Three months after the acquisition of Gowalla by Facebook, the company has officially closed it doors. The screenshot below can be found on the locati...
Digital shaming has become the newest form of public stocks, ensuring the wrongdoings of individuals are widely known and impossible to erase.
Facebook has acquired location-based social service Gowalla for an undisclosed sum. Both companies announced the deal on December 5. "We're exci...
Facebook has reportedly acquired location-based social service Gowalla, an unnamed source close to the company told CNN Money on Friday evening. W...
What happened with Gowalla? To answer that is not a simple, "People don't use it" response. People do use Gowalla. But what happened along the way appears to be more vision-based than anything else.
Gowalla, a location-based social network that has competed head to head with startups like Foursquare and Loopt, is rolling out a radical overhaul tha...
Is this newfound love for all things game-related really the future? The sentiment that games are -- or will be -- as important as our social connections over the next decade is laughable.
While only 4 percent of US online adults have ever used a location-based service, like popular check in app Foursquare, data from research firm Forre...
NEW YORK — Visitors to Disney's theme parks in the U.S. can now use their smart phones not just to "check in" to the resorts, but earn digital v...
Gowalla CEO Josh Williams wins the award for the most stylish tech CEO I've interviewed to date. He arrived at our SoHo offices wearing elegant leat...
If you can't beat 'em, include 'em. That seems to be the thinking behind Gowalla 3, the latest update to the location-based social networking service...
Gowalla, the mobile and web service that allows people keep up with friends and share the places they go, is teaming up with The Huffington Post to sh...
As of late, I can't log on to Facebook without finding out that one of my "friends" is at Carl's Jr. or Dress Barn.
Rob Walker's newest project for New Orleans proves him to be no less than a bonafide optimist. He's proposing that we use art and design to alter our perceptions of a downtrodden environment.
While establishing a presence on Facebook, Twitter and Yelp may have been enough to take your business to the next level even just a few months ago, l...
Fifteen-month old Foursquare is adding 100,000 new users every week and Facebook has made it clear that location is a feature it is preparing to offer...
This week, Facebook officially rolled out Facebook Places, its location-based service. This means that the time to get your strategy together for how to effectively use location to reach, engage, and empower brand activists is right now.
Facebook Places is the latest "check-in" service, announced yesterday by the Internet giant. It comes on the heels of Foursquare and Gowalla, two of t...
Location technologies are transforming how we experience, navigate, and ultimately better our world. From the global to the local, here are 10 ways geolocation is a positive force for good.
Broadway has the opportunity to get cutting edge. It's time to start playing Foursquare.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif -- Online video is the fastest growing sectors in advertising, with spending expected to be up nearly 35 percent this year,...
Sure, location-based services like Foursquare and Gowalla were well represented at this year's SXSW Interactive conference. And here are three more interesting start-ups that picked up steam during the conference.
