| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.03.2025 | Navigating the Unknown: Unmasking Phone Numbers in a Digital Age | In a world where every phone call could be a scam, identifying unknown numbers has become a modern-day quest. The digital landscape is littered with pitfalls, and the art of discernment is more crucial than ever. The question looms: how do ... |
| 25.02.2025 | How to Find Out Who a Phone Number Belongs To? | Share
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These days, you can’t trust every number that pops up on your phone. Scammers are getting scarily smarter, spoofing local numbers, so you’re more likely to pick up. You might also get calls from job recruiters,... |
| 09.12.2024 | Court Says New Jersey Law Forbidding Disclosure Of Cops’ Personal Info Doesn’t Violate The 1st Amendment | For a few years now, New Jersey cops have enjoyed additional privacy protections that aren’t made available to other residents of the state. The reason is “Daniel’s Law.” This law went into effect in 2021, placing cops, judges, and certain ... |
| 28.11.2024 | The Battle for Privacy: Cops, Data Brokers, and the Public's Right to Know | In the digital age, privacy is a currency. It’s a commodity that many are willing to pay for, yet few can truly protect. The recent legal tussle in New Jersey shines a spotlight on this issue, revealing a complex web of interests that often... |
| 26.11.2024 | NJ Cops Are Suing To Protect Their Exclusive Right To Keep Their Data Out Of Data Brokers’ Databases | I come here not to bury this Wired article, nor to damn it with faint praise. I come to critique it, while realizing the framing and (especially!) the headline may not be the direct responsibility of its author, Paresh Dave.
Privacy laws ar... |
| 21.09.2024 | The Cybersecurity Battlefield: Why SIEM is Your Best Defense | In today’s digital landscape, cyber threats lurk around every corner. Cybercriminals are like wolves in sheep's clothing, blending in while they hunt for vulnerabilities. The stakes are high. Businesses face relentless attacks, and the cons... |
| 20.09.2024 | Ex-Cop Wields Law That Only Protects Cops To Sue Data Broker For Selling His Personal Data | We all hate data brokers. I mean, those of us who aren’t in law enforcement. Law enforcement tends to love data brokers because they allow investigators to collect a bunch of stuff (including location info) without having to whip up a subpo... |
| 08.09.2024 | The Illusion of Caller ID: Navigating the Digital Minefield | In a world where communication is instant, caller ID seems like a beacon of clarity. It’s the friendly face on the other end of the line, promising to reveal who’s reaching out. But is it really trustworthy? The truth is more complex. Calle... |
| 07.09.2024 | Does Caller ID Mean Much in the Age of Spoofed Numbers? | Caller ID is the name and number displayed when you receive a call. Your caller ID shows up when you call someone else.
There’s an important distinction, though — numbers you’ve saved in your contacts aren’t the same. We’re strictly talking... |
| 17.06.2024 | Как хакеры уничтожили «цифровую жизнь» IT-журналиста за считанные минуты. История Мэтта Хоннана | Даже если ты прожженный компьютерный журналист и блогер, написавший сотни статей о высоких технологиях, хакеры могут превратить твою цифровую жизнь в руины за считанные минуты. Именно это произошло в 2012 году с техническим экспертом и авто... |
| 31.05.2024 | How to Easily Lookup a Phone Number Online | Share
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In today’s interconnected world, the ability to easily lookup a phone number online has become an essential skill. Whether it’s for personal or professional reasons, we often find ourselves in need of identifyi... |
| 08.12.2020 | Sunshine Contacts may have given out your home address, even if you’re not using the app | A third-party contacts app you’re not using may be handing out your home address to its users. In November, former Yahoo CEO and Google veteran Marissa Mayer and co-founder Enrique Muñoz Torres introduced their newly rebranded startup Sunsh... |
| 20.10.2020 | How To Cast Your Vote Against Election Scams | getty |
| 23.03.2020 | 36 units by age 21, making 6-figure profits: Here's how Josiah Pott went from living in his grandma's trailer to a real-estate-investing phenom - and nabbed $372,000 from a single deal | J PAT CARTER/AFP/Getty Images
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Josiah Pott received an early education in the art of real-estate investing and compound interest from his father.
Pott wholesales vacant land to developers and then reinvests the profits in cash-... |
| 27.04.2016 | Whitepages spins out its caller-ID business as Hiya to take on TrueCaller | Some changes underway at Whitepages.com, the company that compiles public record databases on people and businesses: it is spinning out its caller ID operations and app as a new business called Hiya. Its free app, which helps users ID who i... |
| 24.09.2015 | Following Google’s lead, carriers and users can join in the fight against robocalls | For the first time, Google last week joined the legal fight against robocalls.
It filed suit against a search engine optimization firm in California for robocalls that promised better results from Google’s search engine. It also set up a ne... |
| 24.09.2015 | Following Google’s lead, carriers and users can join in the fight against robocalls | 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!
For the first time, Google last week joined the l... |
| 10.06.2015 | Whitepages Acquires NumberCop To Improve Its Scam-Detecting Caller ID App | Whitepages will today announce the acquisition of San Francisco-based NumberCop, in order to bolster its own abilities in detecting spam and scam calls within its Caller ID smartphone application. Prior to joining Whitepages, NumberCop was ... |
| 07.06.2015 | Phone Calls Are Not Dead: 5 Interesting Calling Apps | We live in a world that shrinks with every passing year.
Technological developments in digital devices and communication have resulted in a permanently connected population. You can talk to business clients on the other side of the world, s... |
| 22.11.2013 | Video tour: WhitePages shows off remodeled office with kegerator, hydraulic desks and modern great room | Architect Patrick Chatfield (left) helps WhitePages’ Joel Osborne, Rose Laughlin and CEO Alex Algard cut the ribbon during party to celebrate its renovated downtown Seattle office. Photos courtesy of WhitePages.
Just a few weeks ago, WhiteP... |
| 25.07.2013 | WhitePages' Current Caller ID app powers more than 5B calls & texts, adds new customization features | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Current Caller ID, an app we’ve called the future of smartphone calling for its ability to bring social media updates and news to your ... |
| 04.06.2013 | Roundup: Funding for Apex, Seeq, Highline, and More Seattle News | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A pair of Seattle startups aren’t saying much publicly, but SEC filings show that Seeq and Highline have the ears and wallets of some investors. Apex Learning also raised new ... |
| 31.05.2013 | WhitePages acquires Mr. Number, the phone-spam Android app with 7M downloads, to reduce phone spam | This morning WhitePages announced that it has acquired Mr. Number, the call blocking and phone spam identification app that is a top-20 Android app in the communications category, with over seven million downloads.
And WhitePages has some b... |
| 31.05.2013 | WhitePages acquires Mr. Number, the phone-spam Android app with 7M downloads, to reduce phone spam | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
This morning WhitePages announced that it has acquired Mr. Number, the call blocking and phone spam identification app that is a top-20... |
| 22.04.2013 | Happy Earth Day: These Seattle startups are helping us go green | DoubleDown Interactive employees helped clean up downtown Seattle today.
Today is the day to celebrate the lush green Earth and do what we can to keep it fresh.
How does Earth Day relate to Seattle’s startups? The kind folks over at WhitePa... |
| 07.04.2013 | Facebook reverses stance after blocking Microsoft and WhitePages from sponsoring Startup Weekend | Teams of developers, designers and entrepreneurs are heads-down at Facebook’s Seattle engineering outpost on this rainy Sunday for Startup Weekend — a 54-hour marathon that brings people together from across the industry to turn ideas into ... |
| 20.08.2012 | WhitePages IDs Growth in the Explosion of Personal Data | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This is the golden age for data nerds—especially if you collect data on people.
With Facebook steaming toward 1 billion users and smartphones now accounting for more than half... |
| 08.08.2012 | WhitePages’ new Current Caller ID app is the future of smartphone calling | For all of the apps, sensors, and powerful hardware our smartphones are equipped with, they’re still pretty dumb when it comes to making and receiving phone calls. With its latest Android app, Current Caller ID, WhitePages shows us one pote... |
| 08.08.2012 | WhitePages’ new Current Caller ID app is the future of smartphone calling | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
For all of the apps, sensors, and powerful hardware our smartphones are equipped with, they’re still pretty dumb when it comes to makin... |
| 26.04.2011 | Scrubly looks to clean up ‘messy’ contact lists and address books | Bob Thordarson manually tried to update his online contacts list on several occasions, but each time the Seattle entrepreneur seemed to run out of steam by the time he hit the letter G. Thordarson thought there had to be a better way, and f... |
| 28.03.2011 | Reverse phone lookup service that is free and simple | (MoneyWatch) Not long ago I told you a few strategies for performing a reverse e-mail lookup. You can search Facebook, Google, or photo search engines, for example, to locate someone who sent you an e-mail. It's hit or miss, to be sure, but... |
| 16.03.2011 | Plaxo Goes Back To Being A Smart Address Book, Launches Virtual Assistant | Plaxo has had its fair share of ups and downs. Back in 2006, the company famously wrestled with spamming allegations and was later the subject of controversy over the screen scraping techniques it used to pull contacts from Facebook. (Which... |
| 10.03.2011 | White Pages’ Hiya Wants to Eat Plaxo’s Lunch by Blending Your Scattered E-Phone Books with Old-School Contact Info | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-based online directory provider WhitePages is unveiling a networked address book application that it says can outperform Plaxo and other startups in the market for wra... |
| 10.03.2011 | WhitePages aims to clean up your address book with Hiya | Seattle company WhitePages has built up a massive database of contact information for people and businesses — it supposedly has more than 200 million listings. Now WhitePges wants to use its technology to clean up your address book with an ... |
| 10.03.2011 | WhitePages unveils Hiya to help eliminate email contact clutter | Keeping an online address book up-to-date can be a serious chore. After all, with the frequency that people change locations or jobs, duplicate contacts often arise. WhitePages is looking to conquer that problem with Hiya, a free service wh... |
| 09.12.2010 | WhitePages hits the iPad, gets more local | Following releases on Android, BlackBerry and iPhone, WhitePages continues its efforts in local
People and business directory WhitePages unveiled Thursday its first iPad app, which translates many of the same features from the iPhone versio... |
| 22.10.2010 | WhitePages Tackles Contact Management With Hiya | There are a plethora of contact management apps on the market that allow you to make sense of your email and mobile contacts. In fact, if you do a search for “contact management” on the iPhone App Store; there are over 50 apps in the result... |
| 08.09.2010 | Look Out Groupon – WhitePages Has Big Plans For Social Buying Site DealPop | It went by largely unnoticed, but directory services provider WhitePages launched a social buying website called DealPop last July, entering a field played by many notable up-and-comers such as Groupon, LivingSocial and Yelp.
Initially, Dea... |
| 21.06.2010 | Opscode Nabs $11M From Battery Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson for Software Automation | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-based automation software developer Opscode said today it has raised $11 million in a Series B financing led by Battery Ventures. This latest round of funding includes... |
| 21.11.2009 | 2010: The Year Android Will Shake Its Money Maker | Editor’s note: More and more mobile app developers are deciding to make apps for Android, even though it still doesn’t have the same reach as the iPhone. In this guest post Kevin Nakao, the VP of Mobile for Whitepages, makes the argument fo... |
| 23.10.2009 | WhitePages: Android users more likely to buy apps than iPhone users | iPhone app shoppers outnumber Android consumers several times over. But WhitePages, which makes popular phone directory and caller-ID applications for both platforms, reports a surprisingly high conversion rate among Android users compared ... |
| 14.10.2009 | WhitePages Now Lets You Control Your Own Listings | When was the last time you actually looked in the phone book to find someone’s number? For anyone under 40, the Web has already replaced the phone book with people search. But the listings are not always complete or up to date. One of the l... |
| 23.09.2009 | CallSpark: A Dynamic Mobile Address Book | Today at the DEMOfall 09 conference, CallSpark announced a new technology for mobile phone users. The application is a dynamic address book that lets you search for people across multiple accounts and social networks as well as in the popul... |
| 14.07.2009 | WhitePages, now the largest database of American people, cleans up act | WhitePages, which has quietly grown into the largest database for contact information for Americans, has revamped its web site, and cleaned it up — most notably to avoid what we earlier criticized as scam-like tactics.
The move is significa... |
| 14.07.2009 | WhitePages, now the largest database of American people, cleans up act | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
WhitePages, which has quietly grown into the largest database for contact information for Americans, has revamped its web site, and cle... |
| 02.06.2009 | The battle for your address book: Will souped up contact apps monetize the data explosion? | [Editor’s Note: Below, MobileBeat advisory board member Jason Devitt explains why we should care about new innovative address books. Not only are they key to a much better user experience, but they may greatly impact the way we pay to use o... |
| 07.05.2009 | The background-check scams: Is WhitePages really better than Intelius? | updated
WhitePages has released a mobile application on the BlackBerry Bold that, among other things, lets you screen incoming callers to see who they are before you answer. For example, it lets you see if a caller is a telemarketer by chec... |
| 05.05.2009 | WhitePages Goes Mobile with New Blackberry App | Following successful iPhone and Android app releases, WhitePages is releasing a mobile application for BlackBerry users. WhitePages Mobile will be available in the BlackBerry App World this Thursday.
WhitePages Director of Monetization &... |
| 30.04.2009 | WhitePages Bringing Their Mobile App To BlackBerry Devices | Good news, BlackBerry users! Never again will you need to kludge around in your browser just to dig up a number or determine who’s behind the number that just called. Following the success of their iPhone and Android applications, WhitePage... |
| 20.02.2009 | Skimming the Android pay apps: lookin' good, guys | There are more pay apps that have appeared in the last few hours for G1 owners than I think anyone expected. From updated versions of free apps to $10 news readers, there’s enough to keep you occupied for quite a while, especially consideri... |
| 04.06.2008 | WhitePages.com To Buy Snapvine for Around $20 Million | Seattle based WhitePages.com, a people search and background information site founded in 1997 by Alex Algard, will announce their pending acquisition of VoIP and widget startup Snapvine later today. The acquisition price is not being disclo... |
| 09.05.2008 | Roundup: Tidbits on Jangl’s demise, Virgin considers Helio hookup, VCs looking overseas, and more | updated
The back-story on Jangl’s slow death — Yesterday, we reported on Jangl’s asset sale process. A tipster tells us that Seattle-based WhitePages had offered to buy Internet phone company Jangl for $20 million, but then kept the company... |
