| Date | Title | Description |
| 03.10.2009 | Google Injects Ads And User-Generated Content Into iPhone Maps | Last night, I was out with some friends in search of a particular bar. Naturally, we did the 21st century equivalent of asking a gas station attendant for directions, we pulled out our iPhones to look it up in the Maps application. The resu... |
| 06.04.2009 | Sense Networks: 4 Million Sensors to Help You Find a Party in San Francisco | Yesterday we discussed MIT’s project WikiCity, which monitors location data in cities via mobile sensors and creates visualizations from that. That project comes out of the SENSEable City lab at MIT and in our post we questioned whether the... |
| 25.11.2008 | VentureBeat sponsors MobileMonday’s Mobile Peer Awards 2009 | VentureBeat is happy to announce our sponsorship of MobileMonday’s Mobile Peer Awards competition for 2009.
The competition starts with 68 mobile startups — one for each of MobileMonday’s 68 chapters around the world. Out of these 68, a jur... |
| 09.11.2008 | Tag The World—One Tweet, Yelp, and Flickr At A Time | We all know how tagging makes the Web a richer place (by tapping into people’s desire to categorize things and share those categories, ad-hoc though they may be, with the everyone else). Tagging brings a bottoms-up order to the Web by makin... |
| 07.11.2008 | Nokia Debuts Friend View Beta, A Location-Aware Microblogging Application | Fresh out of Nokia Beta Labs comes Friend View, an experimental location and micro-blogging service which works both on mobile phones as well as on the web.
To show your location, the Friend View application is using the built-in GPS or the... |
| 29.07.2008 | Moot – WiFi-based mobile social networking | moot.no is a brand new mobile social service for Windows Mobile 6.0 mobiles and XP/Vista PCs. You can share content (text, video, pictres) with the network closest to you. Launching out of Oslo, Norway, it has financial backing from TeleVen... |
| 24.06.2008 | Fighting the Android: Nokia buys and open sources Symbian | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| 23.06.2008 | Breaking: Germany's Plazes Acquired By Nokia | Berlin, Germany based Plazes, a location based social network (and one of the first startups we ever wrote about here on TechCrunch, back in 2005), has been acquired by Finland-based Nokia, the companies are announcing today. The price is n... |
| 23.06.2008 | Why Nokia Acquired Plazes, a Location-Based Social Network | Buried in Bob Iannucci’s discussion at Supernova 2008 last week was this comment: “Connecting people only through voice communications is limited,” the Nokia chief technical officer said.
To us, that sums up everything Nokia is doing, inclu... |
| 23.06.2008 | Nokia acquires geotagging startup Plazes | The phone manufacturer says acquiring the producer of a geo-locating service for finding one's friends, helps accelerate its vision of connecting people under its services strategy.
Plazes is a privately held company based in Berlin. Founde... |
| 09.06.2008 | Wednesday: TechCrunch / CrunchGear Berlin Meetup | 250 people. 27 sponsoring startups. Countless others coming as guests. There’s just one word for the TechCrunch / CrunchGear Meetup in Berlin this Wednesday, June 11: Awesome. Organised with the excellent assistance of our local partner twi... |
| 09.06.2008 | TechCrunch / CrunchGear Berlin Meetup This Wednesday | I’m really looking forward to the TechCrunch / CrunchGear Meetup in Berlin this Wednesday, June 11. Organised with the excellent assistance of our local partner twidox, the event has been made possible by our fantastic sponsors, listed belo... |
| 15.05.2008 | Exclusive Look at Plazes for iPhone | Today Plazes CEO Felix Petersen gave us a peek at iPlazer, the upcoming iPhone client for the geo-tagging social networking site. The app will be available when Apple’s official App Store launches in mid June. Plazes has been around for a w... |
| 08.05.2008 | TechCrunch/Crunchgear meetup, Berlin, June 11 | I’m delighted to announce that TechCrunch / CrunchGear are holding a Berlin meetup with our partner and co-organiser twidox. The “TechCrunch / twidox German Web 2.0 Meet-up” will be in Berlin, on the 11th of June. Imedo.de has kindly offere... |
| 07.05.2008 | TechCrunch/Crunchgear meetup – Berlin, June 11 | I’m delighted to announce that TechCrunch / CrunchGear are holding a Berlin meetup with our partner and co-organiser twidox. The “TechCrunch / twidox German Web 2.0 Meet-up” will be in Berlin, on the 11th of June. Imedo.de has kindly offere... |
| 31.03.2008 | i-Together closes BlogFriends, mothballs Buzzspotr | UK startup i-Together last night said it was closing its Facebook application BlogFriends, an RSS feed sharing app which had attracted upwards of 27,000 users and was growing. i-Together failed to attract a second-round of seed funding for ... |
| 03.06.2007 | Plazes CEO Busted By His Own Product | The Next Web Conference was held in Amsterdam last Friday (June 1). The organizers had a last minute speaker back-out: Plazes CEO Felix Petersen emailed them the day before the conference to say that he couldn’t make it because they were de... |
| 18.05.2007 | Plazes Regroups, Learns From Twitter | Plazes, headquartered in Zurich and Berlin, is a social community that connects you and your friends to the places you spend your time. They’ve been around for a while (we profiled Plazes on the day TechCrunch launched in June 2005), and th... |
| 27.04.2007 | Sponsor Break | We’d like to take a moment and thank our sponsors and readers that help us keep TechCrunch humming…
Voxbone – A VoIP carrier providing centralized access to local phone numbers and toll-free numbers around the world. They have their own net... |
| 05.04.2007 | A Thanks To Our Network | We’d like to take a post to thank our readers and sponsors for supporting TechCrunch.
We currently have six great sponsors. Here’s a bit on what’s happening with each:
Plazes – Plazes tracks your physical location and shows you other Plazes... |
| 05.02.2007 | European Startup Plazes Raises €2.7 million | Plazes, which is based in Zurich and Berlin, is announcing its first institutional round of financing this morning. They raised €2.7 million, or about $3.5 million, from Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures.
We first profiled Plazes on June 1... |
| 11.12.2006 | Understanding Mobile 2.0 | Written by Rudy De Waele of m-trends.org and
edited by Richard MacManus. This kicks off a mini-series of posts on the topic of Mobile
2.0, which we will explore on R/WW this week.
On the eve of Le Web 3 in Paris – and one month after the We... |
| 03.10.2006 | TechCrunch 8: Party In New York | Our seventh TechCrunch party, held at August Capital two months ago, was a blast. Over 800 attendees sipped wine, checked out some new companies and watched a nearly naked man streak through the more fully dressed attendees.
We will be anno... |
| 13.09.2006 | Live.com and Yahoo! bulk up for local search brawl | A hefty list of new features were added to Microsoft’s Live Local Search yesterday and just tonight to Yahoo! Local. As both rivals get stronger, you can’t help but wonder what’s going to come after coupons for Google’s local search. Both Y... |
| 11.06.2005 | Plazes Profile | Company: Plazes
What is it?
Plazes made an announcement at Reboot 7.0 in Copenhagen on June 10, 2005, although the service has been around since at least January.
In their own words, “Plazes is the first global location-aware interaction an... |
