It’s a recent Saturday and I’m searching for Spider-Man — the comics version — at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass. Entering the busy shop across the street from the famous university, one ...

Have you ever been out in public and wondered if someone you knew was nearby? Well, there’s now an app for that. A group of “ambient awareness apps” were spotlighted during the SXSW Interactive ...

Life360, a popular family safety and tracking app, is getting deeper into the advertising and analytics platform business. On Thursday, it announced its first location-based ad targeting solution, ...

While much of the press has been focused on the bevy of usage statistics released by MyTown, Foursquare and Gowalla, the location-based social app genre continues to expand. PlacePop, which launched ...

While some in the retail industry are still skeptical about the potential of location-based apps, it is getting harder to ignore the growth and buzz on companies like Foursquare, Gowalla, Shopkick and ...

Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact. Pyxis ...

No audio available for this content. HERE Mapmaking allows users to create detailed interactive maps of private sites, outdoors and indoors. This includes sites not covered by public maps, such as ...