Posts Tagged: location


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Pure Social, Location, and Mobile: A Tough Nut to Crack

By Willis Wee

‘Social, location, and mobile’ is often dubbed SoLoMo for short, and it’s one of the most annoying buzzwords used within tech circles ...

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  • February 4, 2013
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Nokia and Jiepang Team-Up for NFC Check-In Trials Across China

By Steven Millward

Chinese location-based service Jiepang is once again teaming up with Nokia to bring NFC-enabled check-ins to venues across China. When we sp...

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  • August 25, 2011
  • at 8:00 pm
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Chinese Start-Up 16Fun Wants to Game-ify Your Check-Ins

By Steven Millward

16Fun - which is a pun on "On the road fun" in Chinese - is a small start-up that totally game-ifies its location-based service (LBS) to the...

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  • August 18, 2011
  • at 9:00 am
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Food Mobile App Menoo Mashes Location, NFC, and Social Into One

By Muhammad Ilman Akbar

You might often find yourself stuck in this situation: while driving or looking around someplace, you’re very hungry but you don’t know ...

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  • August 11, 2011
  • at 10:00 pm
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Exclusive: Location-based Startup, GeoSocials Scores Big On iTunes

By Willis Wee

We love sharing good news about start-ups, so here’s one from India today. GeoSocials, the location-based gaming start-up, has scored big ...

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  • August 2, 2011
  • at 11:00 pm
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Google’s Korea Office Raided By Police

By Rick Martin

The business of collecting user data continues to be a very dangerous one, as news today tells of Google in hot water with South Korean poli...

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  • May 3, 2011
  • at 2:21 pm
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Zazzer Mixes Social, Group Messaging, and LBS – But Will It Blend?

By Steven Millward

A Chinese start-up is going very ‘elastic’ by mixing location (LBS), social, and IM/group messaging into its Zazzer service, whi...

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  • August 26, 2011
  • at 2:44 pm
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Indian Start-up, Qub3, Mashes Location, Deals, and Content into one App

By Willis Wee

Imagine a single app that combined content, games, and deals all into one. Sounds like an one-stop app for your daily mobile needs, right? P...

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  • August 19, 2011
  • at 10:00 am
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At Start-Up Weekend Taipei the Winner is… FoodJing

By Steven Millward

The inaugural Start-up Weekend Taipei wrapped up yesterday evening, and local foodie site FoodJing.com emerged the winner. For impressing th...

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  • August 15, 2011
  • at 9:00 pm
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Stealth LBS Start-up Mojostreet Explains Its Service and Plans

By Willis Wee

After receiving US$350,000 of seed funding around April this year, team Mojostreet continues to work on its location-based service (LBS) ide...

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  • August 5, 2011
  • at 11:18 pm
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Founder of GeoSocials: It’s Not a SCVNGR Clone!

By Willis Wee

‘SoLoMo,’ or ‘Social, location, and mobile,’ is one of the biggest mashups in today’s tech start-up scene. Just to name a few R...

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  • July 28, 2011
  • at 5:41 pm
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