15 posts and columns on Loopt

The Three Ventureers: Andreessen Horowitz Joining Conway and Milner in Y Combinator Start Fund

in News on October 14, 2011 at 2:30 pm PT

The high-profile venture firm is in for $50,000 per start-up. What cash crunch?
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Factual Kicks Off Universal Translator for Places

in Social on August 8, 2011 at 11:00 pm PT

Big data provider Factual has launched a new free API called Crosswalk that unites the mess of online place pages for various businesses. Fwix, Hunch, CityGrid, Citysearch, Urbanspoon, SimpleGeo, Loopt, GrubHub, Gogobot, OpenMenu, GreatSchools, Retailigence, HotelsCombined, Menuplatform and Allmenus are all contributing their entries (U.S. only for now) to Factual’s canonical database of URLs. This could open up cool opportunities to integrate and analyze data from the oh-so-many local reviews and social sites.

TapJoy CEO: Apple App Store Changes Won’t Shut Us Down

in Mobile on April 25, 2011 at 6:04 pm PT

The changes that Cupertino has made to its App Store rankings have thrown it for a loop, but CEO Mihir Shah said he is convinced his company will find a way for its promotion mechanisms to peacefully co-exist with Apple’s desires to keep people from gaming its system. “I think we are very early in the market,” Shah said. “We are going to have to tack a few ways.”

Coming Soon: Advertiser Alerts on Your Phone

in News on March 1, 2011 at 1:35 pm PT

Advertisers have long contemplated a world in which they could contact people walking down the street with special offers and get them to change course and enter a store. There’s been new movement this week to make that vision a reality. On Tuesday Loopt, a social network catered to mobile-device users, unveiled a plan to allow advertisers to send alerts to Loopt users, based on their location, when they want to offer them an limited-time deal.

Liveblogging the Facebook Mobile Event: Single Sign-On for Social

in News on November 3, 2010 at 10:55 am PT

BoomTown arrived late to the Facebook mobile event for the press due to traffic related to the parade for the San Francisco Giants’ World Series victory–and where I would much rather be right now. Go Giants! In any case, I am here in the cafeteria of Facebook again, where the company continues its attempts to take over the known digital universe before Google does. The latest parry: Single sign-on!

The Life Graph: You Are Your Location

in News on March 11, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

There’s a lot of attention being focused on location-based services and mobile social networks right now, and for good reason.

As Location-Sharing Services Grow, Privacy Concerns Do Too

in News on March 10, 2010 at 2:11 pm PT

As the list of programs that collect users’ location information grows, concern about privacy risks is increasing along with it. Facebook is set to add location-sharing to its popular site next month. Meanwhile, services such as Foursquare and Loopt have been adding users, and a plethora of smaller tools have sprung up as well.

Sharing Where You Are When You Care to Share

in Personal Technology on May 20, 2009 at 6:02 pm PT

By Nick Wingfield

Cellphone location-sharing service Glympse is simple, useful and a non-creepy way to share your whereabouts when you want someone to know.

Tracking Friends the Google Way

in The Digital Solution on February 3, 2009 at 9:02 pm PT

Katie reviews Latitude, a new feature of Google Maps that uses location-based technology to track its users’ movements. Latitude displays the user’s location on a map for friends to see, so they can know where the person is at all times.

Steve Jobs at WWDC 2008: iPhone 3G for $199, on Sale July 11

in Social on June 9, 2008 at 9:59 am PT

With Apple’s much lauded iPhone having captured about 19.2 percent of the smart-phone market, expectations were high in advance of Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s keynote at the company’s World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco. And Jobs did not disappoint, unveiling the iPhone 3G, which will go on sale July 11 for $199.
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