Gowalla co-founder and CEO Josh Williams is heading to the annual SXSW music, technology and arts festival in Austin, Texas this year to do something he’s already done — launch a location-
Bobby Goodlatte has only been an investor for about a decade, but he appears to have already made tens of millions of dollars, contrary to the expectations of some traditional VCs who have privately,
The newly resurrected Gowalla wants to realize its mobile dreams from the early-aughts in an augmented reality world, and they’ve raised some new funding to make it happen. The AR startup tells
Gowalla is coming back. The startup, which longtime TechCrunch readers will likely recall, was an ambitious consumer social app that excited Silicon Valley investors but ultimately floundered in its q
Gowalla founder Josh Williams is nothing, if not consistent. After several years spent building location-based mobile apps and products for his own company, as well as Facebook, he’s back with anoth
Gowalla co-founder Josh Williams will leave Facebook, a year and a half after Gowalla was acquired by the social network. In an unrelated exit, Instagram designer Tim Van Damme will also leave Faceboo
"A location service only gets interesting when you get to a certain scale," and Foursquare isn't there yet says <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/josh-williams">Josh Williams</
What the headline says, basically, according to two sources. That and multiple sources are telling me that a majority of <a href="http://www.gowalla.com">Gowalla</a> investors were cool with the deal
Facebook has acquired location-based startup <a href="http://www.gowalla.com">Gowalla</a>, according to a report this evening by Laurie Segall on <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/02/technology/go
A couple weeks ago during TechCrunch Disrupt, <a href="http://gowalla.com">Gowalla</a> co-founder and CEO Josh Williams took the stage to preview the latest version of his service. And while it is tec
The location wars had a number of casualties. Some companies shut down, some sold off their remaining tech and talent. Others are still out there plugging away, but at this point, it seems clear that
It was almost exactly one year ago that Facebook <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/08/18/facebook-location/">launched Places</a>, their location-based offering. Reading the press at the time, you w
Back in the day, the knock on the <a href="http://foursquare.com">Foursquare</a> iPhone app used to be that it wasn't very visually appealing. That was especially true in comparison to rival <a href="
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-297713" title="q" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/q.png" alt="" />Google Realtime Search is <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/08/26/goo
Adding existing features like third-party check-in and better photo support, the Austin based company updates the Android version of their location software today. Gowalla co-founder and CEO Josh Will
<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-277977" title="Screen shot 2011-02-23 at 4.15.53 PM" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/screen-shot-2011-02-23-at-4-15-53-pm.png" alt="" />W
<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-273590" title="a" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/a4.png" alt="" />A few weeks ago, we noted that with a few subtle changes being made to
<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-270224" title="aa" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/aa.png" alt="" />It was almost exactly <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2009/02/04/broa
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/screen-shot-2011-01-28-at-11-27-51-am.png" alt="" title="Screen shot 2011-01-28 at 11.27.51 AM" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-269004" />
<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-256875" title="1484913_high_res_320x480" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/1484913_high_res_320x480.jpeg" alt="" />Yesterday morning, <a hr
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