Posts Tagged ‘location based gaming’
Location based game developer Booyah raises $20M
Location based games continue to be a favorite of the venture funding. The company behind the location-based game MyTown, Booyah Inc., recently closed a $20 million round of financing led by Accel Partners, with existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and DAG Ventures also participating in the round. MyTown is a Monopoly-like [...]
NAVTEQ: The content and services behind navigation and GPS (video overviews)
These videos give a short overview of NAVTEQ, new spatial content and the location based services. Have you thought about how the map and spatial content for navigation devices and location based services is collected? Do you know what company provides the services behind the leading brands on the market (e.g. BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Ford, [...]
Twitter Buys Mixer Labs and Puts Location-Based Services in the Spotlight
Twitter's acquisition of Mixer Labs , a service that helps developers build location-aware applications, shows that the company hopes to make location broadcasting an important part of its service. And the microblogging service isn't alone, either: Google is getting into location-based services with its work on Google Maps and features like My [...]
Location: the Proper Identity of Mobile Gaming?
GPS Business News recently had a conversation about location-based gaming with Maarten Noyons, founder of the International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA) and Pia Vuohelainen, partner manager at NAVTEQ. ... We should rename this category, this is much wider than typically understood. We haven’t really found a name yet even if “real world [...]
