Gowalla co-founder and CEO Josh Williams is heading to the annual SXSW music, technology and arts festival in Austin, Texas this year to do something he's already done -- launch a location-based ...
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Gowalla is primarily known as an iPhone app that encourages people to check in to various locations with their phones. But during a recent visit to SAI, CEO Josh Williams told us that he wants more ...
We'll forgive you if you don't remember Gowalla. It was a short-lived Fourspace competitor Facebook acquired in 2011 for a modest $3 million. Well, it turns out Gowalla is coming back as a social app ...
It’s official. Gowalla shuttered its doors only three months after Facebook’s acquisition and five years after its founding. Today, Foursquare stands as the lone giant lumbering in location-based ...
Being based in London, I can’t use FourSquare yet and having tried it out while in San Francisco and Amsterdam, I had been itching to use it frequently…that all changed today. We received an email ...
Location-based social network Gowalla is, as of today, no longer available to the public. The company was recently purchased by social networking giant Facebook. Gowalla’s website now loads to a page ...
Two years ago two location sharing services targeting the mobile platform, emerged on the scene – Gowalla and Foursquare. Both were touted to become the next big thing. But while one went onto become ...
Facebook has acquired mobile location-based app Gowalla, the companies confirmed Monday. Financial terms were not disclosed. It's another acqui-hire for Facebook, as Facebook isn't acquiring Gowalla's ...
AUSTIN, Texas --Providing further proof that location-sharing services are currently all the rage, Gowalla picked up the award for best site in the Mobile category Sunday at the 13th annual SXSW Web ...
Foursquare has a spam problem on Twitter, and its system lacks any "true accountability" according to Gowalla investor Chris Sacca, who emailed us this weekend after disputing the conclusion of a post ...
The startup, which longtime TechCrunch readers will likely recall, was an ambitious consumer social app that excited Silicon Valley investors but ultimately floundered in its quest to take on ...