Location check-in app Swarm will be its main focus beyond 2024, with the original app sunsetting in December.
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Users can no longer pinpoint a friend's exact location, but can still see their current neighborhood and distance away. "Wave" will soon be added to organize meet ups with nearby friends.
In conjunction with HERE, TomTom, and Esri, Microsoft plans to create a new 'world graph' which will provide a wide range of location-oriented capabilities to help quantify the physical world.
Microsoft has signed a multi-year agreement to use HERE location data and services in products such as Cortana and Bing, including access to real-time traffic information and live public transit data.
In a victory for online privacy advocates, Google has announced it plans to let WiFi users opt out of being recognized by the company's location based services.
Apple has come under heavy scrutiny lately over their iPhone and iPad tracing peoples locations. The iPhone and iPad were both saving your location to a database within the phone; saving information like GPS location...
