Earlier this week, Sina, a leading Chinese online media company, announced a strategic partnership with AutoNavi Holdings Limited, a provider of digital map content and navigation and location-based solutions in China, in an effort to enhance the social, location and mobile offerings of both the companies.
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Mobile, social, location, sensor and big data technologies have made the possibility of truly contextual ads a reality.
Curiously, Affirm will use Facebook to verify a user's identity, and it'll also use a wide range of social and location-based data to determine an individual's credit worthiness.
People are also using social networking and location-based technologies to help co-ordinate rescue efforts.
The explosion of smartphones, social media and location-based services could fundamentally transform not only Silicon Valley industries but many others.
SoLo (not to be confused with YOLO), a combination of social media and location-based technology, is the motto for food trucks.
The iPhone has been the catalyst of explosive growth in the smartphone market and created an app economy that has sown the seeds of new industries and changed the face of gaming, social communications, location-based services and photography as well as advertising and commerce.
Recent members of Foursquare are jumping into the location-based network for social recommendations and the promise of location-specific rewards.
Updates posted on the Orchard's database are pushed from a single location to social media and other websites.
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The location based social network has been purchased by Facebook, and as part of the deal, the service will be switched off in January 2012.
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Beyond search and social data, the location data set is the next big thing that companies are looking to gather in order to monetize and grow.
It says church buildings - and congregations - are a vital source of social services, a location for community activities, and the focal point for tourism.
"In the social media era, location plays a far lesser role in who we talk to, what we talk about, and where we turn for information, " the authors wrote.
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Barr also works as a social media consultant to Location Labs, a provider of mobile safety apps to wireless carriers, and she is occasionally paid by other app developers to review their products.
To make it easier to share your World Cup passion, CNN has teamed up with the location based social networking service Foursquare on an innovative project for World Cup fans in the 32 competing nations.
Less than a month after photo social network Instagram caught huge flak over advertiser-friendly changes to its privacy policy (and claimed it was misunderstood), another social network, the location check-in service Foursquare, has announced revenue-friendly changes to its privacy policy.
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Crowley went on to start Foursquare, another location-based social networking service that boasts 15 million users.
Yahoo announced today that it has acquired Koprol, a location-based social network in Indonesia.
The SmartGPS intelligently manages and updates location- relevant social media and navigation content through an onboard WiFi connection.
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Improvements to the current app now in the words included the use of geo-location information and social networking status.
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The newest version of location-based social network Loopt allows users to continuously update their friends on where they are.
Location-based social networking, in particular, will be a big part of our lives.
Simpson said location-based social networking software like Foursquare or Loopt helps marketers, advertisers and participants with the bigger picture.
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After struggling to recruit Android developers, location-based social network start-up Gowalla Inc. hired Pivotal Labs to build its Android client.
Waze Chief Executive Noam Bardin is friends with Josh Williams, the former chief of location-based social network Gowalla acquired by Facebook who now leads Facebook's local-services efforts.
You can see the syndrome spread via location-based social networking services such as Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp and soon a host of others large and small.
Alex Rainert runs product at foursquare, the location-based social network.
This is not just about the marginally useful ability to check in on location-based social networks such as foursquare or to address the always addressable consumer.
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The patent application, filed back in late-2009, describes a location-based social network that helps users discover people in their vicinity, based on common interests like books, movies, and, naturally, music.
And this isn't the first time the company has flirted with the idea of location-based social networking either, as a patent that surfaced halfway through last year can attest.
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