Loopt is pleased to announce today a relationship with Verizon Wireless. Verizon Wireless customers can now leverage their phones' location-based services capabilities using Loopt to share location information, status messages, and geo-tagged photos with friends. The service will be available in the Get It Now® virtual store and on more than 20 popular Get It Now-capable phones, including the Chocolate by LG, the MOTORIZR™ Z6tv and Verizon Wireless G'zOne Type-S.
Today, Jessica Vascellaro and Amol Sharma of the Wall Street Journal wrote a very nice article about us. They captured how Loopt can be of value to our user audience and how we're paying attention to users' privacy through Loopt's privacy features. They write that location sharing and Loopt are the...
... result of the convergence of GPS with another digital phenomenon: a generation of young people who are comfortable sharing a great deal of personal information on social-networking Web sites and eager for still more ways to stay connected. [...] Vivek Agrawal, a 22-year-old composer in Palo Alto, Calif., uses the service offered by Sprint to know where 10 friends are at any given time and organize impromptu get-togethers. "I'm using it amongst my closest friends," he says. "Those are the people that I'm used to asking questions like, 'Where are you?'"
In addition, Jessica captures how shes uses Loopt in this cool video. Check it out!
For more information, check out our press release, and the post on TechCrunch.











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