Stalking your friends could be big business. $3.3 billion location-based social network economy by 2013?
While even the popular social networks nowadays aren’t making that much money (Facebook expects to make $350 million in revenues this year), the burgeoning field of mobile social networks could be big business shortly, a new report by ABI Research indicates. Specifically, location-based mobile social… Continue Reading
Super-secret Plinky makes its first big hire
Plinky, the secretive service that can right now only be vaguely described as a social content encouragement startup, is getting less secretive. It finally has a website. (Well, a place-holder for one anyway.) And now it’s making a high-profile hire.
Today the company brings on board… Continue Reading
Location buzz continues: Nokia buys Plazes, Verizon backs Loopt & NIM
Nokia, the world’s largest maker of mobile phones, has agreed to acquire the Swiss-German start-up Plazes, the companies said in a statement today.
Plazes, based in Berlin, Germany is a service that lets you share your location and leave a brief message — akin to… Continue Reading
Location, location, location: The iPhone with GPS nears
There’s smoke, there’s fire, and then there’s a volcano the size of Olympus Mons on Mars erupting and turning the ground into an ocean of burning lava. Such is current state of speculation surrounding the 3G iPhone.
There’s really no point in beating around the bush… Continue Reading