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Facebook has been sizing up the mobile world with hungry eyes for a while now — more than one-third of the social network’s 750-million-plu… Read More »
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The controversy about location-tracking on mobile devices, and the subsequent emphasis on location-based services in mobile advertising, may… Read More »
Klout score is not yet an easily recognizable metric compared to, say, one’s number of Twitter followers or Facebook friends. But the compan… Read More »
I will warn you on this one. I have tried to be a location-based services user but I lose interest real quickly. My erratic check-ins at res… Read More »
Foursquare is rapidly expanding its partnerships in the daily deal space. Starting today, Foursquare users will find Groupon’s daily and rea… Read More »
“Showing your phone to redeem a deal sucks,” said Tristan Walker, Foursquare’s director of business development, today at BIA/Kelsey’s Deals… Read More »
The crowded world of mobile local offer apps has today sworn in another citizen. O2 Priority Moments, from the Telefonica-owned mobile opera… Read More »
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