http://www.inveslogic.com/tags/location-based-services Blog Articles Tagged with 'location-based-services' at http://www.inveslogic.com en http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/1122867?rsstype=tag&tag=location-based-services Our guest today was Trapster.com s Pete Tenereillo, who I met last week at DEMO. Trapster is a social network for reporting speed traps. Integrating GPS, mobility, the web and social networks, it s a pretty interesting use of technology to solve ... Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:35:47 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/1122867?rsstype=tag&tag=location-based-services http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1069750?rsstype=tag&tag=location-based-services Earlier this month, India surpassed US as the second largest mobile market (by subscriber count) in the world. With close to 280 million subscribers, it now has enough of a user base to become a breeding ground for a new class of applications that ta... Sun, 18 May 2008 12:51:05 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1069750?rsstype=tag&tag=location-based-services http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/977885?rsstype=tag&tag=location-based-services Google s preeminence in Silicon Valley is largely due to its ability to offer advertisers a way to hawk their messages against contextually relevant keywords. The plain-text advertising messages, which aim to peddle everything from broadband conne... Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:14:45 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/977885?rsstype=tag&tag=location-based-services http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/964809?rsstype=tag&tag=location-based-services This morning's Squawk Box podcast features Andy Abramson, Howard Thaw, and Randall Howard. We discussed topics ranging from Google's release of their iPhone browser stats, to the rumours that Telus will abandon CDMA, and a report from Hong Kong thi... Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:55:07 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/964809?rsstype=tag&tag=location-based-services http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/956732?rsstype=tag&tag=location-based-services Americans are buying global positioning systems (GPS) for their cars in large numbers, reports AdAge. The NPD Group says that revenues are up 214% and GPS unit sales up a whopping 488% over last year.The M&A activity in the sector is on an upswing, a... Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:40:43 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/956732?rsstype=tag&tag=location-based-services http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/932418?rsstype=tag&tag=location-based-services It was almost a year ago when Yahoo (YHOO) set up Brickhouse, an effort to foster innovation within the company so that its brightest would stay and cook up clever ideas instead of playing the Sandhill Road Roulette. Unlike Yahoo Research, which has... Sun, 04 Nov 2007 23:00:14 -0500 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/932418?rsstype=tag&tag=location-based-services http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/926172?rsstype=tag&tag=location-based-services Location-based services (LBS) are one of our favorite topics here at GigaOM. We have covered the business extensively, including the recent mega-billion-dollar acquisitions made by Nokia (NOK) and Tom Tom. In other deals, Google (GOOG) bought Jaiku ... Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:40:31 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/926172?rsstype=tag&tag=location-based-services