Have you ever been out in public and wondered if someone you knew was nearby? Well, there’s now an app for that. A group of “ambient awareness apps” were spotlighted during the SXSW Interactive ...

Gowalla is a location-based social networking service that makes finding out where your friends have been and discovering new restaurants, bars, and other locations into a sort of game. The company ...

There's no doubt the majority of location-based apps will have breathed a collective sigh of relief following last week's revelations regarding Facebook's planned and apparently imminent Places tab.

Soon FourSquare won’t be the only cool kid on the location-based apps block: A new wave of startups, including Highlight, Zaarly, TaskRabbit and Localmind, are generating buzz at South by Southwest by ...

Despite all the buzz surrounding Foursquare, Gowalla and other location-aware apps that let you "check in" at your favorite restaurants and stores, only about 4 percent of online adults say they ever ...

Yesterday's acquisition of Loopt by payment solution specialist Green Dot served as something of a bookend for me. When I started on PocketGamer.biz at the beginning of 2010, much of my time was spent ...

While some in the retail industry are still skeptical about the potential of location-based apps, it is getting harder to ignore the growth and buzz on companies like Foursquare, Gowalla, Shopkick and ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...