June 1st, 2011

Tippr Acquires WhitePages' Group Buying Site DealPop

Launched less than a year ago, daily deals site and WhitePages subsidiary DealPop has been acquired by another company riding the group buying wave, Tippr.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but this appears to be mostly a talent acquisition. → Read More

October 22nd, 2010

WhitePages Tackles Contact Management With Hiya

There are a plethora of contact management apps on the market that allow you to make sense of your email and mobile contacts. In fact, if you do a search for “contact management” on the iPhone App Store; there are over 50 apps in the results. Today, directory services provider WhitePages is throwing its hat in the ring with the private beta launch of Hiya, which includes free iPhone and web… → Read More

September 8th, 2010

Look Out Groupon – WhitePages Has Big Plans For Social Buying Site DealPop

It went by largely unnoticed, but directory services provider WhitePages launched a social buying website called DealPop last July, entering a field played by many notable up-and-comers such as Groupon, LivingSocial and Yelp.

Initially, DealPop was only available in Seattle, but the site is expanding to Los Angeles today and to San Francisco in the next two weeks.

The company has bigger plans… → Read More

November 21st, 2009

2010: The Year Android Will Shake Its Money Maker

Editor’s note: More and more mobile app developers are deciding to make apps for Android, even though it still doesn’t have the same reach as the iPhone. In this guest post Kevin Nakao, the VP of Mobile for Whitepages, makes the argument for taking the Android plunge now (as he is preparing to with a new Whitepages Android app launching next week). Follow him on Twitter @knakao

Mobile games… → Read More

October 14th, 2009

WhitePages Now Lets You Control Your Own Listings

When was the last time you actually looked in the phone book to find someone’s number? For anyone under 40, the Web has already replaced the phone book with people search. But the listings are not always complete or up to date. One of the largest people directories online, WhitePages, is adding consumer-editing capabilities to make its people database more accurate.

You can now edit your… → Read More