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  • January 27th, 2011

    Zynga Close To Acquiring Whereoscope, The App That Lets You Track Your Kids

    Back in August we wrote about a Y Combinator-funded company called Whereoscope that helps parents keep tabs on their kids using a location-aware smartphone application. Now we’re hearing that the startup is about to be acquired by a company that’s in an entirely different space: Zynga.

    Our understanding is that a term sheet has been signed but the deal has not yet closed, so it’s not a sure thing… → Read More

    August 5th, 2010

    YC-Funded Whereoscope Gives Parents An Easy Way To Track Where Their Kids Are

    Since the dawn of mankind, and probably even a while before that, parents have been asking themselves the same question: “Where are my kids?” In modern times they’ve come up with a few, imperfect ways to answer it, like instructing their children to send them a text message whenever they arrive at soccer practice — which works well once or twice, until the child completely forgets about it. → Read More