Life360 got an unexpected post-Christmas gift this year. In January, downloads of its app began skyrocketing in Asia, Europe and South America, even though its designed solely for U.S. use. Read more »
Talk about Silicon Valley and its growing lack of innovation only makes sense if you look at the world from a narrow lens of consumer and mobile apps. The technology ecosystem… Read more »
Astute mobile application vendors are bringing to market applications that help mobile users connect and interact with people in close proximity. We expect this emerging market — what we call proximity-based… Read more »
Shopular, a location-aware mobile app, is officially launching Friday to serve up relevant in-store deals while consumers are shopping. To start, the app will only alert shoppers once it senses that… Read more »
Why check your phone for deals when you can check your car dashboard instead? Ford has integrated deal-broker Roximity’s location-based offers app with its Sync connected car platform, allowing drivers to… Read more »
The future of location-based services is in commerce, payments and deals, said Sam Altman, founder of Loopt. He just sold his startup to pre-paid card provider Green Dot and is working… Read more »
Loopt, one of the early location-based services, is announcing that it has been bought by Green Dot Corp., a provider of retailer pre-paid cards which will use Loopt to develop mobile… Read more »
After suing media site TechCrunch in 2008 over a controversial GPS patent, Chicago-based Earthcomber is at it again. This time it’s accusing… Read more »
Location-based marketing still suffers from user-privacy issues, user awareness and a lack of extensive local advertising networks. But the combination of GPS-enabled location pinpointing and the embrace of social networks has… Read more »
The Wall Street Journal has an eye-catching post this morning documenting Foursquare’s attempts to turn its 10 million users into revenue. The pioneer of the check-in has struck agreements with LivingSocial… Read more »