Company: Gowalla
Location: Austin, Texas
Founded: 2009
Founders: Josh Williams, Scott Raymond
Funding: $10.4 million
Employees: 25
Not many people can say that the weather was their main inspiration for launching a startup, but that’s exactly what happened to …
Company: Loopt
Location: Mountain View, Calif.
Founded: 2006
Founder: Sam Altman
Funding: $17 million
Employees: 40
One of the first location-based services, Loopt has been quietly leading the charge since 2006 under chief executive and founder Sam Altman. Altman …
Company: Scvngr
Location: Boston
Founded: June 2008
Founder: Seth Priebatsch
Funding: $4.8 million
Employees: 50
Scvngr founder Seth Priebatsch — who prefers the title “chief ninja” to “CEO” — took the idea of checking in to a location to …
An inside source at Facebook is claiming that some 30 million of its users have used Facebook Places, according to Business Insider. With more than 500 million users, that number would mean that only about 6% of Facebook users have …
Popular mobile check-in application Gowalla today announced it has launched several new features — all helping the company to make money from the service. The company’s new features include City Pages, Verified Businesses and a Stamp Calendar.
Gowalla is now …
Just a week after competitor Gowalla teamed up with NASA to give users a few new check-in badges to chase, popular mobile game Foursquare has taken the idea to the next level, announcing it too is working with the government …
SkillSlate, a website for easily finding local service providers such as dog walkers, DJs and movers, today announced it has secured a first funding round of $1.1 million. The company plans on using the funds to expand the service outside …
Apple’s surging iPhone sales are leading to boatloads of acessories — literally. And those overseas shipments may be a good indicator of expectations for future iPhone sales.
And the current indicators suggest accessories makers aren’t expecting a future surge in …
The National Basketball League (NBA) may be looking to take advantage of the growing popularity of consumers checking-in to locations through its own application dubbed Turnstile, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The new application is supposed to be released …
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 connect their Facebook profiles …
Popular mobile check-in game Gowalla announced a partnership today with government space agency NASA. While a mobile game and a space agency might not be the most likely of pairs, the two have joined forces to offer a country-wide scavenger …
Marissa Mayer,Vice President of Search Product and User Experience for Google, may be changing roles and focusing on location and local services, according to Bloomberg.
Mayer started working for Google in 1999 and was the company’s first female engineer focusing …
Your phone knows where you are. Why not your bank? Two startups are working in tandem to make that possible.
Finsphere, a company based near Seattle, makes identity-theft protection software and recently announced the launch of PinPoint, an application that …
Popular mobile check-in game Foursquare today announced on its blog that is has launched a Symbian version of its location-based game. Symbian is one of Nokia’s mobile operating systems for mobile devices and low-end smartphones.
Foursquare claims to have been …
Cloud Engines, maker of the Pogoplug device for accessing and sharing content from your hard drive via the internet, today announced the launch of Pogoplug Pro. And for those who never liked the device because it was bright pink, the new …
MyTown, a mobile check-in game for iPhone and iPod Touch, today announced its global availability. While the company claims global access, it’s really just available in the 29 countries that can access the Apple App Store and Google Places.
MyTown, …
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 …
Update: Oct. 6 – 12:30 am (EST) Aaaand Foursquare is back! “And we’re back. Web, API, and apps are up and running.”
Update: 10:45 pm (EST) Foursquare’s new “Status” blog is now down for what the site calls “maintenance”
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Looking to make their display ads more appealing to advertisers and agencies, Yahoo today announced on its blog that it has plans to buy Dapper, a mashup technology to bring the advantages of search-based advertising into the world of display …
While big brands and agencies have the luxury of resources and money, local businesses don’t. What they need is a social-media dashboard — an all-in-one, Web-based monitoring tool for Facebook, Twitter, and other social sites where customers hang out — …
