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Loopt Star Adds Local Discount Detector

ADOTAS – Location-based mobile social networks such as Gowalla, Foursquare and Loopt have arguably turned consumerism into a game that’s fun for the whole family — long as they have cash. It’s a...

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Facebook Readying Its Mobile-Social Move

ADOTAS – Google is breathing down its neck with a slew of recent acquisitions and the looming debut of social network “Google Me,” but a locked-down Facebook may have an ace up its sleeve in terms of a...

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Foursquare Soars Thanks to Facebook Places

ADOTAS – How come every new technology that comes out has to be a “killer”? When Google’s NexusOne was launched, the headlines read, “iPhone Killer?” Eight months later, that doesn’t seem to be the...

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Facebook Deals Offers Scale as Selling Point

ADOTAS – So along with the Android version of location-based service Places, Facebook has officially rolled out its Deals offering through the location-based Places service, something tech writers were...

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Brightkite Exits the Check-In Game

ADOTAS – Though it was hailed as a clash for the ages, a panel of location-based mobile social networks — featuring execs from Loopt, Foursquare and Brightkite among others — last spring at Ogilvy’s...

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Loopt Pushes Groupon Now Deals on Mobile Social Network

ADOTAS – When Groupon acquired Pelago, maker of location-based mobile social network and recommendation service Whrrl, I thought a homegrown check-in discount service was on its way, one that sent push...

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Google Offers Arrives, But Groupon Is Miles Ahead

ADOTAS – Groupon CEO Andrew Mason is oft-hailed in the tech press as a “funny guy,” though I’ve never found his wittiness to break above George W. Bush-style self-effacing (and comparing your company...

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Make Your Own Deal at Loopt

ADOTAS – Pardon me as I malign Yakov Smirnoff’s comedy style: on boring deal sites, deals come to you, but on Loopt, you come to deals! Yes, users of Loopt’s location-based mobile social network can...

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Groupon Treading Seas of Controversy

ADOTAS – Even though Groupon had been threatening an IPO for months — one at a near-ridiculous $20 billion-plus valuation — it’s kind of funny that the [excrement] didn’t hit the fan until it filed an...

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Groupon’s Revised S-1 Doesn’t Float Well in Choppy Market

ADOTAS – Apparently the latest stock market turmoil has brought the town tech-bubble criers out from under their rocks, particularly since public Internet-based companies seen as market bellwethers for...

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