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Snapchat said live location sharing with friends through Snap Map does not get used for geo-targeted marketing.
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Snapchat said live location sharing with friends through Snap Map does not get used for geo-targeted marketing.
Location-pinpointing platform what3words has closed a $3.5 million Series A funding round led by Intel Capital. It brings the total raised by the U.K. startup, which was only founded back in July 2013, to $5 million, after it topped up its initia…
With questions swirling over who may end up buying Nokia’s mapping division Here, a startup trying to disrupt it and other big boys like Google has raised some major funding. Mapbox, a developer of customizable maps used by third-party apps like Foursquare, Pinterest, Mapquest and 16,000 others, has raised $52.55 million in a Series B round of funding. The company claims that it’s… Read More
The impending sale of Nokia’s Here mapping division has put a sharp focus on the role that location and maps in particular are playing in the mobile world. And while we are seeing a number of big names emerge as potential Here suitors — they include the likes of Baidu and Uber, Facebook and more — an upstart in San Francisco is hoping to provide its own viable — and,… Read More
Foursquare — the startup likely best known for popularising the “check-in” for users to share their locations with their social networks — has more recently been trying to make a name for itself as a location-based big data machine. To grow its business, it partners with large tech companies like Twitter and Microsoft to gather data, and with advertisers like… Read More
One of the companies in the frame as a potential buyer of Nokia’s Here mapping division has quietly inked a deal with the Finnish company to power mobile maps. Facebook is now using Here maps for its mobile web version, and it is also running a test for Here to power location in native apps like Instagram and Messenger. The news comes as mobile company Nokia has confirmed that it… Read More