Survey: Checking In On Foursquare, Facebook Least Popular Smartphone Activities
While the popularity of location-based services like Foursquare, Gowalla and many others have been in the spotlight over the last…
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JiWire Acquires LBS Platform NearbyNow to Bolster Mobile Shopping Solutions
Location-based media provider JiWire today announced the acquisition of NearbyNow, a provider of sophisticated mobile location technology and applications. Going…
Foursquare Used In Highly Unique Awareness Campaign Centered Around Homelessness
We’re starting to see innovative uses for services like Foursquare that go beyond the basic “checkin and get a reward”…
Foursquare Sees Most Signups Ever After Facebook Places Launch
For those wondering how Facebook’s recently announced Places functionality would effect other LBS apps, it was announced yesterday that Foursquare…
Facebook (Finally) Getting Close To Launching Its Check-In / LBS Solution?
It’s long been speculated, but it looks as though Facebook is closer than ever to launching its much-anticipated check-in solution…
Foursquare Raises $20M In New Funding, Now Valued At $95M
In a rather unsurprising move at this point, Foursquare has finally announced a new funding round of $20M led by…
Geodelic Raises $7M Series B Round To Bolster LBS Mobile Apps, Blackberry App Coming Soon
Geodelic, a startup that develops apps that come with “search-less search” — meaning the app automatically browses and shows points…
Gowalla Tries Its Hand At Rewards, Allows Offers For Anyone Who Checks In
Though both Foursquare and Gowalla center around the same general concept, they differ in many ways. One way is how…
DeHood Launches Hyperlocal Location-Based Social Network
With Fousquare and other LBS providers gobbling up users left and right, it was inevitable that the concept would be…
Google Takes On Mobile Location & Social, Launches Latitude API
Google has surprisingly sat back quietly while other startups have been hard at work dominating the mobile social and location…
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