Social Location App FacesIn Pivots To Future Whereabouts

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Portugal Ventures-backed company Wizi knows a thing or two about social geolocation services, having made a business in recent years building Foursquare-like apps for carriers, including Telefonica and Vodafone. One example being Vodafone Radar — an app which it says garnered around half a million downloads.

But working with carriers, say co-founders Paulo Dimas and Jorge Medeira, is painstakingly slow compared to the pace of startup development — taking, for instance, a full two years to launch just one app with Telefonica in Brazil. (“It’s horrible” is their concise verdict on working with carriers).

Source: techcrunch.com

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