know-How | Location-based media company Where has acquired LocalGinger, which operates a daily deal / group buying service with the same name. LocalGinger focuses on secondary markets for its social commerce activities, which it says has allowed it to... |
| Sep 24, 2010 | Canada Yellow Pages Launches API – A Picture of a Modern Service | The Yellow Pages in Canada is different in a few ways than its American counterpart.
The Yellow Pages is copyrighted in Canada. In the United States it is not. Yellow Pages Canada owns the brand. No one else can use it. Stateside, it is the... |
| 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 28, 2010 | Location service Geodelic raises $7 million, readies for big announcements | Geodelic, the Santa Monica, Calif.-based mobile application company specializing in location-based services, has raised $7 million in a Series B funding. The round was led by MK Capital, with previous investors Clearstone Ventures Partners ... |
| Jun 28, 2010 | Location service Geodelic raises $7 million, readies for big announcements | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Geodelic, the Santa Monica, Calif.-based mobile application company specializing in location-based services, has raised $7 million in a... |
| Apr 9, 2010 | Nokia acquires geographic information company MetaCarta | Nokia announced today (via TechCrunch) that is has acquired MetaCarta, a Cambridge, Mass.-based company that specializes in geographic information. The details of the acquisition have not been made public.
MetaCarta’s technology joins geogr... |
| Apr 9, 2010 | Nokia acquires geographic information company MetaCarta | 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!
Nokia announced today (via TechCrunch) that is ha... |
| Mar 17, 2010 | Where brings its local search service to Where.com with mobile app sync | The local search and recommendation service Where announced today that it’s finally bringing its substantial search offering to the web at Where.com. Users will also be able to synchronize saved items across the web and Where’s mobile apps.... |
| Mar 17, 2010 | Where brings its local search service to Where.com with mobile app sync | 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 local search and recommendation service Where... |
| Mar 9, 2010 | ULocate Launches Ad Network for Location-Aware Mobile Devices | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Boston’s uLocate Communications, known up to now mainly as the creator of the Where local search and recommendation app popular with many smartphone owners, is turning into so... |
| Jan 25, 2010 | Aloqa 2.0 expands its location-based info app | Aloqa, a mobile application that serves up local information to users based on their location, has released version 2.0 of its offering. The new version brings more local knowledge and social information to its nearly 300,000 users.
Aloqa, ... |
| Nov 9, 2009 | Boston’s Mobile Startups React to Google’s $750M AdMob Purchase | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
I was at the offices of uLocate, a Boston startup with a suite of location-aware information services for mobile phones, when I heard today’s news about Google’s $750 million ... |
| Sep 14, 2009 | OpenTable launches on Android | Back when OpenTable launched on the iPhone in November of last year, one of the very first comments we got on the story was from a gent named Chris. “Unless it’s on Android, it’s useless,” it read.
Good news, Chris! OpenTable is no longer u... |
| Dec 17, 2008 | Sprint opens their location-based platform to third party developers | This morning, Sprint is announcing a partnership with WHERE and WaveMarket to allow third-party developers to make location-aware sites, WAP, SMS campaigns, and mobile applications for Sprint customers.
Currently, getting a location-aware a... |
| Sep 28, 2008 | The State of Location-Based Social Networking On The iPhone | We’ve been bullish about location-based social networks for quite awhile now, especially since Apple announced that it would open up the iPhone to developers. And with two significant developments in this space just this week (more on that ... |
| Sep 18, 2008 | The digital car is the next big applications market | [Editor’s note: The following is an op-ed piece by Dev Khare, vice president of VC firm Venrock in Palo Alto. Dev frequently blogs on this topic at http://www.nextwala.com.]
In parallel to the Web and mobile devices, a new marketplace for a... |
| Jun 9, 2008 | Sense Networks experiments with indexing the city | In what may be a first step toward bringing some real-time intelligence to local recommendation sites like Yelp and CitySearch, a startup called Sense Networks is today unveiling a new platform, called Citysense, that it says can create a G... |
| Feb 18, 2008 | Pixenate: Fast and simple online image editing | Pixenate is a white-label online photo editor which is designed to be integrated into any existing social network or photo sharing/printing website. It works on Firefox, IE, Safari and Opera browsers and allows you to do some reasonably sop... |
| Jan 17, 2008 | Helio brings a Korean standout slider phone to the US | Helio increased its portfolio of handsets today with its release of the Mysto, a slider-style device produced exclusively for US distribution by Samsung.
The 3G CDMA device is based upon Samsung's U600 released last year. It has a 2.22"... |
| Nov 2, 2007 | Where Do You Want to Go Today? uLocate Can Help You Decide | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Though it was more or less accidental, it’s been Location-Based Computing Week at Xconomy. We kicked off the week with a story Monday about EveryScape, which has introduced a ... |
| May 16, 2007 | uLocate GPS Platform Gets $11 Million | uLocate announced an $11 million investment from GrandBanks Capital and Kodiak Venture Partners across the business wire this morning. GrandBanks Capital and Kodiak Venture Partners. Venrock’s General Partner, Mike Tyrrell, also joined uLoc... |
| May 16, 2007 | Get mobile local info from ULocate, Ask and others | ULocate, a Framington, Mass. start-up focused on giving you mobile information based on your location, has raised $11 million more in a second round of financing.
ULocate offers more than a dozen widgets that you can drag and drop onto your... |
| May 4, 2007 | WHERE is What You Need | Need to find local weather, driving directions or a ski report? Where do you look? How about on your cellphone with WHERE GPS widgets? Developed by uLocate Communications and currently available for handsets on the Sprint/Nextel network, WH... |
| Mar 14, 2007 | First-Ever Mobile GPS Widget Platform Debuts | Publishing your location-based wireless applications to your handset just got a whole lot easier.
That’s because of location-enabled mobile applications developer uLocate Communications’ new mobile GPS widget platform, WHERE.
Now available ... |