Despite representing 10% of the world’s GDP, the tourism industry has been one of the last to embrace big data and analytics. Darren Dunn and Jay Kinghorn experienced this firsthand — Dunn as
For decades, the United States has had a monopoly on positioning, navigation and timing technology with its Global Positioning System (GPS), a constellation of satellites operated by the military that
NextNav LLC has raised $120 million in equity and debt to commercially deploy an indoor positioning system that can pinpoint a device’s location — including which floor it’s on — witho
Privacy-minded changes to smartphone operating systems which foreground the background activity of third party apps are helping to spotlight more of the surveillance infrastructure deployed by adtech
Your wireless carrier knows where you are as you read this on your phone — otherwise, it couldn’t connect your phone in the first place. But your wireless carrier also has a memory. It knows where
What is Niantic? If they recognize the name, most people would rightly tell you it’s a company that makes mobile games, like Pokémon GO, or Ingress, or Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. But no one a
Complex indoor environments such as airports and shopping malls can be a nightmare to find your way around. And while Google is eyeing smartphones with 3D sensors as one potential fix for places GPS w
Google has announced it's working on a service to offer detailed indoor location positioning using its Tango 3D sensing computer vision tech.
xAd, a mobile ad startup that specialises in serving media specific to a user’s location, is today announcing $50 million in funding — significant not only for the size of the round, but
Once upon a time, in the days of yore -- meaning, in hyper-fast-forward Silicon Valley, five years ago -- there were things you could count on, evident truths on which you could rely, cornerstones on
On the heels of <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/24/apple-acquires-indoor-gps-startup-wifislam-for-20m/">Apple buying WifiSLAM for $20 million</a> to improve its indoor geolocation capabilities
Geolocation is very important for consumers these days, it's a technology that can be used in almost any application you can think of. Whether you want to shop, do volunteer work or meet new people, h
Google today <a target="_blank" href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/10/two-new-ways-to-add-location.html">launched</a> two new APIs for Google Maps that are specifically geared toward trac
<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
Wait, I've seen this one before, back when <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/02/17/please-rob-me-makes-foursquare-super-useful-for-burglars/">it was called Please Rob Me and based on Foursquare</a>
While we wait for the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.apple.com/ios/ios6/maps/">full-throttle effect</a> of Apple Maps in iOS6, a new app <a target="_blank" href="http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/r
With the rise of social networks, people are now sharing more information about themselves online than ever before. Sharing is happening at an unprecedented volume, with some calling it ... <a href="h
<a href="https://geoloqi.com/">Geoloqi</a>, a name you may know because of the <a href="https://geoloqi.com/app">mobile app</a> that once provided automatic Foursquare check-ins and geofenced reminder
<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-210634" title="1" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/18.png" alt="" />At an event on Wednesday, Facebook unveiled Places, their new location
Want to know what in the hell’s taking the pizza guy so long? Order from Domino’s from now on. You can use the new Pizza Tracker feature to keep an eye on your pizza’s location, accu