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WaveMarket, Inc.

URL: http://www.wavemarket.com/
Domain: IT
Area: North America

WaveMarket Inc. is a world leader in location-based services and has pioneered the first carrier-grade location alert solution. WaveIQ, the company’s location-based application product suite, includes solutions that range from Child Finder Services to mobile social networking. Marketing to mobile carriers in the United States, Europe and Asia, WaveMarket’s customers include, AT&T Wireless, Cingular, SK Telecom, Korea’s leading wireless carrier and Bell Mobility. Headquartered in Emeryville, CA, WaveMarket also has international offices in Korea, Brazil and Canada. Founded in 2000, the company is financed by a group that includes Draper Fisher Jurvetson, QUALCOMM Ventures, BlueRun Ventures (formerly Nokia Venture Partners) , Intel Capital and Mitsui & Co. Venture Partners.

Company WaveMarket, Inc.
URL http://www.wavemarket.com/

News Release

Sprint® (NYSE: S) today announced that it is enhancing its industry-leading open approach by partnering with location aggregation platforms Veriplace™ by WaveMarket


Veriplace Location Platform offers Location Access to NAVTEQ Network for Developers


WaveMarket has been selected for the 2008 Best of Emeryville Award in the Cellular Phone Services category by the U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA).


Alltel, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile USA, and Verizon Wireless Announce Support of the AmberWatch Mobile Initiative


WaveMarket today announced the launch of Veriplace™, its standards-based open location and privacy platform.


WaveMarket's Product Suite Now Available to Aepona's Global Carrier Customers.


WaveMarket today announced that it will be providing Mobile Location Based Services for kajeet, a Bethesda, MD-based wireless carrier serving tweens and their families.


WaveMarket today announced the launch of Veriplace™, its standards-based open location and privacy platform.


WaveMarket's Family Finder Expands International Market Share With Third Canadian Launch


Alltel Wireless, America's largest network, providing coverage across the nation, and WaveMarket, the industry leader in mobile location services, launched Axcess Family Finder today. ...


Fourth International Deployment Increases WaveMarket's Family Locator Market Share


Company's LBS Solutions Put Family Safety First


First Mobile Application to Combine Local Content, Social Networking & GPS Navigation


WaveMarket, Inc. today announced that it will be providing Mobile Location Based Services for kajeet, a Bethesda, MD-based wireless carrier serv...


Nokia, a world leader in mobile communications, and WaveMarket, a pioneer in location- based services, have entered into collaboration to offer location-based tracking services ...


WaveMarket Inc., leaders in the family location space since the company first launched alerts and Geofencing in 2004 with SK Telecom in Korea, announced today that its most recent deployment further


Vivo, the largest mobile telecommunications operator in the Southern Hemisphere, and WaveMarket, the industry leader in mobile family location services, launched Vivo Localiza Fam...


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