Earn a Merit Badge in Location I was a cub scout in 1969.  We had compasses back then, but I was deprived.  The floppy disk, the word processer and video games were not yet invented.  How times have changed.  Scouts today can earn so many new cool badges, including a geocaching merit badge. That’s right, [...]

Touchdown! Yes, in honor of yesterday’s Superbowl, I’m using football metaphors. So, what’s the touchdown? As reported in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, et. al, LOC-AID just secured major funding from private equity and venture investors, the largest amount in the history of the location-as-a-service industry. Our platform is built, and we’re connected into [...]

According to my friend Bryan Rutberg at Rutberg & Company, a technology banker, last month (December 2010), 40 private wireless companies announced $352.7 million in new financings. Investments were primarily in the enterprise infrastructure, consumer application and carrier application sectors. There were also 27 M&A transactions announced during the same period, including Motorola Mobility’s acquisition [...]

“THE YEAR OF LBS” What happens in Vegas can now be geo-fenced in Vegas…I had the honor of being selected for the only LBS panel at CTIA this year, sitting alongside some of the most-respected veterans in the location-based Services industry (click the link below for the full article in Mobile Commerce Daily). We had [...]

Welcome to Chief Location Officer. I started this blog to share information and ideas about a subject that is important to me: location. Specifically, location and its role in our mobile society. Over the past few years, technology advancements, wireless ecosystem developments and mobile subscriber behaviors have ushered in a brave new world in how [...]