geolocation

Checking in From the Cutting Edge: Only Six Percent Use Geolocation Apps

Liz Gannes in Social on December 6, 2011 at 8:41 am PT

Six percent of U.S. online adults use geolocation apps, up from 4 percent last year, according to new research from Forrester.

The M-Commerce Tipping Point Is Now

Jane Randel, SVP, Corporate Communications & Brand Services, Liz Claiborne in News on April 27, 2011 at 2:17 pm PT

With the age of the PC declared officially over–smartphones outsold PCs for the first time in 4Q 2010–American retailers are all asking the same question: When will the m-commerce tipping point arrive? The answer is, it’s happening now.

Google Earth Builder Brings Cloud to Companies and Governments Who Make Big Maps

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 20, 2011 at 10:56 am PT

Google Maps is useful when you need to find the restaurant you’re headed to or to plan a trip. But the mapping business is more serious and significant than many perceive. Google plans to open up its cloud to companies and governments with huge troves of digital maps to build their own internal Google Earths.

Viral Video: Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg on "Why We Have So Few Women Leaders”

Kara Swisher in News on December 22, 2010 at 12:28 am PT

Here is a must-see video by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg from a recent TED talk about the challenges faced by women in the workplace. Don’t miss it.

D: Dive Into Mobile: The Full Interview Video of Foursquare's Dennis Crowley

Kara Swisher in News on December 15, 2010 at 9:05 am PT

It’s a mobile-themed conference, so we naturally had to check in with Foursquare’s Mayor-for-Life Dennis Crowley. Get it? Check in? Ha!

Video: Marc Andreessen Talks About the New $650 Million Fund Burning a Hole in His Pocket

Kara Swisher in News on November 3, 2010 at 5:23 am PT

As BoomTown wrote recently, Andreessen Horowitz finally officially announced a new investment fund it had been raising. The high-profile entrepreneur-led venture firm pulled in $650 million from its existing limited partners, as well as some new ones. Its last fund was $300 million. Here is partner Marc Andreessen in a video interview talking about what his firm is going to do with the new pile of moola.

SCVNGR's Seth Priebatsch Talks About Geolocation Wars, Facebook Places and More!

Kara Swisher in News on August 30, 2010 at 9:00 am PT

Last week, SCVNGR integrated its third-party social geolocation game service into the Facebook Places mega-location offering. As it turned out, BoomTown was in Beantown–as in Boston–for a lovely wedding, so I took some prenuptial time to visit SCVNGR’s HQ in Cambridge, Mass., to talk to its founder, Seth Priebatsch.

Using Flickr Photos as a Travel Guide

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 23, 2010 at 1:00 pm PT

Every minute, there are thousands of images uploaded to photo site Flickr by people who want to share them with the world. And it turns out that if you look at these photos and where they were taken, you can get a pretty good idea of the best path to take when sightseeing.