With services that make it easy for users to share their location—like FourSquare and Gowalla—gaining buzz and usage, Facebook is finally set to fire back with its own move into the hot location-aware space. The NYT reports that the social network will release a new feature in late April that…

EveryScape, which provides “eye-level” images of major towns and cities around the world, has raised $6 million in a third round of funding. The company charges local businesses in order to build 3D, photo-realistic panoramas of their physical locations which are then featured on EveryScape.com and can also be embedded…

Location-based social net Foursquare is on a roll when it comes to netting high-profile media partnerships. The latest is restaurant reviews guide Zagat, the NYT reports. By hooking up with Foursquare, Zagat may be hoping to bid up its own cool cache. The reviews site’s image suffered a bit among…

Mobclix has partnered with Nielsen to be able to deliver more targeted mobile ads, giving it some name-brand recognition to stick out from all the competition. The deal allows the ad network aggregator to resell Nielsen’s research products, which categorize consumers into roughly 150 segments based on a user’s age…

—Tapulous rolls out Riddim Ribbon game: Tapulous, the maker of the popular music-based iPhone games, like Tap Tap Revenge, has launched its latest creation—Riddim Ribbon. The game, which is now available in the iTunes app store, lets users create their own unique mixes to hot tracks while they race down…

An obvious promise of mobile ads is that they can be location-aware; products can be pitched to people based on where they are. But Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) may have just limited that on the iPhone. In a short post on the iPhone developer blog, the company warns developers that if…

Another media partnership for hot location-based social networking startup Foursquare. The company is partnering with Bravo TV so that viewers will get “badges” when they visit certain locations, corresponding to the cable network’s shows, according to the NYT. Bravo will also promote the partnership on air. That could be quite…

Apparently unable to nail down a deal to sell itself to Google (NSDQ: GOOG) for upwards of $500 million, Yelp is taking more venture capital cash instead. The local reviews site has raised $25 million in a fifth round of funding from Elevation Partners; Elevation has also agreed to invest…

Following in the steps of Google, print directory publishers, and a host of startups, AT&T (NYSE: T) is trying to challenge Yelp’s dominance of the local business reviews space—and the ad dollars that come with it. The company is launching Buzz.com, a site that promises to help users find the…

Google’s latest move in its mobile push: The company told AdWords advertisers this week that it would display their business phone numbers in ads that show up on some smartphones—and then charge advertisers when users click on the number in order to call them. SearchEngineLand—which first reported the news—says that…

Foursquare, the addictive and yet slightly creepy location-based status updater/mobile game, has gone global. When it first launched, users were limited to checking in to stores, restaurants and other locations in select North American cities; Foursquare scaled out to 15 European cities last November, and now, there’s no limit to…

Citysearch launched its Mobile by Citysearch app for Android today, meaning it now has an app available for each of the “core” smartphone OS’: Android, Palm’s WebOS, the BlackBerry and the iPhone. In addition to the standard search, reviews and GPS-based mapping features one would expect, Mobile by Citysearch also…

It’s not hard to understand why Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is interested in buying Yelp, which has successfully created a community around thousands of real-world locations. It’s even monetized the content, and will reportedly make up to $30 million in revenues this year. But it’s not a stretch to see why…

The more we learn about Google’s recently launched Place Pages, the more we realize that it is a key part of the company’s aggressive push into mobile marketing. First, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) made it easier for business owners to create (and searchers to find) mobile coupons directly from the Place…

*Google* continues to experiment with location-based ads and mobile targeting—and the newest iteration is the launch of mobile coupons. Business owners have been able to offer coupons through their local business listings on Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Maps since 2007, but now Google is making those coupons easily accessible via phone.…

Mobile social network Loopt has upgraded its location-aware service with a new feature called Pulse. Pulse lets users search through their friends’ recommendations and comments, as well as local content fed in from over 20 new sources like Zagat, CitySearch and DailyCandy. The upgrade also includes new LocationPoint ads from…

Local and mobile marketing firm AgendiZe has raised $1.3 million in funding from French investment firm Entrepreneur Venture. The Montreal-based company previously raised roughly $2.2 million in funding (€1.5 million) from BNP Paribas Private Equity, Champagne Ardenne Croissance and Aube Investissment in 2006. AgendiZe offers a suite of local ad…

AOL (NYSE: TWX) CEO Tim Armstrong is looking for ways to trim the company’s costs and today, he started with two top execs: COO Kim Partoll and John Kannapell, acting head of search and local media, MediaMemo reported and paidContent has confirmed. A source tells paidContent that their jobs have…

Expect your tweets to get a little more revealing—and potentially creepy, if you think about it—because Twitter is making it easier for users to add real location data to every status update they post. It will be an opt-in feature, of course, and the company says users’ location data won’t…