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Google Said to Consider Buying Waze Google is considering buying map-software provider Waze, setting up a possible bidding war with Facebook, people familiar with the matter said.

The London-based backend-as-a-service outfit thinks not enough mobile developers are considering the opportunities afforded by opening up their apps' data to other apps, and it wants to help.

Tumblr Inc.'s $1.1 billion purchase by Yahoo! Inc. returned $192 million to its two biggest venture backers, a person familiar with the matter said, disputing an estimate by research firm PrivCo.

Those 15 minutes before the previews start in the theater are about to be taken over by something other than local ads.

Twitter and Foursquare have inked intriguing deals with National CineMedia , which announced the partnerships in front of a packed movie theater on New York's Upper Westside this afternoon at the cinema ads firm's Upfront presentation.

Spoiler alert: 2013 isn't going to be the year of mobile. Sure, smartphone numbers keep going up and up and location-based technologies - the holy grail of mobile engagement - are more sophisticated now than they were during the debut of Foursquare et al.

May 14th 2013. Nokia has introduced the Nokia Lumia 925 , a new interpretation of its award-winning flagship, the Nokia Lumia 920.

Foursquare is a location-based app that uses geo-mapped coordinates from your phone to see where you are, "check-in" to venues and events, and share check-ins with friends and social networks.

In her role as Managing Director, Connected Platforms at media agency PHD , Andrea Wolonitz helps manage client opportunities that are digital, but don't necessarily fit a silo such as "mobile" or "social." She offers Foursquare as a prime example of this conundrum in the agency: "Should you call your mobile specialist because it's a location based ... (more)

The immigration bill under review by the Senate Judiciary Committee could mandate the creation of a national biometric database to identify residents in the U.S. The technology referred to simply as a 'photo tool,' in the proposed legislation presented on Thursday , would be used to verify the identity of employees before they were hired to ensure ... (more)

CheckinDJ may be the cure for the bar jukebox dominated by die-hard Nickelback fans.

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Dennis Crowley, co-founder and CEO of Foursquare, will be opening his company's doors later this month during OpenCo New York.

Square Sets Its Sights on Check-ins: 'We Can Do Something Better' Square is using its trove of payment data to build an engine for making local recommendations, a move that could upend the conventional wisdom about luring customers through their mobile devices.

Yext Inc., a New York-based startup that lets businesses manage information on websites such as Yelp and Foursquare, is expanding its service to Facebook.

Facebook to Add Yext's Business Data as It Touts Search Feature Yext, a New York-based startup that lets businesses manage information on websites such as Yelp and Foursquare, is expanding its service to Facebook.

Kim-Mai Cutler is a technology journalist who has worked for Bloomberg, VentureBeat and The Wall Street Journal.

In Silicon Valley, common sense is replaced by an irrational desire to create an extraordinary company like Google or Facebook .

With each new year, marketers continue to say that mobile marketing is going to be huge.

Matt is a Senior Editor at TechCrunch. Matt Burns is a family man first and attempts to be a writer second.