This week introduced some new features to its payments that, while hardly groundbreaking, show a new trend toward making geo-fencing proximity sensing a trigger for credit card transactions. Read more »
There’s a lot Skyhook can tell about you based on the Wi-Fi networks you cross everyday. It’s putting that info to work with a more refined set of geofencing and profiling… Read more »
PlaceMe uses every sensor in the phone to track your activity. Now PlaceUs is doing the same except it’s tracking the combined activity of a family or small group of friends. Read more »
Life360 extends its family geo-location capabilities to IFTTT’s internet-of-things recipe library. Now IFTTT can trigger events not just based on the actions of a user, but also on the collective actions… Read more »
After years of failing to live up to the hype, the mobile ad market is getting legs in a big way. And that will only continue as some major challenges are… Read more »
As a smartwatch for children, FiLIP doesn’t have much in the way of apps, but what it lacks in functions it makes up for in connectivity. Consequently AT&T isn’t treating this… Read more »
Life360 has always confined its location-sharing network to the family, but with a new feature called Circles, the company is opening your network up a broader group of friends and trusted… Read more »
Life360, the family-oriented smartphone app that lets people commicate through location, chat, and check-ins, is announcing that it’s raised a $10 milion Series B round on Wednesday. Read more »
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 »
Instead of buying a complicated phone and location add-on service for your young child, might a rugged smartwatch make more sense? Yes if it can track kids, receive texts and be… Read more »