Stickybits, a startup aiming to slap barcodes on real-world objects to link them to virtual information, has raised $1.6 million in additional seed funding on top of earlier $300,000 in initial funding. The company scored some new investors, bringing in …
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 boasts five new …
Forget Foursquare. Get over Gowalla. Jim Breyer of Accel Partners, a board member of Facebook and Walmart, is backing a different location-based app: Palo Alto-based Booyah, maker of an iPhone app called MyTown. Accel is leading a $20 million round …
Guest Post
Kent Lindstrom is founder and CEO of location-based social network PlacePop and the former CEO of Friendster.
Facebook is planning to enter the “local” space in a big way, according to numerous reports. The impact of such a move – …
A Web 2.0 Expo panel discussion focusing on location-based services—or LBS—for mobile phones narrowed down the one fundamental requirement for any service hoping to make it big in the space: It needs to be fun.
Steve Lee from Google, Elad …
Foursquare is cracking down on check-in cheaters.
It’s a crucial problem for the mobile, social service, which awards badges to users based on the number of times they log their location online, a process known as “checking in” to bars, …
Can the world handle yet another location-based social network?
Andreessen-Horowitz is betting it can, after investing $500,000 with Baseline Ventures into Burbn. Burbn is a stealth location-sharing project from a well-connected former Googler, Kevin Systrom, who has had stints at …
Location-based social networking has yet to yield a number of break-out hits despite booming smartphone sales. Redmond, Washington-based Glympse is trying to change that by sidestepping the social networking part entirely and letting users share their locations in short bursts …
