August 2015 | Factual

Factual and Facebook Partner to Improve Location Data Across Facebook

August 31, 2015

We are thrilled to announce our partnership with Facebook. Facebook will be using our Global Places data, including Restaurants and Hotels extended attributes, in order to help enrich and improve the quality of Facebook’s US places data. This data will be used across many features in Facebook including Facebook Business Pages, places search, Check Ins, and Place Tips.

Expanding Our Data in Apple Maps

August 31, 2015

By Bill Michels

We are excited to provide Apple with access to and tighter integration with our Global Places data.

Mobile Advertising Watch Podcast: Gil Elbaz on the Power of Location Data for Effective Mobile Advertising

August 18, 2015

By Factual Team

Note: This was originally posted on Mobile Advertising Watch on 7/23/2015, available here.

Strictly Tagged Clojure

August 6, 2015

By Reid McKenzie

This summer I’ve been an intern at Factual, and this is an experience report from the semiannual internal hackathon where Alan ‘amalloy’ Malloy and I experimented with using Alexander Yakushev’s Skummet fork of Clojure to emit lean(er) bytecode.