With all the competition out there–Booyah, Facebook Places, Foursquare, Geomium, Google Latitutude, Gowalla, Loopt, and Twitter geo-location–why is Read More
What exactly is so special about Foursquare?
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Marissa Mayer looks to location at Google
Marissa Mayer, formerly Google’s vice president of search products and user experience, has taken a new leadership position Read More
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Who owns location: Facebook or Google?
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) handed Facebook a powerful weapon in the location wars Wednesday: a Read More
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Geomium launches London location startup
[Article updated to reflect regional availability of application.] The (very) short list: Booyah, Facebook Places, Foursquare, Google Latitutude, Read More
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Senators rebuke Facebook privacy practices
Four Democratic US Senators sent a letter to Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday arguing that Read More
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Facebook launches new features to platform
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO took the stage on Wednesday morning at the f8 conference in San Francisco to Read More
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Yelp yearns for trust with new site changes
In direct response to extortion claims, Yelp has announced that it will let users see the reviews removed Read More
Update: Stoppelman responded to a few questions. His answers are inline below. Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman is joining Read More
RedBeacon, an emerging startup with former Google employees as founders, on Wednesday announced a couple strategic moves to Read More
The line between extortion and aggressive sales tactics can get pretty fuzzy for a startup on the verge Read More
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Yelp to receive $100 million investment
Yelp, a social networking site for sharing reviews of local establishments, announced Wednesday that private equity firm Elevation Read More
Entrepreneurs and the companies they create are the raw material of the startup world. There has been an Read More
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Local Business Listings and Mobile Marketing
Google has started a marketing campaign around mobile devices, local business listing, Google maps and the centerpiece of Read More
Whether Google buys Yelp for more than half a billion is still an uncertainty. But one thing is Read More