Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook’s offering in geo-location is being finalized and is on its way soon at a developer meetup in London.
“We are finishing designing our application soon and hope to offer it soon,” he said, according to attendees. …
A new company is making blips on the location-based services radar. New York-based Topguest is moving into the market with an idea to bridge location-based services with the travel industry. Working in “sneak-preview” mode — meaning it’s aching to make …
You’ve heard this mantra before: “Location, location, location.” There’s a new player in town called PlaceBook, and if it is to be believed, the proper mantra should be “privacy, privacy, privacy.”
PlaceBook—yes, the name brings to mind a certain, 500-million-user-strong …
Mobile recommendations startup Rummble raised $800,000 from m8 Capital to grow its arsenal of apps that record and match people’s tastes and preferences.
On the surface, Rummble resembles other location-based apps which offer users the chance to check in at …
TeleNav (TNAV), provider of mobile-phone navigation services, had an incredibly strong first day on the market, with its share price rising 23 percent — even though it slashed its price from the forecasted $11 to $13 range to $8 upon …
It’s Bike To Work Day 2010 in San Francisco, a city where people take their biking seriously. As famous as San Francisco is for its bicycle-friendly attitude, transportation planning for the city remains a highly contested issue. Bicyclists always want …
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 …
We can already navigate the outside world using our cell phones or GPS devices to a high degree of accuracy, but what about indoor locations? Mapping the giant, labyrinthine shopping malls, airports and convention centers of the world is a …
With Apple’s new operating system for the iPhone, app makers will soon know where you are from moment to moment. But will you know where that data is?
Apple Thursday lifted one of the limitations that has long rankled startups …
From the way location-based services are used today, we’d forgive serious investors from dismissing them as games — think of Foursquare with its “mayors” and “badges.” But there’s a real business in cajoling consumers into sharing their whereabouts. And it’s …
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, …
Zerista is preparing a multi-pronged attack on mobile social applications, targeting small social groups that can be short-term, such as a wedding reception, or longer-lasting, for example a soccer club. And it does all this by combining location, friend-finding, and …
Berlin-based Friendticker, which helps brands create location-based loyalty programs, just went into public beta with its iPhone application (currently only available in France, Spain, Germany, Austria and Switzerland). The app lets businesses reward users with virtual “items” when they check-in …
Running can be a lonely endeavor without a running mate to push you further. But what if you knew you had a live audience? RunKeeper, which offers an iPhone app that lets you track your distance, time, elevation, pace, and …
Facebook proposed a few changes to its privacy policy today — notably, it’s taking a much broader approach to including location options.
The company hasn’t launched geotagging or “checking in” yet. But in the most recent version of its privacy …
The increasingly popular location-based mobile game Foursquare recently announced a new addition to its service. A history function now shows who you were with in addition to where you were at a particular time. You will have a record of …
Europe’s answer to the location-based services craze, Rummble, is seeking a bit of peace amid the competition for users to exclusively check-in and share their locations with a single app.
To do so, it’s aggregating check-ins from other services that …
Facebook may not turn out to be so much of a Foursquare killer.
In fact, the world’s largest social network drives the largest share of the location-based game’s web traffic, accounting for 33 percent of all upstream visits last week, …
Twitter has turned on a feature that lets users geotag tweets directly from the web site. So now you don’t have to rely on mobile apps like Tweetie to triangulate where you are. The move should help add location data …
Twitter now lets people see maps of where geotagged tweets were sent from on its web site. (They briefly showed off this feature yesterday. It’s now turned on permanently.)
The story began last year, when the company enthusiastically launched a …
