Facebook gets back into places with purchase of Gowalla
After a failed attempt to beat location-based check-in service Foursquare last year, Facebook has re-entered the arena by purchasing Foursquare's biggest...
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Why Location Apps Are The Next Big Thing
When Twitter finally hit the mainstream press in 2009, you could essentially predict the comments on every...
Mobile Apps Don't Need A Location War. What We Need is Open Data
Amid the unending din of posts, tweets and articles about South by Southwest Interactive, one thing became clear: mobile location apps are the next big...
Apple Working on Location Service 'iGroups'
If there was one trend to emerge from the geekfest that is South-by-Southwest interactive this year, it's that mobile location services are heating up....