LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwired - Nov 1, 2017) - Factual, the leading location data provider that offers accessible data to enterprises, marketers and developers, today announced the release of Engine, ...

SocialRadar, the location-based social app created by former Blackboard co-founder and CEO Michael Chasen and backed by $12.8 million, is announcing the acquisition of Baltimore-based Gridskippr, a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Verizon Wireless just released an to open its network for location-based applications. Developers ...

Foursquare is opening up its homegrown Pilgrim SDK to let third-party mobile developers build apps using the company's location intelligence technology. The Pilgrim SDK builds on the company's years ...

Enabling persistent location in a third-party mobile app isn't always easy -- it usually requires either cautious uses of updates, like iOS 5's geofencing, or an acceptance that there will inevitably ...

SiRFusion SDK brings plug-and-play simplicity to Android app developers. CSR plc today announced the launch of its SiRFusion Software Development Kit (SDK) for Android application developers. The ...

Foursquare has gone through a profound transformation since it popularized the concept of the "check-in" back in 2009. The New York-based company's main business is now licensing its location data to ...

Ten years later, Foursquare is far past its scrappy consumer days as it builds out its B2B services, but its latest announcement is thrusting it back into the scrappy consumer business. Onstage at ...

Hundreds of Android apps sent user location data to a data broker that had been banned from the Google Play Store since December 2020. Close to 200 messaging apps, video and file converters, dating ...

Sara Morrison was a senior Vox reporter who covered data privacy, antitrust, and Big Tech’s power over us all for the site since 2019. If you’re relying on Apple’s and Google’s app store rules to keep ...