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Location-pinpointing platform what3words has closed a $3.5 million Series A funding round led by Intel Capital. It brings the total raised by the U.K. startup, which was only founded back in July 2013

With questions swirling over who may end up buying Nokia’s mapping division Here, a startup trying to disrupt it and other big boys like Google has raised some major funding. Mapbox, a developer

The impending sale of Nokia’s Here mapping division has put a sharp focus on the role that location and maps in particular are playing in the mobile world. And while we are seeing a number of b

Foursquare -- the startup likely best known for popularising the "check-in" for users to share their locations with their social networks -- has more recently been trying to make a name for itself as

One of the companies in the frame as a potential buyer of Nokia's Here mapping division has quietly inked a deal with the Finnish company to power mobile maps. Facebook is now using Here maps for its

SocialRadar, the location-based social app created by former Blackboard co-founder and CEO Michael Chasen and backed by $12.8 million, is announcing the acquisition of Baltimore-based Gridskippr, a ta

Today, location-sharing startup Hello World is announcing that it has been acquired by Life360 for an undisclosed seven-figure sum.

Opera may have taken some of the wind out of the Nokia brand’s sails with the news that its browser will be replacing Nokia’s on the now-Microsoft-owned, winding down, feature handset busi

Yet more changes for Nokia, the Finnish wireless behemoth that was split apart earlier this year when Microsoft acquired its devices and services business for $7.2 billion. Michael Halbherr, an eight-

Apple has published a statement via its Chinese website as a follow-up to a report on the state-run CCTV last week that claimed its devices could present a state security risk according to researchers

Facebook Nearby Friends is based around broadcasting how far you are from friends, not your exact coordinates, and that's why it could succeed where other location apps have failed. But while we might

Facebook says it’s not using its new Nearby Friends feature to target ads yet, but after I asked why it’s tracking “Location History” it admitted it will eventually use the dat

Location-pinpointing startup, what3words, which is on a missing to reinvent the postcode has topped up its seed round with a further $1 million.

Foursquare just raised a bunch of money, again. This time it’s a Series D round of $35M, back in April of this year it was $41M in debt financing. The company seems to keep being able to convince pe

According to leaked documents from whistleblower and Russian residency enthusiast, Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency is tracking people’s whereabouts en masse. By collecting the locat

London-based U.K. startup what3words has closed a $500,000 seed round of financing from a group of angel investors, including Shutl's Guy Westlake. The startup launched an ambitious bid to reinvent ZI

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.glympse.com/">Glympse</a> -- an app that lets users chart their location on a map and then their journeys from point A to B with others -- is today announcing the l

Location-based analytics provider Placed today unveiled its latest product, Placed Attribution. Inspired by Placed Insights and feedback that came out of the launch of that comScore-style Analytics pl

Location-based analytics pioneering startup Placed is seeing good progress with its opt-in location surveying program, which it helped to boost with the introduction of an affiliate program back in Ma

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.life360.com/">Life360</a>, the mobile family locator utility whose recent claim to fame was <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/04/26/life360-a-family-networking-a