LBS Tidbits
While here in the U.S. Nokia phones are not really a player, elsewhere they are: Nokia’s Ovi Maps has had 11m downloads since its launch in February. Now comes more goodies to add to its voice-based turn by turn directions:
Qype integration - it’s like Yelp
Expedia integration - travel, reservation tools
Time Out integration - professional reviews of restaurants, films, etc.
- recombu
Geodelic closed a $7 million Series B financing round led by MK Capital, with previous investors Clearstone Ventures Partners and Shasta Ventures also contributing. Formerly dubbed Sherpa, the free Geodelic application “learns a subscriber’s favorite types of locations and preferences over time, promising an increasingly customized user experience that recommends relevant retailers, restaurants and attractions according to one’s likes, dislikes and behavioral patterns.”
comScore reports that “about 14% of mobile subscribers visited a mapping site on their smartphone or mobile device in April. That is more than 33 million consumers logging on to the mobile web for mapping information, good information for local businesses to have going forward.”
Foursquare tapped a handful of investors for $20 million. Existing backers Union Square Ventures and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures re-upped, with a new investor Andreessen Horowitz.
Business Insider that notes that we are now in the phase in LBS beyond first movers and imatators; we are now in the phase of aggregators. The article lists three services that aggregate check-ins for a number of services.
- Business Insider via SFGate
