Twenty-eight percent of U.S. adults use location-based applications such as Facebook, Groupon and Google Maps on their mobile devices, and that number is expected to grow significantly. But a new ...

The search for alpha continues. For asset managers and hedge funds, its all about generating alpha-faster, better, smarter. Alternative data for use by asset managers is one of the most rapidly ...

U.S. Bank is using mobile geolocation to address a commonly experienced inefficiency with the advent of online fraud protection: banks blocking non-fraudulent transactions due to assumptions about ...

Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has ordered mobile carriers to explain what geolocation data they collect from customers and how they use it. Rosenworcel's probe could ...

Microsoft will use geo-positioning startup Navizon to power geolocation for mobile users. Navizon said today in a statement that it had signed a licensing agreement with Microsoft to allow the tech ...

Russia’s search giant Yandex, which is increasingly rolling into new areas as a way to continue expanding its business, has made a small acquisition — to the tune of “several million euros” — focused ...

With the no-code development platform AppSheet from Google Cloud, anyone can build custom applications without having to write code, and create a mobile app with geolocation and Google Maps in just ...

Urban life is all about locations, and mass transit is the connecting thread between them. Last year, Bay Area Rapid Transit partnered with mobile geolocation service Foursquare to allow straphangers ...