You probably know how long consumers are using your mobile app, and what they’re doing within them — but where are they actually located? That’s the question that location analytics company Placed hopes to answer with its product, Placed for …
Just a day after Facebook quietly added a feature to find your friends nearby, Apple has reportedly added similar functionality courtesy of its relationship with local business review service Yelp.
Bloomberg said this morning that documentation recently provided to Apple …
Two of the more interesting companies on the mobile-development landscape are announcing a new deal for developers today, and will be making great tools for location-based apps available for free.
If you’re into mobile development, Appcelerator and Geoloqi are probably …
While the usefulness of the location sharing app Foursquare may be dubious, one thing is certain: the company has so far lacked a real revenue source.
So it’s not at all surprising (and in fact a bit heartening) to learn …
Checking in to the power of nostalgia, Foursquare is bringing members’ past location moments back to life with a reworked history page that doubles as a check-in time machine.
Friday, Foursquare has remodeled the web-based version of the history page …
Today, the third annual 4sqDay (April 16, four-squared, get it?), check-in king Foursquare confirmed that it has reached new milestones of 20 million users and a whopping 2 billion check-ins.
Anyone who makes a check-in on the service today will …
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The South by Southwest (SXSW) conferences have given geeks a lot of social inroads over the last few years. They brought us blogging, then microblogging; they were a launchpad for Twitter and Foursquare. Thanks to those web services, meeting at …
Grindr is a huge success, as apps go. The location-based dating app for men-loving men has won several awards and counts millons of gay, bisexual, and bi-curious men among its users.
Grindr creator Joel Simkhai, who spoke with VentureBeat at …
Caterina Fake (pictured), who previously co-founded photo-sharing megalith Flickr, has just taken the wraps off Pinwheel, her brand-new app.
Pinwheel is currently in private beta; Fake says it’s a way to “find and leave notes all over the world… A …
Google Maps for Android has just launched a new update that tackles some of the toughest navigation challenges around: the interior world.
With Maps version 6.0, which arrived on Android devices today, users can now find the nearest bathrooms, ATMs …
CSR is adding the new feature of indoor tracking to its line of SiRFusion location technology, the company announced today.
The chip-making company is demonstrating the technology today at the Locations & Beyond Summit in San Francisco. CSR has pulled …
Location-based social network Foursquare has quietly added the incredibly welcome ability to hide home addresses to its privacy features.
One of the biggest problems I’ve always had when scanning my friends’ Foursqaure check-ins has been seeing people checking in at …
By adding five new languages, location-based social network Foursquare has opened the door to 1.5 billion more users. The company launched translations of its app in Bahasa Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Thai, it said today on its blog,
Foursquare …
Flickr is introducing a new security feature intended to keep creepers away from your most sensitive location information.
The photo sharing service is now letting account holders cordon off custom geographical areas, called geofences, and set specific privacy controls for …
Starting today, Google is letting users search Google Maps and get directions with just their voices — no typing required.
For now, this new feature relies on Chrome web browser functionality. From the browser, users can simply click the small, …
While Facebook was rolling out some changes to its privacy policies today, the company also quietly announced it was killing off the Foursquare-like Places function inside of its mobile app.
The Facebook Places feature was unveiled a year ago and …
There’s got to be a better way to use location data for mobile technologies, and Urban Airship and SimpleGeo say they’re rolling it out this fall.
The two back-end-tech companies are partnering to bring better location and proximity data and …
Locationary, an online and mobile service that lets you search “place” data, such as local businesses, announced Wednesday that it has raised $2.5 million to hire new staff and launch a powerful new local data management system.
“We want to …
Shudder at the thought of checking in your luggage at the airport? Bagtrakka may be the solution for you.
Developed by UK-based startup Global Location Systems, Bagtrakka is a small device that can track your luggage in case it gets …
Usually Apple’s iOS platform gets the freshest apps and biggest app updates before Google’s Android OS does. But location-based service Foursquare bucked that trend Tuesday with the release of an update that adds a cool new notifications panel to its …
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