TeenSafe is meant to protect teenagers by letting their parents monitor their texts, phone calls, web history, location and app downloads.
More exciting is the "music map" feature, where you draw a circle on a map of your current location and the app tells you what people are listening to in that area.
Uber, which pioneered GPS-based location and in-app payments with its black car service, is also going after the low-cost market with taxis and hybrids.
You can selectively enable or disable who can see your current location, and the app makes smart use of server technology to preserve battery life.
The department said in January that it was reviewing its policies regarding location-tracking devices and apps after the fitness tracking app Strava published an interactive map online that accidentally revealed the locations of U.S. military bases in sensitive locations around the world.
Examples: –Shopkick's $15M Series B: Shopping and location apps are among the hottest for investors right now, and it's easy to see why.
By contrast, a location and activity sensitive App can deliver complex, personalized and situation adapted instructions and convincing explanations in real time.
Rotich is also a founder of iHub, a Nairobi tech space and Mobisoko, a mobile marketplace for language and location relevant apps in Africa.
Location based apps and services are all the rage now, with Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, and Twitter leading the space.
RadiumOne, an online ad network that aims to combine social and intent data to serve ads, has acquired Focal Labs, the developer of the photo sharing and geo location apps Clixtr and PicBounce, according to sources familiar with the matter.
