by Social-media savvy airline Virgin America, which used Twitter to announce its expansion to Toronto, is making use of location-based rewards network Loopt Star to draw attention to its next international expansion: Mexico. Virgin America will be running non-stop flights from San Francisco (SFO) to Cabo (SJD) and from Los Angeles (LAX) to Cancun (CUN) beginning this winter. In addition to special three-day fare sale, Loopt Star members can check in at select locations in San Francisco and Los Angeles to get a free ticket for a friend when they purchase one ticket for themselves today. This is how it works: As competition in the geolocation marketing space heats up, companies are ramping up the value of rewards they offer to users of these location-based services. Loopt is really upping the ante with this Virgin America promotion; we expect this will drive a wave of new signups in the San Francisco Read More

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...@Gap Have an iPhone? Download Loopt Star & check in twice @Gap to get 25% off your entire purchase! http://gap.us/c6KJgc... Read More

...@GAP: Have an iPhone? Download Loopt Star & check in twice @Gap to get 25% off your entire purchase! http://gap.us/c6KJgc... Read More

By Staff, Friday, Jun 4, 2010 | Sure, new and notable iPhone and iPad apps isn’t a theme, but with so many new and such a large swathe of notable, who needs a theme? Join us after the break to see what’s going on in the iTunes App Store this week! Documents to Go, one of the leading mobile office document creation and editing tools, has gone universal binary which means, for no extra charge, you can now use it not only on the iPhone but on the big iPad screen as well. It includes the same great Excel, Word, and PowerPoint compatibility, but it higher resolution on the iPad, and supports iPhone OS 3.2 for iPad features like inter-app document sharing and iTunes document transfer (which the iPhone should get in iPhone OS 4). They’ve also added support for SugarSync and iDisk, rounding out DropBox, Box.net, and Google Docs as Read More

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June 1st, 2010 James Isabel and Gowalla better watch your backs as there’s new baddie in town. Loopt Inc has launched Loopt Star (FREE) where visiting stores actually reap rewards: free songs, discounts and tons more! This app comes out following Foursquare’s announcement of giving discounts to Starbucks “mayor” aka the person with most check ins. Loopt Star is using Facebook’s Social Graph to work. Check out what you can actually “win” using this app. Current FREE Stuff: Just like Foursquare, the goal in this app is to “check in” at places wherever you go. Starbucks, McDonalds, bookstores, malls etc… visit them numerous times so you can become the “boss” of this place. Download the app now and start getting achievements. I hear Burger King discounts are on its way! You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Read More

Today the App Store saw the launch of , a location-based application like no other, which works fluidly with Facebook Connect and the iPhone’s GPS capabilities to grant users a virtual rewards card that can be ‘stamped’ upon the completion of set tasks. The rewards, which are granted by participating brands such as Starbucks and The Gap, can specify where you are, when you’re there, and the number of times you go to that particular place in a single day as being reward-worthy. This means that on your third visit to Starbucks, you might be granted a free Americano. Or perhaps if you hit The Gap between 10 and 11, you get 5% off denim jeans. The possibilities are endless. And alongside this, through Facebook Connect you can interact with your friends, and compete for rewards. Sometimes, bringing your friends with you increases your chances of gaining a reward – for Read More