Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
Foursquare, Gowalla, Facebook Places and Yelp - among others - have popularized the concept of “checking in” at a particular location on a smartphone - basically broadcasting one’s location to friends, followers and/or business owners over a particular application or multiple social networks. Multiple variations on the theme exist, most ...
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
The barcode scanning app RedLaser has just announced that their iPhone/Android app was downloaded over 2 million times, with half of their users being active over the last month.
In a field that includes quite a few free alternatives, such as ShopSavvy and pic2shop, RedLaser’s success seems to owe to both ...
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