August 31st, 2010

AOL Scoops Up Rally Up To Boost Their Mobile Team

AOL has just acquired Rally Up, the Santa Cruz-based mobile application company, we’ve learned. The 9-person team will become a part of AOL’s mobile group reporting to David Temkin, the head of mobile. No word on the price, but we hear it was less than $10 million.

The company made a mobile location app (also called Rally Up) which we first covered back in December of 2009 when it launched as→ Read More

April 15th, 2010

Rally Up Brings "Real Friend-Focused" Location Based Social Network To The iPad

Location based services like Foursquare, Gowalla and others are increasing in usage but there are definite privacy concerns with sharing your exact location with the world. Rally Up recently launched its location based social network via an iPhone app that only includes your “real friends” and emphasizes privacy as a main feature of the application. Today, Rally Up is bringing its application to… → Read More