Foursquare, the 10-year-old location platform based in New York City, has today announced its plan to merge with Factual. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The merged company will keep the Fou
Until very recently, it had begun to seem like anyone with a thick enough checkbook and some key contacts in the startup world could not only fund companies as an angel investor but even put himself o
A group of security researchers say dozens of popular iPhone apps are quietly sharing the location data of “tens of millions of mobile devices” with third-party data monetization firms. Al
Factual announced this morning that it has raised $42 million in new funding. The company launched in 2009 and now provides location data to customers like Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsof
Factual announced this morning that it's expanding its Geopulse ad-targeting suite, with new products designed to help advertisers measure whether their campaigns drive in-store visits, and to give
Borrowed location databases are paying off big time for Snapchat. They allow users to turn any nearby landmark or business into a stylized geofilter that they can overlay on their photos and videos. B
Expect Labs has been on a bit of a tear lately — within the past six months the San Francisco-based startup showed off its fan-favorite app at Disrupt SF 2012,<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/10
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.factual.com/">Factual</a> is a company that provides open data sets for developers, most notably its location data sets and APIs. The company just announced that it
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In the quest for a <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/04/17/open-database-places/">unified database of places</a>,
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With a fresh infusion of $4 million from Comcast Interactive Capital, which it raised recently in a series B financing (with previ
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Spend enough time in Silicon Valley, and of all the buzz words you’ll hear neatly tucked in with “g
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When Twitter <a href="http://blog.twitter.com/2009/12/mixing-it-up-at-795-folsom-st.html">bought Mixer Labs</a> in December, 2
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One of my big <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/02/seven-technologies-that-will-rock-2011/">predictions fo
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<a href="http://www.factual.com/">Factual</a>, the open database company, closed a $25 million series A financing, led by
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<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/03/16/big-data-freedom/">Big Data</a> is great for geeks, but most normal people do
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If you co-founded the company that became Google AdSense, as <a href="http://www.crunchbase.co
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Gil Elbaz wants people to make lots of spreadsheet tables filled with fun and important facts