Twitter didn’t disclose the terms of its acquisition of geo platform Mixer Labs in December, but some details have made it out since. What we know now: Mixer Labs had raised funding from Sequoia Capital and Twitter issued $5.17 million in stock alongside the transaction. Read more »
Twitter announced this afternoon it has acquired Mixer Labs, a San Mateo, Calif.-based startup that recently launched GeoAPI, a reverse look-up service to help application makers know where their users are. Basically, developers get a layer of geo-goodness so they don’t have to build it themselves. Read more »
Pretty soon you’ll think an app is dumb if it doesn’t know exactly where you are. GeoAPI, as founder Elad Gil tells us, hopes to be the service to make those apps smart, by translating users’ latitude and longitude into intersections, businesses and neighborhoods. Read more »
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