Google has brought its Google Places app with Hotpot local recommendations to Apple’s iPhone. The move is geared to boost Google’s social personality vis a vis Facebook. – Google’s Android operating system might feel a pinch when Verizon’s iPhone 4
hits the market, but that doesn’t mean the company can’t continue to capitalize
on ads associated with Apple’s popular smartphone.
Google Jan. 12 launched a version of its Google Places application, which
includes the …
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China Sports International has placed out an aggregate of 120 million shares at 18 cents each. The net proceeds raised from the placement is $20.5 million after deducting $1.1 million for all related costs, expenses and commission. UOB Kay Hian acted as the placement agent.
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Yahoo Nov. 16 introduced Local Offers, a bid to rival Facebook Deals, Foursquare deals and Google Places. Also on tap: integrations with Twitter and Zynga, as well as new search tools. – SAN FRANCISCO Yahoo
Nov. 16 rolled out a number of new features for applications spanning search,
instant messaging and mobile applications as it seeks to lure more users from
Google, Facebook and other Internet rivals.
But the most interesting piece of news was the vague introduction of Yahoo
…
Facebook Deals is a shot across the collective bows of Google, whose Places local search is on the rise, and check-in services Foursquare and Gowalla. – Facebook isn’t lavishing kisses on Foursquare, Gowalla, Google or any other
company with a mind to compete in making money from local businesses with its
new Facebook Deals service.
Facebook Deals connects U.S.
consumers with local businesses via the Facebook Places check-in social service. iPh…
SCVNGR is using the Google Places API to help users earn points for going to places, taking a picture of themselves from an Apple iPhone or Google Android handset and sharing it with friends. – SCVNGR, a social game startup funded by Google Ventures, is leveraging the Google Places API to quot;build
the game layer on top of the world. quot;
SCVNGR, which has 500,000 users spread across 650 companies and other
individuals, offers a location-based platform that programmers can use to bui…
Holy places should unite humanity. Too often, they have the opposite effect
ACROSS northern India, householders who were braced for a bout of violent sectarian strife are sighing with relief. The people most affected by one of the world’s biggest arguments over sacred turf, in the town of Ayodhya, seemed to accept the verdict, even if it was not quite what they wanted. On September 30th judges in the state of Uttar Pradesh ruled that the contested site should be split between Hindus and Muslims, with the latter getting a third.
“We must abide by the court’s decision and move on,” declared Mohammed Hashim Ansari, a 90-year-old Muslim who has been involved in litigation over the site since 1961. Such stoicism is impressive. As a boy, he had prayed in a fine sandstone mosque, the Babri Masjid, which had stood on the site since the 16th century. In 1992 Hindus tore it down. They believe their god-king Ram was born there. About 2,000 people died in the ensuing violence. In the run-up to the latest verdict, many feared more bloodshed. But India’s prime minister and other public figures hailed the compromise ruling and the calm reaction as a sign of maturing attitudes. …
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China is about to overtake Japan in patent applications
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ONLY five years ago, most of the expensive bits and pieces inside a typical Apple iPod came from Japan. Today an autopsy of the iPad reveals that nearly all the important components come from South Korea and Taiwan. In such a short time Japan’s dominance of Asia’s technology industry has been eroded by its neighbours. …
Guangzhao Industrial Forest Biotechnology Group says it has entered into a subscription agreement dated with individuals Lim Chye Huat and Tan Sze Seng, who have been introduced by directors of the company.
Reaching the world’s unconnected will require more adventurous carriers
WHEN Digicel, a Jamaican mobile-phone company, first planned a wireless service in Papua New Guinea, obvious hurdles loomed. The electricity grid reached at most 17% of the country’s 6m people. Roads barely extended beyond Port Moresby, the capital. Average incomes were just above $1,000 a year.
Yet a more basic snag emerged. Where to put the phone towers? It was unclear where Papuans lived, since censuses were often incomplete and perhaps meaningless—many Papuans are still migratory. So the company undertook its own census. Helicopters flew around counting people, and a second tally checked if they were still there. This crude count paid off. The 600 towers later built now serve 1.3m people. …
If you are like most people, you prefer to look at a new place online before you go there. Perhaps it is a restaurant or a tourist attraction to which you’ve never been. As human beings, we like to get a good visual representation of a place, and that’s why last year Google launched Places [...]
If you are like most people, you prefer to look at a new place online before you go there. Perhaps it is a restaurant or a tourist attraction to which you’ve never been. As human beings, we like to get a good visual representation of a place, and that’s why last year Google launched Places [...]
Pacific Healthcare Holdings says it has entered into a share subscription agreement with Affluent Healthcare Holdings, an investment holding company, with interests in several commercial businesses, including the healthcare sector.
Under the deal, Affluent Healthcare will subscribe to 61,951,563 new Pacific Healthcare shares, representing 14.9% of the share capital of the company on an enlarged basis, at at an issue price of $0.11 each.
Pacific Healthcare says the net proceeds of $6.65 million will be used to fund the future expansion of the company. The subscription will also strengthen the equity base of the company and also reduce its gearing.
DMG & Partners Securities acted as the financial advisor in the subscription deal.
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Google Places is a local business ad vehicle for the Web. Facebook Places plays to the social side of the coin. Both will come into great competition over time, analysts say. – The Facebook Places check-in service should pose a strong challenge to
Google Places once local businesses begin advertising through it, experts
believe.
The services ultimately share the same means to a financial end in making ad
dollars from connecting local businesses to consumers using thei…
Microsoft’s Bing Maps provides the mapping technology for Facebook Places through Facebook.com. However, Google Maps is the default mapping technology for the Facebook for iPhone app, the interface through which most users will access Places. – Lost in the gloss of Facebook’s Places announcement and its impact on
Foursquare and Gowalla is that Microsoft Bing is providing the mapping
technology for the social network giant’s location service on Facebook.com.
Yet Bing still stands to lose valuable traffic from Facebook Places to
search k…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation said privacy controls in Facebook Places show a "substantial improvement" over those used in earlier products such as Facebook Connections and Instant Personalization. – Despite complaints from some consumer advocates about the privacy measures
in Facebook Places, the Electronic Frontier Foundation called privacy controls
for the location-based service a quot;substantial improvement quot; over those
of earlier products.
That praise from the EFF comes with the …
Facebook Aug. 18 launched Facebook Places, a geolocation service that lets users share where they are and what they are doing with friends. The ACLU is already complaining. – Facebook Aug. 18 unveiled its long-awaited geotagging service, an effort
that could move the market for location-based services forward considerably even
as it threatens startups such as Foursquare and Gowalla.
Similar to Foursquare and Gowalla, Facebook Places lets users quot;check
in quot; to…
Google adds a dedicated Places icon for Google Maps for Android 4.4, part of a location-based services strategy to help make Android smartphones more valuable to users. Apple’s iPhone is following a similar path. – Google July 26 pushed out Google Maps for Android 4.4 with a dedicated icon
to let users look up nearby places and choose a location from Google Maps’
Place Pages.
The new Places icon appears in the app launcher for Android phone users, who
may press, hold down and drag it onto their home scree…
