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Useful Networks Acquires KnowledgeWhere For Location-Based Games And Ads

Aug 13, 2008 8:56 AM

Useful Networks, the Liberty Media-owned provider of location-based services, has acquired Calgary-based KnowledgeWhere, a developer of location-based games and advertising. Terms of the acquisition were not announced. In the announcement Useful Networks didn’t offer any specifics on post-acquisition plans, except that the KnowledgeWhere services made sense as part of the…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Games, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Technologies / Formats, GPS Navigation & Maps, knowledgewhere, useful networks

Useful Networks Launching SNIFF: Snoop or Friend Finder?

Apr 1, 2008 4:38 AM

Useful Networks is launching its location-based systems tool Social Network Integrated Friend Finder, or sniff, for short, in the UK next month, on three of the country’s four major networks, as yet undisclosed. Of course, the service that lets people locate their friends on their mobile phone or from Facebook…

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Posted In: Technologies / Formats, GPS Navigation & Maps, Countries, sniff, useful networks

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