Over the last three years, check-in and local search start-up Foursquare has become the face of location-based services. And while the...

Findery originally launched as Pinwheel but had to change their name to Findery over a trademark infringement issue. Findery allows users...

Niantic Labs project, headed by former Google Local/Maps chieftain John Hanke, has just released its first mobile app: Field Trip....

Facebook Offers has been popular in the small/local business community. In the next few weeks the Offers service will begin to charge a...

YouTube Loses Default Status It may sound odd to some that YouTube is new to Apple’s iOS devices as an app, but that’s because it hasn’t...

Google: Acer Can’t Work On “Non-Compatible Android” & Be Part Of Open Handset Alliance What Is The One True Android & How “Open” Is It?...

Google Maps is the top mobile travel app for perhaps obvious reasons. Not surprisingly it also tops the travel category and accounts for...

formed to promote indoor location and mobile indoor-positioning. It’s called “The In-Location Alliance.” Its stated objective is to...

interesting post on its blog. The post reveals how Yelp prevents false check-ins or “check-in fraud.” But more importantly it’s about how...

Foursquare could give a big boost to Yahoo in “SoLoMo”: social, local and mobile. While Yahoo has mobile apps, it badly lags Google’s...

started to roll out a new home page — one that focuses more on user activity and the social aspects of the site, rather than search and...

couldn’t use that name anymore, the location-based startup has chosen a new name: Findery. It also has a new lantern icon (shown at...

Google’s collection of such data has sparked numerous governmental investigations around the world — some of which are still in progress....

Below are “before” and “after” screenshots. The new profile page (second below) offers a stronger and visually simpler look, with key...

Pinwheel, which is still in private beta, is probably going to be forced to change its name. TechCrunch reported yesterday that a court...

launch of loyalty marketing program “Local Updates,” Foursquare is introducing a new paid-advertising program — its first formal effort...

Ever since local/mobile firm Foursquare released the latest version of its consumer application a month or so ago, the company has been...

Prince Andrew, The Duke of York, was on hand for the announcement, which the company says will involve more than 100 new advertising and...

announced “connected apps.” Connected apps allow third party developers to integrate their apps and content into Foursquare. There are a...

a partnership with Google to help accelerate small business adoption of mobile sites. Because the company builds mobile websites and is...